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Cool recovery disk, but I tried it and same story as with any other multi-layer graphic interface.
I tried a couple of IT service companies, but apparently no one is willing to put their used CPU in my motherboard unless I buy it .. can't blame them.

That has to be one hell of a coincidence. Before, I had Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe for 6 years and now I have M3A, bought few weeks a go. Issue appeared 1 year a go, no behavior changes shown after mobo was changed. Both mobos don't have any signs of bulging or leaking capacitors. Button cell batteries are...

That's like the first thing I did.

Ok, you asked .. here is the full story :P Some time ago (1 year) I started to experience a very weird behavior from the system, that is, whenever I boot on Windows I can't click on Start menu button and some other graphic elements on the screen, as if there is a transparent graphic layer above almo...

edwin wrote:Is this an Asus M3A board btw?
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2Plus/M3A/

Please check for bad capacitors:
http://www.badcaps.net

Yes, that's the mobo .. and no, there are no bad caps, at least no physical indication that any of them are failing.

Well, BACKUP_1.ROM was made immediately after flashing the BIOS, no OS booted on, so the changes in ACPI were made by EZ Flasher, not OS (probably to accommodate the specific version/revision of mobo). But can you tell what are the 30 bytes changed between BACKUP_1.ROM and BACKUP_2.ROM ? Also, I cou...

I'm experiencing some weird stuff in here, and I got some beliefs that it might be because of BIOS ... So, first I would like to know a bit about BIOS structure. I've reflashed the BIOS, loaded defaults, then I made a backup copy of the written BIOS,I went in windows and hashed the original image an...