Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief

From	"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux
Subject	Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief
Date	2025-07-13 11:35 +0200
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On 13/07/2025 07.58, Paul wrote:
> On Sat, 7/12/2025 8:46 PM, bad sector wrote:
> 
>>
>> I never touched the CPU, the next boot failed after I edited the BIOS and among a few other things disabled the CPU-native graphics.
>>
>> Then following your advice I managed to reboot into BIOS, ultimately able to launch an OS. I ha it made using 1/2 of my memory!
>>
>> J. O. Aho suggested and I prepped a BIOS upgrade usb drive (there are 3 different BIOS sections in the manual, all of them full of mistakes).
>>
>> As I pressed the bios flash button the LED never illuminated so after about 6 seconds I let it go.
>>
>> Now I cannot get past the yellow (ram) LED no matter what ddr5 I set in no matter what ram slot.
>>
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
> Restore non-ECC DIMM in the "best working socket" your previous testing revealed.
> 
> You are likely going to need to flash the BIOS back to some
> previous version, at a guess.
> 
> On some systems, switching off the power three times, when the machine
> is in trouble, initiates "load setup defaults" so you (in theory) can
> get back in control of the machine.

This been true on my earlier Asus boards, my current one is an ASRock, 
which is a bit different compared with Asus branded. Both have the 
common on newer cards that you should be able to flash from usb with a 
clean board, described on page 57 in the manual for the ProArt x870e 
Creator (copy can be downloaded from asus homepage).


> You may be at the point, you're going to need to take this in somewhere, and
> see if a techie can flash it back to something that works. You *used* to be
> able to flash a BIOS backwards, but it took some standalone flasher and an
> MSDOS boot media, to "free-form flash", meaning a version check was not
> done on purpose, and you could move backwards. We stopped using such flashers,
> more than ten years ago, which is why I'm kinda wondering what options
> are available for going back to an older version.

Asus do tell when you can and can't downgrade, the 1512 isn't 
down-gradable while 1504 is but just till another version has the text 
mentioning that you can't downgrade.

I think the BIOS version is connected to the AGESA which I don't think 
do support downgrades (don't take my word for it).

-- 
  //Aho

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Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-07-12 00:45 -0400
  Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-12 03:04 -0400
    Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-07-12 11:02 -0400
      Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2025-07-12 17:24 +0200
      Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-12 19:14 -0400
        Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-07-12 20:46 -0400
          Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-13 01:58 -0400
            Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2025-07-13 11:35 +0200
              Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-07-13 19:20 -0400
                Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-07-13 22:20 -0400
                Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-14 01:36 -0400
                Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-07-15 19:26 -0400
                Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-16 04:44 -0400
                Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-07-16 09:34 -0400
                Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-16 11:11 -0400
                Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-07-16 17:19 -0400
                new board ..Re: Asus x870e: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-07-31 22:48 -0400
                Re: new board ..Re: Asus x870e: more grief Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-01 05:16 -0400
                Re: new board ..Re: Asus x870e: more grief Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-08-02 14:59 +0300
                Re: new board ..Re: Asus x870e: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-08-03 06:29 -0400
  Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2025-07-12 10:23 +0200
    Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-07-12 08:53 -0400
      Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2025-07-12 17:11 +0200
  Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-01 14:02 +0200
    Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-01 09:41 -0400
      Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-01 19:49 +0200
    Re: Asus x870e Proart Creator motherboard: more grief bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-08-03 06:29 -0400

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