BIOS Update 1.3 - 1.9 : Starting SiSoft Sandra causes a system lockup

Hi,
I updated my 865PE-NEO2-S to the latest BIOS, 1.9.
But when I try to run SiSoft Sandra, my PC reboots...
Before I updated to 1.9, I used 1.3 and Sandra worked without any problems.
I tried to "downgrade" to 1.3 again, but even that doesn't help...
Now I flashed to 1.9 again...
thx in advance...

So that tells you BIOS isn't causing Sandra to lock up. However, the BIOS configuration may have changed when you updated the BIOS. So go back to the BIOS setup and set everything back to the last time you used.

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