Thanks for thinking about this. As to the memory all 4 slots are populated with 4x2gb corsair dominators, what I meant was I had to remove the Noctua DH-14 to get at the memory. I did remove the Noctua and I did reinsert the CPU, but didn't help. I agree that it must either be the CPU module or the board. I RMA'd the CPU and will get a new one on Monday. But, I noted that another person was having the same LED error 58 too. I only hope this is not some architecture glitch pursuant to the B3 modification and some of the first buyers got some bad coding or ? Ostensibly, many people are succeeding where I have not..... in the event that it is a microcode problem is that a BIOS flash solution or a return the mobo solution? I found another post of a person who was getting a different error on his first CPU and then swapped to a second CPU and then he got the error 58....how buggie does that sound....here is the page its on post #26..
http://www.kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1041&page=3I also found the following under Hard Forum;
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Sorry to hear that mate I do feel your frustration.
EVGA geforce 465 GTX Superclocked on my end. 266.58 whql drivers
It did take me a few times with the above to get those Q Codes to stop where I could enter the BIOS.
Try leaving the battery out for 30-60 minutes and try again.
I found this on the ASUS Forum. Seems to be just what I have also.
I'm having the exact same issue, except mine settles on Q Code 58. And that's only if there's RAM in A1 or A2. I'm running a pair of CL6 Ripjaw X's (F3-12800CL6D-4GBX). I just flashed it to 1305 and it's doing the same thing.
This is what I get with a 2 stick config.
A1+A2 = Code 58 & DRAM LED on
A1+B1 = Code 58 & DRAM LED on
A2+B2 = Code 58 & DRAM LED on
B1+B2 = Will Boot
1 Stick config.
A1 = Code 58 & DRAM LED on
A2 = Code 58 & DRAM LED on
B1 = Will Boot
B2 = Will Boot
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what Q code you had? mine is 03
the problem that you found at ASUS forums is the exact problem I've had from the beginning, form the moment I've bought mobo, CPU and RAM, mobo was on very first bios, 1003 I guess
I got 4 2GB sticks of Mushkin Blackline DDR3-2000 CL7, so system wouldn't boot with all 4 sticks installed, I left one in the first slot, the one closest to cpu, system booted after I pressed MEM_OK button, flashed 1253 bios right away
then booted again with one stick, set up memory manually to 1333 with 9-9-9-24, so finally system worked with all 4 sticks, I could even set the memory at 2133 with 9-11-9-28, cpu 4.7 with just Offset increased to 0.090, 47 was the max multiplier I could start Win 7 with
the only problem left are USB slots, those guys worked very very bad, including BT (I use MS BT keyboard), bios 1302 (beta as I know) fixed that, and even more, Win 7 starts with x50, system rock solid at x49 and I'm happy as hell)) and then 1305 comes out which supposed to be a final release of 1302 beta ....
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I can try this when my new CPU comes if I still get the error....seems pretty strange.
