ASUS Striker II Extreme

[slim142]

I have 150 dollars in evga bucks

yes I contacted them, I have several asus contacts due to my history.

Wow, idk what could have happened, I had an answer one day after.

Hmm, are me and Tyke the only people who are having any kind of luck with this board? Well atleast I stayed away from NV for my Qx9650 build and got a rampage extreme.

Well everything is fine over here, at least at stock speeds Intel Burn Test passes 100 times ^^

That was the first thing I did.
Guess what, Vista is not dead, on the contrary. It's the ing stupid mobo giving me crap. Listen to this fellas...

If I don't have any CD/DVD in my drives, but set boot priority to HDD 1st (no other drives attached, only the VRs so they are on top naturally) the mobo just says boot disk failure after a few seconds.

Now, if I insert the Vista DVD and reboot, I see the "press a button if you want to enter setup" screen - remember, I did NOT change boot priority, it's still on HDD 1st - so why the hell does it boot from CD then?!

Now on to the good part: If I wait a few seconds and don't enter setup, Vista will boot up fine.
If I remove the DVD it's boot disk failure again.

I ing hate this mobo.

I said Boot Devices, not Boot Priority.
Go to Boot Devices and with the "+" button bring your hard drive (ex: RAPTOR010101 to the first place.

my E8600 arrived today, once I get home I'll see what she can do and post some results. I'm crossing my fingers for some 5ghz action. Ohh, and I ordered a CPU Pot today so I'll have the system under some DICE soon.

Niice!