Originally Posted by Darth Nissan 
Tried putting my brand new Q9650 in my IX38 last night.... Flashed bios to latest version on the Abit site, as it should have 45nm support (should have since a couple of biosīes ago). But no-go.... Itīs fine, until Windows starts loading, could get into bios and all, but a second or two into Windows loading, blue screen.... Tried with just one stick of RAM, Windows repair and some other things... Is it because the q9650 is a E0, that it wonīt play ball ?
Facts :
CPU before E6750
PSU Corsair HX520W
RAM Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC2-6400 2Gb
HDD Samsung F1 1Tb
GFX Evga GTX260 SSC (core216 55nm)
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium Pci-E
The Q9650 works great with the E0 stepping bios from here: