If you can get a hold of a compatible hardware BIOS flasher, I believe you'll have a high chance of recovery. I've never done it myself, but I've heard fantastic success stories.
I don't think recovering the bios will work on this motherboard, i mean the problem to begin with was acpi issues. and i also found out that the integrated nvidia chip is a eng sample, that explains all the bios options it had i think this motherboard was only used to test the nvidia chip with a special os for debugging. I don't want to spend anymore money on this board ill just wait if the motherboards get cheap or if i find a good deal. They made many different versions of this computer model and there are many different motherboard types and the reason this motherboard is expensive is because the graphics card is a 9800M GTS SLI and the connector is different from the other versions so the card only works with this version of the motherboard. But i have 1 question what do you guys think this computer is worth in fully functioning order the specs are core 2 duo p8600 2.4GHZ 4GB DDR3 1066 9800M GTS SLI 1GB 500GB HDD 2X 250GB 17in screen in mint condition I am just curious if it is worthy of a new motherboard thanks.
OK i got this thing to work i bought a new motherboard for a real good price and i am posting from it the only thing that worry's me is if it breaks again like the original motherboard. I sold the original motherboard on eBay it did not even power up just the lights would slowly start to get brighter but i just got a message from the buyer that he fixed it. He said that the bios was corrupted??? and he re flashed the chip with a flasher. How would it get a corrupt bios when i never did anything to the bios on that motherboard it was working fine and i just shut it down and the next day it was broken??? Is it possible to get a bad bios out of no ware. 1 thing is the gpu's would overheat on that motherboard because of the crappy thermal paste. Can heat corrupt the bios code??
Dont really understand your question. In your first post you mention updating the bios. If the incorrect bios was used or the update got corrupted then the bios would become corrupt.
By original motherboard i mean the first one it had the one i was talking about in the first post is a motherboard i bought because the original one broke for no reason. But the motherboard i bought to replace the broken one did not want to install any os it just gave me blue screens and errors in linux so i got the advice here to update the bios then that one died so i went and bought the current one and it all works now. I sold the original motherboard on ebay and the guy that bought it said it had a corrupt bios and my question was how can a computer get a corrupt bios for no reason on the original motherboard i never messed with the bios. Sorry for the confusion