Parden my silliness... But was it a "clean" install if the drive was not formated prior to thereby making it clean?
take a look at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=318728
Been building my own boxes for years. Always intel on mobo's w/intel chipset. Have been hankering to try an AMD build and am just getting ready...
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