ManOfKight, I've been reading your threads for some time now as you work around issues. The common denominator seems to be that you have a lame board. I know, it happened to me once. When the KT7A was being heralded as the "rising star", I ordered one. Before it even arrived in the mail, Abit came out with a new revision to correct "issues" the revision I wound up getting had. Would they take my revison back and send me a newer one. No,
I was stuck being their Engineering failure. I eventually sold it at a loss and got the newer revision board. All the problems and solutions attempts I had sweated through trying to get that P.O.S. older revision board to play were a waste of my time. They vanished with the new board. It left me sour on abit for some time to come. Eventually, I found my way back to them when I ordered the NF7-S 2.0. I will never buy a newly released, revision 1, "rising star" board again. Too many manufacturers are using us as their Engineering department and we're not getting paid to be it. About the time we catch on to the fact that we have a lame board, they've already moved on to the next design and we're lucky if they "throw us a bone" via some bios workaround.
While I don't care for people buying something, screwing it up and trying to RMA it, when you're the one being screwed, it's time to cause some
unexplainable failure that requires you to RMA something that's under warranty. The manufacturers rarely care if you came out on the "short end of the stick" by virtue of their rush to market half-assed design.
Life's short. You deserve some happiness. Get a different motherboard anyway you can.
Hoot