Hey Raja, do you have any comment for this post from earlier of mine?

I'm getting the run around at Asus support. At first they said they needed to ship me a new BIOS chip. Now they are talking about RMAing my board. I really just want this resolved. A failing BIOS chip seems more logical to me but I just wanted to get another opinion. I'd rather not RMA the board if I don't have to, it seems to OC VERY nicely.

Thanks in advance, Aaron
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Has anyone had a problem with the OC Profile Utility?

I was benching my R3G a while back (I think on BIOS 602, but it could have been on rev 501) trying to hit the 4.5Ghz mark and it BS. When I rebooted all my profiles under OC Profile were whiped out and I could not restore any of the CMO files from the OC Profile Utility. This has happened multiple times since, sometimes all the BIOS settings randomly set (i.e. random voltage monitors are set to ignore, fan speed/monitors are randomly set, and even the CPU vcore I've seen set to 1.8v! and of course I have never done this!) - I atribute these abnormailties to an incorrect IOH voltage, but I have never gone above 1.35v...

Ever since this happened the first time, my OC Profile has been acting funny - it will whipe out all my profiles every so often - which really sucks because I can't restore the old CMO profiles with the OC Profile Utility. At first I just ignored it and wrote down the settings in hopes that a new BIOS would remedy the problem restoring the CMO files with the utility, but as of the latest 805 release it hasn't.

Last night I powered up my machine and yet again, all my BIOS settings were whiped and all my profiles were gone. I routinly backup my profiles using the OC Profile Utility (which of course cannot be restored) but failed to write down my settings this time. This is extremely irritating because I just reached my highest 20x Linx stable BCLK ever with this 805 BIOS (224x17) and now everything is gone.

I went so far as downgrading back several revs of the BIOS, overwriting the Profiles each time (I know that some BIOS options were added between revs and due to this fact the profiles are incompatible between different BIOS revs). Until I got down to the shipped 404 BIOS. I am unable to restore any of my older profiles (I saved each profile with the BIOS rev in the filename) or new ones I tested saving as I downgraded BIOS revs. I have also tried different hard drives thinking it might be a problem with my media.

It's important to note that there aren't any other signs of problems with this board. As you can see it is a decent performer with the 224 bclk. I'm wondering if whatever the chip is that the OC Profiles are stored on is simply degrading, and if it is... can I replace it?

Has anyone else had either issues I'm having with any Asus board? 1) All settings in the BIOS getting whiped (including your profiles). 2) OC Profile Utility will not restore any saved CMO file, dispite the fact that the OC Profile Utility says it has successfully done so.