Um, for some reason I thought itd be a great idea to update my bios. I couldnt have left it till after my exams and all that, oh no...

Well, I have an Asus P5B. I tried using the asus updater program, updating using the latest bios that Id saved to disk.

Well, it got through the first two stages and then threw up an error on the testing the eeprom. After that it failed to do anything and even said it couldnt find an Asus Bios. Everest similarly wasnt showing any bios info...

So, I reluctantly rebooted. Im now greeted with a blank screen. Nothing else, not even that first initialising screen. As such I cant get into the bios or hope to use a cd/floppy disk to recover.

Ive given clearing the cmos a try, to no avail, and tried unplugging all my usb stuff as well as I remember at one point my computer tried to boot off of my keyboard...

Any help greatly appreciated!

Im getting a single beep noise. Not so much a beep as a electric buzzer sound for about .5 of s sec, am guessing thats the post for:

Keyboard controller error
Refresh Time Error
No master Drive Selected?

CD doesnt work. Going to try with single sticks of ram, as I originally had issues with the mobo and Ram voltages, though it would at least boot.

The computer screen is staying in standbye mode and not booting at all

Heres a question, if this board is dead, and I ended up getting a different brand/model board, but using the same components, it should all work without needing to install windows etc shouldnt it?

You should be able to recover the Bios, the sticking point might be your Ram needing 2.1v while at default it only gets 1.8v,
try it with 1 stick as you said, if you can get hold of some slower Ram that will run at 1.8v that might do the trick.

I also just realised that I ended up putting the mobo speaker in my siss computer and so the buzzing I was hearing isnt the bios ><

< = noob

I should have stuck with the same mobo to redue the pain of moving, but ended up going for http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132275

Im hoping that I can ge vista to work. XP isnt too much of an issue as that was just a stop gap for when something didnt work in vista, namely one piece of software I dont need, though would have been good for revision. So long as I can access the documents on the vista partition, and get them across, Ill be able to breathe a sigh of relief and feel a little easier with the concept of reinstalling xp :S

Guess Ill be calling MS too to say how much of a noob I am, killing my mobo, can they please let me use my computer again now...

You didnt of needed to get a newer motherboard really, before you could of got a new one i had the same problem as you did before but with my P5N32-E SLI motherboard and what i did was simply change the CMOS jumper pins and i was greeted with this AMI Boot Lock BIOS screen and its at that point that i used the Asus CD to restore the BIOS and it worked a treat once you have fixed the corrupted BIOS just simply change the Jumper pins back so it doesnt loose the BIOS configuration again. Im never gonna update the BIOS through windows again and many people have told me that its more of a risk through windows rather than the BIOS as if your in windows a lot of other things running in the background could interfear with the update. If you use the mobo again soon try what i just suggested to you its likely it will fix the BIOS!

Liam

So you mean to switch the comp on with the jumper set to the reset mode? As opposed to the instructions to turn off, unplug, take battery out, move jumper, leave for a while, move jumper back and then power up?

Yeah - it should say it in your Asus manual as well, change the pins from 1-2 to 2-3 and turn the comp on and you should be greeted with something like "Award BIOS Boot Lock" and then it will try and scan your disk and floppy drives for a BIOS ROM (Asus CD should be in the CD drive at present as it is looking for the back up ROM) then it will load up the BIOS recovery program and it should then recover your BIOS.

Liam

lol

Liam