K8n neo2 "decompressing bios to ram for fast booting"

it was working great for about two hours. It gave me some good benchmarks    So I decided to play some farcry and during the load up of a saved game it locked up in the middle of loading. I restarted it and it hasent posted since.  The two diag lights i get are two top green two bottom red and never moves from there. decompressing bios to ram for fast booting according to the manual. I then took one ram stick out, stuck diffrent ram in there, reseting the bios, diffrent video cards. 
i figured it was the motherboard and i got my rma back today same thing. so is it the cpu then or another mobo?
Koolance Pc2 Blue
koolance 300 cpu water block
Amd64 3200+ 90nm
CMX512-3200C2PRO x2
BFG 6800 Ultra O/C with Innovative Tech Nv40 water block. (stock timings)
wd 160 se x2
MGE Vigor 500w
tried Antec truepower 480w same thing.

Sound like ram is struggling (decompress to ram fails).
Test with www.memtest86.com
Make sure that the corsair C2 is set with cas 2.5 on AMD64 and vdimm voltage to 2.75v in bios.
Auto spd and auto on voltage won't set it straight for theese modules , set all values manually in bios and dont enable agressive settings .

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