lol.. the funny thing is my comp is very similar to bruceleroy's. and im pretty sure my dvd drive is sata. and i use 64 bit vista w/ gigabyte board and gskill f2-8500.. I took it to geek squad because i was thinking its a hardware malfunction and they said everything is running fine after they ran a diagnostic of the hardware. They said the only other problem would be the OS and i reinstalled it yet i still crash. I can box fine on my laptop but when it comes to my new desktop. FAILURE.