Actually, I do have both floppy connectors plugged in as well

But, at least we figured it out. Something must change in the x38 BIOS when you have both floppy connectors plugged in, and the older model Areca cards dont seem to like it.

Nice find!!

If you have your video card in the top slot and have that top floppy connector plugged in, does your Areca work at 8x in the second slot, if you have the second floppy connector disconnected?

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Well, after 2 hours of trying "everything", I figured it out. Can you believe it was because I had both of the floppy power connectors on the motherboard plugged in to floppy power connectors??? That was it! As soon as I pulled both of them, walla! It was magically booting again, and best of all, at 8X!

So, it seems that if you plug those in, you can only put video cards in the 2 pci-e 16X slots. Weird, but everything is running like a champ now. Thanks, oiler, for pointing out that it does indeed work, or else I would have just let it ride the way it was.

Shawn