Quote Originally Posted by Voodoo Hoodoo View Post
Hi, I'm hoping Lard or Raja can assist me.

I was on BIOS 1005 and added a 3rd 580 GTX. I booted up and was greeted with an AF code almost immediately. System hangs, no VGA coming through. If I hit the reset switch it then cycles up and proceeds to a point where it says I need to go into the BIOS via F1 on the keyboard.

I go into the BIOS. All system settings are stock except I have set the RAID flag. It's reporting that it's trying to get to 9600 Mhz on turbo and the memory is set to 1600 Mhz. I freaked out a little bit. I then went into the next BIOS screen where the date is displaying as Thursday, 00/00/986X. I've tried changing this. So if I put in 16/02/2012 it automatically changes to Friday 33/1971547854 when I move the mouse or up arrow etc.

So ok I thought, I'll flash to 1101 in the hope it fixes it. So I flash it, it does the 100% thing. After it restarts it goes straight back into the AF code almost immediately. I hit the reset button and it cycles through, once again asking me to fix the BIOS settings. Once again, the date is wrong and loading defaults etc and restarting goes straight back to AF code, but at least it's only trying to get to 3900 Mhz turbo. All other settings stay the same. I try using the secondary BIOS (0604) and it does the same thing, the AF code, reset, BIOS needs to resaved, same story.

So ok, I reset the CMOS using the button on the rear of the motherboard. hold it down for approx 15 seconds. It goes back to the AF code on reboot and displays a 9600 Mhz turbo mode and same date issue in bios.

Ok so I turn off the machine and take the CMOS battery out for at least 3 minutes. Reseat the battery and fire it up. Same deal as above. This happens on either BIOS.

Is there some way to fix this in house or should I RMA it. Please note I've removed all peripheral devices (except keyboard) and removed all extra vid cards except one, sound card etc. One stick of RAM in the proper slot (it reports 4Gb found as it should) and still getting the same issue. I've been able to force boot off a RAID 0 setup into safe mode but cannot boot in standard mode. When I force boot using a selected drive I get an AE code while it loads drivers (Win7 64 bit Ultimate) and then AA for a bit, then it boots in, BUT have only been able to get into the OS once. It usually sits on 'Please Wait...' with AA on the debug led forever.

Can anyone assist? Is there any way to force it to reset the BIOS to a factory default or is there a more serious issue that I can return it to my place of purchase for examination by a professional?

Please help, it's been 3 days without a PC and I'm going insane.

Thanks.
It is normal after upgrading the BIOS asks you press F1 for reset to factory.
First I recommend that you upgrade to BIOS 1103 or 1201 because small fixes compatibility issues and stability.

Study carefully the values ​​of the hard disk, graphics and memory, checking they are correct, do not do any overclocking, leave the values ​​in AUTO.

A greeting.