RONOVerdrive and Spalek83 I thank you both for your reply.
what i am going to do is the following i will try this bootcd that you gave me the link for and try with a new hdd. and see how far does this empire efi cd will it support icore/5/7 cpu? with a P55 mobo?

if this fails for me i will try to boot in with the cheap card and try to install 10.6.2 and then remove the card and see what happens.

Thanks

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Asus Maximus Formula III
Intel iCore 7 860
BFG GTX 285 (1GB)
Seagate 1TB Drive
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