I disabled the marvell onboard ide, disconnected the IDE dvd-rom, used a sata pioneer dvr-212, voila. No more bsod. So i will stick to using a sata dvd drive on this box.. h*ll.

God, that's a nice conflict there, because the only drivers provided by asus/intel for this motherboard are the AHCI ones. Anyone who has an IDE device connected to it with a sata drive at the same time will get either no drive detected or bsod... NICE.

Thanks a lot of the support guys. This is solved, up to some point.

So if i understand, the problem is that the driver being loaded for the marvell IDE is the same as the onboard sata, so both being loaded leads on a conflict and BSOD ?

I will try with a sata dvd-rom now to see what it does. Be back in 20

I've got only a WD drive connected to it in Sata, dvd-rom is PATA.

Which connectors do you use?
Is dvd-rom connected to PCI\VEN_11AB&DEV_6101&CC_0101 device?

DriverPacks use PCI\VEN_11AB&DEV_6101="mv61xx"

Maybe that's the BSOD reason.

D\M\M\MV61XX.INF

Another strange driver manufacturer:
a generic HarwareId for a RAID controller at IDE mode.

mr_s or I can do it but it takes time away from graphics packs and base code when / if we do

the issue is this driver should load teh standard IDE driver from mshdc.in_ based on compatable HWID 'PCI\CC_0101'

It says, RAID is only for P5Q-SE/R and the other folder is for AHCI.

That's why like you said, being set as 'IDE' in the bios, it should work out of the box with a windows cd... I will try each ports 1 by 1 now to see if i get diff behavior.

I might have to RMA the board. What a headache...

please verify connections and related hardware... 
(replace cables, swap power connectors, inspect Capacitors for leakage)
reset BIOS defaults (pull battery if possable).
make sure you have the most current bios release.

I appreciate your help, thanks in advance.. cheebster