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The GA-G31M-ES2L mobo may not be optimal!

Just a warning to all, I recently bought the Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L from Newegg because the cMP recommended mobo, the GA-G31M-S2L, is no longer available from Newegg.

Unfortunately, the newer board's BIOS doesn't seem to have all the same flexibility that the older board may have had. Specifically, the BIOS doesn't give you control over many of the recommended MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.) settings:

No Spread Spectrum control
No DDR timing controls!
No ability to lower the FSB Voltage Control
No ability to set CPU GTLREF Voltage Ratio

There were a few other settings that are no longer available but these are the bigger ones (off the top of my head).

After applying all the BIOS tweaks that I could from the recommended list, my machine now hangs at the POST screen. In addition, the display is scrambled and illegible. Before I can proceed, I need to figure out how to reset the BIOS to a working state. Any tips?

Chris

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