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So apparently I screwed myself pretty bad. The thing wont boot nor will it flash. Here's what I've tried:

-restoring defaults

-flashing with original board CD BIOS [alt-F2]

-flashing with USB thumb drive [alt-F2]

-clearing CMOS (taking the battery out for 30sec)

-switching the RAM sticks DIMM slots


The longest it will go is about 30sec then it shuts down. It will start to load Windows and has actually got to the desktop once and shutdown almost immediately at that point.

In the flash process for the USB, it finds the .rom file and beeps 2x indicating that it found it...but then proceeds to move past and search the CD ROM location, floppy, etc again then shuts down (BIOS 2602)

So since Im pretty much fukt at this point, my question is if anybody has a simple resolution (preferably from experience).

Im in the States and purchased the board from Newegg.com in 9/06 so the 1year warranty is up on their part. I scanned the ASUS website and see that the motherboards have a 3 year warranty. I live in California and the US location I see for "repair" with ASUS is in California.

I want this resolved with the least amount of down time as possible. I bought the board for $270. Does anybody have any experience going through a warranty repair process with ASUS? Does anybody have any experience with Newegg (would they go for a replacement or store credit? from their site...it does not look like it but...?)

Thanks