ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[dddan]

Hello chaps, I'm in a bit of a fix and wonder if you can help?

I've recently bought the P5WDH mobo - love it, although to say it has it's quirks is understating things somewhat. Anyway, I was running the 2205 bios which I found totally stable, except that it would disable the sound every time I rebooted.

Hoping that an update would fix this, I tried the 2206 beta that has been mentioned. Asus Update erased the eeprom but then refused to load any bios file, even the backup of the original I made before starting.

Now my PC won't boot - won't even post. I switch on the machine and it checks both cdroms but won't load anything (the board I got was an oem version and didn't come with a recovery cd - in fact, it didn't come with anything). I've tried making a CDrom with only the P5WDH.ROM file on it and switching on with it inserted, leaving it for half an hour, but it hasn't done the trick. Am I missing something? Does it look for a disk with a particular name or something?

Is there

a) anywhere I can download the recovery CD

or

b) some way I can make one

or

c) anything else I can do to try and get this board to reload a rom?

I have a C2D so I'm guessing that's a sticking point - someone mentioned sticking a Celeron or old P4 in there just to reflash the bios, but I don't have one and really hope there's another way.

Any help you can give a n00b on this would be much appreciated.