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I'm thinking about sending my XBX2 back as well. I went from XBX (no probs) to XBX2 with no fan monitoring (except CPU fan), unstable rear fan operation and Intel Desktop Utilities/Intel Desktop Control Center software not working. Once I went back to the XBX--everything came back up. That bites......

I replaced it with an Asus P5WDG2 WS-pro, its about $329 at several sites...Good luck with your search. Thanks hox for the advice. I finally decided to RMA my D975XBX2 for a P5WDG2 WS Pro after looking the board specs over. It's more expensive, but I want a stable system and I've had good luck with...

Do you have the extra video power supply connector plugged into the motherboard? If not, that's something pretty easy to try. I can't imagine the card draws much power idling, but it's something to try. That card does draw something like 125W under load according to one posting I saw on the net. Th...

Some of you know I've been having a tough time with my D975XBX2 from other threads. I'm entertaining the idea of RMAing it...but what are the alternatives? I'm running a Q6600. I need SATA RAID and at least to conventional PCI slots. I've got a Gigabyte GV-RX195P256D-RH (ATI X1950) video card. I thi...

Have you tried switching the connections on the DVI outputs? Thanks werty316 for your reply. Yeah I've tried that. It boots if a monitor is connected to exactly one output (either one). It also doesn't matter whether the monitor that is connected is digital or analog (i.e. analog cable plugged into...

I've got a D975XBX2 (505) and a GV-RX195P256D-RH (ATI X1950) video card. If I have monitors plugged into both DVI sockets on the video card, the mobo BIOS doesn't seem to be able to initialize video (no POST video), and boot halts. If I turn off the computer, unplug one of the two video cables, and ...

...there's something to be said for 2333 as well. For me, that was the only BIOS where I was able to actually all four cores in my Q6600 show up in Vista x64. But then I had other problems. With 2333: * RAID on Intel SATA controler + Vista x64 installed, but then wouldn't consistently boot * Floppy ...

utw wrote:I tried many different things, settings, and 2 different BIOS's, but the only thing that I needed was to change this multiplexing setting.

Thanks utw...I am wondering...what BIOS version are you running?

Thanks,
Bryan

Hi all, I too am struggling with a Vista x64 + XBX2 @2507 + Q6600 + RAID setup. I apologize in advance for the length and excruiciating detail of this post. System: D975XBX2 (-505) mobo, Q6600 quad-core, 2x Patriot PSD21G8002 1GB PC2-6400 running default timings, Gigabyte GV-RX195P256D-RH PCIe video...