Here is the status from lmsensors,

VBat: +2.93 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +3.60 V)

It looks fine.

That looks good to me, thanks for the response. Nice to know

that some of these boards work. Msi forums had a lot of people with

my problem, thought it was a inherent design flaw. How about your

north bridge fan. Mine is getting noisy as well.

Tester