Hello everyone. I just thought that I would share my story with you of my experience with this laptop .I have had all sorts of problems with this laptop for the six weeks that I have had it. It double boots all the time, the sound works sometimes then other times not. The processor runs at 700 MHz with Prime95 full load, I am aware of the BDPRHOT issue. I talked to the people at Asus and they said that they were not aware of this problem. I told them its only all over the internet and the forms for like a year now. He said that they would check into it and call me within 24 to 48 Hrs, they never called me back on that issue. I also asked them why they would put a SATA II drive on a SATA revision III motherboard. He had to put me on hold because he didn't know what SATA was nor what revision it was on the HM65 express chipset. He came back after a 15 min hold and told me that it was revision III and that they put a SATA II in there to stay ahead of the industry, WOW! Ok.

So anyway I decided to flash my bios to the .202 file to see if it would correct the processor problem. It didn't. I flashed it with a USB formatted to FAT32/16 in the bios easy flash program. Worked like a charm, as it usually does. That's the way I have always flashed. After this I noticed that the keyboard lights were not coming on. So I called the asus tech and he told me to try the windows based flash tool. I should have known better than to listen to a smart Asus tech. He said that sometimes when flashing via easy flash that this can be an issue. Come to find out after the fact all you do is hit the function key and I think f4 or f5 key will fix the problem. So against my better judgment I tried it a week or so later and it bricked my computer. Oh S***. I called them the next day and they told me that my computers warranty was now void. There computers were down so he couldn't start an RMA with me , so he took my name and number and said that he would have someone call me back. They didn't. No surprise to me. I was faced with some tough decisions on what to do at this point. I once bent some pins on a mobo and called to ask if they could repair it and what the cost would be. The cost was more expensive than just buying a new mobo. Remembering this and being told that my laptop is no longer under warranty for following the advise of an Asus tech, I decided to go the cheaper route and send it to a repair service on eBay. The guy has been great. He knows his stuff at AI Computers. The only problem is my bios is corrupted and he needs the firmware and the bios file to erase the eprom and reprogram it. I talked to Asus and they will not give me a new eprom. They say its not for sale. That sucks. I have seen where other people have had the same problem here on the forum and they were told that they would need a new board, another reason I decided not to send it to Asus. They want to change the motherboard that probably cost 7 to 9 Hundred for a 22 dollar eprom that is bad. Do you see now why the eprom is not for sale, I do
Anyway there is more to the story then this, but I will spare you all from being completely sick. The moral of the story is, DONT FLASH UNDER NTFS! Also don't trust those guys at Asus. They will not tell you the truth and they are not trained computer techs.