From: user@example.net   
      
   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).   
      
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     //Aho   
      
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