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it appears they are breaking seals taking out C1 mobo and putting in C2 in place and not bothering to replace info sticker on box. Eventually they wont have to do this.
C2 mobo of all flavors are in stock at most of the German stores right now (also a few U.K.), both online and Retail, and they show the correct M0EAY5 number. I wonder how much it would cost to ship a mobo from there to here. I assume it wouldnt be too bad if you were on East Coast...
Actually the INTEL based MAC address is programmed into the bios at time of manufacture by vendor, then also placed on side of 24 pin ATX socket with sticker. Third party LAN chips like Realtek are not affected by erasing flash - these never change, they have their own firmware and firmware...
I'll say it again:
Mobo PC revision # is irrelevant to C1 or C2 SB install.
New chip will fit in any revision PCB
If anything OTHER than soutbridge is changed for whatever reason, the PCB revision may change also.
The SB revision will change as noted
ASRock box sticker...
thats some strange stuff - never seen anything like that before
where are you getting O/S from and by what manner?
You need to do a CRC check on your O/S ISO
A "cracked" Win 7/8 might do this
Did you get mobo from retail dealer in sealed box?
I would download a Win 7 ISO direct from MS and...
is your RE4 a new build?
Do you have HD Audio enabled in bios?
Can you make screenshots of device manager/sound video and game controllers (opened) and Win 8/7 sound front page in cntrl panel
The Realtek sound chip is at the lower left of the mobo (see manual schematic) - is any of your water...