I agree with Uranium's post on the first page. I was disturbed by all the problems peeps were having setting up this board. I followed the "boot with one stick of RAM" (GSKILL TCCD) method in dimm "4". I loaded optimized defaults and saved and exited. After that I flashed the 2/01 bios and Dual Channel works great! I did a fresh WinXP SP2 install at default settings no problems. I loaded the new Forceware(6.39) and unlike some of the stories here, I have had no BSOD or crashes while surfing the net or benchmarking whatsoever.
This DFI LP works great. I only had a few hours to overclock last night, but so far I am prime stable at 290 FSB 1:1 2.5-3-3-7 . My voltages are maxed on Chipset/LDT and DDR is at 2.9V (on my Gigabyte SLI my Gskill only liked 2.7V! Go figure). My CPU is at 1.76V currently.
I also didn't experience the ethernet issue where you need to manually enter the MAC address. My ethernet (both ports) worked great with bios defaults and drivers loaded.
Tonight when I get home I'll post my A64 Tweaker settings, maybe that will help those with TCCD problems
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P.S. with these exact voltages and setup besides the DFI LP MOBO, I am getting 10 MHz more on my FSB 1:1 and 110MHZ more in CPU speed. At the same voltages! (I had the Gigabyte SLI before - a good board also).
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