All,
Having some trouble with my new build and in need of some advise.
New system is:
I5 750
EVGA P55 SLI
2 x OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 Low-Voltage Dual Channel
XFX ATI 4890
Built it on the bench and managed to post and check temps in BIOS (after finding out the EVGA boards have some weird start/stop/start/boot sequence, confirmed this from the EVGA forums).
Next put it all in my case, added a hard drive and sata dvd-rw. However I couldn't boot the Windows 7 retail disc beyond the screen where you select custom install for BSOD's.
Started testing the memory with memtest and with all 4 sticks in it ran into errrors. Then started testing sticks one by one, found one stick that refused to even POST so hopefully that set will get RMA'd this week. Run multiple memtests with the 2 good sticks and all appears fine. Manually had to set voltages and timings in BIOS.
Still failing to install windows 7 though. I've tried 2 different hard drives, different combinations of SATA ports and cables. I've re-seated the cpu, even swpped out the gfx card as someone said EVGA's sometimes have problems with ATI cards.
I've even tried 2 different versions of the windows 7 disc incase it was a media issue.
Anyone any idea's? Only thing I can think of now is the mainboard, cpu or a faulty sata dvd-rw drive as they are the only things I havn't changed...yet!
Cheers for any help
Having some trouble with my new build and in need of some advise.
New system is:
I5 750
EVGA P55 SLI
2 x OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 Low-Voltage Dual Channel
XFX ATI 4890
Built it on the bench and managed to post and check temps in BIOS (after finding out the EVGA boards have some weird start/stop/start/boot sequence, confirmed this from the EVGA forums).
Next put it all in my case, added a hard drive and sata dvd-rw. However I couldn't boot the Windows 7 retail disc beyond the screen where you select custom install for BSOD's.
Started testing the memory with memtest and with all 4 sticks in it ran into errrors. Then started testing sticks one by one, found one stick that refused to even POST so hopefully that set will get RMA'd this week. Run multiple memtests with the 2 good sticks and all appears fine. Manually had to set voltages and timings in BIOS.
Still failing to install windows 7 though. I've tried 2 different hard drives, different combinations of SATA ports and cables. I've re-seated the cpu, even swpped out the gfx card as someone said EVGA's sometimes have problems with ATI cards.
I've even tried 2 different versions of the windows 7 disc incase it was a media issue.
Anyone any idea's? Only thing I can think of now is the mainboard, cpu or a faulty sata dvd-rw drive as they are the only things I havn't changed...yet!
Cheers for any help