Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P (AGAIN)

[afx2]

I currently have a GA-MA770T-UD3P (rev. 1.0) motherboard with:
AMD Sempron 140 am3 cpu
ATI Radeon 2900 xt graphics
Nanya ddr3 1066 ram nt1gc72b89a0nf-be (x2)
HEC 585 watt power supply to run it all-

The problem is once everything is all hooked up and started, I get no picture on the monitor. It won't post at all. I'm wondering if it's the ram or the pcie 16x slot on the board? BUT...........I sent it in to Gigabyte for an RMA request. They said they fixed the board and sent it back to me but it still doesn't work!! I've tried multiple video pcie cards and pci cards and still get no video. Based on other opinions, my best guess is the RAM. Never used Nanya before and don't know if they are reliable, the memory us supposed to work because it's 1.5volts. Any Ideas would be well appreciated....

 

[rockyjohn]

Did you uninstall the old drivers before installing the new ones?
How are you installing the different drivers if Windows won't complete booting?
Can you boot into safe mode?
Do you have a restore point so you can use system restore?

 

[afx2]

What I did to uninstall old drivers was use a different video card on the pcie slot. Thanks for the tip, I forgot to uninstall old drivers before placing the new card in and it caused a crash i guess. That worked and now the computer is running perfectly. Now going to see if I can unlock the second core from the bios.....

 

[yech22]

UPDATE!


VGA Brand : ATi Model : Radeon 4850
CPU Brand : AMD Model : AMD|PH II X2 545 3.0G AM3 R Speed : 3000 mhz
Operation System : Win 7 64-bit SP :
Memory Brand : A-DATA 4GB AX3U2000XB2G9-2X Type : ddr3
Memory Size : 2x2 Speed : 1600
Power Supply : 650 W


*Question
My first setup with this motherboard I used these two products instead of my current ram and processor.
F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ R Gskill
CPU AMD|ATH II X2 240 AM3 2.8G

All recommended settings for voltages and frequencies were tried while setting this up. It would work perfectly fine with 1 stick of ram, but with 2 sticks, any slot combination (1,3 or 2,4 is recommended I believe) I would get frequent hangs... where everything would freeze. The only recovery was hard reset of the system. I tried updating the bios up to f5 the most current non beta bios. This made no difference in the freeze ups. I swapped parts with my friend (vid card, power supply) and reproduced the same issue. I reinstalled windows 7 on a new harddrive. Same issue. I then assumed that it was a memory or processor issue. I RMA'd those two products and grabbed the new products that I have listed above.

I received those new products about 2 months ago(adata ram and phenom X2 processor) and they worked excellent. Fast and stable. I though that I had the issue fixed. About 2 weeks ago, I started to get hangs/freezes again. My windows experience score (maybe unrelated) dropped for all of the available scores except for hard drive. The hangs began to happen more and more frequently. I checked my bios settings and made sure everything was perfect, and it was. I checked again a day later, and bios settings were totally wrong, frequencies back down, ram timing off... I set them to the correct values (for no overclocking) 1.8v for the ram, 9-9-9-24 timing. And it seemed to clear up the issue... for about an hour.

As last ditch effort I updated to the f6 bios from your website, and tried again. No change. Hangs continued very often. This was happening between 1 min after Windows loading, to 5 hours of Windows starting... The frequency of these crashes increased over the next couple days, so I tried the old fix. I pulled out one stick of ram. System runs stable. I have tried both sticks in slot one with no issues whatsoever.

I have also confirmed that there is no heat issue... processor runs at 42C under load. Ram is cool to the touch. Very well ventilated case... Do you have any other steps I can try or does this seem to be a defective MB?

 

[rockyjohn]

So you chose not to deal with the memory timing issues I pointed out before and instead decided to chuck the CPU and memory and start over. And now you are having problems again and want us to walk you through it again?

For starters, why not use the BIOS recommend for the new CPU you selected? F2.


Since you are having issues, why did you not select new memory from the Gigabyte approved list for that mobo? Who recommended that memory for that board? It might be fine but when having major issues you can't resolve it is a good idea to minimize possible conflicts.

Do you look at your system info at all?

I will recommend again exactly what I recommended before - go to Tweaktown where they have experts at tweaking memory timings on Gigabyte mobos since it is the Gigabyte official site.

 

[hankeda]

Where did you find the gigabyte approved memory list?

 

[rockyjohn]

All you have to do is google the mobo name and number and find the listing on the first page that goes to Gigabyte. Takes you right to the product page:

http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=3096

On the right you see a list of links, including one for the "Memory Support List", which takes you to it at:

http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/FileList/MemorySupport/mb_memory_ga-ma770t-ud3p.pdf