Can flashing, reflashing, and reflashing the BIOS hurt my mobo?

[Magnumike1]

My A7N8X came with the 1001g BIOS so I took advice from this forum and flashed to 1001c and it DID give me a huge performnce boost. I then flashed to the 1002 beta bios and performance actually fell a tad but all worked fine. I then tried bumping my FSB and it wouldn't let me so I took advice again and flashed to the 1001e bios. It must have been corrupt or something because my comp would crash at the desktop even when BIOS was set to defualts. After numerous reboots and "BLUE" screens of death I flashed BACK to 1001c. Everything seems to be working fine now but I am scared I might have damaged something wit the 1001e BIOS becuase of all the error messages and blue screens I got.

Can flashing that many times hurt the board?

Also, does anyone have a clue why the 1001e BIOS I downloaded from the Asus FTP site wouldn't work on my comp? I see other people using it and it worked fine for them.

I also wonder why the 1002 beta wouldn't let me bump up the FSB but the 1001c lets me.

 

[Insane3D]

Flashing your bios many many times will not damage anything. You are simply replacing the small bios program in the bios chip, maybe 256kb or 512kb at the most. What can happen is that the bios settings don't get reset after you update to a new bios. To solve this, it usually a good idea to clear the CMOS after you update the bios, then go back in and change all the settings back to the way they were.

 

[tcsenter]

NV Flash memory chips are designed to be written to a few thousand times, if not more. That said, things can and do go wrong when flashing.