[B]Attention Urgent Announcement Regarding Recent Bios!......Download Links>>>>> ...... 11/07/2007 Bios........11/22/2007 Bios........DRDOS
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It appears that the Recent 3/7/200 Beta Bios does a complete Bios Flash unlike all of the other Bios versions with the exception of the original 11/07/2007 Initial Release which also Flashes the Entire Bios from start to finish. The new Beta 3/7/2008 is "Bugged" and should be avoided! As you all know from some of my previous posts I mentioned that what have been Rock solid 13+ hr Prime stable settings Failed within minutes, you have also heard me say that regardless of 5 Bios Flashes and a Reformat it changed Nothing and I would Fail Prime within Minutes even at Proven Stable settings on the 11/22/07 Official Bios. So as my last resort with the hunch that I either had Vibration/Shock damage from my trip back East or my only other possible choice would be that the New 3/7/2008 Beta Bios corrupted my Bios Chip or made it impossible to straighten out with Flashing due to the entirety of the Flash Procedure with the AWARD 8.90 Flash Utility.
Well as it it appears my Hunch was correct the 3/7/2008 Beta Bios Corrupted my Bios chip! I removed the Bios Chip and threw it on my Programmer and Erased and un-scrambled it and Programmed the 11/7/2007 Initial Release Bios on it then after it was installed and up and running at Defaults for a couple of hours I then Upadated Flash the Bios to 11/22/2007 official through Floppy and voila I am now back to previous state at proven Know Rock solid settings and Priming into 2hrs now at what was failing within minutes.
"Attention"...... If any of you have been having issues with these DFI 790FX-M2R Bios Releases and have run into the situation that I have just described? There is only one thing that you can do to fix the situation short of having the Bios chip re-programmed you must follow this procedure only if you have experienced or are experiencing issues that are similar to what I have described due to recent Bios Update with either 1/30/2008 Official or 3/7/2008 Beta
You must do this exactly as I describe!
Please Do this..... Do Proper Clear Cmos DO NOT REMOVE BATTERY Boot into Pure DOS with DR DOS using only PS2 Keyboard when you get to A:\ prompt insert 11/07/07 Bios .EXE Floppy ..Type at ....A:\ Prompt
A:\AWDFLASH.EXE R7LDB07.BIN /CD /CP /CC /PY /CKS /SN /QI /LD /WB /E ....after its done Flashing the /E switch will take you back to A:\ Prompt at that time repeat .........A:\AWDFLASH.EXE R7LDB07.BIN /CD /CP /CC /PY /CKS /SN /QI /LD /WB /E
Remove Floppy Power Down computer manually, allow clear cmos for 10 minutes load optimed defaults /save/exit go back into Bios set up Date accordingly and leave at Optimized defaults for about a hour....Please.
EDIT: ...Proper Spacing between switching Parameters is CRITICAL!!!!
Now in order to ensure that we get back normal working status with our Bios Recovery you will Flash to 11/22/07 Official Bios but this time we will add another switching command which is the /F switch what this does is it will use the programming Algorithm from the Bios that is currently installed which in this case will be 11/07/2007 Official
Please Follow these steps exactly!
Boot into Pure DOS with DR DOS using only PS2 Keyboard when you get to A:\ prompt insert 11/22/07 Bios .EXE Floppy ..Type at ....A:\ Prompt
A:\AWDFLASH.EXE R7LDB22.BIN /CD /CP /CC /PY /CKS /SN /F /QI /LD /WB /E .......... (Do this Procedure with the /F Switch only one time. Do Not get to A:\ and repeat!!)
When you get back to A:\ Prompt......
Remove Floppy, Power Down computer manually allow clear cmos for 10 minutes load optimed defaults /save/exit go back into Bios set up Date accordingly and leave at Optimized defaults for about a hour....Please.
The last part of this procedure Will involve another flash with the 11/22/07 Official Bios which will go like this
[/B]Please Boot into Pure DOS with DR DOS using only PS2 Keyboard when you get to A:\ prompt insert 11/22/07 Bios .EXE Floppy ..Type at ....A:\ Prompt
A:\AWDFLASH.EXE R7LDB22.BIN /CD /CP /CC /PY /CKS /SN /QI /LD /WB /E ....after its done Flashing the /E switch will take you back to A:\ Prompt at that time repeat .........A:\AWDFLASH.EXE R7LDB22.BIN /CD /CP /CC /PY /CKS /SN /QI /LD /WB /E
Remove Floppy Power Down computer manually, allow clear cmos for 10 minutes load optimed defaults /save/exit go back into Bios set up Date accordingly and leave at Optimized defaults for about a hour....Please.
EDIT: ...Proper Spacing between switching Parameters is CRITICAL!!!!
I know this appears to be excessive but there is and has been a issue with the way these Bios get programmed during the Flash Procedure and why this is still a ongoing issue with this Board and these Bios from D.F.I is beyond me considering this is the same bios team that codes the Bios for the P35 Motherboard I just don't understand why us AMD people are getting this Sub Par sh**t! Like I said too guys what this really took for me to get my situation sorted out was to throw my chip on my programmer and erase it and start with the Initial Release 11/07/2007 Bios and then Flash with the 11/22/07 Official which is proven stable Bios by me so as long winded as it appears due to the fact you don't have another Bios chip what I described in the procedure should get you squared away again!
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