Hi
I few days back, I purchase 160GB Hard Drive(Segate), when I try to install it on my PC, it doesn’t detect. I googled & go through manual of my Mother Board. I find that my BIOS is not supporting this much big Hard Drive, so I decided to update my BIOS.

I download the AFLASH BIOS update utility form ASUS site, create bootable disk. Its was all going fine, but during the updating process my PC get shut down , last time I saw the screen it was saying “UPDATING BIOS, WAIT….”.

But now I am not able to boot up my PC, everything is powered up, like Mother Board LED, CPU Fan, DVD LED. There is no POST(Power On Self Test) now, no Beep, even the Bad Beeps for wrong configuration

Mother Board: ASUS P4T-EM (850i)
CPU: 1.7 Ghz (P-IV)
RAM: RD-RAM (2 GB)

I had already called up ASUS Service centre(India, Hyderabad), they are saying its quite old Mother Board, so we are not able to update it.

Any more you can add....

Thanks
Gurpreet Gill

Scleros

There is an AMI and AWARD BIOS Recovery procedure if your BIOS is of the boot block variety and the boot block wasn't damaged. Otherwise a new BIOS chip from a 3rd party would be required if Asus won't support it.

gsgill76

thanks Scleros, i will try this & let you know the results

gsgill76

I tried the procedure mention in the BIOS recovery, but it seems that BIOS’s Boot Block is damaged. My System is not even goto POST, no beep.

Any thing else I can do?
Thanks.

Scleros

If you created a bootable floppy, followed the instructions, and the boot block wasn't damaged, the floppy drive should have been accessed on power-on and the BIOS recovered. You may not have seen anything necessarily until you rebooted and gotten POST.

If boot block was damaged and floppy wasn't accessed, you're stuck with getting a new BIOS chip.