So,

What is causing everyone to RMA their boards?

I tried to boot a copy of vista working on my X48 box, and it blue screened on boot. (unfortunately, it reboots immediately)

Next step was to reinstall. After it extracts all the files and reboots the first time, it blue screens on boot. (Same immediate reboot)

I have tried every setting for my Q9450, and my 12800 G.Skill 2x2GB Kit: auto, manual, low FSB, linked, unlinked... etc etc. I tried copying other people's profiles, and still blue screen.

Sometimes I can get it to boot a bit farther, but it will either say that it had encountered an error during install and needs to be reinstalled, or it won't boot all the way into the GUI after that first reboot upon install.

Is this something that I should consider RMA'ing for? Honestly, it seems like a hardware issue, but is this simply my inability to configure my bios?

BTW, I have tried 0402, 0704, and 0801 (which I am running now).