Hey JB,
And Welcome to the forums!!!!
There is a sticky for newbies. But I have this same board and wanted to try and help you.
Post your full system spec's, if you have a quad core welcome to the wonderful world of gigabyte! Quad's have issues with this board(link)
http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...y&STARTPAGE=96
Guys I'm posting this link to try and help JB if you no approve NP remove it. Not trying to steal loyal people or stuff.
try setting the bios to optimized defaults if you can get in there then make sure the hard drives are hooked accordingly.
Post back soon! You can e-mail me too if you need but I'll be working most of the night till 12 am my time.
PS what REV do you have? if it's rev one then check the gigabyte sight for up date................should be a sticker on the board or the box.