Mikecdm

In anticipation of the arrival of my E8400 E0 I prepared a bootable usb with the 18 bios so that I can flash my boad. Supposedly it's the correct one for E0 chips. I did everything as per ace's guide on xtremesystems.

It started doing everything right, it booted from the usb drive and started doing the actual procedure. Upon completion, the screen just went black and did nothing else. I don't know if I am supposed to do anything else to make it work. Am I supposed to restart my computer? I assume it should restart itself and that is why I think I might have bricked it.

Currently the display on the motherboard shows C1. I don't know if that means anything but thats what it shows.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

heelsparky0501

well i wouldnt turn off the power, i say let it sit for at least 15 minutes before you go about turning off the power :/

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Mikecdm

It has been almost half an hour and its still on a blank screen. Matter of fact, the monitor is now in standby mode.

EDIT:

So I waited long enough and nothing happened, then I restarted it. With the Q6600 still in it booted right up. I then put the E8400 in it's new home and it blue screened on me on my first try. After messing around for a bit, clearing cmos a few times I'm nearing 4.0ghz. Also this chip runs extremely cool