EVGA 730a Motherboard

[steelodon]

I have an EVGA 730A motherboard with a Geforce 8800GTS 640MB and 4GB DDR2 memory. Two of the DIMMs are Crucial 4-4-4-12 and the other two are Patriot 4-4-4-12. Now I'm getting occasional blue screen issues. Playing TF2 feels like I am going in slow motion. Batman: AA? Forget about it. Any video files that I have saved will not play. They simply freeze in WMP and VLC Media Player. Even music files are choppy when played. Any suggestions? Currently using an AMD Phenom II x4 920 as the CPU.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I have an EVGA 730A motherboard with a Geforce 8800GTS 640MB and 4GB DDR2 memory. Two of the DIMMs are Crucial 4-4-4-12 and the other two are Patriot 4-4-4-12. Now I'm getting occasional blue screen issues. Playing TF2 feels like I am going in slow motion. Batman: AA? Forget about it. Any video files that I have saved will not play. They simply freeze in WMP and VLC Media Player. Even music files are choppy when played. Any suggestions? Currently using an AMD Phenom II x4 920 as the CPU.

Other than what follows, I'll pass on this since I've stuck exclusively to Intel CPUs. Do the voltage requirements for the two kits match? Or do you have the mobo RAM voltage set to Auto?

Mixing RAM kits is not a good idea. Yet -- I am doing it with one of our machines. BUT! The two kits are both G.SKILL, and both the voltage and timing specs overlap at the same speeds. I took the chance, and it worked fine. But, frankly, I wouldn't feel comfortable at all mixing two RAM kits by different manufacturers. What's more, the kits are rated as DDR2-900 and -1000 respectively, and I'm running them together at DDR2-800 with the looser timings common to both kits.

Perhaps you'd best test each RAM stick one at a time in single-channel mode, if you can't resolve this problem according to my first paragraph.

 

[tweakboy]

Well how did this start happening ? When was the box working good and TF2 was fast ?


Stuttering sound or 5fps .

Can you try another video card ? It could be the PSU not providing the voltage OR the mobo not giving out the voltage...

This can be mobo just as much as it can be video card or PSU. Fill in your specs, also raise timings put a proper voltage and let us know.

 

[steelodon]

Well how did this start happening ? When was the box working good and TF2 was fast ?


Stuttering sound or 5fps .

Can you try another video card ? It could be the PSU not providing the voltage OR the mobo not giving out the voltage...

This can be mobo just as much as it can be video card or PSU. Fill in your specs, also raise timings put a proper voltage and let us know.

Well here are the specs:

AMD Phenom II x4 920
EVGA 730a Motherboard
4GB DDR2-800 (Crucial 2x1GB 4-4-4-12 @ 2.0V and Patriot 2x1GB 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1V)
Nvidia (Point of View) Geforce 8800GTS 640MB
OCZ 600W Power Supply
WD Green 640MB
Coolermaster Elite 330

 

[steelodon]

Looked at the BIOS and it shows the RAM in Unganged Mode. Ran MemTest and no errors appeared. Ran a video stress test and no errors appeared for the video card either.

 

[steelodon]

I'm going to wipe the PC and reinstall Windows. I ran Ubuntu from a USB drive and everything appears to check out

 

[Fox5]

Ugh, I had that board, nothing but problems. It was incompatible with Windows 7 iirc, and the integrated graphics caused all sorts of problems.

 

[steelodon]

I know the integrated graphics are crap on my board. The HDMI port makes the screen go blank every few seconds. Now Windows 7 is giving me all kinds of errors. Media hardly plays at all from this board. Going to test another AMD board to see if this board is causing my current issues.

 

[WT]

I bought 2 of those boards, one ran fine but the second had the PS/2 ports die on it a year ago. It works fine with a USB kb and mouse, but you really need to see what file is referenced in the BSOD to troubleshoot this further. When booting up the PC, tap 'F8' and set it to not automagically restart on a BSOD. Then you can see what file is calling the BSOD. Example:

'NV_4disp.dll'

I mention this file specifically since I had a video driver update pushed to my Win XP box last week as a 'critical driver update' from MS, and they rarely if EVER push a hardware driver update to the end user. You may want to see if it did in fact update your graphics driver and perform a driver rollback to see if that helps.

I see this thread is a bit dated, but in case anyone else happens upon it, I might as well contribute.

 

[steelodon]

I have added a Geforce 550 TI, re-installed Windows 7, and some of the same issues are occurring.