Chaintech motherboard problems

[zerocool84]

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.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

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.

 

[zerocool84]

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

 

[Budman]

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.

 

[zerocool84]

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........

 

[Goi]

No problems here with 2 DIMMs.

 

[zerocool84]

wut kind of sticks are you using, also wut bios version are you using

 

[Goi]

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.

 

[zerocool84]

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

 

[Goi]

What new o/c features did they add? My old BIOS version overclocked just fine.