[M3guy]

I recentley purchased a Samsung s22a300b syncmaster monitor. It wont show the bios at start up and sometimes wont even run a post. When I install my old benq it shows the post in dual monitor mode and the syncmaster works fine at the windows login screen.

When I remove the old monitor the bios keeps telling me that it is corrupted and has to be restored. I have no idea what the heck is going on but I have installed a new video card recentley and everything was running fine.

Specs : Asus P5Q-E mother board
Corsair dominator ram 1066 ddr2
e8500 cpu core 2 duo
Nvidia GTX 560 ds ssc video card. (ran fine with old monitor)
coolermaster 850 watt ps.
old western digital hard drive
soundblaster audigy se soundcard.

 

[Wrench97]

Are they both DVI hook ups?
What is the exact error message you see?

 

[M3guy]

Are they both DVI hook ups?
What is the exact error message you see?

The new screen is a dvi-d the old one is rgb or vga or whatever.

It says your bios has become corrupt and needs to be reflashed or whatever then it reflashes the bios and restarts fine. Until I remove the old screen then it acts up again.

 

[Wrench97]

Are you hooking the monitors up the same port or is the new monitor hooked to the secondary port on the card?

Is it the Asus motherboard giving you the bios message or the video card bios that's being corrupt?

 

[M3guy]

Are you hooking the monitors up the same port or is the new monitor hooked to the secondary port on the card?

Is it the Asus motherboard giving you the bios message or the video card bios that's being corrupt?

It was the asus bios or "American Megatrends" bios. I was installing the newest bios over a fairly old one I installed an older than latest but newer than the old one bios. Here is a link

I had not flashed the bios since I bought it 3 years ago so it was a pre october 2008 bios. I installed the latest version 2101 and it was corrupting when I put in the new monitor. It worked fine with the old monitor a 17" benq lcd 07C3 then the bios corruption started with the latest bios 2101. I rolled it back so to speak to version 1703 and it seems to be working best.

I had read that the error may have been caused by the native resolution of the bios being 240 by 360 or whatever and it would not show up on the screen. Also my case is getting full with all the new hardware and an extra fan and the massive video card was not fitting great. I reattached all the plug ins and it seems fine now. The computer starts normally without switching resolution and my new screen shows the bios as per usual. so it must of been the fault of the newest bios.

Might be new case time as well.

:banghead: wow anyways thank you for any input into the matter. :thumb:

 

[M3guy]

Are you hooking the monitors up the same port or is the new monitor hooked to the secondary port on the card?

Is it the Asus motherboard giving you the bios message or the video card bios that's being corrupt?

I was using both ports and they both did the same thing usually the new monitor was on the primary or most left port and for some reason attaching the old monitor to the secondary port helped it work better. I also considered reinstalling the driver from nvidia. Or do these new led monitors have there own drivers ? It came with a cd full of all kinds of weird stuff to install.

 

[M3guy]

oh yeah the new video card came with two molex to pci-e adapters but I used two free pci-e adapters from my ps does this have any affect ?

 

[Wrench97]

No use the power cables on the PSU.

So correct me if I'm not understanding this correctly, the Corrupt bios message happened after you flashed the bios. Not after you installed the card, correct?

The new monitor may not be capable of displaying the resolution the card is outputting on and bios screens through a HDMI connection, it should however be adle to do so hooked to the primary port using either VGA or DVI.

 

[M3guy]

No use the power cables on the PSU.

So correct me if I'm not understanding this correctly, the Corrupt bios message happened after you flashed the bios. Not after you installed the card, correct?

The new monitor may not be capable of displaying the resolution the card is outputting on and bios screens through a HDMI connection, it should however be adle to do so hooked to the primary port using either VGA or DVI.

Yes the timeline went something like this.

3months ago swap out video card from 9800gt to 560 gtx

2 months ago flash bios to newest version shown on asus download site seemed like the new bios got along with the new card better and my computer ran very fast and solid.

about a week ago I get the new monitor and it works ok at first but then starts acting stupid. It would constantly switch from digital to analog input and not show anything. Then it wouldn't even give a post beep then it starts up with this corrupted bios message and it flashes and restores. it has been going from corrupted bios to running perfectly for a few days now.

Currently it is on the newest bios and it starts and runs beautifully. I went hard core and installed the new bios through freedos so maybe that is what it needed to stay normal. Anyways Ill post again if it screws up.

 

[M3guy]

Yesterday it just took a dive on me. I hooked up a better hard drive and all seems well. Can the hard drive effect the bios at boot ? Also it crashed brutally while gaming the whole map and sound fell apart like pieces of broken glass.

It has been hanging at startup and freezing while browsing the old hard drive has been making grinding sounds off and on for a few months. I am going to assume that this is the culprit. Everything seems fine on a new Win7 install and a much better hard drive. *crossfingers*

 

[Wrench97]

Corrupt the bios no, make it hang on recognition of hardware(the hard drive in this case) yes, If the drive is making grinding sounds it's definitely failing.
Any Warranty left on the drive.

 

[M3guy]

Corrupt the bios no, make it hang on recognition of hardware(the hard drive in this case) yes, If the drive is making grinding sounds it's definitely failing.
Any Warranty left on the drive.

Well lets see it is a WD 250 gb with a January 2006 product date on it. If you were a betting man would you say yes ?

 

[Wrench97]

For the warranty no back then they were mostly 3 years, now the black drives are 5

 

[M3guy]

For the warranty no back then they were mostly 3 years, now the black drives are 5

:rofl: aww too bad.

Well new problem now this one seems to be with the new nvidia driver. Couple of bsods this time. One says Page fault in non page area and the other one says Luke I am your father I mean bios checksum error :rofl:

 

[Wrench97]

The Bsod says bios checksum error?

Follow the instructions here> http://www.techsupportforum.com/for...-instructions-windows-7-and-vista-452654.html to give us the data needed to read the dumps.

 

[M3guy]

Sorry to suggest something else possibly, shorts this weird dvi cord may not be compatible with my card and monitor I pulled this one out of my pile o cables thinking that dvi would be better than the converter plug.

The one on the left is from Lord knows where and the other one on the right is the standard nvidia conversion piece. All these problems began when I installed the new monitor. So anyways thank you for being patient would appreciate some thoughts on this cable thing.

 

[ReviverSoft]

Hi,

Do take a look at the first image here:
DVI compatibility for sticklers

 

[M3guy]

Hi,

Do take a look at the first image here:
DVI compatibility for sticklers

Sweet curses of Moses,

The monitor has a dvi-d connector the video card has a dvi-i connector, the chord was a single link dvi-d cable. Soz to get the most I probably need a dvi-i cable as the vga to dvi-i is running perfect again. Also with the previous setup I could only get 59 hz refresh rate so obviously the card blah blah blah maybe you can tell me.

 

[Wrench97]

DVI-D is digital DVI-A is analog, DVI-I is both analog and digital, looking at that cable I'd say try another one if the monitor supports digital signals DVI-D should work.

 

[M3guy]

DVI-D is digital DVI-A is analog, DVI-I is both analog and digital, looking at that cable I'd say try another one if the monitor supports digital signals DVI-D should work.

Well it hasn't even flickered or anything for four solid hours, who knows maybe it was the old hd + the bioschange + the wonky chord + a bad nvidia driver which is now rolled back to 280.26.

UNfortunately I do have a life outside of my computer so :thumb: for now.