New to MSI and AMD... have some questions

Quick background for you guys before I dig in... This is my first AMD and MSI system so I'm less sure of what the good and bad practices are as I've always been an Intel person. However, since Intel hasn't really been keeping up I decidied on AMD for this system upgrade.
Anyhow, here is a list of my current specs before I get into my questions:
AMD64 3500+ (939, 90nm)
MSI Neo2 Platinum NForce 3 Ultra
1GB Corsair XMS TWINX1024-3200C2PT Link
BFG 6800 GT OC DDR3
Booting to a 30GB 7200rpm Western digital but also have an 80GB IBM Deskstar and a 300GB Maxtor 16mb cache Sata drive
Now for the questions/issues.
#1) I'm using all of the latest drivers from MSI and Nvidia for the motherboard and graphics card. I'd like to get to the lates bios version, however I've heard that there is an issue with upgrading this board when it has the a winchester (90nm) core processor installed. Is this true or should I go ahead and update?
2) While this may be bios related, the system sometimes hangs on the post. Usually when it is detecting the memory or going from the memory check to the ide checks.
3) Also may be bios related: about 30% of the time when booting and switching from the post to the windows load screen the monitor goes blank (not losing signal,just no screen) or the XP bitmap appears very very very faded and the pc never boots up. What eventually happens is that I have to reset or power off and reboot. The OS detects an improper boot and gives the boot options. Most of the time normal boot works, but sometimes the same situation occurs.
Thanks for reading, and any suggestions would be highly appriciated.

I have the same motherboard and processor as you and have flashed to the latest official bios (1.4) without any problems. My system hangs on post sometimes, but only hangs when trying to detect the CD Rom drives. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just hangs, I fixed the problem by putting the CD Rom drive beneath the harddrive in the boot order. As long as you have Windows installed you shouldn't need to boot to CD very often. I have also encountered the XP Bitmap showing up as faded for a second or two, but mine always brightens up and boots up. I have no idea what the problem may be with that, I would guess that it is driver related in some way. The best thing to do would be to try a couple of different VGA drivers over the course of a few days and see if the results differ in any way. To find out the best timings for your RAM download and run CPU-Z. That will give you the SPD timings, which should eliminate any RAM associated problems. Definately set the RAM timings yourself, because allowing the bios to configure things made my RAM run at 333 fsb speeds. I wouldn't think that booting off of the 30GB drive should cause you any major issues if all you have on it is your main Windows partition and the data you access is kept on other drives. It may be a second or two slower to boot, but as long as you put your games and hard drive intensive programs on a faster drive you should have no annoyingly slow problems.

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Djembe wrote:
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Hi,
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I read through this, and it looks like the problem was fixed in a BIOS update, which I plan to do. However, it also seems like Intel Rapid Start is not even worth it in the first place, as sleep consumes almost no power at all.
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ronaldkerr24 wrote:
Now I'm using a brand new computer (Windows) and I have opened a NEW iTunes account
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Message Edited by BrianPack on 09-14-2005 05:21 PM

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