WOW ! This BIOS really has some magic in it(for now). The PC booted up perfectly fine with the screen shot settings from my earlier post. The bios boot sequence is definitely different with he F3C compared to the F1. Now when it boots up i don't even see the initial window where it tells you the CPU speed and BIOS version, as soon as the screen lights up i see the AHCI sequence which usually comes after the IDE detection with the F1(i disabled the Gigabyte logo). So far im pleased !