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PLEASE NOTE: That turned out to be "Sandra was running when my Phenom blew up" and it was not the BIOS.

I thought it was the BIOS at the time. I didn't have another AM2 chip to put into the socket to test it out... so I RMA'ed it to Newegg. After waiting 4 days for shipping, Newegg received it but they were out of the M2R model; so they just refunded what I paid.

I found a local place that had the Gigabyte MA790FX-DS5 for the same price as Newegg. I picked that up yesterday. I had NO JOY with the Phenom. It is fried... so another RMA to Newegg for replacement.
Oha, my fault, thank you for clarifying, thought the phenom worked in the g bt mobo. But you could not sort out that the bios in the DFI got corrupted?
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In the meanwhile I picked up a 4800+ to use for the 2 weeks or so that I'm waiting for the RMA. Yet more money. <sigh> OTOH: It is nice to have a 2.5Ghz dual core CPU so I can compare benchmarks against the Phenom. X2 versus X4 at the same clock.
I bought an 4850e for a new workstation at work, too bad you don't have the DFI mobo, that would have been an nice comparison of two 2.5GHz X2's.
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DFI BONUSES: I like some of the features of the DFI board a lot better. Sound on the DFI is a Realtek ALC885 instead of the ALC889A. (Thus DFI has better quality.) Plus the DFI has a better chipset cooler, maybe a better voltage regulation, 2 network cards, and a socketed bios chip. The only thing Gigabyte has I like is the "idea" of the dual bios and the "Q-Flash". ALSO: It has a parallel printer port! MAJOR BONUS! I can resurect my Epson FX-80+. Or NOT.
GBT-780G chipset also has onboard connectors for a serial and a parallel port. We have alot of special Epson printers using serial and parallel, so this will be my first choice for office workstations.