GA-965P-DS3 Memory Error Beep

[sanjuro1984]

Hello, I just built a Core 2 Duo system with a 6320, 2 gigs of Crucial Ballistics Ram (dual channeled. The board I have is a GA-965P-DS3. The Bios is version F10. Anyhow, when I first boot the system, I get a long beep, then the regular BIOS Ok beep. The system runs fine with the exception of that funny beep. If I restart, it is not there. I have heard some things about this board and RAM not liking each other. One thing I did was turned the timmings down from 5-5-5-18 to 4-4-4-12. At one point I had to blank the BIOS and that stopped the beep for a bit, but it started back up again.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[mushroom3]

read your instruction manual

 

[mushroom3]

seriously

 

[sanjuro1984]

Oh gee, I didn't think of that. You know, those who act like dicks usually never get help with the ****** hits the fan. Sometimes, people throw ****** into the fan just to make a dicks life a living hell.

Anyhow, from my reading of the manual, it seems there are major inconsistencies with the manual and what is in practice. If there is some setting I'm missing or misconfigured (ie I set my timings to 4-4-4-12 via a good friends recommendation) I would love to know about it.

This board does some freaky things anyway, I am working on one issue at a time, next is to figure out why the FSB is set at 200 but the system runs at 266. Probably due to the voltage controls being set to manual by the board itsself!

 

[cprince]

I don't know about the beep; however, you have to enable the "CPU Host Clock Control" in order to control the FSB speed yourself(overclocking). The default is disable, and the motherboard manages the FSB based on the processor. Therefore, what it displays(200) is not the actual speed.

 

[cdfire]

Could be a long shot, but when you adjusted the timings did you adjust the voltage for the DDR also?

 

[cprince]

The board has an auto option that adjusts the voltage automatically. If you are not overclocking, then leave everything at auto. I have problems overclocking this motherboard for some reason.

 

[sanjuro1984]

Oddly enough cdfire, it was doing the beep before I changed the timings. I was hoping that setting the timings to something more stable would work. I left the option for the DDR voltage alone because, well, it looked bad. Nothing scares me more than a system on fire.

Question cprince. How did you overclock on your board? I would love to take my 6320 up to around 2Ghz just for a small performance boost and not have to worry about some games laughing at me.

Thx for the replies guys.
Sanjuro

 

[cprince]

CPU voltage: 1.35V
G(MCH) voltage: +.3V
FSB voltage: +.3V
memory voltage: +.4V (my memory can handle this high of a voltage, yours may not)
FSB: 333MHz
CPU multiplier: 9x (yours maybe different because you have a different processor)
Memory multiplier: 2.5x (that's 833MHz, your memory multiplier maybe different depending on how fast your memory can go)