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[mikeyakame]

Are you trying to flash your BIOS while your system is overclocked?

You should at least load setup defaults or better do a Clear CMOS before flashing your board.

Definitely.

Never do things like flashing at anything other than DEFAULT settings. Always Load default settings before flashing bios. Its the #1 rule to not bricking your board.

Only thing I flash overclocked is my GPU heh, but a bad flash on that can be fixed easily enough with a blind flash batch run from autoexec.bat or type it blind from prompt lol

Edit:

Update:
Asus guys here are going to replace the CPU socket on my board, and run diags after it's replaced to see if the damaged contacts are the whole cause of my boards current kinda working state. I'd like to see 500mhz fsb post, right now all I can see post is 400mhz They said it'd take a couple of days to replace the socket, I'm guessing they need to run XOR loops on all the pins to make sure they are contacting correctly, which is probably 6-8 hours of just leaving it there to run the diagnostics.

It's nice of the Asus AU repair guys in Sydney to do this for me, thankfully they take their own guys who work there seriously and go out of their way for them. Hell they didn't even have to say they would do it for me, they could have said just RMA the board and wait 4 weeks! It's good to know there's some good lads out there who will go out of there way to fix up something that can be fixed by them and not pass the buck.

for Asus AU