ASUS Z87 Motherboards - Overview, Guides and Official Support

[christefan]

So I got my vi extreme yesterday and worked on it today--disappointed to find that you have to use slot 1 as the primary graphics slot, I wanted to run an areca raid card there and put my 780s in slots 2 and 3--after installing a fresh win8 64 i loaded a lan driver and then went to load the latest nvidia driver when the driver goes to check the cards and connected monitors the board locked up-required a powering off the main power supply as all buttons were unresponsive and now it wont post or boot. I left the power off for awhile on both my power supplies and the power,reset,and direct buttons are unresponsive and swithing the bios to the second bios doesn't change anything either---can't anyone actually make hardware that works in other than the most limited configuration choices? what now--rma? or is there a solution out there besides gee take the board completely apart and unmounted the processor? to start over and hope it will respond.