K9N SLI - newer BIOS than in Live Update

I have a few weird problems with my new AMD64 6000+ adn MSI K9N-SLI
It seems CoreCEnter goes haywire over the processor. It doesn'r matter what settings I have in BIOS, if Cool'nQuiet is on or off.
The Core Center rapidly shifts showing that the CPU is between 200mhz to 8000mhz. This must of course be wrong, no other software shows this.
I then contacte the suppoert and they pointed me to a FTP with some new BIOS on it.
I have version 3.60 on my board. BUt on the FTP I found 3.75. This opne however is not present in Live Update.
As I really prefer to do it over Live Update, so that I know I won't mess things up, I'm wondering if anyone knows why
the new BIOSes is not present there.
Otherwise... Is there a simple way for me to update the BIOS and make a recover disc in the process, just in case.
Thx for any help.
// Chris, Sweden

That's what I thought too... The comp has been a bit unstable though. Nothing much. But It has crashed a few games and freezed up once or twice. So I was thinking that maybe there is som stability problems with this BIOS.
Still though... the support told me to upgrade to it. Is you advice that I should at least wait until it is properly released?
Also... While I have you on the line. Is there a good page with a guide for all the CMOS-settings? I have the PDF-manual but I need more extensive info. Such as what the settings acctually do, what the optimal and safst settings are and so on.
I'm thinking there might be a few settings that might get the system more stable. I have Spectrums disabled and increased the PCI latency timer to 128. Is there anything I should do with ACPI functions... I'm a newbie, so I don't wanna blow up my stuff.
Thx for the help-

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