[Nastrodamus]

Yeah it could just be a jacked stick or the slot you put it in didn't like it or is somehow jacked. Maybe you can put the other stick in by itself to see how it performs.

[shister87]

yup, make sure you disable the sata if you are using IDE and vise versa a lot of ASUS mainboards dont like it when you run IDE and SATA cause they use similar resources dont nock ASUS they are great mainboards they just need to work out some bugs, nyways most ASUS mainboards have that problem if you dont disable one or the other youll have some real problems your bios will crash freeze etc. just make sure you are only using IDE or SATA otherwise all hell will break loose

[opterondo]

Well I was Googling and saw your little rant and thought i'd help you out. You are the textbook example of someone who needs to stick to retail boxed computers. First off, I have this board, it does not "overclock" by default. Flash your BIOS to the latest 1001 and goto your RAM makers site and lookup the voltage and timing specs for your RAM and enter said voltage and timings in the BIOS. Alot of "DDR400 RAM" does not do well at standard 2.5v. If problems still persist it's probably your cheapo power supply not doing it's job .. Newegg & ZipZoomFly carry COOLMAX power supplies for ~$35 (piano black finish)