OK.   Not for sure, but I do

OK.   Not for sure, but I do not remember loading any of these drivers during the motherboard install.  I downloaded all the latest drivers and proceeded to install. 

Audio driver-  Success

Chipset driver- Success

Lan driver- Success

Sata driver- screwed the pooch on the install of the “Intel SATA Preinstall driver”. 

I burned to cd.  set in boot sequence to boot from DVD drive.  Nothing so i could tell anyway.  It just seemed to go directly to Windows boot-up.  Then out of frustration I did a forced shutdown while Windows was loading.  When I booted it again it wnet to Windows repair due to the forced shutdown.   It found issues, but did not fix anything.  Asked about doing a system restore, but did not do that as I did not want to reinstall those drivers over again.  I booted in to Windows without issue.  I thought I would check for a system restore point anyway.  Although I know system restore was already enabled it said it was not.  And it will not allow me to enable it.  Strange thing is it shows my C: drive as “Protected”, but shows System Restore turned off.  Whenever I try to look at a possible sys restore point it says it is turned off.  It will not allow me to turn it on.

Good news is at least the HTPC is working so the wife is happy, just would like to fix the system restore thing and continue to update those drivers.

Should I consider updating the bios as well?