the_ultra_code wrote:Oh, I promise you, I'm not. :) […]
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dionb wrote:An EEPROM flasher is never a bad investment - but don't get your hopes up too much for this board.
Oh, I promise you, I'm not. 😀
I've had it pretty lucky up until now, so I would think it would make sense that I would finally start running into... bad luck, eh?
Besides, this just screams "Problems that only the gods know how to fix.", it seems just that strange. I've never in my whole career of this hobby of my (a whole year 🤣; it's a drop in the bucket compared to you guys) anything like this before.
I was right. I finally got my TL866II Plus EPROM programmer today from China, so I followed the nice little guide that PhilsComputerLabs made to set everything up, flashed the BIOS chip on this Asus TX97-XE, reinserted the BIOS chip back into the motherboard, hooked up the motherboard to the StarTech PSU, inserted a PCI graphics card a some SDRAM, removed the CMOS battery and then reinserted it just to "make sure" I was on a clear slate, turned on the power supply, hit the power button, and... same behavior as before.
RIP Asus TX97-XE (1997-ish - 2018) 😢
Because I am desperate to finish this build, I found on ebay an Intel LT430TX motherboard for $166-ish and got that. There was a similarly speced Intel AN430TX (basically the same board from what I can tell) that also had onboard audio on sale on ebay for around $100, too, but, continuing with my bad luck lately, when I checked the listing again today, some smart fool bought it the day before. 😢 x 10
The only good thing to come out of today was that I learned while listening to The Crystal Method's Community Service album that I recently acquired that one of the songs on the album ("Dude in the Moon (Luna Mix)", by Dastrix), was a prominent song in Need for Speed: High Stakes. When I heard the song, I was like, "Wait, I heard that before. Wait, that's from NFS:HS, no?!?", and, with a quick Google search, I found that indeed a "radio edit" 3-minute mix of the song is in the game's soundtrack (http://nfs.wikia.com/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_Hig … akes/Soundtrack). Is it just me, or did a lot of songs found on Crystal Method albums find there way into early Need for Speed games (up to, say, around the Underground period)? 😀