Quote Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue View Post
did you pop the battery out while pushing the CMOS reset button for at least 15 seconds?..make sure you unplug the power supply and push on the start button after the power LED light extinguishes to unload any caps on the board before proceeding with the CMOS clearing procedure

sometimes bios code can get corrupted while it's in memory...best way, when you face that situation, is to do that clearing method and then re-enter the bios to re-load default settings; save and then give it a try with whatever form of testing.

my board is an absolute dream board...i have 12 gig's installed and it would clock right up there to 4.4 ghz with comfortable voltages at 7-7-7-28, 2T...i have corsair's DDR-2000 (spec'd at 8-8-8-24) occupying all 6 slots.
Cheers mate but I had done absolutely everything with the board possible, including what you suggested, first idea was removing battery and resetting CMOS etc,including discharging the caps.

However got the new RAM and it was just coming up FF code on boot (yep tried everything again) so getting ANOTHER rma done...

Keep telling myself it will be worth it in the end