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No, nothing looking up for me.

Last night I re-installed windows. Everything was fine for a couple of hours. Then, while I was looking at some photos in 'slide show' and listening to some mp3s the computer just shut down and restarted.

I was installing a program and had to restart after installing. When it booted back up, ALL MY VIDEO DRIVERS WERE GONE. I re-installed the drivers and got the screen back to normal. I had to restart later and as it was shutting down I opened the DVD drive to get the CD out. The drive bay was still open when it shut down. I tried to restart and found that the machine would not start. The lights would come on and it would start to power up, then the CD drawer would start to close about 1 inch and it power off. I tried again and the CD drawer moved another inch before it shut down. I closed the CD drawer and then it booted up fine.

I tried to run Nvidia's stability test. It would play the video of the monsters dancing, but it only played that twice and then it never appeared on the screen again (even though the test kept running and I could see that the CPU was ramping up and down.

I tried to run Memtest overnight again and in the morning I looked like it was still going but in fact it was hung up on pass #3.

I'm so tired of trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with this thing. Not sure I'll ever buy from Asus again.

I'm not sure if I have enough time left to RMA NewEgg, So I might have to RMA through Asus.

I ordered mine today from egg I got wintec 4-4-4-12 1.9 to 2v only $210.00 hope it works not on qvl.
My rig p5n-e e6600
650 watt thermaltake sli psu
2 gig wintec ddr 2 6400
2 maxtor 160 gig & 250 gig
xfx 7900 gs extreme
16x dl dvd
52x combo
sb audigy 2 zs pro
logitecn 500 watt speakers
winbond tv tuner
19" samsung crt

Looks like a pretty good setup. Let us know how the Wintec works out.

well i updated my nvida drivers and bios (401) and upped the FSB, so now I'm at 3375mhz. Running pime now and will let you know how it does.

Well I RMA'd my motherboard. I got the new one yesterday and hooked everything up, and I'm having the exact same problems as before!

So now I'm going to have to waste more money buying new RAM in the hopes that it will fix this lousy motherboard.

Any suggestions?

Right now I have A-Data DDR2 800

sorry to hear abot the ram problem. I was going to buy a-data ram until I at the last min. went with the g. skill.

My system is doing well and very stable no issues. Running at 3375mhz with my ram at 850mhz. passed double instances of orthos over 24 hours, memtest, and supper pi 32m in 16min 24 sec. I would say i'm pretty happy with the build. Hopefully Asus will come out with some bios updates to help with the memory issues and to make it a little more stable for the over clockers.

It's alive had forgot to plug in cpu power.
Also had to put ram in black slots to get 2 sticks working.

I bought the OCZ Platinum Revision 2 PC6400 @ 4-4-4-15 and it worked immediately. I never even updated the Bios. The memory works like a dream and ran it overnight and again the next day in Memtest with 0 errors.

Great motherboard too. Sucks that so many people seem to have some issues.

Well, I'm happy to say that I picked up some Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 (2 x 512) and I haven't had a single problem since.

Hopefully it will stay that way.

I just can't believe how picky this MB is about ram. As far as I can tell with MemTest, there is no problem with my Adata ram, the MB just doesn't like it.

hi, I have to write fast before my system crash ;]


I built my pc week ago, this mobo as in topic, patriot dual 1gb each stick, evga 8800gts 512.

windows mem test showed so many errors that i`m giving it back (RMA as you called it ..) i put right timing but cannot put right voltage , no option like this / i have up to date bios an chipset drivers and so on ...

how can i change voltage ?

hdd is ok , mobo and power unit, graph card i think too
tried prime95 torture test and it crashed imediatly on ram tests, cpu is ok ...

during crysis i got msgbox like " flow graph discarded" crysis.exe error , many freezes , blue screens, but i hope that is only memory issue ...

i guess so because i tried to reinstal windows xp and the same as before.. but nearly EVERY single aplication that was used could be found i win debuger crash minidump. Software can couse serious errors if mem i broken so that they cannot work properly and crashes... am I right ?

i hope it is only mem errors ... my graph card got nearly 11000 in 3d mark 2006 test. so its ok i suppose. How can i change the voltage ... even google said to me "stfu"...

Thank you in advance.

mem should work fine with mobo,

and one more thing ... patriots --> PATRIOT DDR2 2048 MB / 800 (Dual 2 x 1024 MB), CL 4, SLI Ready ( PDC22G6400LLK )

were not packed in special plastic bag as mobo but i see that every patriot mems are packed in the same way arround my place ...

change voltage not more than 2,2 V and it works, even mem test from everest I`ll continue tryin....

Hi guys.

I recently completed my build, Thermaltake WingRS 100 case,
P5N-E SLI MB, E6300 dual core "conroe" 1.86ghz OC to 2.65ghz,
5:4 ratio, 4gig OCZ-6400 SLI ram, Thermaltake Max Orb CPU cooler,
stock NB cooler, Vantec Iceberq Copper chipset fan on SB,
seagate 320Gb 7200, XFX 8600 GT, VIXX pure tv tuner card,
ZONET wifi 54mb/s wireless card, DVD ±RW, 16X dual layer,
running vista 32-bit.

v-core at 3.8v and mem 1.86v
CPU temp 35-40c
MB temp 38c
I haven't played around with ram timings yet. Any suggestions?

Yesterday I boot up my comp and wireless card was not working, no hardline connect, so no internet. : ( Checked hardware manager, sd that card is installed, driver installed but sz "card not able to start", tried putting in 2cd pci slot, same thing. I figured probably the card, so I went to tigerdirect, picked up same card, same thing. tried both slots again to no avail. Thought it might me MB but it recognizes that the card is installed and and recognizes manufacturer and installs drivers. ????????? Please help.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thx

This motherboard has issues with some basic memory on auto settings that prevent dual channel or more than one stick from working without hangs when booting into windows.

To solve this set up your memory using manual settings in the m/b bios:

TCL; 5
TRCD; 5
TRP; 5
TRAS; 12
COMMAND PER CLOCK; 2
TRC; 23

SLI READY: Disabled
MEMORY VOLTAGE: 1.9v

For overclocking or performance memory try with the fsb/mem divider set to sync or 1:1

TCL; 4
TRCD; 4
TRP; 4
TRAS; 12
COMMAND PER CLOCK; 2
TRC; 22
(RFC should be tRC + 2.)

MEMORY VOLTAGE: 2.1v


Further info for experimentation can be found here:

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/9222