Quote Originally Posted by Newms118 View Post
ive had a strange issue with the asus maximus formula board. Whenever i change a bios setting and "exit and save" the board turns off and then turns back on after like 4 seconds. Ive heard people saying its the CMOS flashing. It happens every time i change a setting, and also when i turn the computer off and unplug the power cord from the PSU. When i do take the power cord out of the PSU and then turn it on again the board will power up and then immediately shut down for like 4 seconds and then power back up again. this is with BIOS 0907. Is this normal?
This is happening cuase of a certain FSB, then it's normal since the 1st LGA775 ASUS with native 1066FSB support (the ASUS P5AD2-E). It is the mobo power regulator configuring to PSU and mobo to make sure voltages are correct before firing up all at once. Some mobos that did not use this would not boo if the PSU could not regulate fast enough, and it was especially noticable when overclocking as the power demand changed.

A delay in power is normal whenever changing voltages or major settings such as RAM timings so that changes can be written to eprom and configured before you restart.

Quote Originally Posted by cstkl1 View Post
no it means everytime u want to flash a new bios
save new bios in a usb for example
go to bios
reset to default setting
save and boot back into bios
flash ure bios via ezflash in the bios.
aka problem free
and dont use ure previos bios overclocking profile if u saved any

hmm guys actually all this has been already discussed.. read either one of the threads.
Read my previous post, this is exactly what I just said I did except for the point where I had to use Live Update to revert backwords. The type of external storage made no difference from which I flashed BIOS ROM from, each USB mini HDD, full size USB HDD, and Even my USB docked PSP game wich I used mostly for it's speed and performance with high speed Pro Stick Duo.

The only option I forgot to actually try was recovery from CD as I do now get the CMOS fail error and prompt for recovery.

So I'm not sure what different you were reffering to, I guess you were talking about flashing back to stock BIOS on CD or saved since 1st flash, and if so also requires using a windows based flashing utility since the ASUS EZ-Flash will not let you revert backwords (see earlier post).