Help - BIOS Pre-boot failure

[phoenix198]

I need advice; I have just installed my new motherboard (Asus P7H55M) with an i5 760 and 2 x 2GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM (purchased as bundle from Novatech on Fri 27 Aug) and booted it up for the first time.

Instead of going to the POST screen I got a BIOS checksum error message and it requested access to a 'clean' BIOS file P7H55M.ROM via either a USB stick or CD-ROM. I put the Asus utilities CD into the drive and the motherboard seemed to read it from there and proceeded to a message stating "Programming ..." followed by with ¦ and \ and / alternating in sequence.

This continued for several minutes and I thought "OK, give it some time". The PC then spontaneously rebooted but instead of going to a POST screen went to a blank screen, then my monitor went into sleep mode because there was no video signal present.

I have already:

- Checked that RAM, CPU, CPU cooler, power connectors, graphics card, etc are firmly seated.
- Tried to boot with all drives disconnected, only one RAM chip installed, etc to no effect
- checked that the motherboard standby/power LED illuminates (it does)
- checked that CPU fan is turning (it is)

I suspect that I have a BIOS pre-boot failure and that I will have to RMA the motherboard as faulty but is there anything I can do to further verify this or even rectify it?

Any help greatly appreciated.

[Queelis]

Look up the Mobo manual, maybe the Asus' advertised "Crash Free BIOS 3" (ironic, I know ) has a procedure to restore BIOS.

[phoenix198]

Look up the Mobo manual, maybe the Asus' advertised "Crash Free BIOS 3" (ironic, I know ) has a procedure to restore BIOS.

I have been trying that although heaven knows whether it is working or not - with no screen display (and no chassis speaker to hear any beeps) it is a bit difficult to know whether anything is happening other than fans gently whirring ...

Looks like an RMA ... and so much for Novatech's quality checks if the very first thing I see (saw) was a BIOS checksum error message