OK, here's the deal. A little while back I was working on a machine that was only about a year and a half old. Two of the RAM slots went bad so I built another machine for the client and sent the mobo into the manufacturer for repair. Just got it back two days ago and rebuilt it today. The RAM slots are fine but there is now a major problem. Some tech at the manufacturer probably fixed the slots and then decided to flash the BIOS and apparently didn't test it after the flash. Now, the BIOS screens take forever (about 4 minutes) before getting to the HD and the whole system is very unstable. I've had to go into the BIOS today about 6 times as the system "forgets" that a HD and CDRW are attached and have to be found again. A definite pain.
Somewhere along the line I noticed some new numbers on the initial screen and did some investigating. Thats how I found out that they'd flashed the BIOS. Anyway, does anyone know the procedure for going back to an earlier BIOS version? I found the manufacturers website for the mobo and there are 19 revisions. So another question may be; How far back should I go? I don't think I ever flashed the clients BIOS as it was working fine (so why change it).
The particulars:
Gigabyte GA-K8NS mobo
2.5 GB RAM
AMD 64 2.8 GHz CPU
Any constructive ideas would be appreciated.
Somewhere along the line I noticed some new numbers on the initial screen and did some investigating. Thats how I found out that they'd flashed the BIOS. Anyway, does anyone know the procedure for going back to an earlier BIOS version? I found the manufacturers website for the mobo and there are 19 revisions. So another question may be; How far back should I go? I don't think I ever flashed the clients BIOS as it was working fine (so why change it).
The particulars:
Gigabyte GA-K8NS mobo
2.5 GB RAM
AMD 64 2.8 GHz CPU
Any constructive ideas would be appreciated.