I had to reinstall the OS, not that i wanted to. i went to uninstall my sounds card drivers so i could reinstall older drivers. it crashed durring. went i went to reboot i got this brief bsod that said "a process or thread crucial to system operation" cant recall the rest. but the vista disk couldnt repair it. so i had to reinstall the os. i'm running on the pc now. and i did a few things different. not sure if it will help.

i installed the nvidia drivers from the asus disk. and only the sbus or whatever, the one the i couldnt uncheck, all else i unchecked.

i redownloaded x-fi drivers, older ones that i know worked. i was working with the new beta drivers which i heard great things about.

i installed 169.44 forceware VGA drivers. cause last i recall they worked just fine.

windows update i unchecked all nvidia downloaded and hide the updates. maybe that might help.

i dont thing the board is the issue. i think the software is. but time will tell. my old board was easy to figure out that it was to blame. this seems software related. anyone here have issue with vista sp1. i am wondering if i should install that. i am currently doing windows update.

let you all know how it goes with gaming in a hour or so.