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It definitely is a legend and worth the hassle And boy did you raise my morale and hope I literally read your post when I had it already disassembled and was getting ready to get busy on the BIOS chip itself (with a mindset that it will not help...). Seriously, thank you! And as a bonus, although I'm an educated electrotechnician, in reality I never worked as one and honestly I don't like doing such things even though I know whats what and how to do those things... But it worked out as a charm and now, after nearly a year, it's up and runnig like new Cheers man, I owe you at least a beer

Hi ForestCat, By any chance, have you successfully resolved the issue? I also own the 18 model with the same beep code error, and I'm starting to get desperate to the point that I already bought the aforementioned preflashed BIOS chip and getting ready to get "medieval" on the mobo as you noted... I would be very grateful for any new info if there is any. Thanks