New ASUS Vintage AE-1 with Athalon 64 3500+, 1G DDR400, Seagate SATa, Lite On DVD
Auto detects hd and dvd the get warning re: unknown processor revision ending in fatal error. Went to ASUS site and downloaded and flashed with vo5o5.rom (renamed as manual said) and now get same message with CMOS Checksum bad ahead of it.
Everything appears to be ok-yet won't get past this POINT and cannot get to BIOS page using F1, F2, delete or escape keys!
Any advice?

BBSounds like you bought the wrong processor and mainboard revision.

What revision is your mainboard and what revision is your processor?Board is revision 1.00 and I'm not SURE where to find the processor revision as none of the DOCUMENTATION state that on it.
I'm assuming it will take a different processor on this board or the opposite then?

Thanks for the reply

BBRevision A or B mainboard?

I'll let you know tommorow where the revision of the CPU can be FOUND.

Is your processor supported by the mainboard at all? Is your BIOS properly configured?Allegedly the processor is supported and I cannot get to the BIOS during POST. I did the flash update to the BIOS with the same results!

Thanks again

BBSolved the issue-installing Kubuntu now.
Thanks for the help-steered me in the right direction!

BBNo problem, how did you eventually solve it? By flashing the BIOS?Two issues-BIOS on ASUS site (motherboard wasn't correct, actually found it on the page with the actual barebone unit and that link (never thought to go there till your post suggested BIOS again) and running through kvm caused intermitent keyboard. Changed to direct keyboard and that didn't solve the boot but allowed a few more things to be visible and then the correct BIOS flash-set the BIOS and zoom!

Thanks again

BBNo problem, come back anytime.