Hey guys, I realize it's been like 2 years since the last message but I am experiencing serious issues with this motherboard. I have had bios version 0072 installed for a while now, and it was working "ok". I say ok because there is one huge issue.
I'm using Windows 8 and somehow my windows became corrupted after a year. I tried to "refresh" my pc because that's one of the options w8 gives you, to start over without re installing (although you lose all your software but not your files). Anyway, I opted to refresh my windows and by the time is was going to restart (to finish or continue installation) it froze on me. I had to manually shut down the computer holding the power button for some seconds. Of course, when booting windows again it didn't complete the refresh process, and also it wouldn't let me try again because of an "issue" windows had the last time. So basically I had to format my pc and start over.
Also, when installing windows updates and restarting, sometimes it would freeze, like the issue I mentioned above.
Another weird issue (though I'm not sure it's really an issue) is that when entering BIOS setup, CPU FAN is always 100% and cpu temp (as shown in BIOS monitor) is really really high, like over 80 celsius (or somewhere around, don't really remember). Like I said, not sure if that's an issue.. but I wouldn't let my PC turned on while on BIOS setup.. I think it might damage the CPU or other hardware. After BIOS screen is up, and windows starts loading, cpu fan goes back to normal speed, so I think windows is the one that controls fan speed.
Anyway, I looked up for the latest BIOS release (0079) and attempted to flash it. I used the regular "exe" package but it failed. I think the reason is that when restarting windows (automatically by bios update setup) it froze, like usual. When restarting windows, it said that BIOS update had failed.
So I tried to update BIOS using another method. Copying the BIO file on a thumbdrive and pressing F7 on boot screen. The update itself didn't show any errors, but the system rebooted itself without notice and wouldn't restart again. It was on a constant loop, it turned on for 5 secs then off (wouldn't give video also). I feared that my motherboard was bricked, because I tried to recover it by removing the BIOS cfg jumper, but all it did was stay on but didn't show anything on screen.
So I tried for a long time (hours) to get it working, switching jumper from normal, to config mode, removing it, etc, etc until finally I got it to show the BIOS recover message. It picked up my thumbdrive with the BIO file in it but it wouldn't upgrade BIOS saying something like:
BIOS version: 0072
BIOS updated version: 0079
And something about recovery not available from 0072 to 0079
So what I did was get another thumbdrive (the other one was NTFS formatted) this one FAT32 and copied the 0072 bios version and attempted to "reinstall". It worked and my computer went back to normal.
So, I haven't been able to upgrade BIOS at all. Any help is deeply appreciated.