I think there may be a BIOS problem with my ASUS P5-E. I addressed this with a post in the Asus motherboard forum, but I think this may be a corrupted BIOS problem, not hardware. The board booted once and loaded the OS. Now it's stopping in the BIOS
The BIOS codes that show up on the PCI card are 85, 60 and D4(twice). This is using 1 stick of RAM and moving it from DIMM A1 to A2 to A3 to A4.
85 is Password/soft error check (DIMM A1)
60 is DMA #1 base register test (DIMM A2)
D4 is Uncompressed RUNTIME code (DIMM B1 and B2).
85 is very close to the end of the BIOS sequence.
I could buy a replacement BIOS chip but it's worth more than the board.
Want to know if this sounds like a BIOS problem.
Are there any BIOS programmers you can buy that will work on this chip, do they require a lot of skill to use, and how do I tell what kind of BIOS chip I have.
Thanks for your advice.
The BIOS codes that show up on the PCI card are 85, 60 and D4(twice). This is using 1 stick of RAM and moving it from DIMM A1 to A2 to A3 to A4.
85 is Password/soft error check (DIMM A1)
60 is DMA #1 base register test (DIMM A2)
D4 is Uncompressed RUNTIME code (DIMM B1 and B2).
85 is very close to the end of the BIOS sequence.
I could buy a replacement BIOS chip but it's worth more than the board.
Want to know if this sounds like a BIOS problem.
Are there any BIOS programmers you can buy that will work on this chip, do they require a lot of skill to use, and how do I tell what kind of BIOS chip I have.
Thanks for your advice.
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