NF4 Ultra-D Problem

[Silver Fox]

Just helped a buddy set his rig up. The thing is not even posting. Any suggestions? At first I thought it was cause he had a venice 3500+, but I put my winny 3200+ in, and it still refuses to post. I don't even get a signal to the monitor. Any ideas? I know for a fact that:

 

Hdds are fine

CPU is fine

PSU is fine

Optical Drive is fine

 

Pretty much the only thing in question is the motherboard and perhaps the PCI card I'm testing with. Any ideas?

[StephenC]

This motherboard has 4 power connectors. 24 pin atx, 4 pin 12+, 4 pin molex, and fdd (floppy) Do have the PSU connected to all 4? Have you also tested with another PSU or visa versa? How many diag are on? Are the fans spinning up?

Also is your sig his spec's

[oliveryochest]

bios version????

[cpuz]

I'm confused which board you have....

 

Your thread title reads: "NF4 Ultra-D Problem"

 

Your signature reads: "DFI LP UT NF3 Ultra-D"

 

Your vid card is: "ATI Radeon X850XT PE 256mb AGP"

 

If you have an AGP card, I suppose you have the NF3 board.

 

Have you tried booting w/ just one stick of ram?

 

Please clarify based on above, what mobo you have. ty.

[technic58]

yea i would wonder the BIOS version. the DFI NF4 series has an issue with memory voltage for some reason. i had that problem...i had RAM that i wanted to OC, but the voltage was locked at 2.6vdimm...luckily my RAM could run at that voltage.

 

if u have 2 memory sticks, take one out and c if that works, someone told me that the problem only occurs when runnin dual channel, but im nto sure how accurate that is.

[cpuz]

@ technic58, please put your complete computer specs in your signature under "user cp" and welcome to the forums!

[technic58]

hey thanks for the welcoming ill try to put in my signature....

 

EDIT: ok there we go, theres my signature.

 

thanks

[cpuz]

good jog technic58! also, nice system specs there! :drool:

[technic58]

hmm...the Venice was kind of a budget build...the Turion64 one should b fairly interesting though.

 

well i dont want to derail this topic or anything.

 

thanks for everything, i hope to b a more active memeebr of this forum

[Louisville S]

I am having the same problem also, but I have one stick of ram (1 GB).

[technic58]

hmm...well it might not b the same problem. even so, check the default voltage of your RAM, and then check it against wat the BIOS has. if its lower, thats the problem and update the BIOS. if the voltages are right...we hav another problem.

[cpuz]

I am having the same problem also, but I have one stick of ram (1 GB).

try the pci-e video card in the second pci-e slot.