Well, my problems continue with the refurbished board. I finally got everything worked out, but it turns out that with any bios other than the shipping bios, I get CMOS checksum errors. So, I went back to the shipping bios and all was hunky dory until newegg had a deal on crucial ram(2X1 gig pc2 8000 for only $184 after rebates) and so I bought an extra 2 gig. Now, even with the shipping bios, I can only get it to boot in the failsafe defaults. It gets to the windows .... screen and then restarts. Anyway, does anyone know why I get the cmos checksum errors or what could be causing failed boots? I already changed the cmos battery and that made no difference.