Quote Originally Posted by crishan View Post
The funny thing is that even though I have a revision 1.04G board,
I do not get anything other than VCore set to auto in the 2801 Bios.

I have a E0-Stepping E8400 that only gets a Core Voltage of 1.168 volts,
which I find too low. According to Core Temp, my processor has a VID
of 1.2125 volts, which the board doesn't even set

So far, no matter how often I performed a CMOS clear, took out the
battery etc., I do not get the manual VCore option
Does that Bios support E stepping CPU's?
Perhaps only the c0 stepping is supported?

and there's never any need to take out the battery. All that's needed after a flash, is (after u reboot, and stop the boot by going into the BIOS), is a power off, unplug power supply plug, then cmos clear.
An alternative for a TRUE pure cmos clear, is a FLOPPY/Flash drive award based bios flash, without using crashfree tool to do it.

I know when you first do a bios flash, you have to select some settings and "save and exit", then when you go back in, all the voltages are unlocked. If you've done this in the past, you would know if that's simply not working anymore or not....