asrock dual sata problem

snarloas1982 · 4 Jul 2006 at 20:45

has anyone ever had problems with the memory and the dual sata asrock boards? i just built a pc for a friend. i used cosair value select ddr400 and its giving me nothing bar a headache. the system would go for ages then crash. i know it the board or the memory because i was able to install windows with one stick of memory but when i tried 2 sticks it just crashes. anyone got a solution

3dfX · 4 Jul 2006 at 21:29

yeah, you have one stick of bad ram (it happens), thats why you could only install windows with one stick, the other one is the bad one.

snarloas1982 · 4 Jul 2006 at 21:36

no mate i was also able to install windows with the other stick also, it only causes problems with both sticks installed

snarloas1982 · 4 Jul 2006 at 21:37

memtest doesnt post errors either

dalex · 4 Jul 2006 at 21:39

post the full system specs for it
are they matched ram to run in dual channel
dave

3dfX · 4 Jul 2006 at 21:44

hmm thats strange, I run that mobo and cant think of a memory setting that would cause that, what slots you using the two blue ones? & what bios settings etc.

snarloas1982 · 4 Jul 2006 at 22:15

its an amd 3000 venice 939
sata 2 samsung 160 gig hd
enermax 480psu

wont know the bios revision till 2moro when i get it back....again

tried all the slots, runs best in single channel mode (when i mean best i mean its able to get into windows for a while before it hangs)

snarloas1982 · 4 Jul 2006 at 22:16

also read that cosair mem might need overvolted to about 2.7 but the motherboard bios sucks just a tiny bit

3dfX · 4 Jul 2006 at 22:25

some mobos and some memory dont mix well, running some v tight OZ myself

pays for quality ram sometimes

you shouldn't be having the problem though :/

dalex · 4 Jul 2006 at 22:26

did you instal the sata 2 drivers at the start of windows insallation ?
dave

GOB14 · 4 Jul 2006 at 23:33

think it might be sum thing to do with setting your memory to 1t or 2t.lots of people had this problem with this board

hohum · 5 Jul 2006 at 00:54

Use the black RAM slots. I have the same motherboard and RAM, and found that although memtest reported no problems I was getting an occassional random crash in apps, plus some file corruption problems. Tried other things such as replacing the hard drive cables, still had the problem. Eventually tried switching from the blue slots to the black ones thinking it was a long shot, but it seemed to solve it.

Not saying it'll work for you, but definitely worth a try.

MadMatty · 5 Jul 2006 at 09:01

The oddety about the 1t issue is that although memtest test8 dies rightaway in 1t mode, sometimes even causing lockup or reset. I have no issues what so ever within windows and even memtesters in windows dont show any trouble either including the S&M memtest. So in somecases maybe memtest is just be odd.

Of course I dont tempt fate as I have lots of bad luck in this regard in the past so I only use 1t when benchmarking

snarloas1982 · 6 Jul 2006 at 22:02

found my problem, it didnt like the samsung sata 2 hard disk running in sata2 mode, reverted to standard sata and she seems perfectly stable. what a waste of hardware....