[Gavin78]

No its not something I have tried but I will do tomorrow. I tried the SSD also in raid and ahci mode.

makes no difference when I tried to install windows 7 on its own it gets as far as the background image and stays at that never moves I might also add that when it gets to that part and XP gets to the 20% the HD light stays on never moves and I have waited to see 15mins if it would get pass that but no.

Tomorrow I have 2 other GFX cards I can try make sure one of them hasn't decided to go. but I do have 1 SSD drive, 3 HD's 1 500gig and 2 160's so lets say the SSD is fubbered and the 500 gig the others I can't see.

Failing that the only thing I can think of is that I flashed the bios with no problems of course and the CPU worked great. I'm only hoping that the CPU is not on the blink although I do have another I can try.

Failing all of the above if none work I can only put this down to the motherboard....I do have another pc in the house i can check all the HD's with which I might do.

The mainboard went in the new tower no problems infact the copper mountings were already in place and fit all the holes the cpu and fan were still attached to the board. I've not taken out the creative sound card yet the pc might not like the slot its in or it might not be sat in there right but I did check it....

Back to basics as already said I'll take teh board out and put it back in the old tower with the old power supply see if that helps if not I'll have to order a new mobo and ram from Ebuyer

Seen a AM3 board and 4 gig of ram with next day postage for around £120

I'll update when I can, its a good job I have 4 other pc's in the house to access the net