ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[egandt]

Well the MB is so far the biggest mistake I've ever made, its crap there is no, nda, nil way to backup up the system and restore it. There are really only a few solutions for backing up and restoring a Windows System, the best is Acronis Trueimage or a poor second is Norton Ghost. I've always used Acronis Trueimage in the past, as Ghost well is out of date. It makes no difference how good the MB is if you can not back of Windows, as stability is not one of Windows strong points.
The problems are:
Acronis does not see any drives attached to the MB from the recovery disk (tested in IDE, AHCI and RAID modes), (even version 11 home, which is only a month old).
Linux works, but can not start Acronis without a floating point exception (this is really intresting as I use it on the same software without issue at work)
Acronis does not run under Windows Vista x64 without crashing (no messages, but a nice core dump)
Ghost 12 does not support Vista except by dos disk (from fourms).
Last ditch effort is to use partimage from a linux rescue disk (not likely but better than nothing, will advise)

So basically without a backup solution I can not use the system at all, and I'm stuck with a useless system.

One annoyed user,
ERIC GANDT