UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[Biker]

OK, I have a problem.

I just installed my water cooling and finished leak test, I assembled the hardware back and turned on the PC, the mobo only detects 4 GB out of the 6GB, I remounted the CPU again, now it sees all the 6GB but the LCD poster is now displaying strange missing characters. I tried to reset the BIOS but no luck, I'm now going to try the new BIOS and see if I can fix this, any recommendations?

This is a very common issue with I7 / X58.

The CPU is not as tight a fit in the socket as it could be so there is a bit of movement possible and also there are an awful lot of pins to bend...

The bad initial seating might have screwed up the bios (it happened to me with this board a while back) and the only way to fix it was flashing to a different bios version and then flashing back to the version I wanted