sindustries Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 Over the past few days my computer had become less and less stable. I saw blue screens more often. I'm not much of a computer guru, but I managed to set this system up myself without too many problems. After setting the computer up it would get blue screens a lot. I thought it might be memory errors so I changed the two DIMMS from slots 1 & 2 to slots 1 & 3 and that seemed to fix things for a bit. I didn't, and still don't really, know the difference between running in dual or single channel. So today I get home from work and the computer is stuck at booting Winders XP. I restart it fine, but soon get a blue screen so I go to BIOS and not really knowing what to try, I set the memory voltage back down to 2.6V (I had originally bumped it up to 2.8V for the ballistix DIMMS). I save and exit and now the computer does nothing. It just beeps at me. It refuses to even give me the DFI Infinity screen. (as such, I cant check the BIOS to give you a date in my signature) So did I royally screw something up here, like my motherboard? Any help at all would be appreciated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daveandrew Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 Try resetting your CMOS on the board (jumper,Battery) did you go to the bios and "load optimized defaults". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sindustries Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 That did it. Thank you! I loaded optimized defaults. The only thing I changed was the voltage for the RAM, to 2.8V. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sindustries Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 I just woke up this morning and my computer was crashed and is in the same situation as stated above. And now clearing the CMOS doesn't seem to do anything. EDIT: OK after about 10 minutes of playing around with resetting the CMOS and turning on and off the computer I got the INFINITY flash screen once but it didn't go anywhere past that. I couldn't enter the BIOS. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltdown Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 Will the board boot up with just one stick of ram in? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sindustries Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 Yes it did. I had the DIMMs in slots 2 & 3. I changed them while playing around with things last night. I had meant to put them in 1 & 2 though. It did manage to boot once last night with them in slots 2 & 3, just not this morning. It does not boot with them in slots 1 & 2 though. After it booted with 1, I turned off and put the other into slot 3 and it booted fine. I'm obviously not understanding something with this memory business. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 You must be correct. I'm obviously not understanding something with this memory business. And search would have been better than swapping sticks and playing around. I just searched up this post where I tested 'again' some Crucial Ballistix for some other user. You might do well to follow along with that thread and 'my' posts to him since he seemed to do ok 'after' following what I told him to do. RGone... Yes it did. I had the DIMMs in slots 2 & 3. I changed them while playing around with things last night. I had meant to put them in 1 & 2 though. It did manage to boot once last night with them in slots 2 & 3, just not this morning. It does not boot with them in slots 1 & 2 though. After it booted with 1, I turned off and put the other into slot 3 and it booted fine. I'm obviously not understanding something with this memory business. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltdown Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 What Bios version you using? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelballzz Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 hi the first thing i learned here at dfi-street....ALWAYS qualify your ram with memtest....even before win install.... did u do that..? how many loops? good luck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sindustries Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 I just searched up this post where I tested 'again' some Crucial Ballistix for some other user. You might do well to follow along with that thread and 'my' posts to him since he seemed to do ok 'after' following what I told him to do. RGone... Is this the thread you are talking about? I'm going to have to go do some reading on this... I didn't check what my BIOS version was before leaving for work (at work now). Is there anywhere anyone can point me to for using memtest for the first time? Would http://www.memtest.org/ be a good place to start? This will probably end up being my weekend project, learning what I can about my memory. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelballzz Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 Is there anywhere anyone can point me to for using memtest for the first time? . go to bios into genie bios...bottom of the page ...memtest enable..and u r ready to go... :cool: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 Crap man I did not post link but you found it with search. Here is the first of that guys thread down to where I finally pulled the Ballistix out of another box where I put it to get it out of my way. http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread...ghlight=crucial RGone... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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