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Chaintech motherboard problems

zerocool84

zerocool84

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has anyone else out there had any problems with some of their ramslots not working on their Chaintech Nforce3 VNF3-250. only ramslot #1 works. when i put any kind of ram in slots 2 or 3 it either freezes or doesnt boot. i have 2x512 3200 kingston valueram and ive tried different sticks and switched them around. updated bios and everything and slots 2 and 3 do not work at all. i am 100% sure its the ram slots 2 and 3 not working #1 works perfectly fine. in the manual it says ram slot 1 supports 1GB and ram slots 2 and 3 support UP TO 1GB so im guessin that's 512 on each. just would like to know if this is a common problem before i RMA back it back because i dont want to run on only 512ram.
 
Well right now I'm having problems overclocking with the ram I just bought. Previously I had one stick of Infineon PC3200 ram in there and it overclocked nicely (at 4:5 ratio) to 246fsb and 2-3-3-6 timings I think, it was in the first bank. I got some OCZ PC4000EL 2x512 to put in, and I'm having troubles getting it stable. What bios are you using? I was using 2.0, but i'm up to the newest now.
 
im using 5.0 and im 100% sure its the memory banks 2 and 3. sometimes it would boot up and sometimes it wouldnt boot at all. when it would boot it would freeze so i'm going to RMA on monday and i googled it and i read about lots of people having problems with getting this to be stable with 2 sticks in it no matter wut they did to it, bump up the voltage, lower timings, everything so i guess this is a common problem with this board so i hope when i RMA this one it doesnt happen again. wonder if anyone else out there had this problem with this board also cus i dont want a piece of junk board
 
It's funny you would ask that, are your 2 sticks double sided?

I used to run this board with 2X doubled sided stick with a Newcastle A64 and it ram good BUT as soon as I put a sempron in there I could not get 2 stick to work on any of the slots.

The only thing that allowed me to boot with 2 double sided stick was flash the bios to the first release (with only 1 stick installed),if you must use 2 sticks & they are double sided then I sugest you try downgrading to the first release bios to see if that fixes your ram problem.
 
yea my sticks are double sided but damn i dont want to downgrade my bios cus i'll lose o/c features that they added to the newer releases but im going to give it a try thx for the advice man i dont want to have to buy new ram just for this mobo........
 
I'm using Kingmax DDR500 modules with the TSOP chips(not uBGA) and I've never flashed my BIOS so it dates back to 2004. According to Everest it's the 07/29/04 version.
 
ahaha yea flashing my bios to the first release worked but i was going to buy some new ram anyways so how would i know if it was single sided memory because ive never seen any described as single sided but i know they exist
 
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