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From: Jim on 3 Sep 2009 07:10 On Sep 2, 7:00 am, Bobby Johnson <rjohn...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I presume you are fully knowledgeable that this forum is for discussions > of problems with 64-bit Windows operating systems and is not a hardware > forum. Bobby, Yes, I am; but the 6 GB of memory not showing up in Windows Sysem could be an operating system issue. Besides, people without 64-bit operating systems, couldn't be running more than 4 GB of memory. Thank you. Jim
From: Carlos on 3 Sep 2009 08:28 Jim, I'll be on vacations as of tomorrow till mid September so I won't be able to follow your posts (vacation = fully unplugged). I did not mean that 1 KW was not enough for your rig, what I said is that maybe your mobo or your PSU might be needing (dunno why) a _little_ standby current for starting up. Best of luck. Carlos "Jim" wrote: > > This morning I woke up with a hunch. > > Unplug your thumb drive and plug there any USB device you have, e.g., a > > webcam. > > Restart your PC and see what happens. > > I've got the feeling that either your mobo or power supply is needing a > > little current drain on the +5VUSB power supply to start. > > Some piece of hardware ain't working as it should there. > > Carlos, > > That could be? I have a brand new Enermax 1050 watt power supply.It > could be too much for what I have plugged in. I had a previous RAID 5 > system with four drives, although the new video card takes quite a bit > more juice than the old one did. > > I'll have to try it next week, as I want to get away from the machine > for a weekend. > > Thanks again! :-) > > Jim >
From: Jim on 23 Sep 2009 02:40 On Aug 31, 10:38 am, Carlos <Car...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Jim, > The thumb drive thing still baffles me. > How far do you get after powering up your pc without the thumb drive plugged > in? > No video, no messages, no beeps? > Have you tried resetting the BIOS? > Carlos Hi Carlos, I've *finally* fixed the thumb drive problem. I turned off "Express Gate" in the BIOS. Evidently "Express Gate" adds a ten-second delay to the boot, and I thought the thumb drive was helping. With Express Gate disable the machine boots fine. Thank you for all your help through the years. I am still having trouble with the memory, and I am down to five possibilities: (a) bad memory, (b) bad memory slot, (c) impropper BIOS settings, (d) incorrectly inserted CPU, or (e) incompatible memory with the motherboard. Some of these are easier to test than others. I am somewhat inclined to stick with 4 GB of recognized memory and just go with it. Tha't easier than taking out the CPU. I have one of those *huge* fans, and there are two pages of people having these problems on the ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 site, and many of them could not fix the problem no matter *what* they did. Jim
From: Jim on 23 Sep 2009 13:11 On Sep 3, 7:28 am, Carlos <Car...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: Hi Carlos, As you have been extremely helpful through the years, I thought Id send you this post directly. I hope you do not mind. I've *finally* fixed the thumb drive problem. I turned off "Express Gate" in the BIOS. Evidently "Express Gate" adds a ten-second delay to the boot, and I thought the thumb drive was helping. With Express Gate disable the machine boots fine. Thank you for all your help through the years. I am still having trouble with the memory, and I am down to five possibilities: (a) bad memory, (b) bad memory slot, (c) improper BIOS settings, (d) incorrectly inserted CPU, or (e) incompatible memory with the motherboard. Some of these are easier to test than others. I am somewhat inclined to stick with 4 GB of recognized memory and just go with it. Thats easier than taking out the CPU. I have one of those *huge* fans, and there are two pages of reports of people having these problems on the ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 site, and many of them could not fix the problem no matter *what* they did. They did all the usual fixes, and they still had the problem afterwards. Heres what one fellow recommended to me: I have a P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard with 6 GB of Mushkin memory and an i7 920 processor. I am running Vista 64-Bit. The BIOS and operating system only see 4 GB of memory, but both SIW and CPU-Z see all 6 GB of memory. I have at least five different theories people have given me: (a) one of the memory sticks is bad, (b) the memory is incompatible with the motherboard, (c) one of the memory slots is bad, (d) a setting is wrong in the BIOS, (e) I inserted the CPU incorrectly. I am suspicious that any hardware is bad, but I am willing to consider it. I am trying to develop a test plan, but I don't know what to test in what order. Taking the entire system apart is quite a bit of work, and I'm not even sure it would solve the problem. Thank you! Jim Jim: Of your possible scenarios, all are potential issues. In order of likelihood: D, E, B, A, C. Check my post in the following forum article to check for item D: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20090919210224515&board_id=1&model=P6T+Deluxe+V2&page=1&SLanguage=en-us Item E is a very likely problem area. Bent socket pins and debris on the CPU receptacles account for a lot of flaky board behavior, especially memory issues like the one you are describing. Any quality DDR3 memory with the appropriate rated speed should work on this board. Getting them to run at their advertised speed is another matter. That's for another day... You can easily test each DIMM by installing it in slot A_1 by itself, with no others installed. The board will boot with one DIMM in slot A_1 and A_1 only. You can run memtest 2.11 from a boot CD on each DIMM prior to Vista. A bad DIMM is an RMA to the vendor or Mushkin. Finally, if all of the above reveal nothing and the problem persists, start swapping the now known good DIMMs in and out of the A channel slots to isolate which slot is bad. A bad slot is an RMA to the vendor or ASUS. Hope this helps. Carlos, youve been unusually helpful! Jim
From: Jim on 27 Sep 2009 01:24
I was up late last night doing some hardware testing. My all three sticks of memory work in memory slots A2 and A3 but none of the sticks of memory is recognized in memory slot A1. I still do not know whether that rules out a bent CPU pin or not, but it does suggest that memory slot A1 might be bad. Nevertheless, many other people are reporting similar problems so I am not sure the X58 chipset or the i7 920 processor are not part of the problem. |