03GrandAmGT Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Crucial (Micron Technologies) has it. Just do their configurator and you will find it.http://www.crucial.com/crucial/pvtcontent/...CFQgQYQodCBDL9wjdCrucial (Micron Technologies) has it. Just do their configurator and you will find it.http://www.crucial.com/crucial/pvtcontent/...CFQgQYQodCBDL9wjd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinbate Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I had simular problems a couple of years ago when i built a system for my neighbour.I swapped the memory with some from my pc & it worked fine put his memory in my pc & that worked fine also so it may be the memory is not compatable with your board.RegardsColin Bate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithxi Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 I had the memory clock set wrong. ddr2 800, it runs at 400mhz. who woulda thought. boo on my bios for not auto detecting that properly, but an even bigger boo on myself for being such a dumb*$$.did i say that i'm happy it's working!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 JOY! So you had it on DDR2 1600? That would be a super cool OC . Happy it works now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithxi Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 it was running for about 4 hours then it dropped. i'm beginning to think it's my video card. i only have an option to set the clock speed to 200 max for pcie and the card goes up to 400. what should i do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 That´s strange... PCI-E should be set on 100MHz, I agree that that could be a problem.Did you try to update the BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithxi Posted September 13, 2006 Author Share Posted September 13, 2006 i did not try to update the bios, because sometimes the pc does not boot, or it does not POST. This leads me to believe that it's faulty memory as everyone has suggested. I've been able to last every time until the bad block is struck upon in the memory module and the computer shuts down. here is my error message...http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=330182 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithxi Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 i'm almost positive it is just incompatable RAM. Newegg will NOT return it because I peeled off the stickers. I'm so angry right now. This is so screwed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 (edited) i'm almost positive it is just incompatable RAM. Newegg will NOT return it because I peeled off the stickers. I'm so angry right now. This is so screwed up.Uhm, it was almost eveident at the beginning that it was a problem with the RAM (when it doesn't POST successfully all the time). Anyway, your stress is your own doing by peeling off the stickers. In a perfect world you could just put them back in, but I guess policy is policy so... yeah... be angry at yourself on this one. Edited September 20, 2006 by Jeremy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithxi Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 (edited) completely wrong. i just researched the last day or so and i figured out that its my temperature shutoff feature linked to how my fan is going into power save cpu mode being either controlled by voltage or PWM 4-pin whatever, which i have a 3-pin as my cpu fan. anyways the gigabyte website says to update the bios, but first i'm going to try to change that option. if that doesnt work im going to try disabling temperature shut-off, which is risky, but i'm pretty sure that will fix it. according to some research i've done this reason alone is the reason my system only sometimes posts, and considering the only update to the bios is to the 4-pin cpu fan PWM update, this should fix my booting sometimes problem with my am2. step 2.as to why it wasn't entering windows on this sometimes boot, the reason is that the drivers aren't digitally signed, so i'm going to go into safe mode, which i know i can do, and i am going to uninstall the video card drivers and install the chipset from nVidia's site, not from the cd-rom. for some reason these unsigned drivers were causing a memory issue from my video card, which is why the card read pci.sys as the error at the 0x7e bluesceen.the sometimes boot completely threw me off and made me think that it was ram. that and those idiots on yahoo kept saying it was the ram. f*n idiots.now all i really have to do is wait for the ram to come back from newegg, reinstall it, get it to boot, and go through step one and step two, and possibly reinstall.what lead me to believe it wasn't the ram is that it would be completely odd that two sticks of memory recieved were faulty. especially when everything checked out as far as compatability specifications.by far the most complicated computer building problem i've ever encountered, all because of a poorly written bios. (not that i could write a better one.) Edited September 20, 2006 by smithxi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 what lead me to believe it wasn't the ram is that it would be completely odd that two sticks of memory recieved were faulty. especially when everything checked out as far as compatability specifications.No both faulty, but just not 100% compatible, but most of the time the system would not even see the RAM then.Step 1 doesn’t matter...Step 2, could be that the drivers were the first beta drivers that came out, so bad that Motherboard makers put them on a disc for an end-user. You know for now that the best drivers are on the internet, always look at the bug fixes of drivers (change log), that’s what I do. Also BIOS updates will do wonders some times. Any way, you mailed me and I’m going to help you trough, you are on the right way now, but setting the RAM from 800 to 667 would be the first thing that I would test . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithxi Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 (edited) i did some extensive research last night, and i know my previous post was jargoned, but what i discovered is that the only update to the bios was to the cpu fan controller, which mine was set to change fan speeds by PWM, which is for 4-pin fans. i need to set it to voltage regulation. this in turn should, from what i read, adjust the temperature settings. also from what i read the computer was shutting off and staying powered on, but not displaying video because the cpu was in safe mode. does this sound right? would a pc stay powered on and display a black screen if there was something wrong with the cpu temperature or fan?gigabyte on the phone today said to be sure i had the 4-pin molex connector plugged into the board, but even when i had it plugged into the board this same thing would happen. it has to be the fan or cpu temperature.i found all this information on forums about the nF2 bug, nforce 2 bug.this forum...http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2623 Edited September 20, 2006 by smithxi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 (edited) Only thing I could think of is a bad mobo, I would change it.EDIT: You are telling me so much strange things. A faulty CPU is almost out of the question, to tell you the truth I never had a bad CPU ever in years, only when it was abused (I LOVE tweaking till it burns ). Edited September 21, 2006 by puntoMX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithxi Posted September 21, 2006 Author Share Posted September 21, 2006 dude, it's not the motherboard. it's ram or bios or video, in that order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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