The Bios that came on the board was the latest stable release, I actually flashed it to the latest beta release to see if that would help anything... it didn't. (Now it won't let me flash back to the latest stable release, go figure..)

The card is definitely 8x compatible, but I guess that is really my only alternative is trying a new Radeon or a new motherboard.. Unfortunately the online shops that I bought the Radeon / Motherboard from are none to easy to deal with returns..

I'll check into that, MSI got really good marks on this chipset.