copied from general hardware thread hoping that i would get much more feedback, as i need to return things asap if i decide that i need to.
yes ive used the search button. but i still am unable to narrow down the problem enough. here is what has been going on. i recently received my dfi nf4 ultra-d board and built by ati x800xl. decided to borrow my friend's fortron 500w? bluestorm psu, the a64 s939 newcastle 3400+ @ 2.2ghz stock. thoroughly tested pqi turbo pc3200 stock rated @ 2-2-2-5. im absolutly sure that there isnt a problem with the ram, psu, and cpu, because ive been running the ram on my own rig and have had no problems since i received it like a month ago.
1) laid it out mobo on my case and plugged everything in, including the 12v pin connector, the 24pin connector to the mobo, a 4pin power connector onto the mobo, set both sticks in dual channel mode in the 2 orange slots. took off cpu from frnd's asus a8v, cleaned off the as5 with rubbing alcohol, and cleaned off the zalman alcu7000 hsf as well. placed some thermal goop onto the hsf, and spread evenly and thinly. next, placed goop on cpu and spreaded it evenly with an id card. locked in cpu and mounted hsf firmly and tightly. made sure x800xl was nicely fit in place. attached the rest of the necessary wires including the hdds. now when i formatted the first time, it crashed in the middle of the format
. so then i tried again, this time being able to finish installing windows. installed all the latest drives from the dfi site. what scared me a few times was that the chipset fan and the cpu fan stopped for a few moments, and then started spinning again, but at a very low rate. i notice that the fan always slows down after initial post. when i tried playing hl2, it crashed after a few mins in game. then i rebooted and ran prime95, and then it gives me the following errors (this is with the blending test btw, as it passes all the other ones).
despite the fact that i am running everything on stock settings, its still not stable. also, my 2 floppy drives just died out of nowhere. will a bios flash fix help with the errors? whats funny is that everytime i tried to install on my old 10 gig maxtor, it always gives me the BSOD during format or a little during copying setup files. this is giving me such a huge headache, i just wished that DIY systems werent so troublesome as this is my 2nd build and never have been able to get straight to desktop the first time without any problems. if for some reason the contact isnt sufficient enough on the hsf and cpu, it wouldnt cause any of these kinds of errors right? also, can everyone who has an ultra board please post everything that they did to to tweak it a little for stability even at stock specs?
thanks to all in advance.
yes ive used the search button. but i still am unable to narrow down the problem enough. here is what has been going on. i recently received my dfi nf4 ultra-d board and built by ati x800xl. decided to borrow my friend's fortron 500w? bluestorm psu, the a64 s939 newcastle 3400+ @ 2.2ghz stock. thoroughly tested pqi turbo pc3200 stock rated @ 2-2-2-5. im absolutly sure that there isnt a problem with the ram, psu, and cpu, because ive been running the ram on my own rig and have had no problems since i received it like a month ago.
1) laid it out mobo on my case and plugged everything in, including the 12v pin connector, the 24pin connector to the mobo, a 4pin power connector onto the mobo, set both sticks in dual channel mode in the 2 orange slots. took off cpu from frnd's asus a8v, cleaned off the as5 with rubbing alcohol, and cleaned off the zalman alcu7000 hsf as well. placed some thermal goop onto the hsf, and spread evenly and thinly. next, placed goop on cpu and spreaded it evenly with an id card. locked in cpu and mounted hsf firmly and tightly. made sure x800xl was nicely fit in place. attached the rest of the necessary wires including the hdds. now when i formatted the first time, it crashed in the middle of the format
. so then i tried again, this time being able to finish installing windows. installed all the latest drives from the dfi site. what scared me a few times was that the chipset fan and the cpu fan stopped for a few moments, and then started spinning again, but at a very low rate. i notice that the fan always slows down after initial post. when i tried playing hl2, it crashed after a few mins in game. then i rebooted and ran prime95, and then it gives me the following errors (this is with the blending test btw, as it passes all the other ones).
despite the fact that i am running everything on stock settings, its still not stable. also, my 2 floppy drives just died out of nowhere.
will a bios flash fix help with the errors? whats funny is that everytime i tried to install on my old 10 gig maxtor, it always gives me the BSOD during format or a little during copying setup files. this is giving me such a huge headache, i just wished that DIY systems werent so troublesome as this is my 2nd build and never have been able to get straight to desktop the first time without any problems. if for some reason the contact isnt sufficient enough on the hsf and cpu, it wouldnt cause any of these kinds of errors right? also, can everyone who has an ultra board please post everything that they did to to tweak it a little for stability even at stock specs?thanks to all in advance.
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