trouble with the new system - Page 3

Capt. Insane · 07-06-2006, 05:22 PM

When I first built the thing, I did the motherboard drivers before video. I didn't run driver cleaner before installing the video drivers because I'd not heard of that. I haven't updated my BIOS, but somebody told me to do so and I forgot. I have to look to see if there's an updated BIOS out for my system.

{OF}Blong · 07-06-2006, 07:31 PM

www.drivercleaner.net

run driver cleaner pro
reboot
reinstall latest video drivers
reboot

Capt. Insane · 07-06-2006, 09:13 PM

Ok, I did that but it ended up uninstalling three other drivers too. I'll report on if it worked or not tomorrow.

Capt. Insane · 07-07-2006, 03:54 PM

locked up again while playing d3 for a while. i installed the new gfx drivers and bios, but i dont know that i did the bios right; i didnt have to reset or anything.

{OF}Blong · 07-07-2006, 04:26 PM

you can play all other games just fine? you ran driver cleaner correct and just having it clean the video drivers and nothing else?

{OF}Barney_B · 07-07-2006, 07:01 PM

You know, your problem has sounded so familiar to me and I couldn't exactly remember why so I went to your "It's done sorta" thread and saw that you got the Corsair 2 GB pack. If it's the same part number that I got (TWINX2048-3200C2) then maybe I can give you another option if the ones you are pursuing at the moment don't pay off.
I recently upgraded my system which included the above mentioned memory upgrade and my system immediately started doing stupid stuff like locking up, rebooting for no reason and causing video errors. I was thinking "Crap!!, I just got all these cool parts and one of them is stinko". I slowly but surely ruled out each part until I was left with the memory (I paid serious (for me anyway) cash for this super duper ram) so I went to Corsair's fixit forum and found some ideas and tried them. The one that worked for me was manually setting the values in the bios. Once I did that my problems stopped and I've been happy ever since. Can't say this is what's up with your system but...here's the values I used:

SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.0T
SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T
SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T
SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6T

Maybe this will help you, maybe not. Either way, I just upped my post count!

Really though, Good Luck. I know how frustrating this crap can be.

PS Read the lines in your bios carefully to make sure the lines are the same. The lines in my bios were not presented in the order shown above. Word to the wise.

Capt. Insane · 07-07-2006, 08:38 PM

Thanks, I'll give it a go. I guess I can always use the xpress recovery if I eff something up. Though, what section of the bios would this be under? I don't recall seeing anythign like it before, and I believe I've gone through every menu

{OF}Barney_B · 07-07-2006, 08:54 PM

On my MB bios (Award), it's under Advanced Chipset Features ---> Memory Timing.

Capt. Insane · 07-07-2006, 09:12 PM

i made the changes, though there was now active to precharge, just row precharge (which i changed to 6t), but it kept giving me a blue screen so i changed it back from manual to auto (the section was different than what you mentioned barney)

ChemicalWarrior · 07-07-2006, 09:30 PM

The memory should set its self for timings. The only thing that should be wrong with the timings is a BIOS related issue or possibly the voltage is set wrong. If you still have the memory package around it might say something about this.