jmacdonald801 Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 I recently discarded an Asus A8N-SLI and purchased this Lanparty UT NF4 SLI -DR Expert board. I have been using two 1 GIG sticks of Patriot memorry in a dual channel configuration for some time on the Asus board but it refuses to work on the new DFI board. The memory model is PEP1G3200LL. It's low latency ram, for what it's worth. The problem is quite baffeling to me. It won't recognize the two sticks in either slots 1 and 3, or 2 and 4. However, it can recognize ONE stick, either one, in single channel mode in slot 2 only. So why not both sticks in dual channel mode??? The other odd thing is that I got a hold of and older DDR400 Corsair module and it "sometimes" works in slot 2. It works 1 out of 5 boot attemps. The bios gets as far as displaying the processor type but gets stuck right before the part where it displays the memory detected and jut hangs. Now the patriot ram doesn't do this when "one" stick is installed in slot 2, but it bluescreen windows or reboots during windows loading up. The 3rd piece of memory I tried was generic DDR400, I don't know what brand it is, it didn't have any heat spreaders or anything. That apparently worked in slot 2, at least as far as detecting the memory, I didn't actually boot windows with it. I don't know what to make of this... I've tried using default settings, everyhting set to auto, and that's only when I can get as far as getting into the bois. I'm wondering if this board is toast. How could it possibly be that problematic to detect ram? I also only currently have the video card installed, also did not install the audio module. Thought I would throw that in here before anyone asks me what sound card I'm using, because i'm not. I immediately removed everything I didn't need to try to get the system to boot. -James Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 use one stick in orange slot furthest from cpu and boot up, delete key into BIOS and set to factory defaults, save exit and power down. add second stick in orange solt, reboot into BIOS and set your timings, enable memtest and see where you are at. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmacdonald801 Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 use one stick in orange slot furthest from cpu and boot up, delete key into BIOS and set to factory defaults, save exit and power down. add second stick in orange solt, reboot into BIOS and set your timings, enable memtest and see where you are at. Set my timings as opposed to what... default or auto? I'm particularly ignorant on this next point. I can see on my stick of memory that the timings are in parenthesis and say (2-3-2-5) but I don't know which particular timings those match up to in the Genie Bios. -James Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
21Motorcraft Posted December 30, 2006 Posted December 30, 2006 Read the recommended memory thread here.....It may shed some light on some things for you... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmacdonald801 Posted December 30, 2006 Posted December 30, 2006 Read the recommended memory thread here.....It may shed some light on some things for you... Thats fabulous, but I want to make the board work with the Ram I already have before I run out and blow $300 on some high end DDR. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmacdonald801 Posted December 30, 2006 Posted December 30, 2006 use one stick in orange slot furthest from cpu and boot up, delete key into BIOS and set to factory defaults, save exit and power down. add second stick in orange solt, reboot into BIOS and set your timings, enable memtest and see where you are at. I finally got in to the bios and manually set the memory settings. It still won't boot in Dual Channel mode. I even relaxed the settings. It seems to be getting worse. I borrowd 512MG DDR 1 Corsair CMX512-3200C2PT. Last night I was able to at least get the the processor identification part of the bios startup with this stuck in DIMM2 (orange farthest from the CPU) but now it won't boot with the corsair at all. How could this thing actually not detect memory like this nice stick of corsair? I know the Corsair works, and the patriot for that matter because they came out of perfectly working PC's. Now it gets wierder. The only combination of memory the system will start up at all is with my 1GB patriots sticks in DIMM1 (yellow) and DIMM2 (orange). It won't startup with just one of them in any slot! When I say won't startup, I mean the diagnostics LED is stuck on 3 LEDS (can't detect memory) and never even gets a chance to use the memory timings as far as I can tell because it never gets past a black screen. I read people having issues with this PEP1G3200LL on nforce 3 DFI boards but at least they were able to relax the timing and get it to run. I've tried increasing the voltage too, but again, it never gets into the bios boot screen at all, it can never physically detect the memory. I understand Patriot ram is not well liked but in this case not even being able to get good Corsair memory to work, the board has to be toast. I'de like to verify that ultimately, I should be putting these dual sides DIMMS in row 2 and 4 (orange). That's what it says in the manual for better stability. -James Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrLazy Posted December 30, 2006 Posted December 30, 2006 Chill dude, Pull the plug, and clear cmos, then try to boot with 1 stick, what did u set the timings and voltage at? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loggan26 Posted December 30, 2006 Posted December 30, 2006 Thats fabulous, but I want to make the board work with the Ram I already have before I run out and blow $300 on some high end DDR. Dont we all ....for a start a quick search in the SSDB and the OCDB for your mem and similar settings and i get these. OCDB (Overclocking Data Base) http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/search.php?searchid=1291328 SSDB http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/search.php?searchid=1291344 Have a look at some of the users results and try and use someones settings that are as close to your own setup as possible. One other thing from your sig your running a 7900GTX which is a bit of a power hog and your running a Thermaltake 500W if its this one then fine Thermaltake W0057 PurePower 500W, but if its not i would maybe think of an alternative psu...it might save you major headache down the road. Logan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmacdonald801 Posted December 30, 2006 Posted December 30, 2006 Chill dude, Pull the plug, and clear cmos, then try to boot with 1 stick, what did u set the timings and voltage at? Did that, set timings to 2.5-3-3-6 insteead of 2-3-2-5 as specified by Patriot. Voltage is set to 2.71 with no positive effect. If the boot process never gets as far as the bios screen, as in my case, where 3 LEDS are lit up and it's black screen, then it's my interpretation that the system never even has a chance to read those bios settings anyways. When it get to the point of displaying your memory settings, then it has been able to read and set those settings. Is this correct? Because I can't ever get any screen to come up at all unless I put those dimms in dimm 1 and 2. I just get the loooooooooooooong beeps. What I'm thinking if the board is just beeping at me, then the settings are irrelevant because it can't detect the memory at all. -James Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loggan26 Posted December 30, 2006 Posted December 30, 2006 You have to boot with one stick, set timings that work (triall and error) save and try with 2 sticks. Logan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmacdonald801 Posted December 30, 2006 Posted December 30, 2006 You have to boot with one stick, set timings that work (triall and error) save and try with 2 sticks. Logan Wouldn't boot with one stick of either Corsair or Patriot. Only with DIMM1 and DIMM2 populated. Would not work with any single stick in any slot. This was the only way I could get into the bios. Oddly the system actually seems to boot this way. I changed the settings but since i'm getting the long beebs and no screen (with memory in 2 and 4, or 1 and 3) I don't think it's going to make any difference because it can't start up at all (long beeps). -James Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praz Posted December 30, 2006 Posted December 30, 2006 Do a CMOS clear as outlined in the link in my sig. When you reboot do so with one stick in the orange slot furthest from the cpu. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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