hmmm doing some more searching today and talking with some asus techs.
they seem not to be sure what it is. power regulation or bad chipsets. the on e guy i talked to said maybe a bios issue. who knows.


some are having luck with rma'ing there cpu. bad batch??? maybe

i just going to rma both the motherboard and the cpu to get both out of the question here. uggggggg probly take 1-3 weeks. so guess ill be back with updates at that time.

maybe my luck is just that way. might have both bad batch of a board run and a bad run of the cpu.