Well you learn something new every day, I dropped in an x3 720 and it went past that part of post just fine. So it does need a BIOS update to move forward I guess.
Found this, it's my exact issue but I have only tried SATA2 drives and SATA DVD-ROMs:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/285468-30-a770e3-post-monitor-issue
I have a similar issue, I cannot get it to finish post. Everything looks perfectly fine but when it gets to the post screen that shows the hardware monitoring (temps, rail voltages, etc) it won't do the last bit to transfer it to a boot device. It just stops there. If I have no SATA attached...
You need to look more at the second number and the following letters. Here's a rough idea though there are some exceptions:
790FX: High end/Four video slots
790GX: Mainstream/Two video slot plus onboard video
785G: Updated HTPC/One video slot plus onboard video
780G: HTPC/One video slot plus...
I see this all over the net, people are starting to recognize that maybe we should be looking at our platforms in a different light. We don't spend all day running single monolithic tasks, the future is parallel processing just like we are already moving to with our video cards. Platform plays...
Here's a thread over at the H with lots of comments from the actual developer if you want to know more about it:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1145172
I picked up a 4400 and the P4M800 frys combo board for free from my brother, and have been reading up on how to do the pin mod to get it to 266Mhz FSB. Cross-referencing the below thread in another forum I'm still a little confused as to which is the right way to do it. I tried to register for...
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