Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

AN UPDATE:

Especially to Thierry, Dave, Doug, ... some further news.... I have
just had a note from the chap that supplies my bits'n'bobs
(BTW ...anybody know of a reliable UK wholesaler of medium quantities
for DRAM/Processors/hardware/etc?) ... he has spotted (must get myself
a new pair of specs or even learn to read... I looked on gigabytes site
but I misseed this) that Patriot modules (which is what we have used for
this) are not listed as being tested/approved by gigabyte. It could be
that they are drawing too much current and that would explain the
stuttering, and also why when Thierry upped the power it worked. (You
might not have used Patriot chips Thierry...but it could be that they
too were out of recommended bounds for power needs.)

I'm going to get the Patriot units swapped for 4 'listed' modules and
see what happens then.... will update the list with the results... but
if this is the root then others may want to take note that the Gigabyte
board/set-up seems to be power-critical (sensitive) if all slots are
populated.


Ian


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On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:13 +0000, I.E.Broadbent wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:29 +0900, David wrote:
Thierry Chatelet wrote:
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 22:24, I.E.Broadbent wrote:
Anyone have any comments or suggestions please.

Anyone heard of any problems with the CPU's or Boards mentioned above?

Thanks, Ian

Hi, I got a similar problem, which was soulve by increasing the voltage on the
memories sticks. No idea if it can help, sorry, but it's worth a try.
Thierry


I'm currently building a similar box, so this is topical.

If you are running identical boxes, with identical installs, and you
only have trouble on one, it's a fault in one lot of hardware or in a
config difference.

You are running what I would consider the bare minimum of ram for a 64
box, but if you have one box running ok on that, that's not the problem
either.

I'm not familiar with the board - I'm building with an Asus one with a
6000 AMD CPU, but Gigabyte make good boards and that shouldn't be the
problem either.(Did anybody have access to the build area and pick
things up "just for a look?" - even doing this to a ram chip could be
enough).

No, ...just me.... and I've swapped over modules from another (running
properly) machine to check and it's the same... it's a real swine this
one....
I'm intrigued that you consider 4 gig to be the minimum setup for such a
setup... having read this I then took two modules from the 'running' box
to see how it would fair... and although it was noticeable it wasn't
demonstrating the 'stuttering' of the other.... so I am fairly confident
that it's not the fact that 4 gig isn't enough... one of the issues
seems to be unrelated to the volume of RAM (certainly between 2 and 4
gig-worth)... It's the fact that the damned thing won't boot at all with
4 slots populated (with any size of RAM).

I'm going to try tweaking the voltage as suggested by Thierry and see
what happens (knowing my luck of late I'll probably fry the blasted
things.)


Ian


Regards,

David.













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