Hey guys, I'm hoping some of you could take a crack at my problem and shine some of that golden knowledge over here for me 
I recently moved to the USA, and since I sold almost all PC parts back in S.A, I needed to put together a new PC pronto, since I can't do any of my media-work without it. simple. So I took my time, and bought all the parts below, thinking they were a pretty good config, with all the parts having high ratings on Newegg, etc etc.
From the first power-up I've had trouble, which I'll list:
1. power up system, go into bios, set CD drive to boot first. While there I set HPET to 64bit, and setup the mobo as AHCI.
2. try install windows 7 Ultimate for 2 days. It stalls constantly at various stages of install, but finally it worked, and I found myself at the Win Desktop. GREAT...no.
3. I updated all my drivers, restarted, and tried installing Photoshop CS4, which freezes during install... okayyyy....
4. after 3 more tries installing photoshop and other Adobe products, something flat out stopped working, and as of now, my PC will start, give me the POST beep, and as it gets to the point where it should be looking at HDD's, it reboots. endlessly.
I unfortunately can't access the "motherboard intelligent tweaker" section, so I can't change memory timings (my last idea... I'm now empty.)
This is a pc for editing my photo and video work, which at the moment is my bread and butter, so I desperately need this to be stable. I've never dealt with newegg, but does anyone think they would or wouldnt replace this board, preferably with a different brand altogether.
thanks for taking the time to read all of this!
Matt
System:
MOBO: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R 2.0 (FF BIOS)
CPU: i7-950 3.06ghz
RAM: Mushkin Enhanced Silverline: 8GB DDR3-1600 (2 sticks... wait, does 2 sticks even work in a DDR3 setup?)
GFX: EVGA GTX 550 Ti superclocked
Boot Disk: Crucial RealSSD 64GB
PSU: Corsair 750T
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I recently moved to the USA, and since I sold almost all PC parts back in S.A, I needed to put together a new PC pronto, since I can't do any of my media-work without it. simple. So I took my time, and bought all the parts below, thinking they were a pretty good config, with all the parts having high ratings on Newegg, etc etc.
From the first power-up I've had trouble, which I'll list:
1. power up system, go into bios, set CD drive to boot first. While there I set HPET to 64bit, and setup the mobo as AHCI.
2. try install windows 7 Ultimate for 2 days. It stalls constantly at various stages of install, but finally it worked, and I found myself at the Win Desktop. GREAT...no.
3. I updated all my drivers, restarted, and tried installing Photoshop CS4, which freezes during install... okayyyy....
4. after 3 more tries installing photoshop and other Adobe products, something flat out stopped working, and as of now, my PC will start, give me the POST beep, and as it gets to the point where it should be looking at HDD's, it reboots. endlessly.
I unfortunately can't access the "motherboard intelligent tweaker" section, so I can't change memory timings (my last idea... I'm now empty.)
This is a pc for editing my photo and video work, which at the moment is my bread and butter, so I desperately need this to be stable. I've never dealt with newegg, but does anyone think they would or wouldnt replace this board, preferably with a different brand altogether.
thanks for taking the time to read all of this!
Matt
System:
MOBO: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R 2.0 (FF BIOS)
CPU: i7-950 3.06ghz
RAM: Mushkin Enhanced Silverline: 8GB DDR3-1600 (2 sticks... wait, does 2 sticks even work in a DDR3 setup?)
GFX: EVGA GTX 550 Ti superclocked
Boot Disk: Crucial RealSSD 64GB
PSU: Corsair 750T
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