You're not reading carefully enough, I really mean I tried everything. I am not new to bios, or WB switch and others, this was all tried several months ago. When it first happened I did that. No change, still a dozen resets, power cycles, clearing cmos, pulling memory. While these are the normal things to do, the board does not behave like most do to these measures, because it still has a bios bug that prevents normal operation.
Please understand, I cannot claim my situation effects everyone, but for the combination of parts I have (which were stipped to barebone), there is no solution among what you or anyone else has suggested. Please understand I do not need this advice to strip the board bare, I have done it, this is crazy it was something I did over and over and over.
I realize you cannot have known all the time I spent, I really wanted it to work as it should but there is no conventional wisdom that fixes this inherent bios flaw.
It is not a spacer or anything like like. I appreciate that you are trying to help, but sometimes it is good to take things at face value. There is an obvious bios flaw and EVERYTHING else has been checked. It does not work properly, they attempted to fix the dual-boot problem but they did not cover all scenarios. It does not properly default nor initialize bios settings in the proper order. I could swap out parts and did, it will not matter, as the parts are not bad but what is bad is their logic in what they have the bios doing. To that extent, if I swapped out parts with a different CPU (model #, not just same model which would do no good) and memory with different timings, that may work, but I refuse to buy these parts for a defective board when I could upgrade or buy another board or just quit spending time on it.
From what I vaguely recall, it is not entirely Abit's fault, there was something peculiar with the Intel P35 chipset that resulted in it doing the double boot, but either way Abit should have made good on providing bios or a replacement board that does what the specs claim for supported CPU and memory. As it is, I have already spent too much time on it, even if it overclocks good a system that needs babysitting for an hour if the power goes out is too much BS to put up with. I'm glad others aren't having these problems with different parts plugged in, but Abit had no excuse not to finish support for the parts it claimed were suppported, ALL of them.