Guest taG Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 well check out your rails with a multimeter or BIOS (haven't looked at boards bios, but pretty sure it has that info) Post up. When you said it's stable at 240 mhz with 3.2volts is that confirmed with memtest? How long did u run it for if you did. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sealion Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 well check out your rails with a multimeter or BIOS (haven't looked at boards bios, but pretty sure it has that info) Post up. When you said it's stable at 240 mhz with 3.2volts is that confirmed with memtest? How long did u run it for if you did. Rails are 12.03 in bios but I've read that we cant trust software reading. It was stable at 240mhz in my other setup. In this setup I'm running it at stock speeds and stock timings. I just want to install windows... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowboy Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 Have you gone into bios and run memtest? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reinvented Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 If in fact it's Value Ram, look elsewhere. Value Ram doesn't play nicely on the DFI boards. They require something with better chips. Remember, Value memory is just IC chips from specific lines that doesn't pass the speed binning process and doesn't meet the standards. So, maybe it's time to look up some better memory for your system. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wevsspot Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 The MushkinBlue is indeed value RAM. While you may be able to get it to work at extremely relaxed timings, I wouldn't recommend it for your rig. Spring for some quality RAM as outlined in the recommended memory section here at the Street. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
highvaluetarget Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 I had similar problems that were driving me crazy and it had to do with the s-ata card drivers for my maxtor 250 gig hard drive. I used maxblast 3 and I had a bad install and no matter what I tried or how many times i flipped the cmos jumper or reformatted the hard drive I got the same blue screen at startup. I could install windows but not run it. I finally made a maxblast installation disk for a floppy using maxblast4 and and ran it and it cleared the problem. I also had blue screen blues when I tried to install halflife2. It totally borked my system but I reset the cmos jumper, got to safe mode and reinstalled the nv4 chipset drivers (6.70). It worked. Good luck! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDog69 Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 As another shot in the dark, its always worth while to remove/reseat all memory, connectors, etc. Could be something as simple as a loose/suspect connector on one of your HD's. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sealion Posted December 21, 2005 Posted December 21, 2005 Well I swapped the DFI IDE cable with a better one. Seemed to have solved the problem. My brother is using the DFI IDE cable now and is skipping pretty bad in counter strike source. Another problem is it taking forever to open things on his backup hard drive (The DFI IDE cable is connected to it) I always thought ram was just ram; if you dont intend to oc the memory itself then value ram should be no problem. Thanks all for your input Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wevsspot Posted December 21, 2005 Posted December 21, 2005 I have a rule of thumb . . . cables supplied with motherboards go in a box. I pick out cables from my own stash of "known" good cables. Then when I'm really bored I go and test to see if the "brand new" cables are any good. Nothing worse than boogering with a system for days only to find out that your "brand new" in the box IDE or SATA cables were defective. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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