New CVF build, beautiful board and I cannot wait to get to tuning. However, in the meantime I am having a stability issue which I am starting to believe is caused by memory. I have G.Skill Sniper memory (F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR), which is on the QVL. What I have generally done is to eliminate a stick and try one stick in each slot A1-B2, either/or clearing CMOS via jumper and/or hitting the MEMOK button. I was somewhat stable at some point and flashed BIOS to 0506 and this seemed to actually make the problem slightly worse (could be my imagination). I have also tried doing an auto-OC with both Load Extreme OC Profile and OC Tuner to see if the different voltages and frequencies would make a difference - slight if at all.

In the beginning I was getting the red DRAM LED, but that mostly went away. Lately I am getting the memory error beep code (long beep, followed by two short beeps, pause, repeat). The only way I have eliminated this was by the CMOS/MEMOK circus stated above.

I do not feel my problem is CPU-related, I have a quad-core (Phenom II X4 945 Deneb ... waiting patiently for Zambezi ...), but I cannot eliminate this as I do not know yet if it _is_ my memory.

I am able to get into BIOS fairly frequently, but I freeze almost as frequently (mouse just stops). Generally, I can boot into Windows and I am fairly stable there, but am getting BSODs, generally with win32k.sys being blamed by the dump (and lately I am seeing an ATI file ati...dag.sys or similar - I can get the exact filename if it becomes important to look at, at work now).

I have picked up another set of RAM sticks on the QVL (Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9) to test with when I get home tonight. In the meantime, any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Many thanx