Most frustrating build in years

[snowbound]

Just built a P55A-UD3 w i5-750 and Corsair XMS3 memory with Windows7 Home Premium 64 bit and it has one of most frustrating builds I have had in years. For some reason the system when sitting in Windows7 at the desktop idling the case speaker emits a single beep seeming randomly. For the thread on my timings see http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?p=435394#post435394 . I am not the only one having the same problem as there is a thread on the Gigabyte forums from someone with the same mb and memory and theirs is beeping http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=1150.new;topicseen#new ( I am the "frustrated" in that thread).

 

[brandonwh64]

RMA it

 

[snowbound]

It meaning the memory or motherboard?

 

[ekoostik]

Have you tried manually setting your RAM in BIOS? Set the SPD at 10, the timings at 9-9-9-24, the command rate at 2T, and the V at 1.64.

 

[snowbound]

Have you tried manually setting your RAM in BIOS? Set the SPD at 10, the timings at 9-9-9-24, the command rate at 2T, and the V at 1.64.

I had already set the Dram voltage at 1.64 but I also set the QPI to 1.21. I did not bother with manually setting the timinings nor the command rate at those since the BIOS and CPUID (screenshot was in the last post of the Corsair thread) appears to show that the the memory was running at 9-9-9-24.

 

[ekoostik]

Why set the QPI so high? My Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 shows a default of 1.1V.

Also, while troubleshooting it doesn't hurt to lock in the other RAM settings. I saw the screenshot: http://forum.corsair.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=6372&d=1263716214
But if you took the advice of the other poster in the corsair thread you turned on XMP, which means that screenshot isn't valid anymore. At least, not based on this: http://forum.corsair.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=6373&d=1263716269
While trying to stabilize the system, turn off XMP, set the SPD to 10.

 

[snowbound]

I turned on XMP but when it did not affect the BSOD or hibernation problem I turned off XMP in the Extreme Memory Area of the bios. When I set the The QPI was set that high because if I do not and leave it at 1.10 then Win7 BSOD. I just tried settomg QPI back to 1.1 after setting the other items to 9-9-9-24 Spd 10 and command rate at 2T and it BSOD on me within a minute of booting into Win7

 

[snowbound]

Well after putting QPI back up to 1.21 and hard coding the memory items that you mentioned the system still emitted the lone beep within a minute. If I let the system alone for a bit it will emit another beep.

 

[ekoostik]

Is this your RAM?: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145260

1.21 is the absolute max that intel lists for the QPI on their datasheet. If you are not overclocking you should probably try to stabilize the system with a much lower QPI. Have you overclocked or changed any BIOS settings?

Two things to try:
First, make sure your BIOS is up to date
Second, make a bootable CD of memtest86+ and run it to check for memory errors: http://memtest.org/

 

[snowbound]

Yes thats my memory. Bios is at F4 which is up to date according to Gigabyte's website and the first thing I did was to run memtest before changing any of these settings. Memtest ran over night and showed no problems. Not overclocking any BIOS settings other than the memory ones.

 

[ekoostik]

I don't know what else to suggest. Post the BSoD error and see if someone else knows. What does google say? You could reformat and reinstall Windows and see if it goes away, without installing any other software (assuming you've already installed some other software). If you have any miscellaneous components, unplug them and see if they're part of the problem. Any USB devices plugged in. Anything extra in the PCI slots.

It really could be anything. Hardware, software. Saw a couple guys earlier today who were getting BSoD because of Zone Alarm incompatibility with Win 7 64-bit. Of course they were getting further into their system than you are now.

Have you contacted Gigabyte support? Or if the place you got your components from has a good exchange policy take the motherboard back and exchange it. Of course if it's not the motherboard that's causing the problem, well I guess you'll know that then.

 

[snowbound]

Thanks for the help. Moved the QPI to 1.17 and it seems to be ok ie no BSOD. I contacted Gigabyte support via email and they were useless. I have been battling this computer for a week now. The BSOD was initally occurring even during Windows install process. This is the 2nd Ggiabyte motherboard I have gotten from them via courier. The first one had a busted heatsink.

BSOD is stop error 124. no additional devices plugged into the computer and only the EVGA GSO video card.

 

[brandonwh64]

I would send the board back and get another manufactures board like MSI/EVGA/Asus

 

[ekoostik]

In BIOS, under Advanced Memory Settings, try setting Performance Enhance to Standard (or whatever is the lowest setting.)

 

[ekoostik]

Saw on one of your other threads (you got this in a lot of places) that you were looking for older versions of the BIOS. There's a guy on tweaktown.com who stays up to date on beta releases and keeps a backlog of old BIOSes: http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/gigabyte-latest-bios-28441/

 

[ekoostik]

A couple things I've seen recently may relate to your problem. First, Vtt may need to be within .5 of the Vdimm or it won't boot stably. Since you're RAM is running at 1.65, this may be why you had to up QPI/Vtt to 1.17.

Also, BSoD 124 might be solved by raising the Vcore or the Vtt. So if you're still not happy with where things are you could trying raising Vcore a little.

Here's one source, granted it's talking about 1366: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/256021-29-core-overclocking-what

 

[snowbound]

ekoostik

Very much appreciate all the help you have given me regarding this. Just wished the heck I would of posted here earlier regarding this problem. I relied too much on Corsair and Gigabyte to help me. I had built this computer for some one and they needed it today. If it continues to be a problem I will see if I can RMA the Corsair memory and get another brand that is on Gigabyte's short outdated approved and list.

 

[ekoostik]

You're welcome. Good luck with it. If you do swap for new RAM, consider something that runs at less V. If the Vtt to Vdimm difference does have to be less than .5, then 1.5 V or even 1.35 V RAM would work better.

 

[ekoostik]

If you haven't seen this yet, there's new BIOS out for your board as of yesterday. F5c. One of the changes is 'Enhanced memory capatibility'.
http://www.gigabyte.us/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?ProductID=3254

 

[snowbound]

Will keep that in mind. However that is apparently a beta version so treat it as such. The person in the gigabyte thread (posted a link earlier) seems to have found that the beep does not occur once they disabled the "C3C6C7 Support State " in the bios.

 

[aigomorla]

umm sorry for the OT question..

But is your handle really imported snowbound?

Or is the imported portion a glitch in your name?
If thats a glitch, you can pm a admin and have them fix it for ya.

 

[snowbound]

Its a glitch in the conversion from last year. Have already posted in the forum issue section but have not heard back so far.

 

[Axon]

I have that board. Are both sticks in both white slots on the motherboard?

Otherwise, run memtest and figure out where the problem is, or you could RMA the mobo and the ram to be safe.

 

[snowbound]

The memory is in the slots indicated in the manual ie the 2nd slot from the CPU and its corresponding pair is in the other slot. The memory was tested overnight with memtst and showed no problems. I think its a combination of problems in that the memory was not able to run at default settings nor the XMP profile possibly due to the F4 Bios that the machine was flashed with. It appears that the "C3C6C7 Support State" setting in the bios was causing the beeping sound and memory problems according to "crazybones" in this thread:

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=1150.new;topicseen#new

I can not verify this as I had built this computer for someone and they are using it with the F4 bios and non stock voltage settings.

 

[jaggerwild]

Didn't read the whole thread but what power supply are you using?