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No boot-up with 4x1 GB on P5B Deluxe Help Needed

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Gorgon   07-31-2009 at 05:43:05 PM

Hi. I have a P5B Deluxe board that I assembled into a PC two years ago. I had 2x1 GB or Corsair DDR2-800C4 and it worked just fine.

I just bought another twin pair of Corsair DDR2-800C4 but the PC doesn't boot up. It either remains black with no activity, or a splash Azuz image shows up but freezed. I managed to make it work with 3 sticks but not with the four.

Sometimes it tells me during start up that my "overclocking sets are wrong" or something like that and it doesn't go past that. I did have two profiles saved on my board, one of them an overclock profile. I now have the bios set for depault and I have updated the BIOS because I read that some memmory problems had been solved with the latest versions.

Maybe there is a problem with my saved profiles? I have now both saved with default settings because I cannot erase the profiles. Do I need to clear the CMOS or something like that?

Any help would be extremely welcome.

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fpsdominator   07-31-2009 at 06:26:29 PM
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I would try:

1: clearing the cmos

2: update the bios

3: test each stick of ram individually in memtest...

other than that you might have a problem with your memory controller


Message edited by fpsdominator on 07-31-2009 at 06:28:05 PM
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MMclachlan   07-31-2009 at 06:48:37 PM
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Check your memory specs because it is likely to be a voltage issue.
If it is this stuff for example:
http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets [...] 6400C4.pdf
you will need to manually set the vdimm to 2.1v to get all four sticks to work.
... so put 2 sticks in, set the voltage, then put the next 2 in...


Message edited by MMclachlan on 07-31-2009 at 06:49:48 PM
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Gorgon   07-31-2009 at 07:27:00 PM
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fpsdominator:

I already had updated the Bios and the mem modules and slots are fine.



MMclachlan:

I'll try that.

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Gorgon   07-31-2009 at 08:08:36 PM
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Didn't work. Remains dead...

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MMclachlan   07-31-2009 at 08:15:16 PM
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The other thing to try is upping the voltage on the northbridge. This is normally called NB voltage on Asus boards. Not sure what the default voltage is for a 965 chipset - think its around 1.25v, but try upping this in increments up to about 1.35v and see if you have any joy. Keep the ram volts at 2.1v.

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Gorgon   07-31-2009 at 08:46:18 PM
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OK, I'll try that later. I will also retry checking both mem sticks again just in case I made a mistake while trying both before.

Thank you.

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