update your bios  

here is my bios screen since i can't change hardly any settings would that make it
safe

tryed to download it but it does not download hope you can find other site thanks for this mate the packard bell tower cost me £899 would be good if i can fix it take care

Packard Bell PB-Vegas2 IS identical to Asus P5N-E SLI and bios updates from asus work perfectly. Can't believe nobody has tried doing this in all this time. But you may want to reset the bios before flashing or after that you may not be able to enter setup, and will have to reset it anyway. At first when this bug happened i thought the flashing had failed and the pc dead but no... bios reset made it ok. Soooo many more settings that the crappy Packard Bell bios. But can someone tell me what my LDT must be? It is default at 5X multiplier and FSB is 200 (as should be). So is the LDT correct?

R4dul how did you go about this?

As i have recently purchased a Sapphire 6870 and didnt realise this issue. Previously when i have gone to update to the asus bios it has always failed I didn;t even get to the thinking the pc was dead option.

wakko said:

R4dul how did you go about this?

As i have recently purchased a Sapphire 6870 and didnt realise this issue. Previously when i have gone to update to the asus bios it has always failed I didn;t even get to the thinking the pc was dead option.

I used the latest bios version from asus, in my case was 1406.bin file. Also used the DOS flasher program, since i could not use the asus update program to flash the bios (because board was recognized as packard bell). I copied the bios file to main HDD, on the drive root for ease of access and also the awdflash.exe file. Then i booted from a CD (i used hiren's boot cd) and loaded NTFS4DOS to have access to my HDD. Then i simply ran awdflash.exe program. Downside for me was, i was unable to backup the current bios to a file since awdflash program can't write to the HDD through the NTFS4DOS environment, or maybe packard bell did some copy protecting on their bios. It made sense that the board work with the asus bios since they're practically identical... except the packard bell has fewer connectors It was a huge risk though...

R4dul said:

wakko said:

R4dul how did you go about this?

As i have recently purchased a Sapphire 6870 and didnt realise this issue. Previously when i have gone to update to the asus bios it has always failed I didn;t even get to the thinking the pc was dead option.

I used the latest bios version from asus, in my case was 1406.bin file. Also used the DOS flasher program, since i could not use the asus update program to flash the bios (because board was recognized as packard bell). I copied the bios file to main HDD, on the drive root for ease of access and also the awdflash.exe file. Then i booted from a CD (i used hiren's boot cd) and loaded NTFS4DOS to have access to my HDD. Then i simply ran awdflash.exe program. Downside for me was, i was unable to backup the current bios to a file since awdflash program can't write to the HDD through the NTFS4DOS environment, or maybe packard bell did some copy protecting on their bios. It made sense that the board work with the asus bios since they're practically identical... except the packard bell has fewer connectors It was a huge risk though...

I think i just about get the idea

1.) copy bios and awdflsh.exe to C:
2.) set bios to boot from CD
3.) Run hirens disc and use NTFS4DOS
4.) go to C: in dos
5.) in DOS type "awdflash.exe newbios.bin
6.) sit back and cross fingers?

Is that it or is there more to it? A simple tutorial would be really nice. As i have a sapphire ATI 6870 sat next to me that i can't use in my pc .

Thanks for your help in advance.