Hi Henydiah,
The crash has evolved as follows:
1. - This morning the PC has been locked
2.- After a reset and a few minutes, the PC has auto reset.
3.- The auto boot after reset is stuck in a screen saying there was no hard drives detected.
4.- A new boot a screen says I must set the BIOS. I enter the BIOS, everything looks fine and I do a "Save and Exit".
After that the mobo no boots. I've tested the 4 RAMs making different combinations of 2 DIMM in the 2 banks and I have played with the RAM switch. Sametimes (1 from 10 attempts) the mobo has booted the first screens but it hangs without any error message, the monitor is black. Now the only activity indicator is the Memory RED LED blinking.
Well, I think that probably the BIOS chip is damaged and I plan to send the modo to the ASUS support but I need to work with my PC inmediatly and I've 2 solutions:
a) To purchase the same mobo
b) To purchase a newer card but I can take advantage,basically, of the AMD Phenom™ II CPU socket AM3 and the four DIMM DDR3 1333MHz (4x2GB).
Can you send me your comments?.
Thank you very much from Madrid,