- Jul 17, 2016
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To start, I built this PC myself last August http://pcpartpicker.com/list/fmGWHx
And I've been having issues with it essentially ever since I got it.
Random hard freezes while gaming, constant gpu driver crashes in one pci slot but not the other.
Point is, I've been trying to get to the bottom of these issues lately. Having run prime 95 for about 6 hours with no results, I decided I'd start testing each memory stick individually using memtest.
So, I shut down the PC, removed all but one stick of ram and powered it on and expected to tell it to use the disc I have memtest on.
Unfortunately, it now completely fails to do anything. The fans all start running, the disc drive spins up, the hard drive light will blink a couple times but that's it. Monitors remain blank and ctrl+alt+delete starts the process over to the same result of nothingness.
The debug code on the motherboard will cycle through several numbers and such until it reaches around 38-42 ( depending on how many sticks of ram I have in at the time) At which point it will climb very slowly to 46-49/50 where it then stays indefinitely. With all 4 sticks of ram, it will peak at code 50, and constantly flicker between 49 and 50.
According to the user manual for the a88x-g45, codes 3F-4F, 50~55 is "Early Memory Initialzation"
I have tried resetting the cmos but it has made no difference.
If you need more info let me know. Any advice would be very helpful.
I /can/ buy replacement parts, but since I've been considering upgrading to a nice Intel processor, I may just skip the trial and error phase and go right to upgrading.
But I'd like to see If there's a simple solution to this.
So yeah, thanks.
Update
Figured it was worth mentioning that I cannot set anything via bios because the system will not POST.
Everything was working just fine earlier today, then I shut it down normally, removed 3 of 4 sticks of RAM, and now it seems to be getting stuck in early memory initialization (according to the debug code)
I understand that the CPU is ideally given 2133 MHz and that my current 1600mhz is too slow, but I want to point out that my four sticks of slow ram have worked for the past 11 months.
As such, I don't feel like the ram speed is telling the whole story here.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
And I've been having issues with it essentially ever since I got it.
Random hard freezes while gaming, constant gpu driver crashes in one pci slot but not the other.
Point is, I've been trying to get to the bottom of these issues lately. Having run prime 95 for about 6 hours with no results, I decided I'd start testing each memory stick individually using memtest.
So, I shut down the PC, removed all but one stick of ram and powered it on and expected to tell it to use the disc I have memtest on.
Unfortunately, it now completely fails to do anything. The fans all start running, the disc drive spins up, the hard drive light will blink a couple times but that's it. Monitors remain blank and ctrl+alt+delete starts the process over to the same result of nothingness.
The debug code on the motherboard will cycle through several numbers and such until it reaches around 38-42 ( depending on how many sticks of ram I have in at the time) At which point it will climb very slowly to 46-49/50 where it then stays indefinitely. With all 4 sticks of ram, it will peak at code 50, and constantly flicker between 49 and 50.
According to the user manual for the a88x-g45, codes 3F-4F, 50~55 is "Early Memory Initialzation"
I have tried resetting the cmos but it has made no difference.
If you need more info let me know. Any advice would be very helpful.
I /can/ buy replacement parts, but since I've been considering upgrading to a nice Intel processor, I may just skip the trial and error phase and go right to upgrading.
But I'd like to see If there's a simple solution to this.
So yeah, thanks.
Update
Figured it was worth mentioning that I cannot set anything via bios because the system will not POST.
Everything was working just fine earlier today, then I shut it down normally, removed 3 of 4 sticks of RAM, and now it seems to be getting stuck in early memory initialization (according to the debug code)
I understand that the CPU is ideally given 2133 MHz and that my current 1600mhz is too slow, but I want to point out that my four sticks of slow ram have worked for the past 11 months.
As such, I don't feel like the ram speed is telling the whole story here.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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