First heres my system specs 
6300 (stock atm) w/ Tuniq Tower
Gigabyte DS3P (old motherboard was the standard DS3)
4x512 DDR Geil 6400
8800GTS 320mb
Vista 64-bit
Ok heres the problem. Afew weeks ago I installed a new HDD to put Vista on. I did the change over but the system didnt boot even before installing the OS. The fans would start up and be spinning but it didnt post on the screen.
I took it to a local PC shop, and they got it working. He said he did it just by taking out the system and putting it back in again. Anyway after the next morning it did the same thing as before, it didnt post.
After reading on forums about the same problems it seems that it was usually the motherboard and ram causing the problem. So I came on OCuk and purchased a new DS3P. It arrived the next day, installed it all but when it came to powering it up. Sadly it did the same thing as the old motherboard, powered up but didnt post and it also did a new thing of resetting after about 10 seconds of booting (I guessed becuase it was a new motheboard, this is just what it did). Anyways, I was pretty angry to say the least as I had just spent £80 on a new motherboard with no progress.
After looking around inside the PC I dicided to test out the memory and check it out. I took out all the memory and just put one in the top slot (closest to the CPU) and to my suprise it booted no problems!
I proceeded to put one in the 2nd slot and it booted up again! Went to place one in the 3rd slot and it didnt boot, it was the same with the 4th slot.
Whenever I try and boot with RAM in either the 3rd or 4th slot, the system dosent boot. No matter what the combination I put the RAM in. So now im stuck with Vista running on 1GB and getting very stuttery gaming.
Ive tired goig into the BIOS and changing everything around. Updating the BIOS, drivers EVERYTHING. I just think there must be something more too it than a faulty motherboard. Both the DS3 motherboard I have both having the same fault? surely not.
Has anyone had this problem and found out how to solve it? I seems like there should be a little switch that should say "Enable 4 RAM slots?" but PCs have never been that easy
Pleae help me out!
Simon
6300 (stock atm) w/ Tuniq Tower
Gigabyte DS3P (old motherboard was the standard DS3)
4x512 DDR Geil 6400
8800GTS 320mb
Vista 64-bit
Ok heres the problem. Afew weeks ago I installed a new HDD to put Vista on. I did the change over but the system didnt boot even before installing the OS. The fans would start up and be spinning but it didnt post on the screen.
I took it to a local PC shop, and they got it working. He said he did it just by taking out the system and putting it back in again. Anyway after the next morning it did the same thing as before, it didnt post.
After reading on forums about the same problems it seems that it was usually the motherboard and ram causing the problem. So I came on OCuk and purchased a new DS3P. It arrived the next day, installed it all but when it came to powering it up. Sadly it did the same thing as the old motherboard, powered up but didnt post and it also did a new thing of resetting after about 10 seconds of booting (I guessed becuase it was a new motheboard, this is just what it did). Anyways, I was pretty angry to say the least as I had just spent £80 on a new motherboard with no progress.
After looking around inside the PC I dicided to test out the memory and check it out. I took out all the memory and just put one in the top slot (closest to the CPU) and to my suprise it booted no problems!
I proceeded to put one in the 2nd slot and it booted up again! Went to place one in the 3rd slot and it didnt boot, it was the same with the 4th slot. Whenever I try and boot with RAM in either the 3rd or 4th slot, the system dosent boot. No matter what the combination I put the RAM in. So now im stuck with Vista running on 1GB and getting very stuttery gaming.
Ive tired goig into the BIOS and changing everything around. Updating the BIOS, drivers EVERYTHING. I just think there must be something more too it than a faulty motherboard. Both the DS3 motherboard I have both having the same fault? surely not.
Has anyone had this problem and found out how to solve it? I seems like there should be a little switch that should say "Enable 4 RAM slots?" but PCs have never been that easy
Pleae help me out!
Simon
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