ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe can't enter bios

**cwebb1977** · March 24th, 2005, 05:05 AM

Hi,

I have a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe with Award Bios 6.00, the pc runs smoothly, but I cannot enter the bios, every time I press Del while starting it goes into a blank screen and only on my secondary monitor there's a (what's it in english) blinking cursor line waiting for something typed in at the very top left

But I didn't set a password and I guess the password entry thing would look different anyway...

any idea?

**confus-ed** · March 24th, 2005, 05:49 AM

Hi cwebb1977 welcome to wd forums.

So I think I'm as puzzled as you why hitting 'del' isn't doing it .. & all I can helpfully add, is that you could clear cmos (via the jumper on the board -see your mannual for details) to get rid of any passwords you might have inadvertently set & also that Asus have a DMI utility which aparently lets you change all the bios values from within windows to be applied on the next restart.

When I initially read it, I thought it was sat waiting for a cd to be inserted, to boot from & that you should be pressing another key to hit bios (esc or f1 or f2 are the usual 'suspects') - but nope it definately says 'press del'

**cwebb1977** · March 24th, 2005, 05:53 AM

Thanks ed,

I'll try the windows tool.

It's really strange, iut says press Del, I do that and nothing happens. All the while my new fan works fine, my new RAM works fine, my new hd will work fine after I get the power cable

If the windows tool dowsn't work I'll come back, but it should at least help me get some info. thanks again!

**theonetruely** · March 25th, 2005, 01:25 AM

Originally Posted by cwebb1977

Thanks ed,

I'll try the windows tool.

It's really strange, iut says press Del, I do that and nothing happens. All the while my new fan works fine, my new RAM works fine, my new hd will work fine after I get the power cable

If the windows tool dowsn't work I'll come back, but it should at least help me get some info. thanks again!

hi cwebb1977
had same board same problem bios flash solved it

**njman55** · March 25th, 2005, 01:36 AM

Make sure you are not using a usb keyboard to enter bios

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**cwebb1977** · March 28th, 2005, 05:37 PM

Hi guys, thanks for all the help so far.

I got my pc back up and running with the newest BIOS version, but I still cannot access it, which is real bad because now it's running with default settings.

I got mouse and keyboard on ps2, one with an adapter, so that shouldn't be the problem.

I still get the same blank screen with "_" blinking in the topleft corner

any better ideas? didn't find a way to change bios settings from windows...

theonetruly: really exact same prob? what bios version did you update to?

**Garak** · April 13th, 2005, 02:20 PM

I had this problem with other motherboards due to not clearing the BIOS settings after a BIOS flash. Pull the battery, power and leave it. Give it a few minutes to an hour and plug everything back in and try it again.

Failing that, I'd suggest testing the battery voltage.

**x9731091** · December 15th, 2005, 05:55 AM

I have exactly the same problems with the Asus A7N8X Deluxe.

I have tried resetting the BIOS by changing the jumper settings.(not tried taking the battery out -yet)

All of my other hardware has passed various checking tests.

**TRICKPLAYER** · December 19th, 2005, 03:35 AM

Firstly if its not broke why fix it, you could end up with a dead board, but make sure you have tried the following,

1 take out battery for about 10 mins, then flash cmos via jumper, put battery back.
2 If your keyboard is ps2 try a different one, it may be a bad button.

**edusclair** · June 5th, 2016, 05:25 PM

Please, does someone have the solution to this problem?

**Zonie** · June 6th, 2016, 08:02 AM

Did you try all the suggestions in the threads?

**edusclair** · June 6th, 2016, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by Zonie

Did you try all the suggestions in the threads?

Yes.

And I had success to flash with different BIOS (originals and mod's) versions too, but I can't enter BIOS setup screen yet.

**CCT** · June 6th, 2016, 03:51 PM

A thread I found said " unconnected the power supply take out the battery set the reset jumpers leave for 2 hours" worked.

**edusclair** · June 8th, 2016, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by CCT

A thread I found said " unconnected the power supply take out the battery set the reset jumpers leave for 2 hours" worked.

RESOLVED! I had to disconnect the power supply, remove the battery, set the Clear CMOS jumper and leave ALL NIGHT LONG (because 30 minutes weren't enough).

Thanks a lot, CCT!