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Email sent Edwin.

I have tried the factory drivers form 2005, no dice. This is the most ridiculous mobo I have ever tried to use.

I think I will try the factory 3.15 next

I am using an Athlon 64, running at 2ghz...PATA hard drive and DVD rom on 1 channel. I disabled the SATA, the parallel port, and any other extraneous items.

I am using the drivers that I have downloaded from ATI/AMD for the IGP, the 8.8, file ver 8.522. The sound drivers were already detected fine ...

So are you guys using SATA or PATA hard drives? Has it mattered?

Any particular bios options to enable or disable?

Well, I must have a defective board, or something else is just overly obviously wrong...

I flashed the 3.14 bios that Edwin sent me, and my CPU is still pegged at 100% all the time. This is with a fresh install of Xp sp3 (not the original media center build).

Am I going to have to install the ...

I should elaborate.

I have gone into f11 and modified the fan settings. I also noticed that the PSU on teh Antec Aria case has a fan sensor wire, I plugged that into the system fan header and that took care of the chassis fan issue.

I have tried 3 different verisons of the 3.14 bios (1 that I ...

Looks like I am in need of this 3.14 as well.
I picked up one of these boards to replace a crapped out PC Chips unit in my dads machine...It seemed to come with a 3.15 bios, but it took over 4 hours just to install windows, and it had the 'press f2 to get past chassis fan' issue.

My CPU usage is ...