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From: Jim on 31 Aug 2009 11:19 On Aug 31, 7:09 am, Carlos <Car...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I guess your PC was not born with the thumb drive plugged in. > :) Carlos, Very clever. However, it was serendipity that came across having the thumb drive installed and making the computer boot. <smile> It did not work properly until I had done that. I originally insalled the thumb drive to bring the BIOS up to the latest version, but I already *had* the lastest version. > So, what changed between the day when your PC was "thumbless" to the day it > became thumb dependent? I tried to flash the BIOS. > The 6GB/4GB issue is BIOS dependent according to your data so try to > interprent the small print in the mobo's manual carefully. There are usually > exceptions to the way all memory slots can be populated. People all over the Internet are having this problem, so I think it is related to the i7 920, ASUS motherboards, and triple pumped memory. I have the memory in the correct three slots according to the manual, and I have all three in the orange slots. Both SIW and CPU-Z see all 6 GB properly. Jim
From: Jim on 31 Aug 2009 11:21 On Aug 31, 1:12 am, Dominic Payer <d...(a)dcp.fsv.co.uk> wrote: > Seehttp://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=P6T+Deluxe+V2&S.... > There seem to be quite a few with problems with your board. Thanks! I am not alone! :-) > Have you tried updating the BIOS? See Downloads athttp://usa.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=QtpKQuERkuYw6trc. The first thing I did was to flash to the latest BIOS. Thank you for the information! :-) Jim
From: Carlos on 31 Aug 2009 11:38 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 "Jim" wrote: > On Aug 31, 7:09 am, Carlos <Car...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > I guess your PC was not born with the thumb drive plugged in. > > :) > > Carlos, > > Very clever. However, it was serendipity that came across having the > thumb drive installed and making the computer boot. <smile> It did > not work properly until I had done that. I originally insalled the > thumb drive to bring the BIOS up to the latest version, but I already > *had* the lastest version. > > > So, what changed between the day when your PC was "thumbless" to the day it > > became thumb dependent? > > I tried to flash the BIOS. > > > The 6GB/4GB issue is BIOS dependent according to your data so try to > > interprent the small print in the mobo's manual carefully. There are usually > > exceptions to the way all memory slots can be populated. > > People all over the Internet are having this problem, so I think it is > related to the i7 920, ASUS motherboards, and triple pumped memory. I > have the memory in the correct three slots according to the manual, > and I have all three in the orange slots. Both SIW and CPU-Z see all > 6 GB properly. > > Jim >
From: Dominic Payer on 31 Aug 2009 11:57 After trying to flash the BIOS did you remove the thumb drive and clear the CMOS data? After this you should load optimised or fail-safe defaults and then customise the settings for your set-up. It seems that at boot the board is accessing the thumb drive BIOS copy not the on-board chip. With new chipsets and hardware there is always the possibility of incompatible firmwares and BIOSes in disks, graphics cards, etc. apart from faulty components generating noise on startup and confusing the system. Remove everything non-essential and see if it will boot normally. If so, add things in stages until you find what is causing problems. On 31/08/2009 16:19, Jim wrote: > On Aug 31, 7:09 am, Carlos<Car...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > >> I guess your PC was not born with the thumb drive plugged in. >> :) > > Carlos, > > Very clever. However, it was serendipity that came across having the > thumb drive installed and making the computer boot.<smile> It did > not work properly until I had done that. I originally insalled the > thumb drive to bring the BIOS up to the latest version, but I already > *had* the lastest version. > >> So, what changed between the day when your PC was "thumbless" to the day it >> became thumb dependent? > > I tried to flash the BIOS. > >> The 6GB/4GB issue is BIOS dependent according to your data so try to >> interprent the small print in the mobo's manual carefully. There are usually >> exceptions to the way all memory slots can be populated. > > People all over the Internet are having this problem, so I think it is > related to the i7 920, ASUS motherboards, and triple pumped memory. I > have the memory in the correct three slots according to the manual, > and I have all three in the orange slots. Both SIW and CPU-Z see all > 6 GB properly. > > Jim
From: Jim on 31 Aug 2009 23:23
On Aug 31, 10:38 am, Carlos <Car...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > 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 Carlos, I don't even get the "Loading ASUS Express Gate" flashing across the screen unless the thumb drive is installed. I finally have things improved, although not fixed, with the memory, with the help of Mushkin and changing all of the settings manually, but the computer will not boot without the thumb drive. The machine is much peppier with the new manual memory settings but it does not see the 6 GB in Device Manager. Both CPU-Z and SIW see the memory, and CPU-Z tells me that it is in the correct slots. I think you were on to something earlier when you said that this is a machine that simply likes to suck it's thumb? <smile> Jim |