[DrNip]

Well after three installs of Windows 7 and on two different hdd's I had given up on this 12 mult mystery and finally activated the third install. It was upon that activation that I thought about maybe that was the problem the whole time. For the life of me I couldn't come up with a reason why it would be but went into BIOS after the activation to do an overclock with the vcore set manually. I counld't believe it, it was the problem the whole freakin time. I never activate my software until I get everything on there and do a couple of overclocks to make sure I like it. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined this would be the problem. I still don't know if this is just DFI related or a Windows 7 thing but it was the problem. All I know is my mult is at 21 with the vcore set manually! Maybe now I can get back to some overclocking and forum posting as I have been caught up in this mystery for too many hours and too many days now.