Seems like the gigabyte boards don't like AMD's or Intel's lately. Unbelievable the # of forum posts on Gigabyte. I'm sure with some bios tweaks you might get around the problems but then again?????? They do seem to be working on the issue but fewer bios releases for AMD. I wouldn't say it is all AMD's fault as I have seen many issues with gigabyte and Intel also.

But this is OLD NEWS from waaay back from LAST YEAR!

Nothing new and all well known and completely expected. It is also openly publicised by AMD themselves.

So this is author is just on an anti-AMD trolling fest...

Next?

I just love my Phenom 9500. No problem at all. Fast & cheap, what else do you need?

does that work with all processors, I'm pretty sure they all have an errata of one type or another.

Besides having a HUGE issue on the product, asking much more dollars than the fair price (comparing to intel), a dropping market share, a HUGE loss of money last year, a performance REALLY LOW compared to Intel, HUGE heat dissipation compared to core2 45nm. THEY STILL DO THIS KIND OF THING TO AN END COSTUMER???? They are REALLY BEGGING FOR BANKRUPT!!!

I have the same chip, the same board, the same program (seti@home) and the same problem. I updated my BIOS and enabled the erratum "fix" and it still didn't help. So either the fix didn't acutally do anything or the problem is something else. I have been able to get it running stable by reducing the memory controller and HT link speed from 1.8 to 1.4 GHz. Someone suggested it might be a design problem that causes localized overheating in the memory controller. This theory is at least tentatively supported by my observations. Reducing from 1.8 to 1.6 GHz made seti@home last for about 10 minutes instead of 20-30 seconds before a reboot happened so a heat problem seems to be a feasible explanation. Either way, it is obvious that the Phenom was not ready for release.

Not only did you stick up for your rights as a consumer, you lowered the price for others. ;)