This is beyond strange, I have been running this board with a 750w PSU (Corsair) a 1090T Phenom II @ 4ghz (1.45v) and a GTX 480 and 8gb of Mushkin Ridgeback for almost the past month. Today I take the card out as I had to test a 4870 that I was selling, the only issue that happened was the 4870 when I turned the computer on, wasn't fully locked into the pci slot (which I fixed afterwards). the PCI-E slot works fine, and the 2nd and 1st one don't make a difference, however, after putting back in the GTX 480, my previous rock-solid overclock has been completed eliminated, won't post it all which is odd because it is 100% stable, I can't even SLIGHTLY over clock, and if I adjust the voltage on the ram and the timings, I get the same bios overclocking error message, I literally can't change a thing without this happening.
What would cause this? I was grounded and standing on anti-static bags, as well as constantly touching the case, so I doubt it's static damage, I've reset the CMOS and taken the battery out, no change, still won't over clock, I've even flashed to FB and back to FBc, still can't over clock, it's as if the motherboard is in some "safe" mode preventing the user from changing anything, any ideas? It runs perfectly fine on "stock" (Crap) settings, but I can't even get my ram to run at it's right speed, let alone get my performance back...what's up?
I just managed to trick it after exiting bios multiple multiple times so it didn't power reset each time, and it's STABLE when it's loaded, but for some reason the motherboard in POST is saying it's not stable now, for no reason at all...makes no sense O.o I'm going to have to fight this thing for hours each time I restart if it stays like this -.- it's a 100% stable proven OC and ram settings for the past month, and now voila, moody (or messed up) motherboard.
