ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

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awww. i thought you were right tooo.... it was already enabled. thanks though. ill keep looking

Do you by any chance have, or had a usb drive or memory stick attached? I went to do a fresh install today on my board, 32 bit though, and I had all kinds of trouble getting it to boot the os install disc. The same error you are experiencing was happening to me. No matter how many times I went into the bios (802 btw) and arranged the boot order it would fail. The only thing that helped was to remove the usb drive, power down and start up again. Then after that the os install disc booted, and I could install. Obviously there is a problem with the maximus II formula itself or the bios. My guess is this bios as I never had any trouble like this before. Obviously what is happening to you is not restricted to you, as I have now experienced the phenomenon for myself.