P35 Neo-F and Intel Core2Quad Q9550 E0 Stepping

Hello ! I got some problems with my computer since i've changed the cpu.
before i had an intel core2duo e6750 on my msi p35 neo-f board and everything worked fine !
a few months ago i wanted to "tune" my computer a bit , so i've bought a new cpu -> core2quad q9550 e0 stepping
my computer didnt want to work (boot) with this cpu , so i changed to my old cpu and updated my bios version , cause i thougt it should help, considering the informations on msi page !
i've updated to ami 1.9 without using msi live update, using your tool from this forum. ofc i did the cmos reset etc pp, loaded bios defaults.
then i've inserted my new cpu (q9550) and it seemed to work !!!
it seemed to work for a few days.../hours...
since then i was getting bluescreens! irregular bluescreens, no matter what i was doing on my computer. bluescreen messages were different nearly each time. sometimes there was something said about "sys32..."..i dont rly remember. next time i will write it down
i've checked my RAMs with some tools , checked my HDDs with tools, everything fine ! then i wanted to check my cpu with prime95 using a torture test (blend) and my computer crashed directly (short bluescreen) and rebooted ! so i am quite sure that my new cpu / bios configuration / version is the problem !
so my next idea was to reinstall my windows 7 prof. , considering some posts on the www.
well it didnt help. today , one day after reinstalling windows, i got a bluescreen when booting windows. just when booting , without doing anything, next boot worked and computer didnt crash since then, 2 hours ago. so as you can see these crashes/bluescreens are really irregular !
now i am on the msi page again , looking at the cpu support list for my mainboard.
->
Core 2 Quad     Yorkfield     SLB8V     Q9550     333     2.83     12M      N/A     E0      95     7360v21.zip
so i should flash my bios to 2.1 ???? i've read something about different versions of my mainboard on this board , some are able to work with bios 2.1 , some others are not !
this thread :
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=139992.msg1046500;topicseen
now i dont know what to do anymore....flash to 2.1 or not ? where can i check whether i can flash to 2.1 ???
is it possible that my power supply is too weak ?
my system :
windows 7 prof 64 bit
500W BeQuiet Straight Power
MSI Neo P35-F
Intel Core2Quad Q9550
8Gb DDR2 RAM
Sapphire HD 5850 Toxic 1Gb DDR5
as i said my system worked fine before changing the cpu, so my issues should come from the new cpu imho
thanks a lot !
if you need more information i will provide them ofc !

Quote from: daburn3d on 28-July-10, 19:26:20
1.A is newer then 1.9 ?????
i dont understand why i cant flash to 2.1
http://de.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1215
this page sais i can / should to run my q9550 ?
is it possible that flashing to 1.A could fix my problems ?
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1.A is newer then 1.9 ?????
Yes, its newer than 1.9 and also latest version.
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i dont understand why i cant flash to 2.1
http://de.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1215
this page sais i can / should to run my q9550 ?
Because this is wrong board! Not yours.
This is the correct one that you should look:
http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=prodcpu2&prod_no=1224&maincat_no=1
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is it possible that flashing to 1.A could fix my problems ?
Yes, its possible

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