"i have not updated motherboard bios..as is out of the box." I would definitely suggest doing this the Nforce 680i is a good chipset but it had some stability issues when it first came out that were fixed with bios updates. Also make sure to update the chipset drivers. Here's a link to the latest bios(ver. 1801) for your board.
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=Striker%20ExtremeLink to chipset driver(I would install this before performing the bios update).
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_winxp_15.23.html