I ordered a Bad Axe. I have one more trick up my sleeve although what I really want to know is what is needed to get Conroe to run on an Asus 975X board.

The problem is definately at least partially BIOS related as a check of CPU supply voltage (vcore) with a multimeter when the board has power shows 0v being supplied to the CPU....hmmm....need about 1.2v more.

-FCG