I am trying to flash my bios using the onboard flash utility. I format my flash drive to FAT32 and put the updated file on it but the flash utility can't find the flash drive. What am I doing wrong? I have an Asus p5b deluxe motherboard Oh and I also am getting a alarm during boot up saying the CPU fan is not working. I have the case open and I can see it clearly is so is there a way to turn the alarm off?
are you flashing the bios thru windows or what? i presume the cpu fan is 3 or 4 wires not 2 wires? check in the bios to see if the cpu fan rpm is seen or not?
I push delete when it starts up and the choose "tools" and it in the menu. The utility works as far as seeing drive "a" and "b" but neither of them are my flash drive win the bios file on it. I've tried 2 different flash drives (both different sizes), and a memory card from a card reader. The bios shows the flash drives in the drive section so I am assuming they are showing up. The reason I even want to flash the bios is because for some reason my computer claims that I have 2 gb of ram when in fact I have 4 gb. I noticed it the other day when I was watching videos from a different computer (on the network) on this computer and they were very choppy and unwatchable. This computer has worked great until now. No matter if I have 1 stick of ram in or all 4 windows claims I have half my installed memory. I even reinstalled vista ultimate to see if it was a operating system issue but it was not. Any suggestions on that one?
I'm not sure where it would say that in the bios. I don't think there is a option for that. Where do I see it? 64 Bit windows 7 ultimate asus p5b deluxe motherboard
When the system is first starting and there is that big logo, press the ESC key and the logo should go away; the ram size should be on the page of text that replaces it.
try each stick of ram by itself to see if seen properly then try 2 sticks at a time then 3 sticks then all 4 sticks. windows is not the problem as might be motherboard\bios\slot or bad stick(s).
I saw that in google somewhere as well. All 4 sticks read 512 mb with 511 mb usable when they are by themselves.
then were do you get 1gig for each stick if they are actually 512meg each? 4x512meg=2048meg not 4gig.
check the asus site on your board to see if your board can take high density ram as it sounds like that is what you have? what version # is your bios at & what is the highest version # for your board?
I'm so frustrated that I'm at the point of getting a new motherboad and CPU. I can't flash the bios, I can't get the ram to work like it used to, I can't watch movies on it like I used to, the fan CPU fan warning is going off everytime the things boots up (never did before all this started) even though I see the fan spinning. Through endless hours of google searches its obviously impossible. The Asus site is useless to me. They tell me how to flash the bios and it makes perfect sense, but the computer refuses to see the flash drive with the new bios on it. There are 2 newer versions than what is my current bios
bios flash most likely needs a floppy drive so do you know anybody with an external usb floppy drive?
No. It's just lame it says on the site that a USB flashdrive will work and lots of people have claimed to have done it when I can't.
Ok this was weird. I tried to stream a blu ray image from my office to the computer in question and for whatever reason it played flawlessly with no choppy playback. The next day I tried again and again it was choppy and unplayable. So my new question, is there a something going on in the background that is preventing the movie from playing smoothly? On the computer that has the .iso of the movie I have turn windows update and my norton security off to prevent background tasks, while on the computer trying to play the movie I have windows update off and it does not have norton. In the task manager under network it says I'm getting 100 Mbps on local area connection 2. Is there something I can do to boost this?
Wired. 1st router is a d-link, second router is a trend net. Keep in mind that it's works every now and then. There is no other network activity when I try to watch a movie and I shut down all background tasks. Also if I stream from the computer to my office it works fine everytime
