[mjkovis]

Originally Posted by Dustmann The PCB (printed circuit board) version is printed on the mobo, and should be beside the mobo name? Do you know what I'm talking about? The bios for the pcb 2.0 and newer is NOT compatable with 1.04 or 1.06, so if you have the wrong bios installed, this may very well be your problem.

Yes, I am already aware of this, but thank you. I actually have one of the first A7N8X Deluxe boards with PCB 1.04. Right now I am running BIOS version 1008 since 1009 is still in its BETA version right now, and I found no difference in my problem by using 1009...
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PR,

I tried your suggestion on using only one stick of RAM, and I believe I have come to the conclusion that the RAM is my problem (Also, my RAM is Value Select, not ValueRAM, whoops...). First off, I tried one stick in DIMM 1 and everything seemed fine and I also reseated my heatsink on the CPU (Reapplying my Arctic Silver as well). Everything seemed to work just fine. Next I tried it both sticks back in Dual Channel to make sure it just wasnt my heatsink and the computer froze or locked up again. I then reverted to still use both sticks of RAM, but out of Dual Channel and the computer locked up, but it did take longer. Lastly, I went back to the one stick in DIMM 1 and it has locked up three times, but it takes a while to do so. Actually, after the third time I switched sticks to see if the one is bad. So far, so good.
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Originally Posted by Panama Red Not surprising. The issue with the Kingston was only when using a 400fsb cpu. Apparently the chipset doesn't like the value ram at 200 bus speed. The OCZ I'm using is the Enhanced Latency stuff with 2-2-2-5 timings.

I am wondering if this is the same problem. As I mentioned before Corsair had this RAM on their compatibility table when I bought it last year, because it worked for my AMD XP and AMD 64 systems. I do know that my timings are a little higher than yours for the Value Select RAM.
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Originally Posted by Dustmann Well it may be your ram then if that's the case. Can you adjust timings on your ram from the bios? Try running the fsb at 200, and the ram at 166 and see what happens. Maybe the timings are too tight for that valueram to keep up at 200. If everything works fine at pc2700, you have found your problem, and play with raising the timings to say 3-5-5-10 or something ridiciulously high like that, and gradually bring them back down.

I can adjust them within BIOS, but lets keep this as a last resort. This type of guess and check method can take a lot of time and I would rather not have to travel that route if I could just go ahead and purchase new RAM, if needed, instead of messing with the timings.
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Michael