I think i found the problem...

Jokester · 28 Dec 2006 at 14:02

CHUDS said:
what program would i need to find this out?

There should be an option in the BIOS called System Monitor that shows temps, voltages and fan speeds. The more I find out about this board though I suspect it doesn't have it :eek:

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Jokester

CHUDS · 28 Dec 2006 at 14:04

heres a pic from cpu-z just make usre i got my settings right.

CHUDS · 28 Dec 2006 at 14:10

Jokester said:
There should be an option in the BIOS called System Monitor that shows temps, voltages and fan speeds. The more I find out about this board though I suspect it doesn't have it .

Jokester

ok i did as you said and this is what came up:
CPU temp - 36oC/96oF
M/B temp - 31oC/87oF

CPU fan speed - 2023rpm
chassis fan speed - n/a

Vcore - 1.274 V
+3.36V - 3.354 V
+5.00V - 4.958 V
+12.00V - 11.935 V

simonnance · 28 Dec 2006 at 14:15

this mobo doesnt give a lot of juice to RAM (dont know exact figures for DDR2 but "high" for DDR1 is only 2.7V, so it wont be massive for DDR2) , first make sure you are on "high" voltage setting for DRAM, then try out the different settings 400/333/266 to find which is stable. you may have to loosen your timings to 5-5-5-15 to get it stably running, you may not.

hope that helps

CHUDS · 28 Dec 2006 at 14:17

ok thanks i will try that later but so far havn't had a crash in good 40 mins, will run a game (after this song

)to test it lol

cheers guys (where the hell is the thumbs up smilie?)

CHUDS · 28 Dec 2006 at 14:25

if non of this works should i test it out with some old ddr 400 ram to ensure that it's the ram causing the problem

CHUDS · 28 Dec 2006 at 14:42

sorry for the triple post here!
i did as you said put the voltage to high and lowered the timings to 5-5-5-15 and it still crashed when i went to load up COD2.

i have installed some old ddr400 ram but i don't know what timing to put it to, i have everything set to auto.

will test COD2 again

EDIT: and no success mobo the problem then or is it cause i don't have the timing set right?

it's the same systems error - cat (102) - event 1003

should this thread not be in general hardware now?

simonnance · 28 Dec 2006 at 14:53

have you fiddled with changing the ram frequency? That might work if changing the latencies didnt

CHUDS · 28 Dec 2006 at 15:08

what would ichange it to then?

simonnance · 28 Dec 2006 at 16:05

stock should be 400 in the BIOS for DDR2-800, try dropping it to 333 or DDR2-667 as the memory will hopefully require less juice at that setting.

SidewinderINC · 28 Dec 2006 at 16:20

simonnance said:
stock should be 400 in the BIOS for DDR2-800, try dropping it to 333 or DDR2-667 as the memory will hopefully require less juice at that setting.

this motherboard does not support DDR2-800 !

CHUDS · 28 Dec 2006 at 16:45

it was at 333 as that mobos max was 667

anyway just dropped the computer round at a friends he'll have a look at it for me...it's his freaking job and if he doesn't know then i'm screwed lol

CHUDS · 28 Dec 2006 at 17:02

SidewinderINC said:
this motherboard does not support DDR2-800 !

it doesn't matter it should just run the memory at 667 as many of the people on this forum assured me

plus it even happened when i put ddr 400 in

simonnance · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:35

SidewinderINC said:
this motherboard does not support DDR2-800 !

ok, i only have DDR-400, and i thought since it could do DDR-266/333/400 it would make sense if it could do DDR2-533/667/800......

SidewinderINC · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:35

CHUDS said:
it doesn't matter it should just run the memory at 667 as many of the people on this forum assured me

plus it even happened when i put ddr 400 in

yeah, it will just run at slower. but simonnance said to set it to DDR800 which this board doesnt do.