MSI P7N DIAMOND and Q9300 C1 revision, no half-multipliers

I am having a problem in the 1.0 and both beta bios with no half-multipliers showing up for the Adjust CPU Ratio option when EIST is disabled.
So I tried a simple overclock with no luck getting into Windows. So I decided to try the beta BIOS 1.1B4 but noticed that if I disabled EIST it drops the adjusted CPU Ratio down to (7x333) for 2.33 core clock with all auto settings. And the option for "Adjust CPU Ratio" only has 7 or 6. No matter what other setting I use the only way to get back to a 7.5 ratio is to enable EIST.
So then I tried P05 with the same results if I disable EIST, no 7.5 ratio only 7 or 6. So I figured I'll just flash back to 1.0 and leave it at default for now until another BIOS is released. But now its happening with 1.0 also. No 7.5 ratio unless EIST is enable and of course that removes the Adjust CPU Ratio option altogether. Not really a problem in Vista because I always have my power management set to High Performance and Processor Power Management set to 100% in minimal and maximum, so it runs at (7.5x333) all the time but now the the auto vcore is at 1.200-1.208 instead of the 1.128-1.136 it was earlier after I first installed the Q9300.
So I figure I will test out by putting my E8400 back disabling EIST, do a few reboots and then replace the Q9300 to see what happens.
Also with EIST enabled Coretemp shows a VID of 1.1125V which lets me know I'm not going crazy because I know EIST was disabled at first and it reported the 1.0375 as the VID and kept the 7.5 mutiplier.

Quote from: Frankenputer on 19-March-08, 02:35:34
You should ask MSI as they would have a better idea than the forum.
http://ocss.msi.com.tw/
I sent them an email. They replied to wait for the next BIOS release, since this CPU is still under testing.

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