Okay, folks, something new and something... broke.
Went and bought the EVGA 680i mobo and hooked it up Sunday, seems very nice, but I'm going to need to find a guide on how to overclock that thing... damn BIOS are always different (despite it being made by the same company that made the ABIT BIOS, plenty the same but a lot different too.)
Put the 8800GTS in to start, but same old problems... after the WinXP setup gets done loading the F6 RAID drivers and says 'Windows is Starting Setup', it goes to black and locks the pc up.
Same thing happened on the AW9D. My guess is something is wrong with the GPU since I can slap in the 7900GT's and all is well.
Going to RMA tomorrow (gotta register the mobo and video card tonight), hope the next video card works as advertised (8800GTS #2 for SLI mid January
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TJS
Went and bought the EVGA 680i mobo and hooked it up Sunday, seems very nice, but I'm going to need to find a guide on how to overclock that thing... damn BIOS are always different (despite it being made by the same company that made the ABIT BIOS, plenty the same but a lot different too.)
Put the 8800GTS in to start, but same old problems... after the WinXP setup gets done loading the F6 RAID drivers and says 'Windows is Starting Setup', it goes to black and locks the pc up.

Going to RMA tomorrow (gotta register the mobo and video card tonight), hope the next video card works as advertised (8800GTS #2 for SLI mid January

TJS