I have 3 keyboards hooked up, 2 are USB and one is the purple cable. All get the same response. The drives are F'3s instead of the old F1's I gave away. I divorced and reformatted them using the Intel program for RAID. I may need to re-format the drives or loosen the screws on my Thremalright Ultra 120. I used the weakest tightening torque on my power drill. I may manually loosen the screws. This worked for my dad's machine. He gets my P35 board.

Based on my instruction manual, one beep means all good but handing on the Gigabyte default screen is just very unusual. I've built 2 other computers (still running) with Gigabyte boards. I think Gigabyte has the most stable and best overclocking boards. I just wanted a P45 to see how far I could push my Q6600. I eventually want a 9550 if the price comes down.

Thank you for your feedback. Keep it coming and I will update on any success or failures I have...