ok.. now i'm REALLY stumped. just installed my brand new, fresh out of the box asus a7n8x-x board. which i might add has the worste socket placement, thank you capaciters for being right in the way of installing any HS other than stock HS easily. anyway, put it in, installed all my drivers and stuff remotely from work here like i normally do. rebooted the thing and surprise surprise, it didn't come back online. i've changed the video card, ram, motherboard, cpu, psu, hdd, what the hell else could it be? how can i have the same exact problems with a board on a completely different chipset and different hardware? i need to send my pc into ripley's believe it or not. anybody have any suggestions?