memory issues with the p35-ds3r

[boglwe]

I have been researching this for about a month now, and still no real cause of the following problem, only an assumption (other people have the same problem)

Regardless of overclocking or what OS you use, upon a restart or a cold boot, sometimes the mem does not get enough juice. Now, if it does, then it posts fine and no issues for say the next 500 hours. But, once you restart the comp or go from cold boot, then you can have this same issue. It does not happen all the time, about 30 percent of the time. I only know this because, I have the tracers with the LED's and they simply do not light up upon a resrt when the bios shuts down the system due to error. The other reason why I know this is becuase, while posting, it will freeze on mem check.

My question is this.... Can I send more juice to the mem upon a resrt or cold boot. I am already at 2.2v to the mem. I have foudn this to be a problem with the fans as well on this board, they simply do not get enough juice on start up. My friend has the same board, Rev. 2 and his CPU fan header does not send enough juice to kick start the fan, but if you nudge it, it will flow on its on. Does this board SUCK? or is there something I am missing?

 

[Cerb]

My fan (snigle, ATM) acts the same way. Maybe they use a PWM soft-starter. It does run at full speed once it gets going.

As to just not booting: you mention raising Vdimm: does it work OK with only two pieces of RAM installed, then, and it's just with 4 that it has problems, or not?

I'd love to say, "tried another power supply?" but if it is the PSU, it's a defective one.

So, bump.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Bump NB and SB. For best performance, stick with high quality 1.8V DDR2 800 RAMs. I like Kingston N5 1.8V DDR2 800 ValueRAM.

 

[boglwe]

THanks for the bumps so far and the information, I will leave it open for a while to find more info. As for the PSU, i would not be surprised, THis is the 4th Corsair I have had, and all of hem were horrible, 3 RMA's (they are really good about it though, Went thru 3 psu's in 1 week). That was with my old Corsair, but it was dying when I bought this PSU. I will try the NB SB trick.