x64 install - BSODs after loading drivers dyuring install

[rewen]

Hey guys.. I currently have XP Pro SP2 installed and working just great. I recently made a 2nd partition using partition magic. It's 10gb NTFS and I intended on dual booting XP Pro and XP Pro x64.

 

Well anyway The problem is that when I boot from the x64 CD it starts to load up the drivers and once that finishs the screen goes black for a second, then a BSOD will come up. It ususally says IRQL_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO (going by memory here, dont quote that) or PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. I think I've also had one about pci.sys and another file.

 

I've tried differnet CDs in different drives, even downloaded 2 different copies of x64 from the net just to see if it was the CDs.

 

I am not overclocking anything. The only card I have in my PC besides the vid card, is a D-LINK 510 airplus wireless G card. I've tried taking it out, no changes. I've even tried underclocking my RAM as I've know these nice blue screens to be RAM related in the past.

 

Any ideas?

[StephenC]

yep those are classic "ram" issues stop errors. So XP32 is running stable? Are you still flashed to bios ver 310? This is were it get's a little foggy for you. How bad do you really want to run XP64? I would suggest you flash to bios ver 623-3.

But you will need to decide that one. Like I said if your system is running sweet in XP32.....Your call. Another question for you...what is your dram voltage set to?

[rewen]

I forgot to mention.. it seems that with one of the cds I burned (or if i use x64 ide drivers on floppy i downloaded form another site) that i dont get a blue screen. The system just reboots on me...

 

I have the BIOS that's listed in my sig. And yep Win32 runs just great. No ram problems there.

 

Maybe I should also mention that I've barely been able to overclock this machine. I can get the HTT to maybe 215 at most, decently stable. I can't get Windows to load up all the way if it's anything higher. Tried higher voltages, lowering ram mhz, etc etc.

 

The ram is set to 2.6v currently I believe. It should be the default setting.

[dred]

Well i used to have memory that was rock solid stable on my old athlon 2000+. then i got memtest and it found 1 error or so every time i ran through 1 pass. However worked perfectly fine in windows XP.

 

Maybe when you decide to get some sleep you should leave your computer on all night running memtest? just to be sure no errors.

[rewen]

yea it's almost 2am im about ready to sleep now, i'll let it run that overnight. I'm not so trusting of this RAM anymore...

 

just some more info for the hell of it..

my ram is rated 2.5-3-3-6

Auto settings in the BIOS put it at 2.5-3-3-8

 

Manual setting of 2.5-3-3-6 works fine. Actually even 2-3-3-6 works fine..

[StephenC]

Ok try this. First go ahead and flash to bios ver 623-3. (Although beta bois 510-2 seems to work best with your RAM) Then set up your ram

 

1. Clear cmos (make sure unplug power cable to psu)

2. Boot and go into bios. Set to load optimized default

3. Save and reboot.

4. Go back into bios go into genie bios settings and make sure dim voltage is set to 2.6

Make the below changes.

CAS Latency CL=2.5

Ras# to CAS# delay tRCD 3

Min Ras# Active Time tRAS 6

Row Precharge Time tRP 3

Turn off cpu thermal throttling.

5. Save and reboot.

6. Run Memtest

[rewen]

I'll try that today asap, thanks..

 

I let memtest run last night for about 11hours and well I got 7000+ errors. I coudnt scroll the list but all the errors i could see looked like they were on channel one.

 

I lowered my RAM voltage to 2.5 after noticing tht the BIOS says 'DRAM 2.5 voltage' and so I figured maybe 2.5 was the default and not 2.6. Loaded up Win32 and it rebooted on me after it was almost done booting...

[rewen]

Hey!!

 

Well I dont know why the hell I loaded that 310 BIOS because this was only last week, the 623-3 would have been there and I must have been half asleep to choose the older one over the newer one..

 

but anyway..

 

downloaded

used nTune to flash and clear the CMOS

rebooted

used optimized settings

set the settings you said above

 

figured before I try a memtest I would try Win32 and it worked fine

tried installing x64 and it also worked fine!! i got x64 up and running first try no problems!

 

Thanks a lot man! I'll do a memtest later too to see if I have any errors like before.

 

So between the new BIOS, using optimized defaults (never did that before, left it all as auto, and this time i noticed lots of settings in the DRAM page were not auto) and the memory throttling setting, something seems to have fixed it!

 

Maybe I can get a better overclock now too.. i'll try that some other time

 

[rewen]

Another update..

 

XP x64 works fine

 

Ran memtest for an hourish and it did 4 passes without error

 

I can even overclock now! Before I was lucky to get anything above 1.9ghz from 1.8 stock. I'm now at 2.2ish ghz and haven't had to change anything but the DRAM voltage and ratio. 1:1 worked till 2ghz @ 235mhz HTT, DRAM voltage at 3.1v. i stepped the HTT to 245 and couldn' get the ram to hold it's own at 3.2v so put it to 9/10 ratio at 3v and so im doin good. I've just started so i'll let you know what i end up getting this thing to!

[rewen]

Another update (after this i'll just start editing my post..)

 

[edit] 300mhz HTT w/ CPU @ 2700mhz is the best I can seem to hold, which is fantastic in my opinion! Much better than an unsteady 210mhz HTT before the BIOS update :D

 

With stock cooling on the CPU and mobo, a case fan in the front and back of the case (sucking in from the front and out the back), and nothing fancy, here's what i'm at now (I think I'm near the limit). Keep in mind this is my first overclock ever and I am not 100% sure of what I'm doing:

 

HTT 305mhz

LDT 4.0x

DRAM 3/4 ratio

DRAM voltage: 3.2v

DRAM timings 2.5-3-3-8 (will try 2.5-3-3-6 and 2-3-3-6 later. I just decided to use what CPUZ has in it's table for 200mhz)

CPU multiplier unchanged at 9x

CPU voltage at 1.55v +110% (making 1.64v, and im pretty sure that's higher than im supposed to be going here but it's still running below 40 degrees)

 

This brings me to:

2.745ghz from stock 1.80ghz

DDR 456mhz from 400mhz

LDT 1220mhz from 1000mhz (probably lower this to 3x multipler later..)

 

I would have been happy with 2.2ghz, but now i'm REALLY happy!

 

Keep in mind I haven't done any prime95 stability testing or anything yet. I'm still going to push it a little further if i can!