Bios settings for K9A2 v1.0 and PC2-8500 1066MH

My apologies in advance if this issue is like beating a dead horse but I have been looking for stable bios recomendations and proper settings for over a week now not only in this forum but the msi german board as well where I found my beta last year. I built my system a year ago and have never been 100% satisfied with it as it totally screams but intermittenly BSOD and reboots while gaming usually in heavy action :o(
I had a difficult time getting a working bios and configuration in Jan '08 but all I remember was it was in ganged, 128 bit mode, and had spread spectrum and other auto disable pci something setting disable and I have been able to run memory at 1066MHz.
after last crash a week ago I replace my beta 1.3 bios with A7376AMS V1.7B4 011309 out of desperation to correct the random booting issus as well as suspected over heating as I have tried removing the side panel to my coolermaster Cosmos to see if getting more air one components would help and I cant tell but I do know I cannot get the system back to 1066Mhz
currently runing unganged 64-bit and any attempt to change that and Cell settings causes BSOD in Vista 64-Bit, I cannot figure out how to adjust the voltage as the settings are greyed out. If anyone has a working bios could you supply me version info as well as how to set correct voltage and any other setting to stablize. yes, I have memory still in first two slots.
thanks for your time
Strato
AMD PHENOM 9600 BLACK EDITION 2.3 GHz
MSI K9A2 PLATINUM v1.0 | Bios v1.7B4 011309
GeIL Esoteria 4GB (2X2GB) PC2-8500 1066 MHz
ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB
Thermaltake Toughpower 750w
CoolerMaster Cosmos
Seagate 1000GB | Seagate 750GB
Vista Business 64-Bit

Stratoscape , i used untill now with K9A2 Platinum v2 BIOS-es like 1.2 ,1.5, 1.66 ,1.6 and i can say that this 1.7b4 seems better though i used it for only 2 days.DPC Latency checker shows a lot of improovement over BIOS 1.6.
I have used Geil RAM untill 2 months ago,but the board wasnt working properly with it so i changed to Kingston.Maybe you should barrow from a firend other brand modules and see how they work
Or maybe you should use them at 800 Mhz.
Leave the timings on auto and adjust only the voltage .

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