Quote Originally Posted by LUCI5R View Post
OC is not even in the picture here. This is all on Stock. The CPU will NOT run on Stock on any BIOS > 0803. Only on 0803 is the CPU functional and I can boot into Vista.

If the CPU won't run Stock on an Official BIOS release greater then 0803, then yes, I definately have something to butt heads against with ASUS. With Intel, I'm not sure.

I don't have any concrete proof the CPU is damaged - I don't have another board to test it in. The basics I have right now is that my CPU will NOT FUNCTION with the "CPU Margin Enhancement" setting available in the BIOS - regardless of what value you give that setting. That, in my opinion, is unacceptable - as that Setting is available in all current, post 0803 BIOS releases by ASUS.

The valid argument here is: You are releasing & providing a BIOS that is crippling function of my CPU. Has it damaged my CPU permanently, I don't know! You need to prove it by providing me with a functional, current release BIOS that works with my CPU.
Shortly after I upgraded from 0803 to 1201, 39 hours into a Prime 95 Large FFT's all 4 cores failed within less than half an hour of each other. I was floored because I didn't change anything and while my temperature fluxuates in my home, it was pretty cool right when they failed.

I was about to jump on the whole "CPU Margin enchancement" thing but I learned that one of my sticks of RAM had gone bad. I couldn't run at stock with that one particular stick in the same slot as the other stick was working just fine in.

Long story short, have you tested your RAM to know it's OK? Who knows, maybe the board fried the RAM, I'm really, really surprised my RAM went bad. I've never had a stick go bad like that in 15 years of building my own computers and selling custom built PC's to others.