ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Unbornchild]

That is what recently happened to my 2GB Corsair kit. I'm afraid the P5WDH's volt-instability is the cause for it. I had 2.1v in BIOS, recently i noticed AIBooster was showing 2.2v ( a few days before the RAM died). RMA'd the kit, i now have the new ones at 1.95 in BIOS, AI booster shows 1.95 as well.
Btw, while waiting for the RMA-returning i temporary had 2GB Ballistix PC2-8500 in it, at 1.95. Ran like a charm.

This board officially supports 800Mhz RAM, 1066 'native' (= when you overclock). In the case of using PC2-8500 RAM on this board at 1:1 and timings 5-5-5-15 you're not overclocking at all, rather underclocking. Chips are rated 2.2v for a heavy workload. Give it less volts i'd say.