Please advise...e4300 rig keeps getting blue screen of death

[slickr4]

core 2 duo e4300
gigabyte ds3 mobo (rev 1.33)
2gb ddr2800 ballistix ram
evga geforce 7600gt video card
serial ata 160gb maxtor hd
samsung pata dual layer burner
corsair hx520 520w psu

That's my rig...here are the error codes on the blue screen of death:

0x0000007B (0x0F78DA524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I GET THIS ERROR WHILE INSTALLING WINDOWS XP WHEN IT SAYS "SETUP IS STARTING WINDOWS"

These parts are brand new right out of the box...someone was telling me something about changing the memory voltage in the bios...but i didn't think i'd have to do that right out of the box...and i don't want to damage any parts.

Thanks for any advice you can offer...

-Rick

 

[myocardia]

You're going to have to go into the BIOS, and set your RAM ratio to 2x, and raise your vdimm by .3v, if you want to use that new system. You can leave everything else at Auto for now.

 

[o1die]

Before upping your voltage, try setting your timings manually. Regardless of what your memory is rated at, I would use cas 2.5 and command rate of 2T to get started. To access your gigabyte timings, you may to press "alt-f1" or "ctrl-f1" to get a special section of the bios to appear. You do this while in the bios screen.

 

[tomt4535]

Go into the bios and check if the SATA drives are set to ACHI mode(i think its something like that). If you want to continue using that mode, you need to tell windows to use the drivers(press F6 when the install starts), or just set them to IDE mode.

 

[slickr4]

Hey guys, not really sure how to mess around with those voltages/ratios etc...i'm going to tell you my bios settings, and hopefully you can tell me which ones represent the options you're telling me:

System Memory Multiplier (manual or auto)
High Speed DRAM DLL Settings (option 1 or option 2)
DRAM Timing Selectable (auto or manual)
CAS Latency Time (3,4,5,6...)
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay (5) auto
DRAM RAS# Precharge (5) auto
Precharge delay (tRAS) 18 auto
ACT to ACT Delay (tBRD) 3 auto
Rank Write To READ Delay 3 auto
Write to Precharge Delay 6 auto
Refresh to ACT Delay 42 0
Read to Precharge Delay 3 auto
System Voltage Control
DDR2 OverVoltage Control (Normal +.1v +.2v +.3v +.4v +.5v +.6v +.7v)

I think that's it...which options should i mess with for the timings?

-Rick

btw...my memory is rated @ 4-4-4-12 timings

 

[o1die]

These are the timings I use:

Cas# Latency 2.5 clocks
Ras# to Cas# delay 3 clocks
Ras Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (Tras) 6 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC) 10 clocks
Command Rate 2T
Dram Idle Timer 16 clocks

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: o1die
Before upping your voltage, try setting your timings manually. Regardless of what your memory is rated at, I would use cas 2.5 and command rate of 2T to get started. To access your gigabyte timings, you may to press "alt-f1" or "ctrl-f1" to get a special section of the bios to appear. You do this while in the bios screen.

hmm shows how much you know. Not to be a dick or anything but why are you giving advice? You honestly dont know what your talking about

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: slickr4
Hey guys, not really sure how to mess around with those voltages/ratios etc...i'm going to tell you my bios settings, and hopefully you can tell me which ones represent the options you're telling me:

System Memory Multiplier (manual or auto)
High Speed DRAM DLL Settings (option 1 or option 2)
DRAM Timing Selectable (auto or manual)
CAS Latency Time (3,4,5,6...)
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay (5) auto
DRAM RAS# Precharge (5) auto
Precharge delay (tRAS) 18 auto
ACT to ACT Delay (tBRD) 3 auto
Rank Write To READ Delay 3 auto
Write to Precharge Delay 6 auto
Refresh to ACT Delay 42 0
Read to Precharge Delay 3 auto
System Voltage Control
DDR2 OverVoltage Control (Normal +.1v +.2v +.3v +.4v +.5v +.6v +.7v)

I think that's it...which options should i mess with for the timings?

-Rick

btw...my memory is rated @ 4-4-4-12 timings

What is the temp of your cpu? Check that in the bios you may have a temp problem. And aslo the guy above talking about installing your SATA drivers could be right to i would check into that as well.

