try this http://kingpincooling.com/forum/show...&postcount=182

cleaning the cpu pads is safe as long as you know esd safety.


I don't really understand what to do here? He just says to click the BIOS switch button to start from BIOS2 instead of BIOS1 and everything should be okay?
I've been trying both BIOS1 and BIOS2 and they both provide the same 01 Debug number without any boot. I tried to clear CMOS on both, I tried removing the battery without any luck.

I just tried the Asus BIOS Flashback feature by putting the 0018 BIOS onto a FAT32 format USB-drive, renaming the ROM file to R4E.ROM and inserted it into the white USB 2.0 port on the back and kept pushing the BIOS Flashback button for minutes after turning on the system without the BIOS LED's starting to blink one tiny bit which they should if the BIOS flashing process actually begins? It just sits there displaying 01 on the debug LCD.


After what I can gather most people seems to get debug error 00 and not 01 as I do, 01 is supposed to be "Power on. Reset type detection (soft/hard)." by the manual.