may I join your hunt? I tested the following alcid= combos: 1,3,4,13,22,27,28,(29,41 didn't cause the cmos-error! - if that helps?) 43,51,76,86,127. I was double-checking via linux because in my case it seems to be a rebranded ALC3227-CG, but Linux gave me 0x10EC0282 (=ALC282, right?) as the...