ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[phillydee]

Hey guys. I've been using the P5WDH for almost 6 months now, thanks to Lawry and this great thread.

A few days ago, my PC did not POST after shutting down from the night before. I managed to trace it to 1 of my RAM sticks (I have Crucial Ballistix PC-8500 tracers). I know it's the RAM because, 1) I pull out the offending stick and the PC boots. 2) I put the offending stick in, and it doesn't POST. Nada. Nothing. 3) I trade out the RAM sticks and nothing, again.

After putting all my settings back to default, I ran memtest85+ on the 'working' RAM. I am getting errors on 2 blocks. It seems those two blocks are faulty. I'm currently in the process of getting an RMA for the pair, but had the following question:

In all my months of tweaking, I never pumped up the mem voltage, or freaked out the timings. These chips are rated at 2.2v, at default CAS reads 5-5-5-15 according to memtest and CPU-Z. Could the motherboard have damaged the RAM? It's hard to believe that it's my 2nd pair of defective crucial sticks. Has anyone else had similar problems?

Thanks for any input.

BTW aside from memory problems, I'm pretty happy with the Ballistix PC8500.