I'm so glad I stopped using this trainwreck board. I have no idea why Gigabyte bombed so bad with this particular board, when nearly all their other products are just SO good. Total bummer.

The slow booting is just astonishing to me, as all it has to do is POST, and handoff to the bootloader.... not that complicated. We've been doing that for more than a 1/4 century with PCs.

Its amazing to me how fast both the Asus M3A78-T and the Jetway HA07 Ultra get into Vista compared to the Gigabyte. Absolutely ZERO problems with these boards.