Thanks for the suggestion... I will try that tomorrow morning when I get a chance to work on it and report results for anyone with the same problem or just for interest sake.

The motherboard should be sufficient (MSI 890FXA-GD70) and I took the the other cards out to test it by itself just in case.

If this doesn't work I will move it to ubuntu and see if that solves the problem.

Any other tricks or tests are welcome as I will not be able to attack this problem until tomorrow and I might as well have a list of things to try.

Thanks again.