Thanks Victor - I had arrived at this being a possibility because I have bought two of these boards - one of which has just turned up so I installed the CPU etc onto it & it Boots with the 3rd gen i5.
I drilled through the detail of the board/processor support where the spec states a minimum BIOS of 2161 for my SR0P0 so I downloaded BG2209P.BIO
However, I can't seem to update the bios. I've got the .BIO file on a usb stick & followed the procedures from Intel's BIOS update guide, but nothing happens. I would have thought the LED on the USB stick would blink as it is being accessed? But I get nothing. And I have left it for hours. I've got no display so can't follow the other routes.
I'm at a loss now as to where I go next. I'll try putting the .BIO on a DVD & hooking up an optical drive in case the board likes that more. Otherwise I'm stuffed. The board was New-Old-Stock from a private seller, so if it is DOA I can't imagine Intel being interested.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I've suffered a lot of downtime over this.
Cheers