I had a P5B-E until I updated to the newest BIOS last night. I used ASUS Update - the newest version - the one the BIOS file readme told you to use...
Erased the EEPROM fine, flashed the EEPROM fine, and verified the EEPROM fine.
Only odd thing was I for some reason unchecked the box to clear the Checksum values to restore system defaults before I flashed it... not sure if that made a difference or not... it was overclocked at the time and I was tired of going in and having to set everything up again.
Anyway, ASUS splash screen came up, the Jmicron PATA controller screen came up, then nothing... black screen. Alt+F2 didn't get into the flash utility. Wouldn't boot off the CD, a floppy, a USB flash drive. Resetting the CMOS jumper didn't change anything. Taking the battery out, reseating everything, unplugging it... nothing.
Just dead. So, it went out RMA this afternoon. Stupid ASUS.作者: Lunatic 时间: 2007-2-9 09:42 标题: 找到了问题的原因! 经过国内外论坛的搜索,发现相当一部分P5B、P5B-E用户在刷新一月底前后推出的新版本BIOS,包括楼主和我刷的0904版本,都遇到类似问题。原因令人晕倒:这个版本的BIOS在部分系统中和PCI卡不兼容,大部分出问题的用户机器上都装着创新的SoundBlaster PCI声卡(例如我的Audigy 2),刷新BIOS后就不能进入BIOS,也不能启动,但是据说拔掉PCI卡后就启动正常,再刷新华硕几天后出的新版本就没事了。