I did a bench test with my K9A2-CF and 9600 yesterday. Installed 2x1Gb PC6400 and HD3850. All worked fine.

MB came with BIOS v1.0 but it recognized the P9600 Quad-core okay, anyway I updated to 1.1 from MSI downloads and installed Vista Ultimate 32bit. Loaded system drivers from CD (for Vista) which says that chipset is RD780 (??). Then installed AOD v2.10 which does not work (AMD OVERDRIVE CANNOT DETECT AMD R700 CHIPSET ON THIS COMPUTER) ?? Tried to downloaded ATi System drivers from MSI but downloads just fail (it is 143Mb).

Another weird thing is that CPU-Z does not show any info on the Memory tab (only 2048MB) but SPD is fine (A-Data DDR2 has SPD for 200/233/400). BIOS says RAM is Single Channel but I used 2 slots closest to CPU ??

The layout of the Cell Menu is also a bit strange, not easy to use IMO. Tried setting my RAM timings manually but there is only Auto or Both (?). Tried both and there are 2 sets of CAS/tRAS/tRC/etc ? POST screen also does not show RAM settings at boot - only 800Mhz and Single Channel.

Any ideas / suggestions welcomed