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Originally Posted by Bannik
They never make anything simple, do they?
I've done some research, to use the G0 Stepping 65NM Kentsfield Q6600 I would have to update my BIOS to version 0608 at least, at the moment I'm on 0401, according to the ASUS Website, flashing the BIOS is simple, put the BIN file onto a USB Flash Drive and use the EZ Flash 2 Utility included with the BIOS, but when I read the posts made by people who have unintentionally turned this particular Motherboard into nothing more than an expensive Frisbee by the flashing process failing on them, I begin to think ASUS may be lying.
Apparently if I could get my hands on an older B3 Revision Q6600, that should be supported, but it seems they have been replaced with the G0 model.
Also, from what I have read, even if I could successfully (though this is doubtful) update the BIOS, Vista would see it as a different Motherboard and demand re-activation.
Too many things can go wrong with the update process, I can't be bothered attempting it at this point as I can't really afford to replace the Motherboard or buy Vista again should re-activation fail (I really don't trust M$).
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I have flashed my boards bios numerous times, and not once been asked to reactivate. I have upgraded my GPU and changed my sound card and still not one time it asked me to reactivate. I think your fear of this is more your personal trust issue then it actually going to happen Bannik.
Most newer boars have a built in feature that you can auto recover the bios if flashing does go wrong. This just happened to me yesterday. I flashed through the windows utility, but afterward it said flash failed!! When I rebooted, the auto-recover utility kicked in and recovered the previous bios I was using prior to flashing. I'm not sure if your board has this feature Bannik, but it may be worthwhile checking out.