Well, I got some RAM from a different machine, and still getting the same problems on both board. Both have a different PSU, etc. and seems to freeze up during the POST process. With this second set of RAM, I now see a message on the Intel board of "Setup can find no bottable devices"...but the HDD and such are attached. Onlything different now is the graphics card, but I dont see how that could cause these peculiar problems, but I suppose it is possible.