There is a sticky on the Striker Extreme section. I remember I thought my board was dead, then after around 3 months with no PC and trying for days to bring it back to life, I followed the first or second example (cant recall) of CPU INIT thread and when I powered my board after 2 hours, it came back to live. Since then, I have leave it how it is, BIOS 1004 and Im NOT planning on upgrading the BIOS or keep overclocking it, trusth me.