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Help! Flashed BadAxe2 and now doesn't see memory!

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Drithius

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I decided to flash my badaxe2 motherboard earlier tonight to the latest bios and now my computer isn't booting - giving me 3 beeps, the code for no memory despite my having 2 sticks of ballistix DIMMs installed. I tried removing a stick and still didn't get anywhere.

This was all attempted while the CMOS jumper was set to default settings so I'm not sure what else I can do besides buying a new stick of RAM at the local Best Buy for testing.

Do you guys think the bios screwed around with voltage settings enough that it's now not delivering enough power to the memory for bootup? Is this what happens when RAM is underpowered, ie. no detection whatsoever? This is the RAM I have http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820146563 - I havent heard of anyone having issues with its power requirements as compared to Corsair dominators.

So... :( Has the new bios for this board given anyone else issues in regards to RAM? I'm pretty stressed at the moment - I dont have the time to be fussing about with hardware but need my computer ASAP.
 
Is it possible to flash to an earlier BIOS? The previous version was working fine. I looked at Intel's site but couldn't find any older BIOS files than the latest version.
 
So did you remove the battery and then flash to an older bios? or after removing the battery and waiting, did the board boot with the new bios?

Curious because I am looking to pick up this board and go Conroe, and that memory that you referred to looks like a pretty good choice, but I'd prefer not to have that kind of trouble :). Actually I will probably go with Corsair XMS2, since that seems to be used by a lot of people with that board.
 
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