Originally Posted by 03hdfatboy

Thats the first thing I do when I get a new drive is flash it. I had to reactivate XP one time after a flash..MS said my hardware configuration had changed significantly and I had to reactivate.

And the Problems with the "Little" K9A2 were not yet over. When I sent in the board I had no other AM2 CPU available to test it and I knew now that the 6400+ was not a good plan for that board. I ordered a new 5000+ to have it on hand when it got back. The board came back unrepaired because it posted burnt mosfets and all! I could hardly believe that, but when I put the 5000+ in there, It did post! But it had been weakened by the fire and when I hooked up a hard drive and tried to boot an adjacent set of Mosfets started smoking. Back goes the board, but it is rapidly returned to me. Repaired and ready to go, very same board by serial number. A quality repair. It now runs like a champ Overall I understand what MSI did and why and I am pretty happy with their responsiveness. (Unfortunate I needed it of course)

on another note I did just check with the Phillips site and downloaded a little utility and then the firmware update for my DVD Burner. Worked great, and works great too.

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Operating Systems: Six Win XP Home, One XP 64, Two Vista HP 64, and one of Vista 64 Ultimate, One Suse 10.3 64 bit and One Suse 10.3 32 Bit.