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I have this board, and the temperature of the tiny chipset heatsink is absolutely absurd. I've also been having stability issues since installing it, but not sure if it's hardware or driver (thinking driver). All in all, I wish I'd done more research and spent a few extra bucks for something with a decent size heatsink and a bit newer. It also doesn't seem to want to unlock cores, or have any option to underclock (was going for low power server).
Biostar motherboards are crap.
I went through a lot of frustration recently when a similar model crapped out on me. Minus one for Biostar in my book.
Don't ever buy biostar if you plan on using it for more than a door stopper. I've never ever had good luck with them.
Though you shouldn't have to, pop off heatsink, drill two holes, attach small fan with nylon wire ties or your choice of fastener.
Driver stability issues usually cause bluescreens. Hardware usually causes lockup or reset (so long as windows' reboot-on-error is disabled).
In my experience Biostar boards have historically been picky about memory, run memtest86+ for a few hours to check that.