OK, I'm halfway there. After setting back to IDE mode it went by quickly. I notice after the,"Loading Operating System ..." that it reports searching my DVD drive for bootable media, and before it got skipped. I never got the DVD message in AHCI mode, so maybe it doesn't like my DVD in AHCI, or this motherboard doesn't like DVD in port1. I can't put the DVD in port 4 or 5 as it doesn't have those. It seems port 4 is eSATA and no port 5 at all, but it may be assigned to USB3?
If this is the case, what port will DVD work in? If any at all.
Right now it boots past the the,"Loading Operating System..." if I disable first boot device as DVD.
Thanks once again for help
-=Mark=-