Mickey Padge

Yes, but the price is £230+, that is why the ebay.de sale caught my eye, only £130 in the end, damn! Yes, I think it should be a great board, easily replicate the 450x9 my 790i does with my Q9650, or better, maybe even 500x8

Don't know what Boot ver:1.23 is, I think it has nothing to do with your problem though By the way, if you want to buy a pre-flashed BIOS, have a look here: http://www.biosman.com/biosrecovery.html I purchased from them years ago for a messed up flash, where the boot sector was corrupted, the chip they sent worked a treat, strange I still had the link after such a long time

Should work, unless your boot sector is messed up, in which case buy a new chip, and have the seller pre-flash the correct BIOS for you first..... Good luck!

OK, have a read of this, your motherboard uses an AMI BIOS, which has a recovery option built in!: "BIOS Recovery AMI BIOS AMI has an embedded recovery technique in the 'boot block' of the BIOS. In the event that the BIOS becomes corrupt the boot block can be used to restore the BIOS to a working state. The routine is called when the 'system block' of the BIOS is empty or corrupt. The restore routine when called will access the floppy drive (1.44Mb floppy disk drive) looking for a file named AMIBOOT.ROM. This is the reason the floppy drive light comes on and the drive appears to be in use. If the file (AMIBOOT.ROM) is found it is loaded into the 'system block' of the BIOS to replace the corrupted information. To restore your BIOS copy the most recent version of your motherboards BIOS file to a floppy diskette and rename it AMIBOOT.ROM. The diskette does not need to be bootable or contain a flash utility. It will access the floppy from 2-5 minutes the system will beep four times. Remove the floppy diskette from the drive and reboot the computer. if when you turn on the system it does not try to access the floppy, press and hold the 'CTRL' and 'HOME' keys at the same time. This will force the system (assuming the 'boot block' isn't corrupted) to access the flopy and look for the AMIBOOT.ROM file. Note: 12345678.BIN represents the name of your BIOS. Step by Step: 1. Rename the desired AMI BIOS file to AMIBOOT.ROM and save it on a blank floppy disk. e.g. Rename 12345678.ROM to AMIBOOT.ROM 2. Insert this floppy disk in the floppy drive. Turn On the system 3. If no floppy access occurs press and hold Ctrl-Home to force update. Follow insructions on the screen and it will read the AMIBOOT.ROM file and recover the BIOS from the A drive. 4. When 4 beeps are heard you may remove the floppy disk. 5. Restart the computer." So it seems you just need an internal floppy hooked up, with a floppy disk with your BIOS file on it, I have attached the right file, just unrar it to a floppy disk, and see if it works AMIBOOT.rar

OK hold on one second, I think I have the answer.......

OK I will have a quick look here: http://www.asrock.com/MB/download.asp?Model=K10N78FullHD-hSLI%20R3.0&o=All Look familiar to you?

Yes I get crackling with music/games etc.... Even relaxing PCI latency in the BIOS helps nothing, I think 790i boards are just electrically "noisy" and hot.... Thanks for the link, looks like a cool utility, however I really want an intel board for possible crossfire in the future though too, I have a single HD5870 right now

Please let me know the full model and revision of your exact motherboard

I don't know if you can just drop the new BIOS chip in with ease, also, do the sellers flash it with the correct BIOS for you first? Otherwise you are still in the same position..... An internal floppy drive is dirt cheap, and you may be able to fix the board via the recovery method I mentioned before, did you flash the wrong BIOS from within windows somehow? Most winflash programs would prevent incorrect BIOS flashes from ever happening, did you cut power during the flash, or did the PC freeze?

Asus Rampage Extreme X48 My EVGA 790i FTW is a little bit funny with sound cards and crackling, I know the X48 chipset would resolve this and also run a hell of a lot cooler too

No worries, I got a bid in, who knows what the German seller would have thought about my made up German address had I won! The motherboard still sold for only £130ish, that is around £100 less than normal.....

Oh well too late I edited my address to a German address right at the last minute, but was still outbid, I am sure the seller appreciates the last second 50 Euro bump in price!

You need a floppy drive, motherboards will seek for a floppy if they can upon post, and the auto execute file will run the flash for you, usually you would leave it for 15 minutes to see if it worked, then re-boot, you can hear if the floppy drive is doing something or not You would not need to see the screen with this BIOS recovery method

Only 10 minutes left on the auction

Looks like I am going to miss out

You may be able to recover flash via a floppy disc with a force flash command, but for that the BIOS's boot sector must still be in place, does it search for a floppy if you boot? Check the mobo manufacture to see if they support this, it involves putting an auto execute .bat command file onto a boot floppy, including the dos flash program and the correct BIOS file, it is usually just a few lines of text, nothing difficult......

Hello Please, if there are any members living in Germany or Austria, please can you bid on an ebay item for me? There is some PC hardware I want, but I cannot bid from the UK..... If the member could bid and win, I will cover all the costs via PayPal, the item would need to be forwarded to me in the UK Please PM me for the auction details, thanks very much! Cheers!

Wow, fantastic work, amazing watch! I thought the dial was a rep dial, as the date windows is 1mm or so too far right, hence the date is a little bit to the left in the window Try Mary or Tony for the ceramic bezel, they have always been great for parts

All these different versions, but it's still a fugly watch Sorry, had to say it......

WOW, retail price of the base model in the UK is a crazy

Reported, that is an absolutely horrible watch, the nerve of some people

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I guess we need to wait for some decent member review pictures, for me the only problem is the large bezel font, it bugs me!

It's strange, some shots seem to have a deep rehaut, and yet others don't, could it just be poor lighting?

I wish I could w0lf, I would have to sell the 027a to fund this, at the moment it's with Domi having a date wheel swap!