I have been running the original BETA just fine on the following system:
Core i7 965
Rampage II Extreme mobo
6GB Corsair DDR3
1 x Intel SSD-E
2x Seagate 1.5TB in a RAID mirror
GTX 295
PATA CD/DVD
I intially had a few issues with the BETA install and my onboard HDD controller is in RAID configuration but once I supplied the relevant drivers it was all good, this was done with a PATA CD/DVD drive, i.e on another controller.
After sucessfully burning the RC onto DVD and booting up it started to hang at the "starting windows" splash screen. I changed to my old 7900GTX and seemed to have bypassed the issue.
Now everything goes smoothly although it took a real long time to think through anything and it does its thing and reboots.
Upon rebooting it once again hangs at the "starting windows" splash screen. I boot up in safe mode and see that it stops on disk.sys...
I started from scratch again and gave it the RAID drivers but it just froze. 2nd time it took them after 30min displayed 0mb on all disks.
Really frustrating as I loved the BETA and was excited about this RC release...
Any ideas?
Many thanks.
Daniel