I purchased this board three days ago. I put together a box and it came it working fine, with the exception of the dual channel memory detection. I installed some software and used it for a while with no problems. Then I decided I should update the BIOS to see if that fixed the dual channel issue. I flashed in the b22 BIOS using the alt-f2 method. (I didn't realize there was a utility on the MB CD at the time.) That was when all hell broke loose. The machine wouldn't even come back up. It continually threw memory errors (C1). I moved the memory around. It gave a variety of other errors all listed as reserved in the motherboard manual. When I tried it the next morning it booted far enough that I could change the BIOS, which I did to 9n3i5a20.bin from the European site. (Don't ask me what happened over night.) That seemed to run with some strange crashes in WinXP. I thought that perhaps my floppy with the B22 was bad so I tried going to the b22 BIOS again using the Windows utility. It hasn't come back up since. I think it is booting far enough that I could flash the BIOS -- I don't get any errors, but I don't see anything on screen either. I'm using Crucial Ballistix memory (BL6464Z402). Anyone know of issues with using that stuff on an Epox board?
Unfortunately I don't know what BIOS was in the board to begin with and I don't have a backup of it. If anyone has a BIOS for the 9NPA3 Ultra that is different from the A20 or the B22 version, could you email me a copy? brannonking a_t yahoo d_t com and cc gregpking a_t gmail d_t com . Thank you ever so much.
Unfortunately I don't know what BIOS was in the board to begin with and I don't have a backup of it. If anyone has a BIOS for the 9NPA3 Ultra that is different from the A20 or the B22 version, could you email me a copy? brannonking a_t yahoo d_t com and cc gregpking a_t gmail d_t com . Thank you ever so much.
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