Quote Originally Posted by drnick79 View Post
I am having quite a bit of trouble with this board. Running memory even at stock speed and timings is a herculean task. I've tried three different brands of ram that I know work on other mobos (gskill, crucial, and transcend axeram) that will pass memtest at default speeds on this board (667 to 800mhz), and it is a struggle to get the board to post even near stock. I've been running a low multiplier giving a cpu speed near cpu stock to take the cpu out of the equation. I've bumped up cpu vtt and nb volts gradually, and loosened the tRFC and PL values, and set the memory subtimings to "relaxed". I've focused on using the 266 and 333 straps, but have tried the 200 and 400 straps just for sheetz and giggles. Even taking these steps results in a no post with a "C1" LED code most of the time (not predictable though- sometimes a setting that would post previously will not post on a subsequent attempt). Other times, the board will not post and will hang with an "88" LED code- I can't even find what error that stands for-but it requires a hard power off to function again. I tried both the 307 and 320 bios, and there is no difference as far as I can tell.

It's a poor musician who blames his instrument for a lackluster performance, but is there any chance I have a defective board???
Here is a full list of BIOS error codes.

In the past, I have had the 88 error and it is usually when I've gone too far on an overclock and managed to corrupt the CMOS.

If that's the case, you can usually fix it with a CMOS clear - I would do a battery out CMOS clear, just to be certain, and leave it for a good few mins.

Also, have you got the RAM voltage set properly and not on AUTO? - Sorry if that sounds obvious, but a lot of people seem to leave it on AUTO and expect miracles

Another thing that made me get the 88 error was a CPU that had quite literally been overvolted within an inch of it's life I had been using high CPU PLL voltage on it and it had degraded so much that it just wouldnt overclock much any more with any stability.

If you hadn't already said you had tested it, my money would have been on the RAM as the main culprit. A dead or dying stick of RAM can cause all the problems you are having.