P6N SLI PLATINUM and E8500 (revision E0) fails to boot

Recently, I purchased an E8500 (revision E0 - SLB9K) processor and I installed it on my motherboard. My P6N Platinum already had bios 1.7 installed. Before that, I had an E2140 installed and it worked flawlessly. I even had it OCed to 2.3 GHz, from 1.6 original. I looked on the list of CPUs supported by this MB and is shows that E8500 revision E0 is supported, beginning with bios 1.7, which the MB already has. The problem with this E8500 is that the MB fails to boot. Does not do anything ! It's frustrating ! I even connected the 8-pin CPU connector to the MB (it had the regular 4-pin CPU connector before) thinking that the E8500 needs more juice, but nothing happened.
Last night I installed the old CPU (E2140) back on the MB, and it runs OK. Please give me an advice. Is any bios available, that had not been published yet ? Should I take the CPU back to store ? Should I buy another MB ?
Thank you in advance.
Claus14

Read here:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=123486.msg932471#msg932471
You might need a parts upgrade on your board.
MSI takes care of that for you, free of charge if im correct.

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Another issues is I highly doubt the accuracy of CPU temp sensor. Msi 's software monitor reports my CPU temp is around 19-20 degree, I know that's too good to be true even I am using a water cooling system. Btw my cpu is E6600. Anyone else has the similar issues?
C2D-CPUs have a digital internal sensor to monitor CPU Core temperatures. Have a look at those with Core Temp ( http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/ ). This Tool reads the temperature data directly from the register of your CPU. There is nothing wrong with the sensor. It is rather the MSI tool that does not read the data it provides correctly.
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The third, I notice my CPU voltage is bouncing between 1.1 to 1.24 in CPU-z. And the multiplier is changing from 6 to 9, frequency is changing from 1.6g to 2.4g. I only see this in CPU-z. Msi 's own software reports CPU running at 2.4g though. Is this cpuz issue or something else?
There is no issue. What CPU-Z allows you to see there is the C1E-feature of your CPU at work. When there is nothing to do your processor will automatically reduce Core Voltages and frequency to save power and keep temperatures down. As soon as the work load increases the multiplier is set back to x9 and core voltages increase dynamically. It is meant to be a good thing.
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