OK... I've been surfin this site all day and I'm unable to find an answer. I am starting to think the answer is that these boards are just "hit and miss". My two friends and I ordered the exact same setup. Here is the breakdown:
Asus A8N SLI Premium
Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2
XFX 7800GT PCIe
Antec Neo 550W Power
So we have been troubleshooting ALL THREE machines all day long. After setting them up, we are unable to get them to post. We can't get audible errors. We pulled everything from the case and ran bare bones. Power, mobo, memory, cpu, video. Still nothing. Not a thing on ALL THREE boards. We were pushing and pulling parts between all the systems all day long in order to try and figure out the defective part.
I was just about to give up when one of my buddies said... "Humor me a minute". He popped out our brand new Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2 and threw in some Kingston value ram. Bam... comes right up in all its mobo glory.
Now on to the main point of this post... I didnt try replacing memory sooner because this memory is on the compatibility list. Since I had 3 sets of TWINX1024-3200C2 I was just moving them between the systems but it seems they don't work on ANY of my three Premium boards. Is there a problem with the new revision of the board and this particular memory? Or by some freakish act of nature I actually got THREE sets of bad memory all at the same time?
Thanks in advance everyone,
Always been a HUGE fan of asus and I hope it can continue.
Brian
Asus A8N SLI Premium
Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2
XFX 7800GT PCIe
Antec Neo 550W Power
So we have been troubleshooting ALL THREE machines all day long. After setting them up, we are unable to get them to post. We can't get audible errors. We pulled everything from the case and ran bare bones. Power, mobo, memory, cpu, video. Still nothing. Not a thing on ALL THREE boards. We were pushing and pulling parts between all the systems all day long in order to try and figure out the defective part.
I was just about to give up when one of my buddies said... "Humor me a minute". He popped out our brand new Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2 and threw in some Kingston value ram. Bam... comes right up in all its mobo glory.
Now on to the main point of this post... I didnt try replacing memory sooner because this memory is on the compatibility list. Since I had 3 sets of TWINX1024-3200C2 I was just moving them between the systems but it seems they don't work on ANY of my three Premium boards. Is there a problem with the new revision of the board and this particular memory? Or by some freakish act of nature I actually got THREE sets of bad memory all at the same time?
Thanks in advance everyone,
Always been a HUGE fan of asus and I hope it can continue.
Brian