Re: P7P55D BIOS UPDATE 1408 - READ!!!!!
OK everyone, I found a solution to this problem!!!!!
Since I am dual booting with win7 on the same HD, I rebooted with the win7 disk and got to the screen where it asks what HD that you want to install to. I noticed a small partition labeled EFI which was about 200 mb; I believe this is a partition created by OSX on the hard drive when installing SL for booting purposes. I saw another small partition which was about the same size which I think was an essential file partition when win7 was installed.
In any case, in this screen I chose to delete all of these little partitions and also deleted my win7 install partition completely as well as my OSX partition which were on the same hard drive, canceled the install after doing this and rebooted with the tonymac asus boot disk I had originally used. Lo and behold, I was able to load the boot loader with no ebios error after restart and was able to reinstall OSX again!!!! Great success!
The next task is to see whether or not I can reinstall win7 and dual boot again without the ebios error. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Moral of this story, if you're system is running stable, don't mess with it unless you're willing to go thru crap like this! This confirms that bios version 1408 does work with SL.