DFI SLI-D & Opteron 146 RAM Issues

TBirdUK · 15 Jan 2006 at 13:00

Been through the rather large thread on the DFI and cant seem to find the settings I Need so can anyone help?

Mobo is the DFI Lanparty SLI-D with 623 BIOS
With Geil Dual channel 2x1GB Sticks

Got the 146 running at 3Ghz but the RAM will only boot with a dividerof 100(1/02) with very slack timings and 2T.

I'm sure its something I'm doing in the settings as I have memtested these upto 210Mhz.

Can someone who has this board and RAM post thier full settings for the RAM incl Volts, or point me at a place where they already are posted so I can see where I am going wrong.

Cheers

TBirdUK · 15 Jan 2006 at 15:35

Tried them in both orange and yellow, each stick individually. I think when a mate came up we mucked with the settings but I dont know what he did.

Currently running in orange

TBirdUK · 15 Jan 2006 at 15:45

Already wallopped myself!

Was a mate who knows what he is doing on the memory side but he's off skiing so cant tell me what he did (he changed a lot of the unusual settings).

Have looked through numerous sites but just wondered if anyone else had the same mobo & RAM combination and could post what they found best!

TBirdUK · 15 Jan 2006 at 19:22

Tried that and no-go - still wont get as far as booting into windows.

The machine sometimes, randomly just reboots (after 2 hours this time), think it could be a power issue? All the mbm5 stats look good!

TBirdUK · 16 Jan 2006 at 12:01

Dont understand it, lowered the CPU to 2800, used SP2004 to blend stress test and the computer shut itself off after 8hours 33mins. Anyone any ideas what could be doing this?

TBirdUK · 20 Jan 2006 at 20:13

Thanks for all the advice, will update how I got on over the weekend - been away and shattered so cant tonight.

Ta!

TBirdUK · 21 Jan 2006 at 11:06

Been to the DFI-street website and cant find the settings for the Geil Value dual channel 2 x 1 GB. Machine shut itself down again last night while blend test!

Have run memtest for 7 hours and no errors. Think it could be a driver issue? or any ideas?

TBirdUK · 22 Jan 2006 at 14:29

Jimbo, yep tried them but as the problem is intermittant the testing can take anything upto 24 hours. Seems to work with small and large but blend is still a shutdown @ around 81/2 hours.

TBirdUK · 2 Feb 2006 at 22:24

Darn it, changed the PSU and still when the machine is under load it just shuts off!!!!!!

Anyone else had this problem??
Temps are good, memtest works, do you think it could be a graphics card issue?? (6800)

Help please I've run out of ideas!

TBirdUK · 3 Feb 2006 at 09:10

Thanks guys, whats the max volts for a 146, I'm already up to 1.66 (1.55*113%) and am slightly worried about pushing it. Rig is on water and temps peak at 49 under load. Would the memory controller cause a shutoff?

Big.Wayne - I've got basic memory and it wont go above 225, doesnt even like that very much (but I have memtested and it passes) so a 1-1 issue is not good, however I dropped the core to 2500 last night and it worked for ages. Trouble is the shutting down is so random - it has primed/BF2 for anything from 10 mins to 8 hours, so testing the problem can take a lot of time.

TBirdUK · 14 Feb 2006 at 07:40

Changed the PSU/mobo, got it working on 2700 on air, good temps. Think there was an issue with the mobo/psu. Have a 165 in that mobo with a new psu and no probles. Thanks for all the advice - overall learnt a lot - think it was a DFI compatability issue overall.