UPDATE: It's fixed! After replacing both the motherboard and CPU, still would not post. Out of pure curiosity I switched to a different monitor and it posted just fine. Not sure if it was some weirdness with the monitor not responding to whatever VGA check the motherboard was doing, but I'm up...
Version F8. Came out a few days ago. The LED next to the flash button was blinking and the PC turned on when it was finished. I have no visibility to if it successfully updated or not though.
I've stripped it down and re built it, yeah.
Found out how to reflash bios without needing to be able to get to BIOS first. Did not resolve the issue. At this point I imagine I need to determine if it's the CPU or the motherboard. Any way to do that without a dedicated test bench?
How do I reflash the bios without being able to access it? In the manual, I see there's a button to do it, but that button has to be enabled as an option in the BIOS.
Yes, the power was off and unplugged when I cleared the CMOS.
Just finished building my PC. When I had everything tucked away, I powered it on and made it to the BIOS screen. I powered it off, cleaned up the table a bit, plugged in my mouse, keyboard, and USB to update the BIOS, powered it on and now I get the amber VGA debug LED on the motherboard. All...