So I've been running a P8P67 PRO + 2600K for about a year. I've had cold boot and RAM issues since the beginning but this morning, it wouldn't even show the Asus splash screen. So, i removed all but one stick of RAM, proceeded to reset the bios and booted into uefi setup. Since obviously my saved settings had been deleted, I mistakenly thought it would be a good time to flash the latest bios (release notes stated improved RAM compatibility, so I thought it might help). So I decide to use Asus EZ flash from within UEFI and proceeded to flash from usb drive, everything seemed to go fine and it asked to restart at the end. When it restarted all I got was a black screen with my usb devices flashing on and off (mouse and kb lights flickering). I left it alone for about 10 min, but then mannualy shut down and now when I restart the vga led stays lit and only get black screen. Ok so I went through all troubleshooting steps I could think of (reset bios jumper, removed battery, switched RAM, switched video card) and nothing has changed. I guess my board is effectively bricked. So here comes my first question...
1. Is their any way to recovery flash the bios or anything like that? I don't believe Asus has dual bios chips or anything like that but I'm not sure
2. In case I have to RMA my board, does Asus ask for a receipt or any proof of purchase? I bought it at a retail store and don't have the receipt.
3. I am currently living in central america, so in order to RMA would probably have to ship the mb to the US via FEDEX and it would probably cost me around $75. Should I just buy a new board locally?
4. If a do buy a new board, would it be worth it at all to go por a Z77, or should I just try to get a P67 used or closeout? Iam not planning on using Quicksync, have never used any USB3 devices, and I think that lucid MVP or whatever it's called is still nowhere near from being useful at all. I run my 2600K at 4.5ghz at 1.25V and am quite happy with that, does Z77 overclock any better than P67? Also, I'm not going to go with dual GPU's ever again so should I just get one ot the entry level boards? Let's say ASUS P8Z77-V LX vs a Sabertooth or PRO, do they overclock about the same?
Sorry for the long post but I wanted to make sure I covered all my bases.
1. Is their any way to recovery flash the bios or anything like that? I don't believe Asus has dual bios chips or anything like that but I'm not sure
2. In case I have to RMA my board, does Asus ask for a receipt or any proof of purchase? I bought it at a retail store and don't have the receipt.
3. I am currently living in central america, so in order to RMA would probably have to ship the mb to the US via FEDEX and it would probably cost me around $75. Should I just buy a new board locally?
4. If a do buy a new board, would it be worth it at all to go por a Z77, or should I just try to get a P67 used or closeout? Iam not planning on using Quicksync, have never used any USB3 devices, and I think that lucid MVP or whatever it's called is still nowhere near from being useful at all. I run my 2600K at 4.5ghz at 1.25V and am quite happy with that, does Z77 overclock any better than P67? Also, I'm not going to go with dual GPU's ever again so should I just get one ot the entry level boards? Let's say ASUS P8Z77-V LX vs a Sabertooth or PRO, do they overclock about the same?
Sorry for the long post but I wanted to make sure I covered all my bases.