Iggy Posted August 20, 2006 Posted August 20, 2006 Today USPS delivered an untested LPB from JRW21 which was reported dead by a previous buyer, but I guess your average eBayer doesn't know how to fix a corrupted bios. The board was displaying the four LEDs of death, so I took a guess that it was probably BIOS corruption and (after about five minutes of research) popped my Infinity's BIOS chip into the LPB. Low and behold she booted up fine, so I hot flashed the corrupted ROM using the dental floss method and now everything's running great. Since I've got this spare BIOS chip handy, I'm now giving Hellfire's Rev. 3 a try, and I'll probably be playing around with a couple other modded BIOSes over the next few days. My 600 watt OCZ Powerstream SLI also arrived, so once I get everything up and running I think I'll be in for a serious overclocking session. Presently I think my RAM is the only thing holding me back from high FSBs, and I'm very tempted to pick up either 2x512 Mb oldschool BH-5 or 2x1 GB OCZ/G.Skill UCCC. However, I'm also saving for a lovely Gainward 7800GS+, and somewhere out there is a new modded Lian-Li PC7 with my name on it. I could also just as easily drop $150 on custom cooling, voltmodding supplies, and new caps for this motherboard. Hell, I'll get to all this stuff eventually. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted August 20, 2006 Posted August 20, 2006 Nice work on rescueing the Sistah,how much do you have invested in the MB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnie Posted August 21, 2006 Posted August 21, 2006 I'm very tempted to pick up either 2x512 Mb oldschool BH-5 or 2x1 GB OCZ/G.Skill UCCC. Be careful old bh5 have an issue with later nf2..my old bh5 only work fine in sc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleach Posted August 21, 2006 Posted August 21, 2006 can anyone link me to the bios swap trick to flash a dead bios. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Posted August 28, 2006 Posted August 28, 2006 @Iggy: Congrats. @Bleach: You'll have to Email Happy_Games his email address is in his sig. He can tell you where in New Zealand you can get one. (Yer' a long way's away)You might be able to hotflash it from another nf2 the instructions for that you'll find in the bios factory. I think they're maybe in Tmods sig. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
benbaked Posted August 29, 2006 Posted August 29, 2006 Hey congrats, that's awesome that the only problem with it was the BIOS. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted August 29, 2006 Posted August 29, 2006 can anyone link me to the bios swap trick to flash a dead bios. You mean this, http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.p...972&postcount=1 Your Expert MB has the same bios chip as the LP b,good donor board Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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