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Basically it was a loss of power. For those who say "well get a UPS", I have one but they are worthless most of the time. Anyways what I thought was my bios turned out to be a bad RAM module I got from corsair. So a company that I do business with allot lent me a MB. Well that MB wouldn't boot up either so i thought it must be that old VID card. (been acting up "i thought") so he lent me a new VID card and tested mine. Well mine tested out good and the MB I had borrowed still wouldn't boot up with the new VID card. So i was left up to only one thing. It has to be the new RAM. So i took that cool little benchmarking tool memtest (Find it in our downloads section) and ran a 10 time loop on the module. No errors. errr...ok. So let me call ASUS and corsair and be on hold for an hour for corsair and wait 15 hours for a call back from corsair (by the way they called me at 9:30pm...kinda late). After digging through old PC books and ready up on module and specs on MB I figured only one thing.
The RAM was unable to function in any lower end MB. Mind you this is a new corsair XMS DDR3500 running at 433mhz. The fasted available. Being told it would be backwards compatible made me a little upset finding out this is not always true. So I invested a few more bucks in a new ASUS P4PE MB (Now i have a extra ASUS P4S533 Motherboard) and all is running "actually screaming" its way through any task I throw at it.
So the moral of the story is, don't be cool and buy the latest and greatest thing out until you've done your homework, even then wait a little bit for other things to catch up.
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