Got Vista x64 to boot, but used your technique of taking out one stick of RAM and then applying the patch after install. I'll try the slipstream method in the future.Originally Posted by nugzo
Anyway, all appears good in x64 now.
A couple of other things (perhaps unrelated to this board and more particular to Vista)...
1) During Vista install, it seemed to hang at "Completed Installation..." (I left it for an hour with no change). I googled this and found there were tons of people having this issue. At least in my case, it was a simple matter of removing my USB flash drive from one of the USB ports. I had left it there from eariler... I guess it caused the Vista install some grief. Anyway, I should have followed my own advice which is to remove any and all storage devices from the system (except your main boot disk) before installing Vista.
2) Even with C1E disabled in BIOS, Vista wants to use speed step to lower the clock on the CPU. All CPU settings in Genie are on factory defaults. Either there is another BIOS setting I'm missing or Vista doesn't care and want's to throttle CPU speed anyway. The work around I'm currently using is to simply set the power profile in Control Panel > Power Options to "High Performance". That seemed to stop the speed step nonsense.
3) This may be common knowledge around here but if you are using the lastest version of Speedfan, you need to adjust the offset on the core temperature readings by 15-deg C for them to match CoreTemp.
Again, these may have nothing to do with this board, but may be helpful never-the-less.
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