Quote Originally Posted by Sparky View Post
I just did it all at once: put in CPUs, RAM, attach water blocks and finish loop, attach power, hard drive, optical drive, power on, screw around with trying to get Windows to work, give up, install Linux and call it a day
I have one stupid question for all of you, I keep reading and the one thing I see about you guys trying to install windows is that you seem to have a problem with acpi dvd boot support, any of you try to install windows 2008 or windows 2003 server, with a usb drive? there is a way to make a usb flash drive bootable it works with windows vista and 7 and with some hack with xp, so why can't you do that with windows 2003, or 2008 server?
and after that if the board lacks proper usb booting support you could always clone the usb drive onto a small hard drive. I just thought of that when I was reading this thread again.

well I'll have my board on the 3rd of january and let's see if the odds and ends end up coming at about the same time.
I'm curious because I am thinking that would be soo cool if we could get windows or even darwin (yeah I'm a hack fan boi) to work on this board :p
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