Well I just flashed the BIOS on my DS3L in preperation for my E8400 which should arrive friday(board came with F3). I figured it would be a piece of cake, but boy was I wrong. I borrowed an E6750 from a dell at work. That part went fine, was very easy to get the CPU out, no issues.
It should have been easy to put into my new P182 with my Tuniq tower since I had used the card board on the back to make the bracket tight against the mobo. Shouldn't haven't to take out the board right? Worked great except there is no way to put the screws in on the left side. My fingers simply don't fit. So... out comes the board. Once out it wasn't too bad putting on the Tuniq of course, though getting it back in was a tight fit. And then there was the 4-pin power connector on top of the board right under the tuniq, grrrr. Had to reach my hand through the tiny hole in the back of the mobo tray to get it in. Making me regret buying this cooler since i'm going to have to do it all again when my E8400 comes.
Oh but it doesn't end there. Got everything hooked up and running and tried to flash to the f8a bios. Don't have a floppy but the manual says a flash drive will work fine. So I put in the flash drive and go into Qflash. Sees my flash drive, yay. Cept it doesn't see any file in it. Was able to save my current bios to the drive and see that, but no .f8a file. Tried another drive, still no go. Made sure it was fat32, it was. Reformated it a few times. Tried f7 bios, same thing. Finally tried regular FAT for the hell of it, and it sees the damn file! So I try to update to the f8a file, get a Checksum ID Error. Son-of-a!! Updated to f7 just fine. Re-download the f8a bios and try again, finally works. What a royal pain in the ass!
Just thought I would share for anyone else who will be going through this.
Oh and one question and the CPU fan speed. What is the best way to control it, use the manual knob that came with it, or use speedfan that came with my mobo?