This reply was moved posted here in a new thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1735823&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1735823&enterthread=y
Second, 1gb sticks are still way too flaky with these boards. I have Kingston HyperX DDR 533 (256mb) x 4 sticks, Corsair 3200C2LL (512mb) x 4 sticks, Crucial Balllistix DDR500 (1gb) x 2 sticks, and probably 5 other brands of memory including Corsair 1gb value series and Kingston ddr400 512mb value ram. My present machine is A8N-SLI Premium, 4400+ X2, 2x1gb Crucial DDR500, BFG 7800GTX OC x 2 (sli), PC Power & Cooling SLI supply, and a Lian Li case. Also Seagate 400gb x 3 SATA 2 (nearline) hd, Plextor 716AS Optical, and some other misc. stuff. My machine ran great for about 2 months, and then it would do a series of spontaneous crashes, followed by a series of beeps, beeeeeeep, beep beep, beeeeeeep, beep beep. I removed a video card, changed bios settings including memory settings, and still having instability.
Originally posted by: The Blue Factor
i can what your tring to say but tell me if this makes sense.
so today i was just im my usual tweeking mode cause i just want to get this thing stable already so i set my rig to 2.4 240 mem. runs fine. like a champ with 3-3-3-8 settings. so what i dont understand is when i run it at 2.66 how come i cant run the mem at 221.6 like you had said. very very confusing.
oh and to make things worse my computer does random shutdowns. like ill be doing things like burning 2 disks and listining to music and when the song changes. bam dead. so i thought it was the OC so i dropped everything back to default and did the same exact thing and bam did it again just died. tried to think of somethings that i have done lately and all i did was flash bios to 1009, update driver for video and sound. right now im thinking about CMOS my board and starting all over with a fresh OS. seems like once i get it stable 2 weeks later something bad happens and i have to start all over again. this will be my 6th time reloading my OS. pretty gay.
does anyone know what is up with my USB ports? why they dont work?
!?!?!?!SUPPORT THE TROOPS!?!?!?!
29TH BCT, IRAQ
Originally posted by: wanderer27
First off, I'd make sure all the auto OC options are off/disabled in BIOS - there's about four or five of them.
I'd start off with manually setting your Memory Timings as well - go with loose timings until you get OS and Drivers installed.
IDE, SATA, or both ?
Maybe a few more System specs/components ?
Originally posted by: wanderer27
You said you're not using a SATA or an IDE Drive, but you say you've got an offboard SATA controller and five SATA Drives ? Why not use the onboard controllers ?
I'm assuming you're Booting off the SCSI ? If that's the case, I'd remove/disable all the other Drives and install the OS & Drivers on the Boot Drive. Once that's up and running, hook up your other Drives and I would think you should be fine.
Originally posted by: FirenzeL
ok, I got this mobo for X-mas, and had a wee problem with a BIOS update, in which my BIOS deleted, then my PC promptly crashed... not good... anyway, it'll be back with me in a very short time, and i want to know, if i use my RAM, which i did have severe problems with too start, and then i think it was my RAM that caused my PC to crash during Flashing, and try and Flash with a modified bios to provide the power for it, will my computer still crash after flashing??