vesuvius333 Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 Built system in sig about a month ago. Was running it with some old crucial 2700 ram from another computer. Recently received 1 gb of OCZ gold memory, put it into my machine and it came upon the windows screen and restarted and continued in a rebooting loop. Cleared the CMOS for 5 minutes and put it back in. Restarted computer and it said Cmos checksum error i pressed f1 and everything seemed dandy. Played some games last night for a couple of hours with no problems. Try putting on computer today and i can't get into windows. I see the lanparty screen and i can go into the bios, but as soon as this finishes the screen is just black. Also there are four red leds. Computer was running beautifully with the old ram for about 2 weeks. I also tried putting suggested ram settings into the bios from this website with the ram that i bought. What do you guys think is the problem? Would a reformat help or should i flash a new bios? :confused: Thanks a lot for any help. AMD 64 3700+ San Diego OCZ Gold Series 1GB OCZ PowerStream 520W DFI Lanparty UT Ultra-D Seagate 160GB PATA Drive Evga 6800 gt 256mb Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenC Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 First create a signature go here http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/usercp.php? Ok do you have 1 1gb stick of ram? Or 2x512mb (matched dual channel) What bios ver you are using? Have you connected all 4 power connections to motherboard? http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.p...76&postcount=95 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpuz Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 what bios version are you on? put it in your signature too. 5-10 and higher offers support for that cpu. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vesuvius333 Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 how would i know what version of the bios i have. I know i flashed one but i forgot which one it was. It definitely recognizes the cpu. Cleard the Cmos for half-hour and i got the CMOS check sum error again. This time there were no red leds on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenC Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 Ok, first if you do not know then you have ether 125 or 310. You will need to flash to bios ver 510-x or later. You can also go to the dfi site and download the latest offical bios ver 623-3. You need to do this first. Try placing one stick of ram in dimm slot 2 and clear cmos. See if you can post. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenC Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 Gee my eyes are getting old....so you did flash your bios. Did you do it with floppy? If yes just see what's on the floppy. example, nf4510-x.bin = bios ver 510-x. Also have you tried your old ram to see if you are able to post? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vesuvius333 Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 still trying out the ram in the different slots. Then after that im going to flash the bios. Which bios should i download pcb revision a or b? Sorry for all the newb questions and thanks a lot for the replies. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenC Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 There is only one official bios ver for all nf4 ut board's which is 623-3 Not knowing what bios ver you have, just try dimm slot 2. Do you still have the floppy you had flashed with? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vesuvius333 Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 couldn't find the floppy, tried dimm slot 2 still no go. Going to flash it now with the 623-3 bios. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenC Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 Ok....Clear cmos/powerup and in bios choose optimized default/place floppy in drive/save and reboot/after flash remove floppy and reboot/at the lanparty splashscreen shutdown/Clear cmos/powerup and in bios choose optimized default/save and reboot/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenC Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 After you flash go into bios and setup with suggested dramm settings for your ram. Then run memtest on each stick in dimm slot 2. If they have no issues, then run memtest on both in dimm slot's 2 and 4. And see what happens. FYI...may need to reinstall windows after all this....but not until you do the above with no errors. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenC Posted July 20, 2005 Posted July 20, 2005 Oh one more thing....read your first post again. I'm kind of confused as to what condition you are in. If you are not able to flash your bios...or not able to get back to bios....then try the below procedure. http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.p...04&postcount=24 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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