"Jan Alter" wrote in message
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Hi,

Have you tried flashing to an older bios?.
That it won't accept the newer bios leaves at least one other question
mark
to the problem.
Of course, if the machine powered off while doing it you might have the
opportunity to have to replace the chip at that point--
Thought of the CIH virus, but don't really know of it could partially
diable a virus.

I have now succesfully flashed the bios up to 08 (a7v8x), the latest
version. so have therefore tried it with 3 bios's with no change in
symptoms.