Well... in all honesty this was just a good ol' rant of a desperate man. I did not check it thoroughly so I cannot say 100% that that is true. However, my ARSERock mobo does 'favour' VIA chips. My current trial and tribulations started When my SATA controller (VIA onboard) went. I since got a PCI expansion card with VIA chip and that also is not really working very well. So as it stands now, any installation which relies on SATA will not work....

So the rant should really be taken 'tongue-in-geek'....
I really just blame my self, again, for cutting corner and prefering quantity over quality... tight git!