Hi all, i made an interesting development with this board and the 003X and 004X BIOS.
So here it is for more than two weeks the Board has been functioning very stable after i did this:
Initially after much frustration i downgraded the BIOS to 0035 0ver 4 weeks ago and left it with 0035 for like too weeks coz i was tired of the board so in that process i could not access BIOS it used to show black scree and boot straight to windows but even the windows 7 boot up changed at that time and looked like vista boot up. Only way I could access BIOS was through using jumper and placing it to maintenance, but even then everything appeared bigger in BIOS like it wasn't running native resolution. Basically there was no access to BIOS under normal operation BLACK SCREEN.
So over two weeks ago i:
Decided to run recovery again with 0035 like 3 times with a single 1600 rated Kingston HyperX memory the memory runs natively in 1600MHz does not support XMP its 4GB.
So after the third recovery since i have two displays the HDMI decided to display the BIOS splash screen and i could enter BIOS, so i proceeded with the HDMI Display only, the memory stick was natively detected by BIOS as 1600 no settings were adjusted at that point everything default. Windows at this point boots correctly with the correct windows 7 splash screen. eventually re attached the 2nd display.
After this i updated straight to BIOS 0039 F7 Method, and immediately noticed the Intel ME issue showing 0.0.0.0 but oh well that was expected, then whet to BIOS 0042 F7 Method and after that immediately noticed erratic boot up behavior associated with BIOS 0042, so i decided to roll back to 0039 but using F7 Method not recovery as is recommended to downgrade with, so with F7 method i downgraded to 0039 and after went int BIOS and all was ok there was no 0.0.0.0 ME issue but i was skeptical so i shut down completely for like 10mins and unplugged the PC from power then later re attached the OS HDD and switched on and went into BIOS there was no ME error, shut down again for 5min and added more memory for a total of 20GB all DIMMs populated with i Corsair kit 2 x 4GB 1600 XMP capable 1 x 8GB Kingston Hyper X 1600 XMP capable and the 1 x 4GB 1600 non XMP Kingston Hyper X, switched on went into BIOS all was ok and memory speed was default at 1333 coz i did not use XMP to enable 1600, at that point no Intel Me 0.0.0.0 issue booted to windows. I have monitored the PC for over two weeks including regularly shutting it down completely to see if issue will arise but its still stable to date.
*Oh if anyone is tired of their DZ68BC board you could send it to me id be happy to have it and try running tests on them*