thanks for the details and feedback soundood

definitely a bad experience there and quite different from what I have seen on other boards I've tried.

let me ask you a few extra questions and then we can move forward with this and get someone to fix it. In short it seems that the board needs a new BIOS to get these things fixed.

ok, i set CPU multi to 10 say, reduce HT multi to 7 say, increase HT referance clock to 205 mhz, and wham BSOD, this is the same using many differant variants in CPU multi and HT multi, (all lower than stock, to test HT referance)
so basically it hangs as soon as you try to adjust HT ref. clock? or does HT ref. clock adjustment work OK if you try to apply only that one slider at a time? if you keep CPU multi and HT multi at deafult and just adjust HT ref. clock it hangs? does it hang if you a smaller jump from 200 to 201 or 202MHz? or only when doing a bigger jump from 200 to 205 (or higher)?
This is probably an issue with the clockchip programming and can be solved via BIOS update (I have seen this before on another board and it was fixed by applying a different clockchip programming method - by the SBIOS).

NB vid, cant and wont go higher than 1.3 v (although bios allows it)
Please confirm that this happens with the 9850BE CPU? Also please confirm that we are talking about CPU NB VID (not Chipset voltage)? Do you mean that the slider wont go higher than 1.3V (NB VID slider) or that the actual voltage doesnt increase above 1.3V thru AOD? NB VID slider is read from the CPU directly and doesnt depend on mobo SBIOS. Black Edition CPU should allow up to 1.55V. if its a non-BE then it can be limited to 1.300V.
the SBIOS can allow higher values if its applying an OFFSET (fooling the VR) or overriding the VID value. AOD has no clue about this if the board doesnt report it to AOD (some boards do report and then you have an extra slider to adjust the OFFSET or value of Override - some boards dont, unfortunately).

incorrect readings of CPU vid, allways sais 1.3 v, even though its 1.4v in bios, how do i adjust that in the knowledge its wrong?
I assume you set it to 1.4V in the SBIOS and then AOD reads the CPU VID as 1.300v? This can happen if the board uses VID override or OFFSET control instead of just adjusting the VID value. BIOS should have the correct value in this case and you should verify the voltage thru the HW monitor.

board status tab gives me no info on CPU voltage, although it sais 1.3v in performance options
do you see any voltage values in the board status window?

no GPU status for nvidia 9600gt, or is that intentional?
AOD can read details from ATI GFX only.

system info/diagram: no info that i have a graphics card at all, shows nothing on PCIe.
this sounds like a SW bug - thanks for reporting it.

auto clock is useless, and even worse than Nvidias nTune effort
whats the issue you see with Autoclock? since this requires HT ref. clock adjustment it might be caused by the problem you mentioned above (hang with ht ref. clock adjustment due to BIOS problem)

and lastly, (if there is a last) coruption of bios, if any settings are 'applied' that are to do with CPU Multi or HT Ref.
adjusting CPU multiplier slider and hitting "apply" causes BIOS corruption?