Holy hell! I "upgraded" to Bios 1004 and put an e8400 in. I'm having all kinds of issues.

First I can't boot with the team ram at all. I get the endless black screen, no matter which ram slots I try with one stick or the voltage I use.

Second, I can boot with corsair value ram, but not in dual channel mode on the black slots. I can only use the black slot closest to the cpu. The yellow slots work fine with the corsair ram.

Third, I can no longer boot with my raid enabled, it tells me that hal.dll is corrupted. I can, however, boot with it disabled.

Fourth, the net connection is slow as hell. It just took me 3 minutes to d/l the 1006 bios at 5.6 kb/sec!

I'm going to see if I have any better luck with 1006. Hopefully if all goes well, I'll be back in a few minutes to report on that.