P5E: what's wrong?

[Behemot]

Found this board laying outside on grass

It is able to run flawlessly until the moment I either load default CMOS settings or change it and save. After that I get 1C6A error on POST card, no beep or something.

Upgraded to last BIOS, still the same. Suggestions?

ADD// noticed the VRM for GLAN Marvell chip is very overheated, one of the FETs reads only 14 ohms

[Uranium-235]

Re: P5E: what's wrong?

any idea on 1c6a? I tried looking that up without much success

maybe you should manually go into the cmos, after clearing it and disable the nic? I'm not sure that would cut power to it though

[Behemot]

Re: P5E: what's wrong?

Well in the manual for POST card are 2-character codes only yet it displays 4 characters

The GLAN chip will be most likely dead, right? Guy told me this si quite common during storming. I think it may not matter whether the GLAN died thus there is short or otherwise, there was short and it is most likely dead no due to the overheating.

So if I disable/remove the GLAN it may work?

ADD// removed GLAN, no change. Tried even to diable all devices in BIOS.

There is thing I omitted before cause I have seen it on multiple both older and younger boards: it shuts down when I save the BIOS, than starts again. May be that the CMOS (not BIOS itself) arrea is broken so any attempt to change somethign there will result in this.

Well, no harm anyway, as I said, foudn this on grass. Will canibalize polymers, MOSFETs, coolers and other usefull stuff :-)

[brethin]

Re: P5E: what's wrong?

Replace the CMoS Battery with a New one and try again.

[Behemot]

Re: P5E: what's wrong?

There was no battery (you think anybody will leave it there? :-D). Well I used new one, but that cannot have any impact anyway, it has to run from +5V SB rail, battery keeps it just when power is interrupted.

[brethin]

Re: P5E: what's wrong?

No CMos or bad/low CMos battery will have an effect esp on ASUS boards. If you want to sell it instead of canibalizing (destroying) it let me know.

[Scenic]

Re: P5E: what's wrong?

Well in the manual for POST card are 2-character codes only yet it displays 4 characters

Pretty late but anyways: Some POST code test cards with 4 digit displays show the current POST code and the one before that, like displaying AABB where AA is the current code, and BB is the one from directly before.

[Behemot]

Re: P5E: what's wrong?

No CMos or bad/low CMos battery will have an effect esp on ASUS boards. If you want to sell it instead of canibalizing (destroying) it let me know.

Well I am little far away from you, I guess it has not such value for you to pay for the postage. Not mentioning I would want at least value of the caps, and there is whole bunch of them

Scenic: good point, will remember that. Well not that the codes have some meaning anyway, since the table in manual is 10-15 years old, it just says "reserved" for most of the codes