and CMOS

forgot to mention also had to clear the CMOS before I got a peep out of it, but there is no jumper so I had to whip out the battery as reccomended by AnandTech.

Luckily I anticipated the immediate activation of Murphys law once my setup was disconnected from the fount of all WWWisdom and made appropriate notes on such procedures as would inevitably be necessary to which I was later able to refer.

the point of all this is that the 1009 bios for CUSL2 without audio works.

still checking out standby, pnp and suspend features.