hellshealer
i have had the 7E a few times and it have ALWAYS come down to videocard failure. if it was 8E then it would be video driver failure. if you were doin a single card run try it before you reinstall.
the 7E is basicly something to do with the memory allocation on the card itself. if you run OCCT on the card it shuld throw errors.
I know the vid card is good because I switched to WIN7 and did a few extreme vantage benches and came with in a few points of my best score. So it is probably something with the driver. like you said, or XP. Well, It'll only take an hour to reinstall everything. I have to clean up some boot sectors and old XP installs on the disk anyway, so I'll reinstall XP. Hummm..in the time it's taken me to write this, the install is already installing devices
Edit; That was pretty neat...took about 12 minutes to install XP pro with the 980x cpu installed.