Quote Originally Posted by angelshonnny View Post
Hey spiro, where do you live? I know that one of the guys on this forum live in the USA, and he got Asus to overnight him a BIOS chip with the 0401 BIOS on it. If I can remember correctly, it cost him 25$. The chip is removable, if you didn't already know that. And no, mine didn't have the latest BIOS, it has only been released on 24.10.2008(0401 here:http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us). So the most of the boards that are at the resellers at this moment, probbably still have the old BIOS, unless they sell many of these, wich I doubt.


Thanks for the info. Although I am not in the US right now I do have a mailing address there so I can ship there and will be transferred to me. I find it incredible that shipping BIOS is not updated for a processor that was out almost a year ago. I will try to find someone here who has a similar motherboard as I have hotswapped BIOSes quite a few times with no problems. Or at least see if someone has an older Xeon 771 CPU. Otherwise I would appreciate the address where I can buy a BIOS chip that has 401. Has anyone tried to see what BIOS chip it is using, I am thinking maybe I can use an older motherboard with similar chip to hotswap the BIOS once booted and then use the opportunity to write a new BIOS on it. So long I get a post then at least I can do something, that should work in theory.

Also I would greatly appreciate help in trying to get good air or water coolers for these E5430's. On my Intel Skulltrail they were running very happily at 3.2Ghz with one notch up on voltage using Blue Orbs. I had bought 2 even better air coolers, but I laughed when I tried to fit them on. God I miss my Intel Skulltrail.