Quote Originally Posted by eva2000 View Post
Never experienced such myself. Which PCI-E x16 slots you using ? for CF it's 1st and very last PCI-E x16 slots so double slot spacing in between



I'd first get the bios update sorted out before 4870x2 CF. As to bios update you could be suffering the slow/freeze like bios update when some boards the user loaded a pre-saved older bios cmos profile over a newer system bios. Tips #4, #5 and #6 http://i4memory.com/102537-post3.html address the bios issue if your's is similar. Full details http://i4memory.com/f80/dfi-ut-x58-t...eleased-13876/ and solution http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/showpos...&postcount=158 (just no need to reload ABS profile if you never installed ABS software). That should take care of the bios updating.


HTH
I'm using slots 1 and 4 for x16.
Will try and update the bios tonight and post back.