New system won't POST

[moosey]

What do you mean its in the wrong slots? I want dual channel and when it initially posted it said put the sticks in slots 2&4 cause I originally had them in 1&3.

 

[Demo24]

Originally posted by: sirspotti
ram is in the wrong slots foooooool

if you knew something about the board then you wouldnt have said that


2& 4 are the correct slots

 

[Hugenstein]

When it gets stuck at 3 LEDs that is an issue with RAM. I am having that issue with some Kingston HyperX.

I was originally using some 2x512 Geil Ram in slots 2 and 4, but was having stability issues and the Geil could not complete memtest without errors. When I tried the Kingston HyperX(with the shipping BIOS), it would post, but during the post there was 3 loud beeps and the RAM timings were incorrect (like it couldn't read them off the DIMMs so it set some default values). I was never able to get into Windows with this RAM in slots 2 and 4. I updated to 310 Bios and had the same issue. I moved the RAM to slots 1 and 2(single channel) but at least its working and stable now.

Anyway have you tried just a single stick of RAM to see if that corrects the issue, or two sticks in single channel mode? At least that would verify that some incompatibility with the RAM is the problem.

 

[dodgybob]

If it's a ram issue then it may be because 2.7v still ain't enough. The ballistix requires 2.8v to run at stock:

http://www.crucial.com/uk/ballistix/store/partspecs.asp?IMODULE=BL6464Z402

 

[moosey]

Right now I have the Ballistix at 2.6v in slots 2&4. I got WinXP installed and right now things seem to be stable. I haven't messed with any RAM timing in the BIOS yet either. I did update to the most recent BIOS off the DFI site though.

This board is really weird in that fact that I don't know exactly what its problem was/is and how it fixed itself exactly.

 

[Demo24]

well change that to 2.8v!

 

[Waylay00]

What did you use to flash the BIOS? Winflash? AWDFlash on floppy? Bootable CD Image? I'm curious to know.

 

[CheesePoofs]

Originally posted by: Hugenstein
When it gets stuck at 3 LEDs that is an issue with RAM. I am having that issue with some Kingston HyperX.

I was originally using some 2x512 Geil Ram in slots 2 and 4, but was having stability issues and the Geil could not complete memtest without errors. When I tried the Kingston HyperX(with the shipping BIOS), it would post, but during the post there was 3 loud beeps and the RAM timings were incorrect (like it couldn't read them off the DIMMs so it set some default values). I was never able to get into Windows with this RAM in slots 2 and 4. I updated to 310 Bios and had the same issue. I moved the RAM to slots 1 and 2(single channel) but at least its working and stable now.

Anyway have you tried just a single stick of RAM to see if that corrects the issue, or two sticks in single channel mode? At least that would verify that some incompatibility with the RAM is the problem.

to get the HyperX ram working, you have to change the memory divider to something other than 1:1 (9:10 is the closest, so use that).

 

[moosey]

To flash I downloaded the .exe BIOS from DFI and just booted off that and it did it automatically. Before that I had only used Asus and their aflash, so this DFI thing was totally automatic.

 

[WildHorse]

Originally posted by: moosey
The system diagnostic lights come on and only get up to 3 showing that everything has power. It will not get to the 4th red light showing system start up.

You have it backwards. As it boots up it begins with 4 leds lit up, & as boot up progresses the diagnostic leds GO OFF.

4 leds=system start up
3 leds=CPU detected
2 leds=memory detected
1 led=video card detected
all 4 lights off=system boot up