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[togerland]

The first one had an endless boot and i noticed the ram chip got burnt a bit. The second was working great for 2 days I decided to do a bios update and during the middle of the computer rebooted for no reason and corrupted the bios..... I called up biostar and they would never send me a new bios chip without sending in the whole board.....

[Miuku.]

Time to switch to Asus.

At least you'll know the only thing that will break will be the leaking caps

[+Xenosion]

^ Asus all the way.

It's a Biostar... 'nough said.

[zeta_immersion]

Never go for biostar or asrock ... gigabyte or asus all the way

[tsupersonic]

It boggles my mind that someone out there would intentionally buy the Biostar brand...

[togerland]

haha I got a gigabyte board thsi time waiting on the shipping now.... It looks like there is alot of freezing issues with this board though I hope I dont get a bad one..... If I do Ill understand why people go crazy and shootings happen! LOL

[SkyDX]

I vote for GIGABYTE boards as ASUS ones gave me some RAM compatibility problems recently But yeah Asrock and Biostar are usually not that great, I hope you manage to get everything running fine

[togerland]

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813128545 I got this one now..... There is enough USB ports to power a 500 watt stereo system lol

[+ViperAFK]

tsupersonic, on 18 May 2012 - 13:57, said:

It boggles my mind that someone out there would intentionally buy the Biostar brand...

I've had two biostar boards with zero issues. the one in my current gaming pc is a biostar z68 board, I've been quite happy with this one (TZ68A+)

[+Vice]

Get your money back from where you bought it and get an Asus board instead. There is a reason Biostar are so cheaply priced.

[+metal_dragen]

togerland, on 18 May 2012 - 13:51, said:

The second was working great for 2 days I decided to do a bios update and during the middle of the computer rebooted for no reason and corrupted the bios..... I called up biostar and they would never send me a new bios chip without sending in the whole board.....

The parts I've bolded are what boggles me - if the system was working, why on earth would you update the BIOS? BIOS updates should only ever be done if you are experiencing problems and there is a chance (or documented note in the changelog) that they've addressed the issue you are having. Rarely they should be done for performance improvements, but those generally are a result of fixing a problem.

[togerland]

metal_dragen, on 21 May 2012 - 11:45, said:

The parts I've bolded are what boggles me - if the system was working, why on earth would you update the BIOS? BIOS updates should only ever be done if you are experiencing problems and there is a chance (or documented note in the changelog) that they've addressed the issue you are having. Rarely they should be done for performance improvements, but those generally are a result of fixing a problem.

Always updated the bios on my computers when I build them :shrug:

[Euphoria]

I got the Biostar TZ77B and is working perfect. That is for $100 less than the Gigabyte offering.
I matched that with a i3770k running at 4.5GHz on air cooling and stock voltage, and 16GB of GSKILL 2133MHz.
I am loving it.

[jnelsoninjax]

togerland, on 18 May 2012 - 13:51, said:

The first one had an endless boot and i noticed the ram chip got burnt a bit. The second was working great for 2 days I decided to do a bios update and during the middle of the computer rebooted for no reason and corrupted the bios..... I called up biostar and they would never send me a new bios chip without sending in the whole board.....

Sounds like what MSI did to me too, except they did send me a BIOS chip and it did fix the problem, but not before I bought an Asus and I swore I would never buy a MSI board again for the same reason you are swearing off Biostar

[tsupersonic]

metal_dragen, on 21 May 2012 - 11:45, said:

The parts I've bolded are what boggles me - if the system was working, why on earth would you update the BIOS? BIOS updates should only ever be done if you are experiencing problems and there is a chance (or documented note in the changelog) that they've addressed the issue you are having. Rarely they should be done for performance improvements, but those generally are a result of fixing a problem.

Because they generally add new features or improvements like bug fixes, etc. Like my netbook, there were complaints that it wouldn't accept 8GB of RAM (wouldn't post), even though the chipset supported it. A BIOS update was released to fix the issue. I've never had a bad flash...