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There are electronic aerosol spray can, Wipe the thick of it with paper towel, Hold the board upside down and go to town with the can.

Just out of the blue, move the sata cables accordingly?

I have an Ph2 550 that started running really hot. I assumed that maybe the disabled 2 cores were acting up.

Any more out to this?

Some motherboards have settings, It might be worth a try to set the drives not to mount in BIOS but let the OS mount them after boot. Just keep your boot drive in BIOS.

Ph2 1100+ @ 3.4 4Gig DDR2 1066, Win10 150 frame 2.10.58

HT or SMT will always be the better until they perfect programming and compiling. Bios control on/off need or preferred, Software on the fly would be cool. Actually bios or software variable input control dynamic HT would be great. But for now HT would be best to have, Even the game benchmark...

What is the BSOD error reporting?, Are there any other drive/controller errors showing in the Events viewer.

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I have the same MB with a Phen2 1100, 4gigs and a Sam/Evo 850 250Gig, It has been a great MB with the only problem ever being the onboard NIC and the Promise raid drivers. The onboard NIC would not get drivers installed with XP and windows 7, I would use the Realtech drivers from a selected list...

Seriously, Complaining that you have to open a case up to change a battery every 4 or so years is to often. You should have them open once a year to blow them out, sharpie a date on the inside the case and change the battery on the 4th cleaning. The cap back CMOS was tried already, It failed. I...

I also found "Sewing machine oil." to work best. And if you can find it in synthetic even better it does not dry as fast. BTW, WD40 (regular) is not a solvent, Its just happens to work similarly. Also dries fast and gums up.

Virus will install freely and disable you AV before it gets a chance to tell you there is a problem.

Power management on the NIC?

"there is not really an easy way to get to explorer in first place.", Wait, What? Winkey-E, Its worked since Win95