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7/15/12 at 7:23am

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I have an Asus P8Z68-v Gen 3 and I upgraded BIOS to most recent version and now whenever I exit BIOS and restart, the machine hangs with a black screen with fans spinning. Is it possible I have a corrupt BIOS? Is there a way to revert back since Asus doesn't allow you to flash an older BIOS?

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7/15/12 at 7:56am

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Problem solved!... It was indeed a corrupt BIOS flash, I was able to boot to the motherboard disc and use the FreeDOS prompt to reflash the current BIOS with the command line based BIOS update utility.

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i7 3770K 4.7 GHz @ 1.32v	Asus P8Z68-V Gen3	Gigabyte 7870	8gb G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
Monster Daytona 240GB	Seagate ST3500	Lite-On DVD-RW	CM 212+
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Windows 7 Pro x64	Acer H235Hbmid 23"	CORSAIR HX-650	Corsair Carbide 500R (white)
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Logitech M705
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In-Win basic mATX
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i7 3770K 4.7 GHz @ 1.32v	Asus P8Z68-V Gen3	Gigabyte 7870	8gb G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600
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Monster Daytona 240GB	Seagate ST3500	Lite-On DVD-RW	CM 212+
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7/15/12 at 8:20am

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Oh.. Glad to see you have it solved. Its times like these where a Dual-bios board is really useful.

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7/15/12 at 8:21am

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Problem not solved

Now in the BIOS I can change some settings and save/restart successfully, but If I touch anything OC related it just does the reboot then hang thing again. And my option to overclock via the Turbo Multi has disappeared????? I am so lost on this one.

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i7 3770K 4.7 GHz @ 1.32v	Asus P8Z68-V Gen3	Gigabyte 7870	8gb G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
Monster Daytona 240GB	Seagate ST3500	Lite-On DVD-RW	CM 212+
OS	Monitor	Power	Case
Windows 7 Pro x64	Acer H235Hbmid 23"	CORSAIR HX-650	Corsair Carbide 500R (white)
Mouse
Logitech M705
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Athlon II X4 645	MSI el cheapo	Gigabyte GT 220	4GB Crucial DDR3
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
WD Blue 160GB	Lite-On DVDRW	Windows 7 Pro 64	46" Vizio LCD 1080P
Case
In-Win basic mATX
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i5 2450M	Intel HD 3000	8GB G.Skill 1600	Samsung 830 128GB
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CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i7 3770K 4.7 GHz @ 1.32v	Asus P8Z68-V Gen3	Gigabyte 7870	8gb G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
Monster Daytona 240GB	Seagate ST3500	Lite-On DVD-RW	CM 212+
OS	Monitor	Power	Case
Windows 7 Pro x64	Acer H235Hbmid 23"	CORSAIR HX-650	Corsair Carbide 500R (white)
Mouse
Logitech M705
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CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
Athlon II X4 645	MSI el cheapo	Gigabyte GT 220	4GB Crucial DDR3
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
WD Blue 160GB	Lite-On DVDRW	Windows 7 Pro 64	46" Vizio LCD 1080P
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In-Win basic mATX
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7/15/12 at 8:38am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by gerickjohn

Oh.. Glad to see you have it solved. Its times like these where a Dual-bios board is really useful.

Back to square one, I can boot into the machine by setting the SATA setting to RAID (Intel SRT) but I cannot touch a single setting related to OC without it hanging after the restart.

How rediculous is it you can't flash an older "working!" version of a BIOS on Asus boards.

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i7 3770K 4.7 GHz @ 1.32v	Asus P8Z68-V Gen3	Gigabyte 7870	8gb G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
Monster Daytona 240GB	Seagate ST3500	Lite-On DVD-RW	CM 212+
OS	Monitor	Power	Case
Windows 7 Pro x64	Acer H235Hbmid 23"	CORSAIR HX-650	Corsair Carbide 500R (white)
Mouse
Logitech M705
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CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
Athlon II X4 645	MSI el cheapo	Gigabyte GT 220	4GB Crucial DDR3
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
WD Blue 160GB	Lite-On DVDRW	Windows 7 Pro 64	46" Vizio LCD 1080P
Case
In-Win basic mATX
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Windows 8 Pro x64	14" 1366 x 768 LED	SRS Premium
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i7 3770K 4.7 GHz @ 1.32v	Asus P8Z68-V Gen3	Gigabyte 7870	8gb G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
Monster Daytona 240GB	Seagate ST3500	Lite-On DVD-RW	CM 212+
OS	Monitor	Power	Case
Windows 7 Pro x64	Acer H235Hbmid 23"	CORSAIR HX-650	Corsair Carbide 500R (white)
Mouse
Logitech M705
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CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
Athlon II X4 645	MSI el cheapo	Gigabyte GT 220	4GB Crucial DDR3
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
WD Blue 160GB	Lite-On DVDRW	Windows 7 Pro 64	46" Vizio LCD 1080P
Case
In-Win basic mATX
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7/15/12 at 9:57am

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Reset BIOS to default. You could always buy a BIOS chip from ASUS if you cant get your flash to work right.
http://us.estore.asus.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3885

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7/15/12 at 10:16am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RX7-2nr

Reset BIOS to default. You could always buy a BIOS chip from ASUS if you cant get your flash to work right.
http://us.estore.asus.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3885

+ rep to you for that find. I don't think I'll resort to that quite yet but nice find. I am going to haggle Asus support and poke around in the ROG forums for answers first.

Seems it is a common issue when flashing new BIOS on P8 boards. Can't get system to boot with RAM higher than 1333 and some OC settings are plain out Missing.

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i7 3770K 4.7 GHz @ 1.32v	Asus P8Z68-V Gen3	Gigabyte 7870	8gb G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
Monster Daytona 240GB	Seagate ST3500	Lite-On DVD-RW	CM 212+
OS	Monitor	Power	Case
Windows 7 Pro x64	Acer H235Hbmid 23"	CORSAIR HX-650	Corsair Carbide 500R (white)
Mouse
Logitech M705
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CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
Athlon II X4 645	MSI el cheapo	Gigabyte GT 220	4GB Crucial DDR3
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
WD Blue 160GB	Lite-On DVDRW	Windows 7 Pro 64	46" Vizio LCD 1080P
Case
In-Win basic mATX
View all

CPU	Graphics	RAM	Hard Drive
i5 2450M	Intel HD 3000	8GB G.Skill 1600	Samsung 830 128GB
OS	Monitor	Audio
Windows 8 Pro x64	14" 1366 x 768 LED	SRS Premium
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CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i7 3770K 4.7 GHz @ 1.32v	Asus P8Z68-V Gen3	Gigabyte 7870	8gb G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
Monster Daytona 240GB	Seagate ST3500	Lite-On DVD-RW	CM 212+
OS	Monitor	Power	Case
Windows 7 Pro x64	Acer H235Hbmid 23"	CORSAIR HX-650	Corsair Carbide 500R (white)
Mouse
Logitech M705
View all

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
Athlon II X4 645	MSI el cheapo	Gigabyte GT 220	4GB Crucial DDR3
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
WD Blue 160GB	Lite-On DVDRW	Windows 7 Pro 64	46" Vizio LCD 1080P
Case
In-Win basic mATX
View all

CPU	Graphics	RAM	Hard Drive
i5 2450M	Intel HD 3000	8GB G.Skill 1600	Samsung 830 128GB
OS	Monitor	Audio
Windows 8 Pro x64	14" 1366 x 768 LED	SRS Premium
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