Hi guys, I have a major problem I need help with. I have a GA-EX58-Extreme that I have flashed to the latest bios, and now my PC wont post. I get 1 long beep and 51 (probably considered continuous) short beeps. Post code is C1, which would normally be considered to be a memory issue, then the board powers off, then on again a few seconds later with post code 88 and no beeps. Turning it off and on leads to the 88 code and no beep, but pulling the plug and clearing cmos returns it to C1 post code with the 1 long beep and continuous short beeps. The memory is fine as I had memtest run for 10 hours making a pass an hour with no errors. I think the bios is not corrupt, but wont detect my memory after the flash, as the backup bios did not kick in, neither did the bios boot sector recovery. No access is attepted to the floppy so can't upgrade via that. Its an award bios so cant force upgrade with key combination. I need to force the bios to upgrade, either by forcing bad checksum (which i dont know which pins to short or even where they are as I cant see a bios chip as its probably under the 'Ultra durable 3' shielding) or by some other unknown method. I need suggestions as I'm stuck and, to be honest, quite upset about it! Thanks in advance.
Yeah several times. I think the new bios hates my memory, although the old bios did this once at first boot, reseated the memory and thought nothing of it, and like i said, ran memtest for 11 hours or so. Now the board is trying to refresh dram and is failing miserably. Looks like I'll be trying to get a refund for my 6gb 1600mhz Patriot viper ram (which should work really, even though its not in compatibility list). Going to have to buy new ram with money I dont have
