Computer Upgrade

January 5, 2010 Pete 7 comments

Computer upgrades normally go smoothly for me, but this one was a little problematic. I elected to not upgrade the whole system, instead choosing the fastest gaming chip I could for my Intel X48 chipset (a Wolfdale Core2Duo), the fastest video card (a Radeon 5870), and more memory.

After fiddling with parts, I’ve determined one of two things–either I need to flash the BIOS on my mobo for the new chip to work, or the new chip is DOA. Win7 is crazy fast after Vista. I should’ve done that a few months back.

Anyone out there flashed anything lately?

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Written by Pete about 7 months ago. Reply

The bios flash bombed; Asus’ “EZ Recovery” was epic fail. Tech support says that there are a small percentage of bios flash failures due to “unforeseen circumstances.” Unforeseen, as in, “I followed your fucking directions and it bombed anyway?”

Ordering another motherboard now, since I have little choice in the matter.
Written by Shawn Powers about 7 months ago. Reply

Dude, that stinks.
Written by Doug about 7 months ago. Reply

Are you planing on going SLI? If not get a diffrent board.Sorry to hear about your problems I have to say Asus quality has gone down. I have had really goos luck with MSI,gigabyte, and Foxconn these last few builds here at work.
Written by Pete about 7 months ago. Reply

Yes; I’m planning on doing Crossfire. The only other board brands I have experience with are DFI or Gigabyte. Upon further research, this mobo has a large failure rate on BIOS flashes. When I was doing my research for the upgrade, I never thought to research the actual failure rate on an Asus mobo BIOS flash. *shrug*
Written by Doug about 7 months ago. Reply

I have a Gigabyte Crossfire system here at the shop.It has issues as well The only Bios update is a beta 0.0 I read a bunch about it trying to fix it. Seems as tho this board is either good or bad, the ones who got good ones love it and the ones who got bad ones could never seem to fix them. RMA city. I was shicked I tho gigabyte was a good brand I guess they have all slipped.
Written by Pete about 7 months ago. Reply

Catalyst and I both have reason to detest MSI, but maybe it’s time I give them another chance.
Written by Pete about 7 months ago. Reply

I declare victory (tentatively). The new mobo works beautifully, the chip is crazy fast, and I’m running everything at 1920 X 1080 at all setting maxed. Dragon Age looks even more fantastic than before, and Borderlands looks almost like a different game. I’m pleased.

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