roadzy Posted February 3, 2005 Posted February 3, 2005 As you can see my specs below.... I have all the defaults set in the bios and this started happening (or when i noticed at least) while trying to overclock my pc. This happens when windows boots and right after the winxp screen, its just black. I have the corsair ram with the lights... nothing moves on the lights. Now it boots no matter at what speed the cpu is at in to safe mode. So I was thinking of course it must be a driver issue, so I uninstalled the drivers with drivercleaner and then I reinstalled them. Didn't fix it. It still occationally did that. Sometimes it would just seem to sit there and lock up and other times it would sit for a little bit and then finish loading. I saw some new beta drivers were released so I was going to try them and in the process of cleaning the old drivers out I got a blue screen everytime i booted so I decided to go for the fresh install. So I got a brand new install and 2nd boot seem to lock up. Any suggestions? :cool: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpuz Posted February 3, 2005 Posted February 3, 2005 As you can see my specs below.... I have all the defaults set in the bios and this started happening (or when i noticed at least) while trying to overclock my pc. This happens when windows boots and right after the winxp screen, its just black. I have the corsair ram with the lights... nothing moves on the lights. Now it boots no matter at what speed the cpu is at in to safe mode. So I was thinking of course it must be a driver issue, so I uninstalled the drivers with drivercleaner and then I reinstalled them. Didn't fix it. It still occationally did that. Sometimes it would just seem to sit there and lock up and other times it would sit for a little bit and then finish loading. I saw some new beta drivers were released so I was going to try them and in the process of cleaning the old drivers out I got a blue screen everytime i booted so I decided to go for the fresh install. So I got a brand new install and 2nd boot seem to lock up. Any suggestions? :cool: So is your board still overclocked? You say that you noticed this when trying to overclock. Is that correct? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadzy Posted February 3, 2005 Posted February 3, 2005 I have all the defaults set in the bios nope the first time it happened i reset everything.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpuz Posted February 3, 2005 Posted February 3, 2005 nope the first time it happened i reset everything.. So I suppose it is still happening. What slots are your memory in? if 1 & 2, try 1 & 3. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadzy Posted February 4, 2005 Posted February 4, 2005 1 & 3 are what they are in... i posted on corsairs forums once i got the motherboard to make sure i was getting the best performance out of them so they are in 1 & 3 but i didn't set the timing to what they told me to yet because making them lower isn't going to help this problem... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpuz Posted February 4, 2005 Posted February 4, 2005 1 & 3 are what they are in... i posted on corsairs forums once i got the motherboard to make sure i was getting the best performance out of them so they are in 1 & 3 but i didn't set the timing to what they told me to yet because making them lower isn't going to help this problem... Try and populate slot 1 & 2 and load optimized defaults in bios. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted February 4, 2005 Posted February 4, 2005 Try and populate slot 1 & 2 and load optimized defaults in bios. Don't forget to qualify your RAM in the new slots with memtest. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpuz Posted February 4, 2005 Posted February 4, 2005 Good point, ExRoadie, if you are using a beta bios like 10/15 oskar, memtest is built into the bios. Simply enable it and reboot. It will automatically start memtest 86. Let this run for at least 4 passes. Press escape to exit memtest and it will reboot. Again hit del at bios splash screen (if you have it enabled) go back into bios and disable memtest. save and reboot into windows....(hopefully) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted February 4, 2005 Posted February 4, 2005 always clear CMOS as per this post in the stickies: http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.p...702&postcount=4 then Load Optimized Defaults, save & exit, then reboot again. Try a single stick at a time and see what happens. If both sticks work by themselves but not together, then I would start looking at the cpu, as the memory controller on the cpu is probably the culprit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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