>>371026861
I replaced the cooler when I upgraded my GPU, and I removed the CPU to clean off a little bit of old thermal paste that had dried on the side. Bios detected that the CPU had been reseated, so it wanted to do some autoconfiguration. I decided to update the bios while I was in there. After it completed, it rebooted, except there was no video. I let it sit for about a half hour before I decided to power cycle it. Still no video. Started removing components even though obviously nothing was broken but y'know. Board doesn't have a flashback function, but Asus claims you can autoload bios roms from usb. Despite my best efforts, wouldn't work. So I declared the board dead. I was gonna upgrade anyway, so I guess I'm just upgrading sooner. than anticipated.

I might buy some tools to flash the chip manually, because I did want to use this board for a server at some point.