Quote Originally Posted by Tyke View Post
I have been having the same problems with 1800MHz. The test of stability for me is installing Crysis: even Prime95 stable and memtest passed at 1800MHz, but the system freezes when installing Crysis. It would also freeze at various other times, but always when installing Crysis. So I did a new install of Vista X64, installed no graphics drivers, no NForce drivers - just a basic installation, with my two Raptors in Raid 0 - no SLi etc. At 1800MHz linked and synced, I tried to install Crysis and it froze. I did this three times and each time it froze. I then did a new install, this time I replaced the Raptors, with two of the new VelociRaptors in Raid 0. Same settings, and Crysis installed fine!! Uninstalled and reinstalled Crysis three times, and still no freeze!! Since then, I have played movies, played Crysis, run all the Crysis benchmarks in 2 hour loops, Prime95 - no freeze!!! Then I remembered the problems THG reported with Vista and Raptors last year.

Could it be that the Raptors are the problem?
BTW this was the same with bios 0701, 0703 and 0704.

I have two raptors in RAID 0, i have installed Crysis with this settings and everything went fine! I have been playing Crysis in very high just for testing, and played for 1 hour and half with no freezes

TIKE i really dont think the raptors are the problem because if you take it out, they problaly will work 100% with other boards. IMO i think this Board REALLY have a problem with SATA controler that is causing data corruption, and that may be more evident with certain type of hard drives.