Both of you barfbags get out of my thread...:taunt:

Maybe the board you got is bunk. IDK what else to say. I've been studying and reading anything and everthing SB and your the only one I've seen with such bad luck killing ssd/hhd.

Why didn't you stop at kill #2 and rma the board?

LOL

It is an ASUS....:ohcrap:

Only difference between that and ASS is U.

There have been several here that have lost drives besides me...and the issue with XP as well.

None of my SSD's or magnetic drives have been any worse for ware, But It took 5 different XP instalation disc's to install XP to a second partition. Once done my windows 7 install lasted 1 day until it was completly corrupted, I was using a Vertex 2 on the 6Gb port for 7 and 3 GB port on a Raptor for XP ..... totally frustrated,

I called Asus Tech support on Friday night and they had no idea what the problem was. They simply said the board must be bad and to send it back. (Pretty technical diagnosis on their part:laughing:)

I was not convinced and kept trying XP till it took with the fifth disc. Once I saw my 7 partition was wasted, I then called them back and was lucky enough to get someone with a bit more experience. They pointed to the faulty 3Gb port imediatly and said this would get worse not better and to send the board back immediatly.....

I do think once this platform is right it will be the bomb, but from the looks of it there will be plenty of pain and suffering to go round. But this will pave the way for the new Enthusisat level socket due in the third quarter. We can only hope ....:)

I was having the same issue with hard reboot to set timing as travis. BIOS is a POS

Observation:

Asus new BIOS is not right and needs time to mature. this is the kick off for the gooie interface so I think we may need to cut them a bit of a break here. Giga played it safe but I am sure they will have their issues when they make the jump. and as far as the chipset, well everybody from the bottom up will be burned and Intel is going to pay through the nose to make this go away....

asus bios worked perfectly for me...

are you guys using 1204 yet? seems promising for deluxe.

I went thru three stopping at 1253. Also still have the issue of keyboard/mouse not working in efi bios...others have this problem as well but Asus has no clue.

So, the consensus is I am an idiot and all my OS failures are due to a lack of my abilities? Odd that I never ran across this before...I must have been extremely lucky on the other platforms.

:withstupid:

I will have to join you in the idiot club ......... :blink:

I have had the same problems except the mouse and keys but I used PS/2 keys

May be Revolution only problems but Nip had XP issues as well, not sure what SATA ports he was using though

Mine is shipped and gone ......... good writtens