new build maximus formula wont post---helpplease :)

[Zorg]

Yeah, but the only difference is that the full format runs dskchk to check for bad sectors. I would imagine that there is an option for that somewhere, but I don't know. I haven't touched it since RC1 or 2, I can't remember which.

 

[mweidler]

ok, I reinstalled vista, went ok with one ram dimm in
rebooted 3-4 times everything good
I added the second dimm in and got a bsod after entering vista
I shut it down then moved the ram to the white dimms. rebooted and got into vista. rebooted 3 more times to make sure no problems. so far ok
Im running prime95 on it now and probably til it crashes or til tomorrow afternoon

one other thing, after I moved the dimms to the white slots and started it up it said "overclock failed" at boot. went into bios and I changed the timings to auto
it reset them to 5-5-5-15, I also left the frequency at auto. and I rebooted and it started vista.

anything im doing wrong here? I ran memtest86 for 3 hours, everything ok. I will see what happens with prime95 running.
any suggestions for different ram If I need to change it out. I have 4 days to return it
Thx again guys

 

[Zorg]

You might find that the differences are not that large, the core 2 CPUs are not affected heavily by memory bandwidth. You can run some benches with SiSoftware Sandra Lite. Also, it was probably mentioned earlier in this thread to raise the northbridge and RAM voltage a little.

 

[mweidler]

I raised the ram to 2.1. I didnt touch the NB yet. I will if its not stable

 

[mweidler]

seems to be stable so far. 15 hours of prime95 with 4gb of ram and windows vista64.
Its still running prime95 and I will let it go for 24 hours and then consider it stable, at least til I overclock.
thx for the help Zorg

 

[Zorg]

Happy to hear it worked out.