P8P67 HELP!

PhIlLy ChEeSe · #1 05-10-2014

OK
I got this Flee bay board P8P67 for my 3770K, the issue was the bios was no good. So, I pulled out a P8P67 Deluxe swapped the bios chip, boom up and running. Issue is the chip thinks its a P8P67 Deluxe, so thats a no go. I need to flush the original BIOS chip, so as to have the Bup Dater for the new Ivy chips.
I never did this before anyone have and advice, stuck till i swap it out as the deluxe I think has a different LAN as the none deluxe controller does...............

Just need to get from point A to B, any help??

Kal-EL · #2 05-11-2014

Maybe try and get an updated bios chip from manuf? Less someone has a loaner.

Witchdoctor · #3 05-11-2014

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trks...at=0&_from=R40

PhIlLy ChEeSe · #4 05-11-2014

I got it,
The board is a P8P67 Vanilla, I used a P8P67 Deluxe chip, booted into the BIOS. (GPU installed in second PCI-E slot) Carefully removed the Deluxe Bios chip inserted the original BIOS chip, inserted the thumb drive with BIOS up date (Sandy Bridge BIOS with IVY Bridge CPU). Flashed the BIOS Chip Twice, set defaults, removed battery, cleared CMOS, inserted Battery booted back up BOOM Fixed.

Kal-EL · #5 05-11-2014

Chica boom!

PhIlLy ChEeSe · #6 05-11-2014

I googled this, there is nothing about it on the net? Of course like witch said just pay like $12 and Asus will mail you a flashed Bios chip, but what fun is that?

GFDuke · #7 05-12-2014

lol

Neuromancer · #8 05-14-2014

There used to be.

The great thing (back then) was that ASUS offered full control of their boards. Including flashing BIOS that were not allowed to be flashed. (HEnce their "You cant unflash this BIOS" warnings which were only meant to dissuade those that were not willing to try...

Sorry I do not remember specifics, but it has to do with DOS boot drives and AFIDOS or what BIOS it is that that board uses.

Figure out BIOS maker, find the DOS app and lookup the switches for the flash command.

I think /F was in there as that letter always stands out as significant on old code when engineers had a sense of humour... as in "You are /F if you screw it up"

(Not that p67 was THAT long ago but I did have a habit of IDing everything on the boards I reviewed, and recall it had a few memory chips two for the UEFI BIOS and a smaller one for the real BIOS, because UEFI was a firmware patch at that point. )

Sorry I was to lazy to google anything :(

Ohh and I think you will need an app to convert the bin to ROM but

Wait... never touched the vamilla, did it have the fat flash to bricked board feature the deluxe did? Never tried it myself as I never bricked it. Did damage a couple bios chips. (lol one board I had, I melted the metal sticker that was on top of the BIOS chip (WAY back in the day...giant grpahene legged chip with a tiny silcon wafer in the center that got hot a s hell when I tweaked every setting lol.

PhIlLy ChEeSe · #9 05-15-2014

Well, I took a short cut, swapped them out while in the bios then force flashed the original BIOS chip(twice) and it worked. I was worries as I'm using a Ivy Bridge cpu with a Sandy Bridge board, its fully working. I heard the caps convertor is just a file extension, its a normal bios with extra stuff in front of it?

Neuromancer · #10 05-24-2014

Have not run Windows8 yet so no idea about the CAPS converter. But yeah a quick look is it changes hte file extension but it could do more than that.

IT is possible they created the program to eliminate the people that do not have "show file extensions" enabled on their OS already and the complaints that "changing the file extension did not work"

Or it could be something more, I am a little outdated.

Glad you are up and running