Well, the thing gave me a scare, well, truth be told, I am still scare but I digress. First test and sounds came howling down on me, the rig wouldn't even post and I got the dreaded C1 error. Took dimms 2 & 4 out and same thing, took dimm 1 out and left dimm 3 on it and I am on the bios but, the reason I am still scared is caused the Bios doesn't want to show my dvd rom nor my 2 hard drives. I am about to change the voltage on my Ram to specs and see if that fixes the issue with the C1 error and if it also will show that I have hard drives and rom install.
Somehow, postint the blow by blow of what's happening, calms me down... thanks fellas for lending an ear.
I have another big question:
I have my new Velociraptor 160GB set as the first HDD boot (clean, no OS yet) and the 750GB HDD (I had my old dual boot xp/vista x64 on the other pc) and the 2nd hdd in the order and when I went to the bios, it started as if it was the first boot... is this normal when the bios doesn't find an OS? I find this logical but want to make sure.
Oh and I guess you have figured out by now that making some changes on the bios (ram voltage among others) worked.
Yet, another question:
Is it normal or extrange that Vista did not ask me for the New MOBO Cd and everything was installed all on its own? with XP, I recall having to install the mobo cd to get access to the ethernet and other components but this was not the case with Vista... why?