Soldato
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So,
In March I bought a big bundle which consisted of "some" of the items in my sig, mainly the ASUS P5Q-E and the Corsair RAM.
After about 1 month of been fairly stable, I was coming back to the PC in the morning or after work to find it had crashed serverly and was sitting at the "asus bios recovery" screen waiting for me to recover the BIOS back to the original ..... wtf? anyway that only takes 2 mins to sort. Sometimes i would come back and it would be sat at a login screen as it clearly rebooted or sometimes it would be on a BSOD.
All the event logs were saying "system restarted due to an uncorrectable memory issue" ... memtest was ran for 2 days on each stick and no errors found. So i thought i'd persist with it and rebuild Windows incase i'd done something wrong, despite working in I.T Support for 9 years but hey ho
Then once it crashed on me completey, rebooted and from that point would never get past the ASUS splash screen, despite clearing the CMOS, removing all components etc ...
Anyway, after getting quite ****ed off after spending £600 on the bits, I sent the motherboard and RAM back and got replacements. I replaced the parts and it's been happy for another month.
Now, it's done the exact same bloody thing. Ok, this time i came back from work to find it on a black screen with:
BAD BIOS CHECKSUM, STARTING BIOS RECOVERY ....
OMG i could have thrown it out of the window!!!! Anyway, i had to download the BIOS off the Asus site and slap it on a USB stick and re-flash it. It's been stable in Vista for a few days since I did that ... the event log also displayed them "uncorrectable memory issue" messages again after it did that
So, baring in mind i've lost all faith in Asus boards and Corsair RAM, which of the following would you do:
1) Send both back for further replacements
2) Change the board and ram for a different combo (Gigabyte/OCZ)
3) Persist with the current problems
Money is NO issue for buying a different board/ram and i'm very tempted to do so. I've had this same issue on both XP Pro SP2 and Vista Enterprise x64 and x32 and the problems i'm getting so point to the board/ram despite only installing windows. I have tested the RAM and all seems fine, running at the right timings and voltages etc ...
There is NO overclocking on the rig and i've changed the PSU for a BeQuiet just incase it was the PSU
Sorry for the long post, but what would you do?
In March I bought a big bundle which consisted of "some" of the items in my sig, mainly the ASUS P5Q-E and the Corsair RAM.
After about 1 month of been fairly stable, I was coming back to the PC in the morning or after work to find it had crashed serverly and was sitting at the "asus bios recovery" screen waiting for me to recover the BIOS back to the original ..... wtf? anyway that only takes 2 mins to sort. Sometimes i would come back and it would be sat at a login screen as it clearly rebooted or sometimes it would be on a BSOD.
All the event logs were saying "system restarted due to an uncorrectable memory issue" ... memtest was ran for 2 days on each stick and no errors found. So i thought i'd persist with it and rebuild Windows incase i'd done something wrong, despite working in I.T Support for 9 years but hey ho
Then once it crashed on me completey, rebooted and from that point would never get past the ASUS splash screen, despite clearing the CMOS, removing all components etc ...
Anyway, after getting quite ****ed off after spending £600 on the bits, I sent the motherboard and RAM back and got replacements. I replaced the parts and it's been happy for another month.
Now, it's done the exact same bloody thing. Ok, this time i came back from work to find it on a black screen with:
BAD BIOS CHECKSUM, STARTING BIOS RECOVERY ....
OMG i could have thrown it out of the window!!!! Anyway, i had to download the BIOS off the Asus site and slap it on a USB stick and re-flash it. It's been stable in Vista for a few days since I did that ... the event log also displayed them "uncorrectable memory issue" messages again after it did that
So, baring in mind i've lost all faith in Asus boards and Corsair RAM, which of the following would you do:
1) Send both back for further replacements
2) Change the board and ram for a different combo (Gigabyte/OCZ)
3) Persist with the current problems
Money is NO issue for buying a different board/ram and i'm very tempted to do so. I've had this same issue on both XP Pro SP2 and Vista Enterprise x64 and x32 and the problems i'm getting so point to the board/ram despite only installing windows. I have tested the RAM and all seems fine, running at the right timings and voltages etc ...
There is NO overclocking on the rig and i've changed the PSU for a BeQuiet just incase it was the PSU
Sorry for the long post, but what would you do?
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