well I appreciate it. I think 40's are too small and for the raid I want, they need to be 7200rpm laptop drives. I dont get it, A laptop HDD fried MY BOARD ........ huh? I know thats what it is because it fied my usb HDD drive adapter as well. I also have changed out the board with another one I had laying around, used all the hardware from the first one, except the board of course and bingo it worked. Im up and running again. I tested the other board on my test bench and it wont post at all no matter what. Oh Shite! I cant find the booklets to the board. RMA might be out of the Question. I might have to order another and send this one back in its box.