Build issues

[Philip657]

Hey guys

(Sorry if this is the wrong section I think this is were this fits)

I am new to building my own pcs and I have encountered a few problems.

 

1. I have 4 sticks of ram to fit in (totaling 3gb) but if i try adding 3 sticks in i cant seem to get the computer to boot(3 out of the 4 red lights stay on)

All ram is the same and all working.

 

2. in device manager it has under other Ethernet controller and i cant seem to get this installed so both slots work.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated

 

Thanks Philip

[Guest SuppA-SnipA]

make a sig first

 

3 sticks of ram will not work

and for the ethernet controller, try installing the latest nforce 4 chipset drivers available off of nvidias site

[Philip657]

ok i will try the updates (are thease avalible on this website)

will 4 stcks of ram work or do i have to just use 2 sticks

 

Thanks Philip

[Guest SuppA-SnipA]

no they are on nvidias website, the updated ones

what u want is nforce 4 amd drivers

[Philip657]

just testing the updates now

 

what about the ram ?

[Philip657]

just tryed them new drivers and this did not help

 

any other ideas ?

[Sharp]

Hello,

 

What brand/model 400W power supply do you have?

 

The minimum requirement for this board is a 480W 24pin ATX v2.2 PSU with at least more than 30a on the +12v rail and from a reputable PSU manufacturer.

 

The 939 memory controller will not work with 3 sticks of memory.

 

You must match all the sticks and for the best possible performance use 2 sticks.

 

And value ram sometimes does not work until you adjust the memory timings.

 

What is the brand/model for your memory?

 

 

And you must plug all 4 power connectors into the board.

# 24pin ATX connector.

# 4pin +12v P4 connector, near the ATX connector.

# Floppy power connector, under the CPU socket.

# Hard drive power connector, on top the chipset fan.

 

 

 

 

 

[thefabe]

Please make a more detail sig. Brand names, model numbers really help. Ram, power supply and hard drives. And are the drives in a raid conf? If so what.

[red930]

Please see the PSU Recommendation thread for a proper PSU.

[Philip657]

right i will look into a psu

will this be whats stopping the eathernet from working ?

and are we saying the motherbored can only use 2 slots at a time ?

if so what couler slots are best 2 use ?

and all the power conecters are conected

 

thanks Philip

[thefabe]

The board can only run dual chammel with a 1T command rate on either the orange slots or the yellow. Most Ram prefers the orange slots however BH5 Ram seems to like the yellow. You can run all 4 slots but it requires a lot of effort and still only at a 2 T command rate single channel do yourself a favor and either run 2 x1024mb or 2 x512mb in the orange slots. Do a search I saw something on the hynix chippped ram. And until you meet the boards minimum requirement for power your going to have problems. Unstable system= Ram errors while installing windows = driver problems =non working controllers ect. http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread...ed+power+supply

[Philip657]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....rodid=CA-009-HP

 

 

would that be up for the job ?

 

its not on your list