Quote Originally Posted by Scope666 View Post
So I just installed this board last night. It gave me a scare in the beginning but it seems to be behaving now. It arrived with Bios 14 on it, and it was doing the strangest thing. Basically I could only boot up if I cleared the CMOS (switch on the back) If I went into the BIOS and made changes, I had like a 1 in 5 chance of being able to boot up again after it automatically shut down. It would try to restart and then shut back down. It displayed “83” on the POST indicator.

I finally got lucky and was able to save the changes necessary to boot off a USB stick, and I flashed the BIOS to the 16 B3 beta. Once I got that in it seems like it will let me save changes now. The only thing I can think of is somehow the setup defaults weren't compatible with my hardware. I have a e6750 CPU and 2 x 1024 XMS2 sticks. Maybe it was picking a weird divider? I just wanted to see if anyone else ever had this problem. I SEEM to be OK now but it definitely gave me a scare.
GOOD show getting your board upgraded to 16.b03 beta bios.

don't forget to to clear CMOS and yank the the battery out for at least 5 minutes when it comes to problems with posting.