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Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: Gorion on December 02, 2011, 04:39:39 PM
Right, I've got an asus rog striker forumula 2 mobo and it seems it's getting buggered up.

Issue:

Ram beeps when all 4 dimm slots are populated.  All dimms work fine by their own and when 3 slots are populated.  Once the 3rd slot (any slot, all seem to be working fine) is populated, ram beeps again.

Bios is the latest revision.  Cmos has been reset multiple times. Last time this issue popped up, I just re-seated the dimms and everything worked fine.

Memory controller?

Any ideas?  I'm very close to using it as a frisbee.
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: TeaLeaf on December 02, 2011, 04:50:59 PM
Which memory sticks & speeds are you putting in there?
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: lionheart on December 02, 2011, 05:06:46 PM
I've seen an issue similar to this before, the solution was to slightly increase the voltage in the bios to the Northbridge.  Problem is a lot of motherboards call this voltage setting a different thing. Google is your friend.
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: TeaLeaf on December 02, 2011, 05:13:31 PM
Vram droop is a common problem for males of his age.  Allegedly, Vramiagra can solve this problem. :getmecoat:
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: Gorion on December 02, 2011, 05:38:23 PM
Dominators 8888c4 ddr2 4x1gig

Everything is stock speeds, 800mhz afaik.
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: TeaLeaf on December 02, 2011, 05:54:30 PM
Well, that's well within what it can cope with so I'd head towards Lion's suggestion and see if a little boost to either Nbridge or Vram helps.  Domantors I think are guaranteed as much higher than stock vram, so you could up the voltage to check it is not that area that is causing the failure.
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: Sithvid on December 02, 2011, 06:01:05 PM
Went onto a Chinese site and couldn't understand a word of what was written . Good luck fixing whatever it is needs fixing.
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: Gorion on December 02, 2011, 06:30:40 PM
Current: North Bridge Core   1.312 V

Any idea to what sort of voltage it should be upped to?  Never messed around with overclocking :/
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: lionheart on December 02, 2011, 06:42:09 PM
It doesn't take much to know if its working. Try 1.35 to start .
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: Gorion on December 02, 2011, 07:43:43 PM
There was a 1.36 option, selected and it worked.  Aida64 claiming 1.376V, is that fine?
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: lionheart on December 02, 2011, 07:55:34 PM
I think it will be fine. Keep an eye on your temperatures.
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: Gorion on December 02, 2011, 08:57:53 PM
NB currently at 72 celsius idle.  Seems it's running quite hot.
SB at 62 - slightly higher than normal.

Thanks though, I appreciate the help.
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: lionheart on December 02, 2011, 09:32:58 PM
If you are concerned about the temps you can reduce the voltage,you just need to find the sweet spot.
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: Gorion on December 02, 2011, 09:49:40 PM
Can't do that unfortunately, have to select the voltages from the drop down box.

We'll see how it keeps up.
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: TeaLeaf on December 03, 2011, 07:32:20 AM
1.36v should be fine on the Northbridge, there's plenty of plenty of people out there running 1.5v on that motherboard and doing fine with decent cooling.  Just keep an eye on the temps as Lion said and make sure the cooling is decent. Northbridge @70 degrees is perfectly happy imo.
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: Gorion on December 03, 2011, 07:18:10 PM
Temperature and pc look stable, no crashes at all, and the temp is still holding in the 70-73 deg range - idle.

Will give it a go with some games tomorrow.  Thanks a lot for the help :)
Title: Motherboard woes?
Post by: lionheart on December 03, 2011, 09:06:25 PM
Glad we got it sorted for you.