P5B Sudden Death... Killed both my gskill HZ ??? (sad)

P5B-dlx
2x G.Skill HZ (D9) sticks
x1900XTX

ARRRRR. I hate this fucking board.

I've been running it since Nov with no problems at all. (400Mhz, 1:1, 3-4-4-4, 2.1V, etc) and all of a sudden it stops posting. Nada. No matter what I do it will NOT post, no beeps. So, like the good little detective I am, I come to find out that some people have problems getting the P5B to detect ram and have to set the voltage manually.

Well... I got some crappy 512Mb and it posts. Yay. So, I go into the bios set the voltage to all sorts of values, shut down, swap ram, reboot.... No post.

I've tried CMOS clear, almost all voltage and SPD combinations... everything I can think of.

Must be a bad board right ? Nope, got a new one from newegg, same problem!


Now, I doubt that both of my sticks went bad at the same time, so please please please someone offer me some advice or clue as to what the fuck is wrong here.....

Thanks

get a DFI 965P-S

RMA your ram... see if that will fix it if you get a new set of the same ram...

I think your memory just went bad, the board did not kill it. Memory does go bad, too, so just because it suddenly dies doesn't mean the board killed it. It's time for RMA.

I don't know...... Both sticks at the same time ????

I guess I could try to RMA it, I'll see if I can find another PC to try it in first.... I'd be pretty surprised if it was the ram.

my cousin's crucial ballistix anniversary have the same problem booting up with his p5b deluxe.

Seems like they won't boot at 1.8v, so what he has to do is stick another stick of memory in that can boot at 1.8v, go into bios, change the vdimm, and then put the crucial back in just so that he can boot up with them.

It is a royal pain in the butt for him, so he ended up rma'ing his memory, which is probably what you will be doing.

his memory does boot up fine in my gigabyte ds3 though at 1.8v, not sure what makes the boards different, maybe the gigabyte has an initial bootup that is slightly over 1.8v to boot up the memory.

/////////////////////// Update ///////////////////////

I got my GSkill back from RMA (took me awhile to send it) and it turns out, that in fact, both my sticks went bad at the same time.

I don't think its GSkill's fault though. My P5B (read: POS) may have killed them. After the issues I was having it started getting read odd ram and reboot issues, then the PS/2 port all up and died, had to use a usb keyboard.... RMA'ed that as well.

So, point is I hate the P5B. Its garbage and even though people think its great for overclocking its not really any faster. Maybe a Gigabyte DS4 or a badAxe 2 would have been better,

I think everyone needs to keep in mind that Micron originally designed and rated their D9GMH chips at DDR2-667, CL5 and 1.8 volts. These are the chips that are on most of the high performance DDR2-800, DDR2-1000, DDR2-1066 and even DDR2-1200 modules.

I think manufacturers are stretching things a little too far. They decided to over volt them to 2.2 volts or more, they dropped the timings to CL4 and raised the MHz. These ICs may work at this speed for a little while, but they weren't designed for that speed regardless of what GSkill, Team and others are saying.

I've had to RMA my Team D9 memory and if I push it I'm sure I will be doing the same in the future which is a pain in the ass.

I thought my P5B Deluxe was junk too at one time. When I started running my memory a little less on the edge, my computer got a lot more stable. Now when I look back, every problem I've had with my P5B Deluxe seems to have been memory related. My P5B overclocks like a beast and runs flawless so they're not all junk.

Why are you running your memory at CL3-4-4-4 or am I reading your specs wrong? On my board, CL4 was actually quicker than CL3 for whatever reason. Typical memory timings are CL 4-4-4-12 with the final number being tRAS. Tight timings don't gain you a lot of extra performance but they can end up causing a lot of random errors and totally unrelated issues.

Try running your memory at the Micron default of CL5-5-5-15 just to see if a lot of your problems go away. Run MemTest86+ once in a while to make sure your memory isn't slowly degrading which these D9 chips seem to do when pushed beyond what Micron originally intended.

I think Arcy had this same problem.
He said it was from too much VFSB voltage.
He said 1.5 did the job of breaking it.
1.4 was pushing it.

He RMAed his board and got a new one.