Yeah, I agree it is a strange solution. I tried every possible BIOS setting previously with no luck, and after clearing it, and seeing that S-ICE was now working, I did put the settings back to thier previous settings and S-ICE still worked. If this solution works for you, I would be curious too know what hardware you are running to see if maybe we have something in common.

My barebones hardware is as follows.

Asus A7V Mainboard with VIA Apolla KT133 chipset.
AMD Athlon 1 GHz CPU.
894 MB RAM.