What's gone wrong?!

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Alright,

So I just got back from Sweden, went to Dreamhack over there, was all fun. And I get to setting my PC up.

First of all, all is good, then 2nd boot, it fails.

It doesnt show any sort of screen, so I play with the memory a bit and it starts to boot - I remove my Mushkin and booster and put some normal in.

Then after 3/4 minutes, it freezes. And now it wont boot! So I flash it all, and it boots, but now, whenever I go into Bios settings it freezes again!

So I left it for 3 hours, and it worked once more, got into settings, set up boot drive and got into Windows, then OMG, crash fail again after about 2 minutes - it just reset.

So I was thinking temperatures or somthing. Iv got a good vapochill heatsink, so definatly not the CPU, but the memory is super hot?!

So I change my PSU, make sure it's not overvolting my Memory or somthing, but it still is!?!

Im using an Asrock 939 motherboard that I volt modded a few weeks ago to give 3.2v to the memory. I know this means it's warmer, but the memory I think is too hot, is it possible that a dodgy PSU I was using before has messed up the motherboards power thingys? Or that my motherboard just got banged too much in transit?

Is there any other componments I should test, and how, got any opinions before I fork out on a new motherboard?

Thanks.
 
I think anything over 3V for RAM is too much, maybe thats whats killing your memory IMO, but probably be someone along shortly who knows more than i about these matters to sort you out ;)
 
Argh, CRUD HITS FAN

So I'v changed my mobo to an A8N-E, and with a DDR voltage booster, the Mushkin redline wont post at 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 or 3.6?!

Does this mean it's dead? It seems to work fine with non-branded ram at 2.5v:( anyway to test? :(

EDIT Anyone got a compatability table for the A8N-E ? Maybe could be the problem now? :( their website seems to be dead for me to download the manual.
 
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