buy it and toss the mobo.
thats im doing with mine, this board is utter crap.
mine was grounding in about 15 spots inside my case, including the back plate holding the HSF on. fried the chip before finding all the shorts. in the process of rma'ing.
my friend tried to flash his bios the first...
i came home tonite to find my amd64 waiting for me on my stairs.
run upstairs, tear down my case, rebuild, plug everything in, push the power button and....nothing.
check all connections, reseat all cards/ram, etc. and still nothing
pull the 4 pin power connector, press power, everything...