Quote Originally Posted by eva2000 View Post
thanks mate..

glad you guys like the info

As to bios chip it isn't replaceable it seems - first real downside of the board ?

See page 2-3 of manual for the board diagram


The bios chip is supposedly located at the centre point in between the last PCI3 and PCI-E 2 slot and the red IDE connector location. Directly in alignment with the battery. That would make the bios chip to be the soldered on square chip to the right of the 7 pin header ?


But it has Crash Free 3 bios feature see page 4-7 of manual... shove the included driver dvd disk the system and boot it up and it should attempt to do a recovery bios flash.

Have you guys tried clearing cmos overnight ?
Thanks for the photos! It seems that there's no way to swap out the BIOS chip on this board...

How can i run the Crash Free recovery from the CD if the system turns off power after 3 secs, then turn back on again, then turn off... Looks like I'm stuck in this infinite loop and there's nothing I can do to make it load the CD or Floppy... If the BIOS chip was hot swappable, I wouldve at least been able to use a working BIOS chip to boot from the CD...

Oh wells, I think i gotta start the RMA process... It's a shame, as I had the system setup all perfectly last night, was at 7x500FSB with my E6420 and 4X1GB of crucial.