ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[chiman2]

Well this is Xtreme Systems not mediocre systems.
I was right where you are last week. Now I have a Maximus II Formula and a Q9550 @ 4.0GHz



We are trying to help you perhaps leave your attitude for you mom.
So seriously I actually feel bad for you and I honestly want to help so I called Asus myself.
This what they suggest
1. Insert your motherboard cd and boot from it. If it boots there is NOTHING wrong with your motherboard.
2. If you have both IDE HDD and a IDE CD/DVD Rom on the same ribbon put them on seperate ribbons and retry.
3. If the pc will boot from any other cd then your 64bit disk is not being read as "bootable" and you need a NEW source to boot from.

So there is really not much more that can be done, your going to have to live with 32bit or grab a new 64bit Vista someplace, cause as we all said from the start its really looking like a faulty Vista disk.

chiman2, it that a orginal Vista disk or a copy? I mention before if it is a copy then I think the copy has errors on it and I mention you should re-burn a new copy. At this point it really sounds like the Vista DVD is bad.

i actually called them too. the first time i called the guy was helpful tried to help me think of things. like maybe ram or something. then my phone died. called again this time the guy gave me the answer that you got.

my hard drives are all sata. the os drive is in sata 1. i have one ide device it is the dvd drive. i am using a 64 bit windows xp disc. that has been confirmed to work on another computer. sorry for my attituded. im just frustrated... so i think i might call again today and hope i get someone who is willing to go farther to help me..

could there be a jumper of some sort that i have to change on the board?

edit: even though there might be "nothign" wrong with the motherboard there could be some setting that i need to change or soemthing i need to do to run a 64 bit os. there are some motherboards where you have to activate em64t.