As far as I know it has happened to both C and E versions. G is too new for any real reports, I think.Quote:
Originally posted by Mikee
What actually was done that is killing these poor defenseless mobo's?
I'm running mine with BIOS "C" then jumped to "G" and it is working fine.
What happens is that you press F10 for Save and Exit and then press Y for Yes, or press Enter, it reboots but all goes black. Nothin happens. On power cycle fans spins, but no VGA comes on. Clearing CMOS doesn't help.
This is very rare and it seems highly random. The changes made in BIOS when this happens range from lower FSB from 194 to 193(!), disabling floppy disk, disabling AC97 modem etc. It seems it has little to do with what you do in BIOS, it is more than you are just saving BIOS and it fails to write itself correctly. It is *possible* that one can avoid this by waiting 3 seconds after pressing F10 before you press Yes, but there is no evidence of this.
I do know from my board that before it died, settings didn't always take effect. For example, I upped my FSB to 180 from 175 and saved and exited. Then when I boot the POST screen says 175 still (CPU freq), so I go into BIOS and it says 180 in BIOS! I had to save three times for it to take effect. It happened with other settings also. Never during my 12 hours with the board did it behave unstable, it was running 100 % stable at all times before dying, even with fast RAM timings.
Basically, I think it can happen to anyone at any time. It's just that we all have different ways of using our motherboards. Some go into BIOS once every 5 minutes for two days to setup the board, others never go into BIOS. Some type quick and save and exit quick, other take it slow. One guy I read about RMAd two board and when the third died on him, he threw it in the garbage bin.
I will not make much BIOS changes with my new board next week until ASUS releases a fix for this. Noone has gotten any reply from ASUS about this issue. One guy got a reply that you can buy a replacement BIOS chip for 26 USD plus shipping.