Well I did one of the stupidest things in my life! I flashed an asus a7v with the bios for an a7v266! Dead machine. My buddy and I are going to try to buy a new bios from badflash.com But I thought everyone ought to know what happens. I'll keep everyone informed. It's a long story as to how it happened so I'll forgo that!. It involves having an old MB book for an a7a266 and getting mb's mixed up w/o looking at the board!