This is not as much as a question as it is a note to those out there that upgrade their motherboards with better processors and the like. Here's my story.

Recently I upgraded my processor.

System specifications:
• Asus A8V Deluxe
• 4GB RAM
• ATI Radeon 3870 AGP graphics card (I believe that's it)

Anyway, I decided to put a dual core Opteron 180 in this rig, but the problem was that I needed to update the BIOS to V-1017, and not knowing the consequences, I went up to the Asus site and got the newest, the latest and the greatest, 1018.002 thinking that it was the best for this board, however it wasn't.

I used the Asus EXFlash, which makes life a lot easier, flashed the BIOS and all of a sudden I start getting this message: USB overcurrent protection, system shutting down in 15 seconds to protect your system.

WELL SHIT... This is a new one on me... I read the blogs, all the posts on this thing, and did all that everyone else did to correct the problem, but nothing helped.

So i decided to start from square one, went back to Asus and looked at the BIOS download... OMG... IT WAS A BETA.

So, I downloaded the update that was suggested >1017< and installed it and wouldn't you know, it took care of the problem, no more USB overcurrent protection, no more crashing.

I write this today to let you all know about this, just in case you have an issue such as this. Well there you all go. Fly safe and eat your vegetables.