I had a bad feeling about this Asus P5B motherboard ever since I got it. It claims integrated wi-fi, but all that really means as it has an internal usb header with a usb wifi device hooked up.
And all the utilities are ricer-looking.
And the auto-bios update utility can’t find bios files on their ftp site.
Well, today, in my quest to enable resuming from sleep with my keyboard, I downloaded a new bios update and tried to use their utility. Boom! flash failed. Can’t even re-flash. (I probably should have suspected something when their supposedly x64 utility installed into c:\Program Files (x86))
Now when I power on, the power light comes on, and that’s it. I heard the drives spin up because they get power as well, but no beeps, no post, no nothing. Lame. Now I’ll lose a week to the RMA process. And a few hours doing a motherboard transplant.
Whats worse, Asus’s site tells me to contact the reseller, and Newegg’s site tells me to contact Asus. Fun.