A8V Deluxe: ECC options removed from latest BIOS!

Hello,

I just bought an A8V Deluxe because of it's ECC capabilities (it shall be used to do some very light server tasks).
The original BIOS version on it was 1010, which offered many options for ECC operation (like scrubbing, chip kill and so on). Because I bought an AMD 64 with the latest Venice core, I flashed the BIOS to version 1014, which is the first one to fully support this CPU as per Asus online support database.
But I was really annoyed when I had to find out that Asus removed all the nice ECC options in each of the later BIOS versions. The ECC menu always leads to a blank screen with no options! What's the reason for this nonsense?
Asus is supposed to be a manufacturer producing for professionals, but with these advanced options removed from the BIOS I can instead buy crap like MSI or Epox, which are cheaper anyway...
I hope that this group is read by some Asus representative who gets the responsible BIOS programmer's a** kicked for this stupidity and this nonsense fixed asap!

Regards

Christian
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