Generally I have no luck with computers Jon. If it's not one thing it's something else. *G*

But truly, the board I had was defective, as were the replacements, and the store confirmed the returns of the same board by a lot of other people. Could have just been a bad batch. (When it was functioning properly it worked great.)

New motherboards have about a 10-15% failure rate apparently. If anything is going to go wrong with them, it will generally happen within the time you get it to the first 5 or 6 weeks. I just got really fed up with the whole process, having been reformatting hardrives, reinstalling the whole kit 'n caboodle, tweaking, etc.etc..1 or 2 times a week! -for the past several weeks.

Believe me when I tell you having to repeat a process like this (which you might normally do once a year as part of computer "housekeeping"/maintenance) 1 or 2 times a week (and there goes an entire day and part of a night each time) for the past few weeks, was enough for me to primaly scream "ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!" **G**. Last Thursday, I reached my breaking point and just said f--k it, I'm going back to Intel. So far so good.