**Official DFI LanParty UT 790FX-M2R Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[Brother Esau]

Dang.

I have the dreaded C1 error.

I tried quick a CMOS reset. No luck.

I've tried different memory. (I've a few cheapo DDR2 sticks around.) No success.

I'm now trying the long clear with the battery out type of CMOS reset. We'll see what happens.

NOTE: THis happened when I ran the sandra tool that goes in and finds suggestions and tweaks... it rebooted and then the C1 came up... and that is "the end". I had just paid for Everest to help out testing and benchmarking... and was considering Sandra. (But based on this... I guess I'll save my money. I know... it's a DFI problem... but nothing in Sandra should have done this.)

Darn it.

Brother Esau you seem to have a lot of experience. Could running something have somehow messed up the flash?
(I was on the 3/7/2008 official release. I almost flashed the 3/31/2008 beta... but I wanted to go for stability first.)

So should I RMA or get ahold of another flash chip and get it flashed? How much do those cost anyway? (If this is the problem then apparently it wouldn't be a bad idea to have an extra chip on hand.) How much is a flash unit to actually flash them? (Looks like about $40.00 or so for a burner... what's a chip cost? $10.00 or so? Perhaps I'll buy a couple of them and a programmer. What chip does it use?)

There have been issues with Speed Fan killing Boards and cpu's probably more like corrupting the c'mos (that will do it) but yes there have been strange reports like that since the 790 came out and its not just DFI boards either!

P.S........You have to buy more then one Blank Flash chip at a time ......LOL.. Nobodies gonna sell you one chip man. Now if you want to buy a 100 PCS.....thats a different story all together.....I get mine shipped from Taiwan which is about $50.00 just for the shipping