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Only 16 days after upgrading NEUTRON I was greeted by this screen of doom after a system hard freeze (not even a CTRL-ALT-DEL response). I again rebooted and was told my BIOS Checksum was incorrect. A short while later I had the BIOS reflashed and finished setting up the CMOS settings only to receive another BIOS Checksum error. I again flashed the latest BIOS direct from BioStar for my iDEQ 200n and reset the CMOS jumper on the motherboard. This time the video would not even initialize. I then decided to remove my add-on GeForce 6800 card along with my Netgear WG311T wireless card and tried again. Still no video initialization. I put my old components back into the system and still no result. Frustrated, I took all my brand new components and set them on top of the iDEQ where it currently sits awaiting a new motherboard/case combo. Fortunately my sister left her laptop so I have a working computer to use while I'm waiting. I have never had a BIOS corrupt on me before, and if anyone is so inclined I'll gladly deliver for troubleshooting. Otherwise I'll try Ebay and hopefully get enough to pay for my replacement motherboard/case. I'm theorizing my WG311T may have required too much power and shorted the system since at least 2 of my frequent reboots leading up to the hard freeze occurred during heavy network use. Defiantly getting a 450wat power supply regardless.