Haswell E or Xeon V3 owner in Herts/NW London

[Methanoid]

I'm boned, my new mobo has no Broadwell E support and wont boot..

I'm looking for a Haswell owner who is willing to help and I can bring machine to and flash BIOS (will cover some beers for trouble).

Long shot.. otherwise I have to buy a Haswell E

 

[mmj_uk]

What motherboard is it? some allow you to flash with a USB stick.

eg. http://event.asus.com/2012/mb/USB_BIOS_Flashback_GUIDE/

 

[Methanoid]

Ga-x99p-sli. The only board they do without q flash plus

 

[Cenuij]

Ga-x99p-sli. The only board they do without q flash plus

I feel your pain, exact same issue I had... in the end I bought a cheap xeon e5-2603 from ebay so I could flash the BIOS. Seems Gigabyte skimped on the Q-Flash to keep the cost down for squeezing in other features...

I'd offer to mail it down to you but it's now in my NAS box, sorry

 

[Methanoid]

Oh it gets worse.. to connect multiple VGA cards U must connect a Molex to the board. But Molex is on bottom edge of board and fouls PSU on a Define R5.. Really Gigabyte WTF!???! But the board is the only one with the right slot layout AND M2 PCIE slot...

 

[mmj_uk]

I dont think that connector is a necessity, I think it's just to help for extreme cases like when you have tri/quad 300W overclocked cards.

 

[Methanoid]

I hear with these connectors that some mobos actually detect if more slots are in use and refuse to allow it without connection. Asrock support (for example) has a "custom" BIOS which allows you to overrule that on their boards when the 2nd/3rd cards are not VGA cards.

Its just the world out to get me today...