P5VD1-X - completely dead - any ideas?

Updated the BIOS to version 0402, discovered that it hangs upon boot when it
tries to scan my Promise ATA133 controller.

Downgraded back to the factory bios it shipped with, 0127, which I'd saved when
I upgraded to 0402. Downgrade failed - system decided to "failsafe" upon reboot
to the ROM version that was on the Install CD shipped with the motherboard (as
it was still in the CDROM), successfully did so, and rebooted.

And - nothing.

Board is dead. Power light, IDE light stuck on, no beep, no POST, nothing.

Clearing CMOS does nothing. Tried every trick in the book.

Can't get it to boot in any configuration of video card, memory, or cpu -
nothing.

Anyone got any ideas? Or is this thing now totally fried?

It seems to me that things are NOT right when Asus' OWN UTILITY destroys their
product ... Based on my experience, their "Crashfree" bios utility is smoke and
mirrors. Rather than do what they say it should do, it destroyed my board.

As it is, I've lost an entire weekend's uptime on the machine and will probably
have to fight w/my vendor to get the board replaced as they are notoriously
sticky about dead boards due to the #s they receive back from overclockers.

Not to mention the time I now have to take off from work, now, to go by the
store during business hours.

I am NOT amused. Frankly, I expected better from an ASUS product.

If ANYONE has any ideas, I'm all ears.

Thx ...

- JD

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