First A64 build - I have a few questions.

Hey guys, I just finished my first A64 build(Wow, what fun!!)...The specs should be in my sig. Anyway, everything seems to have gone without incident with the exception of a few minor things. Nothing major, just a few things that are bothering me...
First, when I finished installing Windows and went to switch the First Boot Device to Hard Drive it would not boot...It gets past the POST and then black screens...If I keep the First Boot Device set to CD-rom it works OK...By OK I mean it looks for CD's first, but eventually (after 1 or 2 secs) it loads up Windows from the Raptors...
Second, in the taskbar there is what appears to be an icon that has a CD drive and a green arrow on it...When I click it the option that is available is "Safely Remove Drive xxx" and both Raptors are listed...What the hell is that all about and what makes it go away?
Thirdly, what the hell is up with the temps on this thing? Sometimes after some benching it reads 55-56C, then other times it reads 40-42C under the same conditions(using the MSI utility and Everest)...Is it just something I have to live with?
Anyway, any help is appreciated...Thanks.

Hey Tet, you following me? lol...Still trying to get a few issues ironed out...
The problem I have is that there in no option for SCSI in the list for Boot Devices(unless it's called something else)...It lists the HD, Floppy, CD-rom, a couple USB devices and a few others which I can't recall off of the top of my head..In the Hard Disk Boot Priority there are 2 devices listed, the RAID drive and my slave drive...The first on that list is the RAID drive...There has to be something I'm overlooking, I'll keep trying...
As far as the sound goes, it looks like I'm SOL on that one, lol...I see some people have different opinions...I was hoping to get away without using the SB Live, but oh well, what can you do? I'll see if I get better framerates with SB live and let you know if I come to the same conclusions as Glenn...
Glenn, I've read through countless forums and have not seen any fix to the bouncy temp readings...A few people seem to have luck with flashing the BIOS, which I don't wanna have to do(this one is running pretty good) and some people are just giving up hope on getting accurate readings...This temp issue has been going on for far longer than I though and should have been addressed by MSI long ago, IMO...I haven't had an accurate temp reading since my old MSI KM2M combo!!...Are there any utilities that work better than others? All the ones I've tried are bouncy and read almost the same temps as any of the other utilities...Smart Fan, Everest and MBM5 are the ones I have tried so far with no real luck yet...
Thanks again for the replies guys...

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http://www.clamxav.com/
The ironic thing is that it checks for windows viruses (someone correct me if I'm wrong) so you don't pass them on. A windows virus won't have any effect on your mac.
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