Originally Posted by Undersea
Yep. No more Christmas in April.
Don't know if it was Sandra... but that is what I was running... and it caused the reboot. (And now not boot.)
I hate it... but if it IS the flash.. I'd rather buy a new chip or two and have backups. (Looks like the going average price for these on the net is about $20.00 or $30.00.)
I might even buy a EPROM programmer if the cheap $40.00 ones will do these chips. It looks the chip blanks are about $3.00 or so. I'd MUCH rather do that than deal with ANY type of RMA to Newegg OR DFI. (Unless I could call DFI and get them to send me one. Sadly I suspect that they'd rather I go through the entire RMA process with newegg... even though I doubt there is anything wrong with the motherboard, ram or CPU.)
FRUSTRATION. :-P
Guess I should have flashed that 3/31/08 beta bios... maybe this might not have happened.
I am rapidly wishing I had picked another brand. I got this because it had the best onboard sound and I liked the transpiper. But having something that WORKS would be better than anything else. And of course Newegg won't refund these. So I guess I just bought a lemon. Now I'll go buy something that will work and write off the $250.00
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