Wow, this motherboard (well i hope it is my motherboard) is driving me insane. Let me start with my specs
ABIT AV8
Athlon 3200+ 90nm s939
PDP Patriot Ram 2x512 Samsung TCCD chips
XFX 6800 Vanilla
Seagate 80gig SATA
Maxtor 250gig IDE
Zalman 7700cu w/as5
NV5 w/as5
Antec 350W Smart power
Okay anyways, here comes the problems.
1. On the motherboard, there is a digital readout of 2 digit codes, that usually tell you the status of the motherboard, mine just sits at 48, in the manual 48 has no meaning, sooo i dont know, ive also seen it at othr numbers like 69, ot cycling between 2 random numbers.
2. Not sure if this is a motherboard problem, but since i have nothing else to base my opinion on, i will assume so. On a fresh install of windows, that doesnt have any service packs installed, the staus bar on the start up screen passes 8+ times. Once i get SP2 installed (this is without any drivers loaded yet) it passes 13+ times. I have tried installations with both of my hard drives, to no avail. The only reason i feel this is alarming is cause with my P4 system it passed like 3 times, and now this? hmmm.
3. This is slightly related to the above problem, someone told me the above problem could be cause of ram, so i ran mem test 86+ for hours looping all the tests, and another day looping test 5, and no errors, heres the wierd part: ABIT specifies in the manual that either DIMM slots 1 and 2 OR 3 and 4 should be used for acheive a dual channel configuration. Good enough, when i initially built the computer i put them in slots 1 and 2, then ive been having all these problems so i decided let me try slots 3 and 4, the computer posts, BUT once its get a little ways into loading up windows, it just restarts, over and over again. I can however run the ram 1 piece at a time in slots 1 or slot 3 and windows will start up fine. Then i tried running the ram in slots 1 and 3 at the same time to see if i could get single channel mode, to no avail, the machine would not post.
4. i post this problem last because the above^^^ probably relate to this in some way shape and or form. My OCing results are less then average, i cant get anything past 210 HTT stable, in fact, 210 is rarely stable, only on some occasion, even if im running my CPU volts at 1.6 (spec 1.5) i cant get a stable OC.
Ahh someone please help me or i will be driven insane!
ABIT AV8
Athlon 3200+ 90nm s939
PDP Patriot Ram 2x512 Samsung TCCD chips
XFX 6800 Vanilla
Seagate 80gig SATA
Maxtor 250gig IDE
Zalman 7700cu w/as5
NV5 w/as5
Antec 350W Smart power
Okay anyways, here comes the problems.
1. On the motherboard, there is a digital readout of 2 digit codes, that usually tell you the status of the motherboard, mine just sits at 48, in the manual 48 has no meaning, sooo i dont know, ive also seen it at othr numbers like 69, ot cycling between 2 random numbers.
2. Not sure if this is a motherboard problem, but since i have nothing else to base my opinion on, i will assume so. On a fresh install of windows, that doesnt have any service packs installed, the staus bar on the start up screen passes 8+ times. Once i get SP2 installed (this is without any drivers loaded yet) it passes 13+ times. I have tried installations with both of my hard drives, to no avail. The only reason i feel this is alarming is cause with my P4 system it passed like 3 times, and now this? hmmm.
3. This is slightly related to the above problem, someone told me the above problem could be cause of ram, so i ran mem test 86+ for hours looping all the tests, and another day looping test 5, and no errors, heres the wierd part: ABIT specifies in the manual that either DIMM slots 1 and 2 OR 3 and 4 should be used for acheive a dual channel configuration. Good enough, when i initially built the computer i put them in slots 1 and 2, then ive been having all these problems so i decided let me try slots 3 and 4, the computer posts, BUT once its get a little ways into loading up windows, it just restarts, over and over again. I can however run the ram 1 piece at a time in slots 1 or slot 3 and windows will start up fine. Then i tried running the ram in slots 1 and 3 at the same time to see if i could get single channel mode, to no avail, the machine would not post.
4. i post this problem last because the above^^^ probably relate to this in some way shape and or form. My OCing results are less then average, i cant get anything past 210 HTT stable, in fact, 210 is rarely stable, only on some occasion, even if im running my CPU volts at 1.6 (spec 1.5) i cant get a stable OC.
Ahh someone please help me or i will be driven insane!