Crosshair IV Formula Bios 2101 Bricked board?

[Biggz1313]

Hey everyone. I'm new here and stumbled upon you guys looking for what happened to my board. Here is my problem and what I'm running.

CPU: AMD 8120 with Coolermaster V8 Heatsink
Board: Asus Crosshair IV Formula
RAM: Corsair 12gb ddr31600
SSD: 60GB Microcenter brand
HDD: 320GB Seagate
GPU: 2 Asus 6870 DirectCU in Crossfire @ 915mhz each
PSU: Corsair 850watt

So I was wiping everything and reinstalling a fresh copy of W7 and starting from scratch. I got everything wiped, installed, updated, drivers installed, and running smooth, but then at the very end I thought I'd flash the most recent bios, I don't know why, my system was running great, but I guess I just thought since I'm updating everything, minus well do the bios too. So I downloaded the 2101 bios from ASUS website, put it on a FAT32 formatted USB stick, and using EZ Flash 2 I flashed the new bios. The EX flash recognized the bios, checked it, said it was OK, then successfully installed the new bios. When done, it said system restart required and automatically restarted my system. Well, it never restarted. I now just get a black screen, GPU fans spin, but CPU fan no longer spins and the fan control does not work. I have a solid red Q-LED CPU light that is on from the push of the power on button.

I've tried ton's of things. Using ROG from my laptop, unseating everything from the board, letting it sit over night, and reseating everything (redid processor and heat-sink as well). All of this to no avail. I am really hoping that my boards not done. I called Asus, and after waiting 30min 3 times and talking to someone 3 times who took my name and number and said they'd call me back, I called one more time to finally talk to someone. They didn't want to walk me through any diagnostics, just said I need a new bios chip. So I have a new bios chip ordered but it won't be here until Wed at the earliest. I really hope the bios chip will fix this problem, but any insight or suggestions or experience with any of this would be great to hear from you guys. I spent days reading other posts while waiting to get approved by a moderator, and you guys are a nice tight knit community which is awesome. So, any responses, ideas, or recommendations from anyone is greatly appreciated. Also, just curious is this version of the bios has caused anyone else problems. Thanks in advance!

MattyBiggz

[chrsplmr]

You could try this ..
http://us.estore.asus.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3890

Welcome to ROG.c.

[speed]

The best I can tell is you need 3027 to run a FX on that AM3 board. That is a beta bios and the cpu list says that is what you need. I know the one you used is newer, but it may only be for AM3 cpus and not the FX. You should get a CHV. I know the IV was nice, but she don't hold a candle to the V. IMO.
http://usa.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3/Crosshair_IV_Formula/#download
http://usa.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3/Crosshair_IV_Formula/#download

[Biggz1313]

speed wrote:
The best I can tell is you need 3027 to run a FX on that AM3 board. That is a beta bios and the cpu list says that is what you need. I know the one you used is newer, but it may only be for AM3 cpus and not the FX. You should get a CHV. I know the IV was nice, but she don't hold a candle to the V. IMO.
http://usa.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3/Crosshair_IV_Formula/#download
http://usa.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3/Crosshair_IV_Formula/#download

I have a new bios chip ordered but I don't know what bios they'll send me on it. I requested the 0505 I think it was because that was stock, but my order status page says they're checking bios version so I don't know what they'll send me. If they send me the 0505 bios chip, will I be able to at least get into the bios screen to update to the 3027? Right now as I said I can't boot, I hope the stock bios will at least let me get into the boot screen to flash new bios. Do you know if this will be possible. I really don't want to have to drop $200+ on a new board when this one was working great for me.

[speed]

Not with a FX. You may need to buy an cheap sampron AM3 so you can boot and flash to 3027 or you can get a 1100T and sell that FX. I'm not a big fan of using FX on older boards, but to each their own. good luck to you.

[FEDUP]

hi,
updated bios from 3027 to 2101, blinded by that it stated "more stable " HA! im running fx6100 (turbos up to 4.5. ) now will not boot at all ! tried all things . and as you say fans all running ok exept cpu and cpu led light on !but does nothing else .will perchase a new bios chip as only option left.

Biggz1313 wrote:
Hey everyone. I'm new here and stumbled upon you guys looking for what happened to my board. Here is my problem and what I'm running.

CPU: AMD 8120 with Coolermaster V8 Heatsink
Board: Asus Crosshair IV Formula
RAM: Corsair 12gb ddr31600
SSD: 60GB Microcenter brand
HDD: 320GB Seagate
GPU: 2 Asus 6870 DirectCU in Crossfire @ 915mhz each
PSU: Corsair 850watt

So I was wiping everything and reinstalling a fresh copy of W7 and starting from scratch. I got everything wiped, installed, updated, drivers installed, and running smooth, but then at the very end I thought I'd flash the most recent bios, I don't know why, my system was running great, but I guess I just thought since I'm updating everything, minus well do the bios too. So I downloaded the 2101 bios from ASUS website, put it on a FAT32 formatted USB stick, and using EZ Flash 2 I flashed the new bios. The EX flash recognized the bios, checked it, said it was OK, then successfully installed the new bios. When done, it said system restart required and automatically restarted my system. Well, it never restarted. I now just get a black screen, GPU fans spin, but CPU fan no longer spins and the fan control does not work. I have a solid red Q-LED CPU light that is on from the push of the power on button.

I've tried ton's of things. Using ROG from my laptop, unseating everything from the board, letting it sit over night, and reseating everything (redid processor and heat-sink as well). All of this to no avail. I am really hoping that my boards not done. I called Asus, and after waiting 30min 3 times and talking to someone 3 times who took my name and number and said they'd call me back, I called one more time to finally talk to someone. They didn't want to walk me through any diagnostics, just said I need a new bios chip. So I have a new bios chip ordered but it won't be here until Wed at the earliest. I really hope the bios chip will fix this problem, but any insight or suggestions or experience with any of this would be great to hear from you guys. I spent days reading other posts while waiting to get approved by a moderator, and you guys are a nice tight knit community which is awesome. So, any responses, ideas, or recommendations from anyone is greatly appreciated. Also, just curious is this version of the bios has caused anyone else problems. Thanks in advance!

MattyBiggz

[speed]

go back to 3027. FX was not made for any board other than the CHV. Asus just made a beta bios for doing that. 3027. Any other bios is for phenom II