Originally Posted by
Sema4
Hook the board up with 1 stick of ram, a CPU, a GPU and connect the PSU, be sure to connect no other devices, no USB, no PCI, no ethernet, nothing other than the minimum required to POST, and see how it goes, if it posts ok, try adding a hard drive, if it fails to post, try connecting a CD/DVD and see if you can flash the BIOS from the driver disk by hitting the ALT+F2 keys at the point the computer reboots, it can sometimes be tricky to get the timing right, but if you get it right it will enter EZ-Flash which is built in to the BIOS and will let you update the BIOS from the original driver disk that came with the mobo (if indeed it did come with it)