Quote Originally Posted by The Nemesis View Post
Okay, here's my cf or 88 clear procedure. I have to do this often on this board but it absolutely works.

1) Shut down system and disconnect power source via plug in psu.

2) Press power button to fully discharge board

3) Clear cmos using either jumper or power reset method

4) Plug power then power up.

Board will cycle CF first, hold then C1 the a couple things before c26. If powers off after c26 then just unplug again but skip clear cmos. After 26 you'll get beep and all will be fine.
That's what I was doing above for "cold reboot" - and as you say, it no longer hangs on CF, but instead goes to 26, but at 26 the board reboots and goes back to hanging on CF again.
Do this with two sticks of ram. Because you have a C0 chances are the memory controller may be weak and struggling with 6GB of ram. Your bios is okay for your hardware but your board is definetly behaving as though there's a memory issue. Makes me wonder if you do have elpidas under those spreaders. Which would work better with 4/28 regardless of C0 or D0.
Doesn't work with three, two or one stick - still not able to get BCLK to boot above 185.

But, why are you so certain it's RAM related? Not that I don't appreciate the suggestions, I just don't understand why if my board can push these three sticks to a full 1850 CAS-9 using 185 BCLK and 10x memory multi, you'd then think that the RAM is preventing it from booting at 190 BCLK with memory multi of 8x for 1520 and CAS-10.