Now I just have to figure out how to get into windows without a keyboard or mouse when it wants me to re activate and I have to choose 'now' or 'later' and no way to press the buttons.
Just to note what happened over the past 12-15 hours:
Got into windows finally, but had no sound or ethernet. Couldn't find any reasons why it wouldn't recognize the hardware. Finally just backed up everything I wanted to keep and reformatted. Now everything is working great!! Pretty close to finishing updating to the latest drivers/updates, and then I start overclocking