Please help me, this is very strange

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Hi all, i just bought this very nice board yesterday thinking that i would be up and running nicely, (my first dfi board) entering bios setup for the first time i was a bit confused with quite a few settings there...so i tried to put everything at default and standard clock speeds, and after the reboot, have set the pc to boot from cdrom with winxp sp2 inside the cdrom, it would detect the boot cd, i can hear the cd spinning up and being read from, there the screen just goes black and it stays there. Here are some of my settings which i have set in the Bios:

 

starting from Advanced chipset features:

 

errata 94: disabled (what is this?)

Errata 123: Auto: (What is this?)

Cpu spread spectrum: Disabled

Sata spred spectrum: Disabled

Pcie spread spectrum: Disabled

SSE/SSE3 instructions: enabled

cpu thermal thrlotling: disabled

memory hole for pci mmio: disabled

system bios cachable: Disabled

acpi srat: enabled

sli boradcast aperture: disabled

 

Integrated peripherals:

 

very straight forward here except for one setting: what is the Usb memory type? its set to SHADOW.

 

Pnp/Pci configurations:

 

Init display first: PCIEx

 

Now to the interesting part, Genie bios settings:

before i go on here, i have put the Geil's on bank 1 and 3.

 

FSB bus: 200 mhz

LDT/fsb: x 5.0

ldt bus frequency width; 16/16

cpu fsb frequency ratio: x 12.0

pci express frequency: 100mhz

cpu vid startup value: startup

 

readings here:

cpu core: 1.40V

ldt bus: 1.24V

chipset volate: 1.54V

Dram 2.5V volate: 2.66V

 

cpu vid control: auto

cpu vid special control: auto

ldt voltage control: 1.20v

chipset voltage contro: 1.52v

dram voltage control: 2.71v

 

pci express configuration: 2-1-1-16

dual nv chip card support: disabled

mac lan: auto

mac media interface: pin strap

machine mac address: disabled

mac lan boot rom: disabled

internal phy sata 1/2: enabled

internal phy sata 3/4: disabled

sil3114 s-ata raid control: disabled

via 1394: enabled

marvel giga lan: disabled

run memtest: disable

 

now to the Dram configuration

Dram frequency: by dram spd value (i have also tried 200=ram/fsb:01/01)

command per clock: enable

cas latency control: 2.0

ras to cas delay: 03 (also tried 02)

min ras active time: 05

row precharge time: 03 (also tried 02)

row cycle time: 12

row refresh cyc time: 17

row to row delay: 03

write recovery time: 03

write to read delay: 02

read to write delay: 03

refresh period: 3120

write cas latency: auto

dram bank interleave: enabled

 

dqs skew control: auto

dks skew value: 0

dram drive strength: auto

dram data drive strenght: auto

mas async latency: auto

dram response time: fast

read preamble time: auto

idlecycle limit: 256 cycles

dynamic counter: disable

R/W queue bypass: 16x

bypass max 07x

32 byte granularity: disable (4 bursts)

 

I have tried these settings with the official latest bios and the beta 'enhanced memory support bios' i am using the beta still right now.

[boatasiaus]

First of all, you need to follow the build guide here http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6615 .

 

Then when the rig is up and runnng, read the overclocking guide here http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20823

 

Good luck

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I re-installed the original bios (2005/11/02)

 

i followed the build guide, and i get the exact same thing, a black screen (monitor is not off though) the black screen comes after post and the rectangular window which shows slots taken up by hardware and irq's...it says 'boot cd' it read the windows cd, and there the screen goes black and stays like that. i have to switch off the pc. WHAT IS THISSSSSSSS :confused:

 

i even tried one stick of ram on dimm1. always the black screen coming up.

 

note: i have tried both combinations: dimm 1&3, and dimm 2&4 and get black screen on both.

[StephenC]

Ok, Check your CD. Also do you have access to another CD/DVD drive?

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Its the original cd!

[light]

Cancel that...this is strange indeed, the dvd-rom would not load it, but now i put it in the nec dvd-recorder and it started...this is a first for me. i'l keep posting to see what happens after installation of windows. Thanks

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system is now freezing on the create partition screen where you input how big the c: drive will be.

[StephenC]

Have you run memtest on your RAM?

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yes, sometimes during the test, it would freeze, some other times i would get a big list of red listings underneath and then it would freeze..is this a bad memory stick or settings in the bios?

[repoman]

Run memtest with each stick individually. If one fails and the other doesn't, then you have one bad stick.. if they both fail it's most likely a BIOS setting

 

Let us know so we can give you some settings to change if they both fail.

[Guest Ryn]

yes, sometimes during the test, it would freeze, some other times i would get a big list of red listings underneath and then it would freeze..is this a bad memory stick or settings in the bios?

those red list are memory errors. try changing your ram on different slots and if it still has errors you have no choice but to replace them.

[StephenC]

Do as repoman said.......If you are not able to run memtest with zero errors, then don't even think about installing your OS.