Fozzy Fozborne Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 (edited) After I updated my BIOS (using EZ Flash, through a floppy disk), my computer has been randomly completely freezing. It's not just a program, the entire computer just freezes on one frame until I hit the reset button. There doesn't appear to be any pattern between the freezes, it freezes when I play games, it freezes when I watch movies, it freezes when I'm on the desktop, heck! it even freezes when I leave it alone for more than 10 minutes. After I flashed it, I tried again, this time I used the Windows method (Asus Update), it seemed to work fine yesterday, but today, it's still freezing! Any idea what could be causing this??? It seemed fine before the BIOS update (heck, I'd put that one back on if they still had it on the Asus website). Of course, the specs Asus M2N-SLi Deluxe NZXT PRC-550 PSU AM2 Socket AMD 4200X2+ Corsair XMS2 DDR-2 800 I'm on BIOS revision 801 Here Oh yeah, I run RAM test for 5 hours with no errors. And I have no Spyware, no Adware, and no Viruses (I scanned them all on safe mode). Stupid me always screwing with things that are fine Edited January 25, 2007 by Fozzy Fozborne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*gta star* Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Right, you've got no Viruses, Adware or Spyware... It's certainly something to do with the BIOS, I think you should have stuck with your original version of BIOS... Updating BIOS with a Floppy Disk doesn't seem right either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzy Fozborne Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 You can update in your BIOS using a floppy disc, or disk A B or C (since my hard drive, for whatever reason is I, I couldn't use my hard drive, so I used a floppy disk) Or you can update in windows, or boot to the Asus CD and update it there. I downgraded to 0609, and it seems to work alright now, if it keeps crashing, I'll try the 0309 one that's also available, who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brutuz Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Updating BIOS with a Floppy Disk doesn't seem right either. Have you used a computer from since they were first made to 2004? Then you had to use the Floppy Drive to flash your BIOS. My 04 ASUS motherboard only supports Floppy BIOS flashing, all ASUS ones have it, not all of us use USB flash drives . anyways, try using some older BIOS' and if that doesn't work, I think its possible that the new BIOS might talk to hardware differently, so then you might need to update drivers, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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