i killed it!!!
I KILLED MY 2 DAY OLD (new) MOTHERBOARD... seriously, i got it on wednesday, its friday today
this is what i did.... DO NOT FOLLOW/ATTEMPT, unless you have too much money
1) i soldered the jen jumper like described above
2) booted fine, i checked bios- no possibility to change anything - no fsb, no multiplier - and my dad checked whether we had contact in the soldering... perfect...
3) i went online, found a 1005 beta bios
4) flashed from dos, failed, the updater said that current version was still 1004... so i said OK, and
5) i restarted the computer
RESULT:
-no display on first boot after power on - nothing... no POST success beep... NOTHING!!!
-restart gives a warning SIREN thro the internal spaker- still NOTHING!!!
let me mourn.......
and learn this from my mistake:
forget about ever overclocking this board... like i said, i changed the jen jumper, cleared cmos, and the options were EXACTLY the same as before... go figure...
ps. anyone know how to use ultraviolet light to write the bios chip?
or... anyone willing to give me their bios chip (from a non-working motherboard?)
edit: if ur wondering how i wrote this, im on my athlon 500 right now... geesh this things slow