Well, the new mobo I received is STILL plagued by the same BS as the one I RMA'd. I didn't think the WMD program errors would be gone, but it would have been "nice", and I at least expected other things. For one, those FET's marked "9915" that I mentioned were about to melt, they are still that hot, and they've even been REPLACED with different FET's! I can't O'clock anymore which pretty much validates a CPU that sucks, that's not the mobo's fault. I still get Memtest errors when BOTH sticks are used in ANY COMBINATION at 359.6mb, and ALWAYS in the same "channel" in MemTest which is "1" I guess since that is what is underneath "channel". On the plus side, they seemed to have at least fixed the CPU voltage fluctuations at at 1.6v ONLY. On this mobo, when set to 1.6v it STAYS at 1.6-1.62v instead of dipping way down to 1.58v and lower. However it still has the same problem when setting Vcore to 1.625v; it drops WAY down to 1.525v. This obviously is not a problem with this mobo since I still get the same results at a STABLE 1.6v Vcore as I did with an UNstable 1.6v Vcore on the other mobo.
Stick labeled #1:
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With stick 1 on **LEFT BANK**: black slot, no errors. Blue slot, no errors.
With stick 1 on **RIGHT BANK**: Error @231.6 in blue AND IN black slot.
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Stick 2:
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With stick 2 on **LEFT BANK**: Blue no errors. Black no errors.
With stick 2 on **RIGHT BANK**: Blue no errors. Black no errors.
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BOTH STICKS used:
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Stick 1 in BLACK left, stick 2 in BLACK right: 359.6mb*
Stick 1 in BLUE left, stick 2 in BLUE right: 359.6mb*
Stick 2 in BLACK left, stick 1 in BLACK right: 359.6mb*
Stick 2 in BLUE left, stick 1 in BLUE right: 359.6mb*
*- Area in Memtest where it shows the location
"Left" = the bank closest to CPU
"Right" = the bank closest to ATX power connector
Could be I have a flaky stick of memory (stick I labeled #1), but that would not explain the same errors when BOTH sticks are used regardless of placement in the SAME BANK, nor does it explain the WMD errors with the Promise controller enabled and something connected. BTW, I'll state again for the record that I still get the same WMD errors when EITHER of single sticks are used in ANY slot, any when ANY TYPE MEMORY is used. I think I'm going to try and RMA my memory to Geil anyway and see what happens. That definitely won't help the WMD errors, but it may help the errors at 359.6mb.
Michael, or ANYONE else with an E-Deluxe, have you tried all FOUR banks filled with memory and then ran the WMD program? I wish someone else on this thread with an E-Deluxe would take the 30 seconds it takes to run the WMD program and let us verify it is with ALL of the "E" version boards. I'm interested to know if having all four banks populated changes WMD error results (again with the Promise controller enabled and anything connected).