![]() ![]() Regarding your "press the power switch for 10-15 seconds" comment, if you press and hold the power button for more than 4 seconds, a circuit in the chipset will hard power-off the system. It may be that this is why the motherboard was for sale on E-Bay From your standpoint, this is as bad as a hardware failure only an Intel technician can reload the flash from scratch. Anyway, if the ME's area of the flash is corrupted, the system is never going to run to the point where a flash recovery operation can take place. The Management Engine is one of a number of microprocessors in the chipset that is responsible for a whole bunch of capabilities including power-sequencing. One of the possible causes for the symptoms you are seeing is a corruption of the Management Engine's (ME) portion of the flash. OK, I don't want to scare you but, if clearing CMOS and doing a recovery of the BIOS doesn't work, you may have a permanent problem.
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