I have two of these boards, purchased within days of each other from the same local retailer. The first board has been flawless - Runs my Q9450 at 3.8 GHz without even trying.

The second board has been nothing but problems, even mild OC's resulting in a no-boot situation. I've had to clear the CMOS several times, whereas the first board always successfully reset itself. Now the 2nd board is stuck in a perpetual BIOS recovery cycle. On boot it declares the BIOS to be bad, recovers from the backup, and then restarts to repeat the cycle all over again. I have tried flashing to the latest BIOS (that my first board is running) to no avail, on the next boot everything is corrupted again & the cycle begins anew.

I've seen some mention on other forums of swapping the BIOS chips, is this my next step? Or should I just try for an exchange with the retailer?

Viper GTS