Overclocking Opty 144 on Asus A8V Deluxe

[GingerNinja.net]

Sounds like it's still remembering previous bios settings from that beta one you flashed it to.

Trying loading bios defaults > save & exit > then look for your raid card again in bios after reboot. I had a Asus K8v deluxe that did this exact same thing & funnily enough newer bioses wouldn't detect the raid card either.

I doubt very much that you have knackered your board.

I've already tried that, but I'll do it again tonight. I think that clearing my CMOS is what really did it but have no idea how and it is probably a coincidence.

[iranu]

I hope that when you cleared the cmos that there was no power going to the computer. This has the potential to bork the mobo. Always turn off the psu and unplug the kettle lead before doing a cmos clear. Try taking the battery out and leaving the cmos jumper in the clear cmos position overnight.

[GingerNinja.net]

I hope that when you cleared the cmos that there was no power going to the computer. This has the potential to bork the mobo. Always turn off the psu and unplug the kettle lead before doing a cmos clear. Try taking the battery out and leaving the cmos jumper in the clear cmos position overnight.

OK. When I cleared the CMOS before I did the following:

• Turned off PSU power
• Pressed POWER button on case to flush final amount of power
• Unplugged battery
• Moved CMOS jumper to RESET position
• Waited approx 30 seconds
• Switch back jumper
• Plugged in battery
• Turned on PSU
• PC booted up automatically as it is stuck in a power-up state. (Grrrr!)
• Went into BIOS and the clock was set to 1st Jan 1970 or whatever
• Reset time etc
• Couldn't see my RAID array under available hard disks (it is an XFX REVO).

I'll try again overnight just in case.

[GingerNinja.net]

OK - began the clearing of the CMOS at 10pm last night and put everything back together at 6:45 this morning.

The power switch is definately no longer responding, it doesn't recognise hard drives attached to its own SATA ports (gives a BIOS not configured/generated error?) and still doesn't like my RAID card, despite the board assigning IRQ 10 to my "PCI RAID Card" on system start-up.

As I have already flashed the BIOS with ver 1017 (good), I would say that the board is dead or the BIOS chip has taken a beating. Either way it will cost in excess of £20 to attempt to fix it I go for a new BIOS chip, so I am prepared to call it a day unless anyone on here has any other ideas.....