hello all
last night bought a new A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, socket A with an XP 3000 and 2 sticks of 512 corsair ram

if i have any hard drives pluged into this system it will freeze during boot....wont even be able to access bios menu...tired 3 hard different drives, 3 cables, switched out the ram, switched processor, upgraded the bios to latest revision

SATA works...and i would just use that...but i need my cdroms

i just bought this board last night at Tigerdirect... so if it is dead i can bring it back and get a new one...but if any of you know something about this please tell me