Quote Originally Posted by spiro View Post
I am not sure what stepping E5430's are, but I just received the motherboard today from ANT and I am guessing it must have the very latest BIOS. The thing is I cannot even get a post to be able to upgrade the BIOS. Seems like an unbelievably stupid thing for Asus to ship a board in 2009 that can't support a processor that Skulltrail supported in early 2008.

Anyway will non Xeon dual core or quadcore processor work? Or does it have to be a Xeon processor?

Thanks
Well you can't put LGA775 cpu into LGA771 socket, physically impossible.
You can always take the IHS off and check cpus stepping.

If it says:
SLANU = C0, mobo fckd up.
SLBBK = E0, It's time to update bios.

For an example:
http://xs330.xs.to/xs330/08351/dsc_0188771.jpg

Stepping code reads on the middle line :]