But changing your voltage a little bit will not hurt anything. But do check your temps first and maybe run your timings a litttle more relaxed maybe 5 5 5 12. but check out the driver issue for your SATA

 

[slickr4]

the SATA option is set to IDE...so that isn't the problem...temp isn't the problem either, I really have no idea what to play with as i don't want to do damage to my system...

 

[EvilRage]

Originally posted by: KeypoX

Originally posted by: o1die
Before upping your voltage, try setting your timings manually. Regardless of what your memory is rated at, I would use cas 2.5 and command rate of 2T to get started. To access your gigabyte timings, you may to press "alt-f1" or "ctrl-f1" to get a special section of the bios to appear. You do this while in the bios screen.

hmm shows how much you know. Not to be a dick or anything but why are you giving advice? You honestly dont know what your talking about

QFT. Cas @ 2.5 on DDR2? That won't even kinda work. OP, ignore this one for the sake of your board.

I backup the suggestion on increasing your RAM voltage, look up your memory and see what it's rated at, and increase it to that. Also note what timings its rated for, you can try those too.

 

[kmmatney]

You shouldn't have to up any voltages just to get started. Try creating a Memtest86 boot cd, and see if that passes OK. If Memtest passes with no errors, then your memory is probably OK. You can also try booting up with a Ubuntu CD, just to see if things are working properly. You may also want to see if any BIOS updates are available

I can tell you that I had a lot of SATA problems with my E4400. It took 3 motherboards (different brands/chipsets) before my 320 GB SATA drive finally worked, and even then I needed a BIOS update before things were stable. The error you are getting is usually an "Inaccessible Boot Device" error, so I would suspect something with the SATA...

 

[Puffnstuff]

While you were attempting to install windows did you hit F6 at the prompt to load the controller drivers?

 

[slickr4]

no i didn't hit f6...once i do what should happen?

 

[slickr4]

I press f6 to install third party scsi or raid driver and it does NOTHING...just keeps right on going to setup...do i need a disk or somethin?

 

[MarcVenice]

get ubuntu or hiren boot cd, start eliminating possible factors, like ram or HD. Also putting your memory settings at manual, at the rated speeds of 4-4-4-12 could help, maybe the mobo is messing up and not running them at the correct timings. Running memtest like suggested could rule that out too though ...

oh and I thought BSOD was usually memory, if not always. Another option is that you have bad ram, you could for example try booting with 1 stick plugged in, instead of two ...

 

[slickr4]

I ran memtest86 through twice...passed both times

I don't know how to change the timing settings on my board...i listed the bios options above, which ones do i change?

 

[kmmatney]

Do you have any old IDE hard drives around? I would try installing on that. If memtest ran through, then your cpu and memory are OK. although only using one stick is worth trying. I'm pretty sure it's a problem with your hard drive or SATA, though. The definition of this error is:

"0x0000007B
This Stop message, also known as Stop 0x7B, indicates that Windows lost access to the system partition during the startup process. This error always occurs while the system is starting and cannot be debugged because it generally occurs before the operating system has loaded the debugger. "

 

[kmmatney]

One other thing: Are you using a Windows XP CD with service pack 2 built-in?

 

[lopri]

Originally posted by: kmmatney
One other thing: Are you using a Windows XP CD with service pack 2 built-in?

 

[slickr4]

you think it could be my version of windows? i believe my version has sp2 (only have the disc now) but i'm not 100% sure. I can't run it IDE because my motherboard (ds3) only has 1 ide slot, and that's taken by my dvd drive...which i need to install windows lol

-Rick

 

[kmmatney]

Originally posted by: slickr4
you think it could be my version of windows? i believe my version has sp2 (only have the disc now) but i'm not 100% sure. I can't run it IDE because my motherboard (ds3) only has 1 ide slot, and that's taken by my dvd drive...which i need to install windows lol

-Rick

Master/Slave...At least to try out if an IDE drive works. Won't solve your problem, but will narrow down the root cause.

It could be your version of windows, you really want service pack 2 when installing SATA devices with a 965 chipset. Another thing to check are any jumpers on your hard drive to change the SATA compatiblity mode.

 

[slickr4]

I thought SATA required no jumpers?

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: slickr4
I thought SATA required no jumpers?

They require no jumpers for master/slave, since SATA has no master/slave configuration. But, all SATA 2 drives have SATA 1/ SATA 2 jumpers, because some motherboards don't work correctly with SATA2 drives.