Please recommend an Intel 775 mobo

[larllar]

So, I managed to fuck up my 1.5 year old P5B-E Plus mobo grandly, by flashing the card from within Windows (I've won that gamble before, but I guess not so much this time).

After some investigation, I just RMAed it, www.komplett.no confirmed the BIOS chip is attached to the card and therefore is now basically a useless piece of junk. Since they don't sell this card any longer, I got what I paid for it in return.

Basically, I need a decent new Intel 775 motherboard ASAP. Please link from http://www.komplett.no/k/kl.aspx?bn=10492 , preferably under 1500 NOK. I've not paid attention to the mobo market since I bought my now-dead ASUS. Go for ASUS again? Maybe something with an sockete BIOS?
As far as features go, I don't think I need anything special beyond firewire (standard?), decent amount of I/O ports, PCI-E x16 for the GPU and a PCI-E x4 or something for the wireless card, etc. I've probably forgot something critical.

Specs from my signature:
Asus P5B-E PLUS | Intel C2D E6400 @ stock | Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2 4x1024MB @ stock | XFX GeForce 8800GTS 640MB @ stock | Creative Audigy 2 | Antec P180 | Fortron/Source Epsilon 600W | Samsung SH-S183A - DVD±RW (±R DL) SATA | Samsung T166 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200 - Seagate 320GB 16MB 7200 SATA - Seagate 7200.7 200GB 8MB 7200 SATA | Dell 2407WFP 24" LCD | Logitech MX510 - basic Logitech NO keyboard | Vista Ultimate x64 & XP x64
I also have a good, new PCI-E wireless network card, so I probably don't need that on the mobo.

And yeah, I'm never going to try flashing from inside an OS again for the rest of my life. 🙁

Thanks a lot in advance for your time

 

[o1die]

I have 2 asrock boards; the p45 ts-r and g43 fullhd; both are pretty good. The g43 has hdmi support and 2 ddr and 2 ddr3 slots, while the p45 ts-r has 4 ddr2 and 2 ddr3 slots. Both have overclocking jumpers for 1066 or 1333.

 

[AmberClad]

*sigh*

Another ASUS user screwed over by the ASUS Windows-based BIOS flash app 🙁. Sadly, we seem to get one of these threads every couple of weeks or so. If you ever get another ASUS board, I would just stick to using EZ Flash 2 for flashing the BIOS. USB drives are supported, if you don't own a floppy drive.

 

[larllar]

Yeah, I'll stick with EZ Flash from now on. Considering the P45 based P5Q-E.

 

[OddJensen]

http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=352405

This one perhaps? I built a system for a colleague some time back with a P5Q based board, he's pretty happy with it. The P5Q has safeguards for bad flashes, you have a backup chip on board.

 

[larllar]

Yeah, that's the one. The P5B-E Plus had ASUS CrashFree BIOS, supposed to find a working BIOS rom on a USB stick/CD, not that I ever got it to work fumbling around with no screen output nor PC-speaker. Certainly didn't work automatically by plugging in & booting like it was supposed to, guess the BIOS got fucked too much to even do that.