Neo2: Which bios should I use? And what's the deal with SATA?

I'm fixing to put together a new box using the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum. In taking various preparatory steps, I happened upon this forum. I'm very alarmed by the apparent fact that there is not a single good bios out there yet. 1.2 reportedly sucks. 1.3 reportedly sucks. Especially if one wishes to overclock, as I do. I intend to go to 250+ FSB, 1:1. People are reporting things like not even being able to increase the voltage adequately!
Well, it seems a safe bet that some people have been able to overclock all they want, or else the Neo2 would not have achieved its generally accepted status as the best possible socket 939 motherboard, particularly for overclocking. That means there's a bios out there that I'd be well-advised in using. If it's not 1.2 or 1.3, what is it? And what's this 1.52beta I've heard about which supposedly fixes everything? Is that for a competely different board?
Now, as for SATA. I am going to be using a single SATA drive. I've read something about how "3 & 4 are locked, but 1 & 2 aren't". I am not able to translate that sentence into anything especially meaningful to me, but the gist seems to be that using a drive on the 1&2 port will, because of an Nforce3 bug, prevent one from overclocking past 230 FSB. So, does this mean I will need to use the other SATA port for my single drive if I want to go past 230? Or is this old news, long since fixed somehow?
Thanks in advance!

Unfortunately I am not sure about the bios version.
But with SATA and overclocking the speed is not locked on ports 1 & 2 but 3 & 4 are locked. Basically when you overclock your system and your drive may run into problems. As far as I am aware from what I have read in the forum there is no limit on OC'ing with the drive in 1 or 2 but you can get sporadic issues
The general guideline is when overclocking use SATA ports 3 & 4.
Hope this made a little more sense (it was difficult for me to put into words)

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