Rampage Extreme problem (won't load anything after windows 7 installation)

[radi4fun]

I had recently got hold of Rampage Extreme and when i finally got my E8600 and Team Xtreem RAM, i'm running into a brick wall or something... i've been up the whole night trying to figure out what the heck is going on.


This problem happens when i tried to install fresh copy of windows 7. at first it boots up fine and i press F8 to choose my USB drive as my boot drive, go through the whole process of doing a clean install, and once it restarts for the first time... it never goes through. it restarts and then it just hangs there, on the LCD Poster it just keeps on saying DET DRAM, now i opened up the users manual and it is no help. then sometimes it says overclocking fail right after the Asus logo, so i choose to set it back to default and all and it still won't work. so i restarted and i went into bios and choose to use Bios 2, and it worked, wet past boot screen, then went to starting windows and so on and after that it took me back to the last step in windows 7 installation, i forgot what it was called, it was right after "installing updates" or something like that. it stay their for like a minute then i get a blue screen, and it restarts and goes back to the post, then to Starting Windows, and on the next screen it says something about the computer restarting unexpectedly, so restart and try installing windows again. i've tried this 7 times with no luck.

so then i tried to see if all of the ram slots work and i think they all work. but i do not know why when the windows 7 installation has to restart, it screws up. Before i switched out the MB, i had BlackOps and Windows XP on my HDD, so what i did was just plugged the HDD with RE and see what happens and it actually booted into windows XP and all and ofcourse all my driveers are from BlackOps so i actually wiped out the HDD using KillDisk v.4.1 and now i am trying to install windows 7 and i can't. all the lights on the MB seem fine. any one ever heard of this problem? did i get a broken or messed up MB? i'm very frustrated. i have been trying to install windows 7 for the past 6 hrs. it is nearly 3AM in the morning and i am nowhere. also when i checked, it has Bios 1202 on. should i flash the bios to something else? everything else seems just fine. I don't think my HDD is bad, and neither is RAM or the CPU.

what is the best bios to have on Rampage Extreme right now?

maybe i should try and install windows XP on it and see if it works or not.

sorry for all the bad wording and all, i'm just tired and frustrated at this point.


If this helps anything at all, my current specs are:

E8600 lapped
Team Xtreem DDR3 1866mhz 2GB(2X1GB)
Sapphire vapor-x 4870
Barracuda 7200.11 500GB HDD
Silver Stone Stryder ST1000W PSU
Cooler Master V8( just got this from fry's on the way home to test out the CPU for DOA before i set up the whole water loop on it)

 

[Grnfinger]

DET DRAM is a memory hang, had it all the time on my Maximus X38 and my Rampage X48, usually its just the PL level to low try 8 or 9
Try setting AI Clock Twister to Auto
Transaction Booster to Auto for now ( or set 8-9 or 10) and relax your timings a tad, once it's booting you can tighten up the ram

 

[radi4fun]

hum... i think the memory was at stock i believe. or shouldn't everything to back to stock after CMOS? i pressed that button a few times as well. and the kit is rated at CL-8-8-8-24 @1.9V i'll try and do what you suggested though and see if it works or not.

EDIT: Ok i just checked and on the DRAM Timing Control was set to auto but under neath it the 1st Information: 5-5-5-15 was what it was showing, so i changed the DRAM Timing to manual and changed it to 8-8-8-24 and now after reboot and underneath DRAM Timing Control it says
1st Information: 8-8-8-24-8-100-15-8
2nd Information: 9-8-6--4-7-4-7
3rd Information: 27-10-1-9-9

Also the Ai Clock Twister is already at Auto. So is Ai Transaction Booster is also set at Auto. And i changed the Ai Transaction Booster to manual to see what it was at and it was showing 05 so i changed that to 08 and then set it back to auto hopefully this fixes my problem. time to go and give one more shot at reinstalling windows 7. if it won't work this time, i'm gona sleep on it and hopefully some one can help me in the morning as i need to get up in 3 hrs to get ready for work.

 

[radi4fun]

HAAAA it worked sort of. it finished installing, then it got to where you pick a sreeen name and all, i choose than, then clicked on Use recommended updates thing and right after that i got blue screen i restarted and i had to choose a new log in screen name since it would not let me use the first one don't know why, but i got blue screen again. i did this 8 times, with different ram settings and timings, each time i would get a blue screen and finally i set the DRAM Frequency to 1333mhz and timings at 9-9-9-24 with everything else on auto and on the 9th try with some random screen name, it WORKED!!!! i'm in windows lol... now it is time to delete all those profiles and just have my main one.

I really want to try and reinstall windows 7 again with current settings but i am afraid that it might not work.

 

[Brolloks]

Try putting the RAM sticks in the white slots

 

[radi4fun]

I never tried them in the white slots after i was able to boot into windows. but after i changed the ram freq. and timings, i was actually able to reinstall windows 7 64bit i tied reinstalling it 3 more times, and it worked perfect. And man... the installation took like literally 12 minutes and i was already in windows 7 downloading firefox and such. the installation was a lot faster than my laptop that i had the OCZ Core V2 SSD paired with 4GB 667 ram and T8300 @ 2.4Ghz.... and this desktop only had 2GB ram, 7200 RPM HDD and E8600. I'm wondering if that E8600 had a lot to do with my faster installation time...

but.... the sad news is i already sold the board. Time to get a new DDR3 board Brolloks, you will be getting a PM from me very soon after i list my E8600 in FS section lol, this is too much power for me. Too much of a good thing is bad in my case lol.