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new build ran fine for 2 days now wont even post

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maximus formula
q6600
2x2 gskill but have also used 1gb sticks
vista 64

My build was stable,ran prime for 24 hours. I had my ram set at 2.1 but it will run at 2.0. so i dropped it down and changed the freq to 533 so its 1/1 for when I overclock.
ran prime 95 for 6 hours stable temps no greater than 44c. then it crashed.
got PFN_list_corrupted. vista wouldnt start but it would post fine.
so this morning I figured I would put it back to 2.1 vdimm in bios.
changed it to that rebooted,posted fine. went to do a new vista install. because it seems when ive had a mem error it corrupted vista.
got to the part where it was copying files and then got a BSOD that said Memory management error.
from this poin forward I get a cpu init on the lcdposter. cant get past that. also all of the led voltage lights now have all three lights on, green, yellow and red,
what do you think can be causing this. any help is appreciated

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I cant get to windows, the memory error corrupted it. and right now I cant post with two different sticks. Im worried about the ledvoltage lights being alllit though. could the power supply be screwed up? Its a pcp&p silencer 750

I've fried my G. Skill PC6400 overvolting before. Everything worked fine, overvolted it and killed it. I had to isolate the bad DIMM and RMA it. Not sure about the PSU being bad.

Im going to send the gskill back. been nothing but a problem. Im just waiting til 11am NY time when they open at newegg.
I was on the low side of the voltage at 2.0 instead of 2.1.
now with two different kinds of ram I still cant post. I moved the videocard to a different pcie slot. still no good. cant get it to post. get cpu init. which ive never gotten before. I hope the chip didnt fry

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I've fried my G. Skill PC6400 overvolting before. Everything worked fine, overvolted it and killed it. I had to isolate the bad DIMM and RMA it. Not sure about the PSU being bad.

That gskill is suppose to run at 2.1, at least the 2 gig sticks I was playing with did. So I doubt you overvolted it.

First off, I'd reset CMOS, there is a button on the exterior of case for this purpose. Then try to boot with one stick. If you can do that then go back into BIOS and set it to 2.1.

If that fails then try another brand of RAM if you can. Maybe the Maximus just doesn't like what you have, though it is working OK on my friend's machine.

Try another PSU. You have a great unit there but it could be a lemon, happens to the best sometimes.

If that fails take the PC apart and rebuild it barebones outside of the case. No drives, just cpu/fan. 1 stick RAM, power, video card, monitor.

Try resetiing CMOS before anything else.

Did you say you have already tried a different type of RAM? Which was it?

If nothing seems to work and you have ruled out the PSU then you may simply have a bad MOBO. After all you have been through that would not be a surprise at this point. Perhaps you should RMA that with the RAM?

I took the cmos battery out I will put it in in an hour and see if I can get it to post.
It doesnt make sense that windows crashed from a mem management error and then wont post at all

I tried the ram in my kid's computer. it didnt work with that either.
yeah I know its starting to piss me off lol. I thought I had it working great, til last night. I mean, it ran for two days no problems. prime for 24 hours too. plus memtest on the gskill and the others for 2 hours each.
I may have to bring it to a pc repair place because I dont have the spare parts to diagnose it

BTW, you have to unplug the PSU and take the battery out when you set the CMOS jumper. The Maximus SE has a CMOS reset switch on the back I/O panel. That's the one I have been using. It's lit green. Press it.

Imhoping cmos clr and removing the battery wil allow me to post with one stick of ram. Im going to send the ram back and go with crucial. but they only have 1gb dimm's on the asus approved list. at this point I need to go with what they approve of, even though I eventually wanted 6gb poss 8gb ram.

I had the power connected but machine not running. I pressed the cmos clr button.went dark for a sec, let go of the button. the light on the fx card lit up. I pulled the plug and removed the battery.
did I do it right?

Well, I usually unplug the PSU, remove the battery and reset the jumper to defaul BIOS. But so far the reset swith on the back panel of this board has worked for me when I have needed to default BIOS. There is a jumper on the board. See page 2-24 of the manual.

Yeah, if the switch is enabled, you should use the reset button on the I/O panel. Hard to say. Maybe the board failed. You might try disabling the switch, powering on, then enabling the switch again. Not sure. Sounding more like the MB has failed in some capacity.

Maybe the battery is dead?

Possibly the BIOS has corrupted. I believe you can flash the BIOS. Page 4.4 in the manual. Put the BIOS on a flash drive. Try pressing <ALT>+<F2>. How about powering on pressing alt + F2 and see what happens.

Possibly the BIOS has corrupted. I believe you can flash the BIOS. Page 4.4 in the manual. Put the BIOS on a flash drive. Try pressing <ALT>+<F2>. How about powering on pressing alt + F2 and see what happens.

I cant flash it because it wont post or respond to alt f2. I will try it again pressing alt f2 on startup.
since I had no output to the monitor I took the videocard and ram out and ut it back in my other computer. tht one works fine so i know its not a videocard problem

Corrupted BIOS is sounding like a good possibility. Look on page 4.1.4 in the manual. try recovering the BIOS from the MB CD. Put the MB C in thr tray and try to boot to. I can't copy the instructions here from Adobe reader.

I help alt f2 down as she booted up. got nothing. one thing it is doing is starting,stopping for a second<like its powering down> then restarting and showing cpu init everytime
since I cant get it to post it wont boot to cd

Actually the instructions are to poer on the system and with the system powered up, insert the MB CD in the tray. The CD will runn a check with the DVD drive at that point. I don't know, never tried it.

it didnt. I moved the system downstairs so i can take it apart and out of the case.
when i got the MB It had the clr cmos jumper in the wrong position, not default activated as it should have been.made me beleive someone else rma'd it and like alot of places do they dont beleive them and send it back out rather than to asus.

If the recover BIOS from MB CD doesn't work, you apparently are not capable of recovering a corrupted or bad BIOS. The CMOS reset to default fails. Well, I think I would RMA the board at that point.

It happens. No fun when you get defected components. Plus it caused you so much time try to figure out what's wrong. That really makes me mad to wate my time trying to find the problem when it is defected to begin with.

Yep, and I took two days off. one to build it, and now another wasting my time trying to repair it.
actually the second day off was to play cod4 and crysis when my new videocard comes today. figured I would just pop it in and play. then last night saw it crashed running prime and this morning away it went lol

Im sending them back for a refund.
do you think I should still go with the formula or a differnet MB.
Im running q6600 and evga gts 512.
If I go witht he formula I will get the crucial ballistick 2x1, its on the approved list, but ill get two sets.
or do you think I should go with the 7801 board. or something else

one other question, how would I know if anything happened to the cpu. since it got stuck on cpu init. is it readily apparent if it burned up?

thx badge youve been patient and a great help

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