** OFFICIAL ** Intel DX38BT & DX48BT2 BoneTrail Thread

[DiscoTech]

After wasting some time with the Asus P5Q3 Deluxe board... it is either Asus or the p45 chipset/ddr3 combination isn't ready yet, at least for now.

I have decided to try the more mature x48 chipset.

I have not done any overclocking on the board yet, I have only installed a clean windows at default settings. Board is behaving as it should for now.

I hope this helps some of you. 2 observations so far...

1)After a fresh install of XP x64 (before any windows updates/service pack etc), I installed the latest chipset driver from Intel's website for the board. All of the usb devices stopped functioning...keyboard, mouse, flash driver...none of the usb ports worked.

*I suggest people download the latest chipset driver from the chipset section as that one works.....not the one on the board's download page.

2)I updated the bios to 1554 using the ISO image and I had to use the Plextor DVD Writer, as the driver on the CD image was erroring out on my ASUS DVD Rom. All bios settings were correct and same and I used the same burned CD.

*So it probably needs to be a writer drive to work with the BIOS ISO image CD or it may just not be compatible with some drives.