hotchoc, I've heard people having trouble with SATA DVD Burners with this board. I thought it was fixed with the 2663 BIOS but perhaps not.

In any case, here's what I do know. The black SATA ports are the Intel RAID. The blue are the Marvell. Most people don't use the Marvell and disable them in the BIOS.

I had to re-install Vista the first time I built this PC (last week ) using the Intel RAID drivers so they would see my SATA drives. I have an IDE DVD burner so it has never been a problem.

Now I boot to Vista with AHCI set in the BIOS.

My best advice, install Windows XP with both the Intel RAID and Marvell RAID drivers and see if it will recognize your HD and DVD burner.