8RDA bios corruption?

[lght1]

Hi

Why is it that whenever one pushes these boards too far...that instead of the usual responses, we can sometimes get a bios chip corruption on the 8rda?

Yesterday, upon arrival home from work...instead of xp desktop greeting me, I got a corrupted screen and a siren from inside the case.

I reflashed several times, with the most recent bios again. ALthough it did get once into windows, it would fail to reboot after thaT. i called Epox, and he didnt really have an answer, beyond relashing.

I decided to physically remove the chip for an hour, and then upon reinstalling, reflash with the 1/17/03 version.

This time success.

This has never happened to me before. Why does o/cing excessively affect this nforce this way?

[bowman1964]

Originally posted by lght1
Hi

Why is it that whenever one pushes these boards too far...that instead of the usual responses, we can sometimes get a bios chip corruption on the 8rda?

Yesterday, upon arrival home from work...instead of xp desktop greeting me, I got a corrupted screen and a siren from inside the case.

I reflashed several times, with the most recent bios again. ALthough it did get once into windows, it would fail to reboot after thaT. i called Epox, and he didnt really have an answer, beyond relashing.

I decided to physically remove the chip for an hour, and then upon reinstalling, reflash with the 1/17/03 version.

This time success.

This has never happened to me before. Why does o/cing excessively affect this nforce this way?
not sure but i have the same problem after running high voltages on cpu and vdd.i have to remove power cord from power supply and then clear cmos before i try to flash again.then on reboot i do the same one more time.this seams to flush out the data better for me.now i am slowly going back up to speed.

[DaGooch]

I have had to hot flash my 8RDA+ bios chip 3 times by booting up with a bios chip borrowed from OP. :(

[k1114]

Try replacing your battery. It's a long shot but worth the $2 if it fixes it.

[k1114]

edit: double post

[fibonaccov]

You might want to post this issue in the Epox section of the amdforums (http://www.amdforums.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=9) as there is an Epox tech answering everyday...

--fibo

[lght1]

Hi

Thanks. I will do so.

FTR, upon arriving home and firing up the beast, I was once again greeted with a "siren".

However, this time, I shutdown the system, and upon repowering, hit insert key and went directly into the bios. All my settings were in tact, so I took a chance...saved them, and attemped another boot.

Success.

[Mr Chilled]

Yes im having similar problems......well basically the same problem. But it only seems to be happening with my tbred 2100B and not with my 2400B Tbred. Ive posted a more detailed question in Oppainters thread - I think maybe he is having similar issues.

[Mr Chilled]

Solved the issue for me. Seems as though it was a badly seated water block on the cpu. It was uneven pressure exerted on the cpu.....I know because I removed the block and only half of the core was covered in thermal goop. Running happily now.

[ea1077]

This does NOT only happen on the Epox motherboards.

It happens on Asus A7N8X motherboards too!! :mad:

Maybe a problem with the Award BIOS with Nforce2 chipsets???

They should implement dual BIOS or I read somewhere about BIOS saviour or something..