Alright, I just had to RMA a bad Raptor drive and finally installed Windows XP and now have another problem with this board. I bought Corsair XMS PC3200 CL2-3-3-6 T1 timing memory with my board and installed it. At Auto setting, it puts the board at CL3-3-8-3-2T, which is obviously too slow. After installing the new bios, and all my drivers, I went into the bios to fiddle with the memory timings. I set them all to what they should be, and it wouldn't boot.
I cleared the CMOS by moving the jumper down a peg like it said in the manual. Reboot with jumper back on right and it sits at the logo screen for a very long time, until it finally lets me into bios, i start making safer and safer memory timings but none of them will boot. Finally I leave it as it is, (i keep clearing the cmos each time) however now the damn thing won't boot into Windows.
It was not an overheating issue or anything, I tried swapping DIMMS and trying one 512 mb module instead of 2. What it does is it will detect memory and IDE and sata drives fine, but then will hang there and very very slowly (5-8 minutes later) go to the next screen where sometimes it will say update success to the dmi thing or whatever it's called. Other times it will give me the windows error screen and tell me how i want to boot windows. Either way I will never get to the windows xp boot screen because the computer will reboot before it can.
I was having no problems before this and my psu is fine, heat is fine, and the memory (was) ok beyond being a lot slower than it should have been.
Any clues as to what's wrong, how to further diagnose, or preferably how to fix?
I cleared the CMOS by moving the jumper down a peg like it said in the manual. Reboot with jumper back on right and it sits at the logo screen for a very long time, until it finally lets me into bios, i start making safer and safer memory timings but none of them will boot. Finally I leave it as it is, (i keep clearing the cmos each time) however now the damn thing won't boot into Windows.
It was not an overheating issue or anything, I tried swapping DIMMS and trying one 512 mb module instead of 2. What it does is it will detect memory and IDE and sata drives fine, but then will hang there and very very slowly (5-8 minutes later) go to the next screen where sometimes it will say update success to the dmi thing or whatever it's called. Other times it will give me the windows error screen and tell me how i want to boot windows. Either way I will never get to the windows xp boot screen because the computer will reboot before it can.
I was having no problems before this and my psu is fine, heat is fine, and the memory (was) ok beyond being a lot slower than it should have been.
Any clues as to what's wrong, how to further diagnose, or preferably how to fix?