Help me diagnose my problem please!

[Nullvoid]

Have you tried running either memtest or orthos with your system yet? It's quite possible ram would work in your mate's system but not your own (and applications not being able to install without errors really does suggest ram or a bad connection between your hdd and motherboard).

Just by way of example. I had an older system which was throwing errors up all over the place and it turned out it was the RAM (even though both sticks worked 100% perfectly alone). The motherboard had 3 slots for ram, and of all the possible positions they could be populated with 2 sticks, only one position would enable my system to make it through memtest without giving errors.

 

[yantorsen]

It is enough but not to say it's failing or providing insufficient power e.t.c. Just because your memory works in your mates computer doesn't mean its going to work in yours. Could be timings on the memory e.t.c. Have you ran memtest 86 on it? http://www.memtest.org/ Give it a go post your results. Do you have another DVD drive you can try?

it is memtest86+ stable, orthos stable, prime95 stable.

and the timings were 4-4-4-12 on my mates rig.

and I have tryed another DVD drive yes.

 

[yantorsen]

Have you tried running either memtest or orthos with your system yet? It's quite possible ram would work in your mate's system but not your own (and applications not being able to install without errors really does suggest ram or a bad connection between your hdd and motherboard).

Just by way of example. I had an older system which was throwing errors up all over the place and it turned out it was the RAM (even though both sticks worked 100% perfectly alone). The motherboard had 3 slots for ram, and of all the possible positions they could be populated with 2 sticks, only one position would enable my system to make it through memtest without giving errors.

well it is memtest stable, with both sticks togethor and individually.

and it is orthos stable and prime stable.

 

[Aod]

<edit> sorry, nvm

 

[yantorsen]

<edit> sorry, nvm

what were you gonna say? anything will be helpful.

 

[Nullvoid]

Well I feel your pain man since that really is quite a bizarre situation.

Are you 100% sure that your sata cables aren't defective somehow (or at all loose? I know I've had my dvd-drive behave strangely a few times and when I pop the case open I see the cable has been close to falling out of the back of the drive)?

Have you installed any sata drivers your motherboard might need? I see there are gigabyte raid drivers, intel ich9r raid drivers and intel ich9r drivers available for your board.

 

[fobose]

If you have tried your ram in your mates PC, could you try his in yours?

 

[yantorsen]

Well I feel your pain man since that really is quite a bizarre situation.

Are you 100% sure that your sata cables aren't defective somehow (or at all loose? I know I've had my dvd-drive behave strangely a few times and when I pop the case open I see the cable has been close to falling out of the back of the drive)?

Have you installed any sata drivers your motherboard might need? I see there are gigabyte raid drivers, intel ich9r raid drivers and intel ich9r drivers available for your board.

all the drivers are installed, and i have used cables i know work on another PC but it doesnt make any difference.

 

[Nullvoid]

Is there any particular reason why you stopped at the F4 bios and not the newest F7?

 

[yantorsen]

If you have tried your ram in your mates PC, could you try his in yours?

he wont let me

 

[yantorsen]

Is there any particular reason why you stopped at the F4 bios and not the newest F7?

because when i updated the bios from the F2 BIOS it was the latest one available.

 

[Deleted member 64478]

because when i updated the bios from the F2 BIOS it was the latest one available.

So check the site for new updates.

 

[Stabhappy]

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/JMB36X_WinDrv_WHQL_R1.17.28WHQL.zip

from personal experience with the jmicron controller and the gigabyte drivers - get the proper drives from jmicron! gigabyte pack together the jmicron drivers for most of their boards into one zip and windows tends to get confused and uses the wrong one, causing problems.

 

[yantorsen]

So check the site for new updates.

well there is newer BIOS, but it doesn't seem to do anything that would help, and I know people with the same setup as me that run fine on the F4 bios, spose it only takes a few seconds to do, so i'll give it a go anyway.

 

[yantorsen]

ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/JMB36X_WinDrv_WHQL_R1.17.28WHQL.zip

from personal experience with the jmicron controller and the gigabyte drivers - get the proper drives from jmicron! gigabyte pack together the jmicron drivers for most of their boards into one zip and windows tends to get confused and uses the wrong one, causing problems.

I'll try that aswell cheers,

isn't the jmicron controller just for the jmmicron sata port? I thought the intel drivers worked for everything else?

 

[SkeeterUK]

Dont mean to sound rude but why another topic yanto?

 

[Stabhappy]

The intel southbridge doesn't support IDE at all, the entire IDE is driven through the Jmicron controller much like the Raid sata ports.

 

[yantorsen]

Dont mean to sound rude but why another topic yanto?

just thought it was more of a hardware issue than a software one, so people who no more about hardware might know something, not saying that the help im getting isn't good enough, its been excelent , it's just more opinions and ideas and stuff may help.

 

[yantorsen]

The intel southbridge doesn't support IDE at all, the entire IDE is driven through the Jmicron controller much like the Raid sata ports.

arn't they all included in the intel chipset drivers though?

 

[SkeeterUK]

Try avoiding gigabyte webpage drivers and get direct from who actually makes em, maybe updated ones at their own sites.