Quote Originally Posted by Wiggy McShades View Post
it was with the dfi 790fx M2R. second phenom 9850 that died right now im thinking its the board. Both boards work with a 5000+ BE but the 9850's are stuck on C1 on the dfi and memory error with the biostar. tried numerous sticks of ram that all work with the 5000+. both were stock volts one was oc'ed but both died when loading everest.
Quote Originally Posted by MotF Bane View Post
I'm the owner of that 790FX Phenom-killer. Took mine after a few hours, stuck in C1, tried Ballistix and TeamGroup. No other AM2 board to try the Phenom in, I'm going to try mounting my 5000+ soon to check. 2.0 volts on the memory, but the memory was very warm.
My 9500 also died on the first day in that mobo. DFI support says tools like Sandra/Speedfan can cause the bios to be corrupted, which results in C1 errors.
I got the bios working again with an BE2400 and had no problems with an 9600BE and an 9850BE so far, but the 9500 did not yet post and i tried three different boards. As C1 errors are memory related i guess it's the IMC on the cpu whom stopped working.
I'd recommend bios versions 130/307 or 331 on the DFI M2A and be carefull with those low IO accesing tools like Sandra/Speefan/Evereset. Best is to run only one of those at a time.