I'm having some issues with my new build that I put together 4-5 weeks ago.
System specs - all new components:
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE 3.2GHz
GA-890FXA-UD5 v2.1 Motherboard w/F6 Bios
HIS Radeon HD 6850 graphics
4Gx2 GSKILL F3-10666CL7D-8GBRH (7-7-7-21-2T) (Runs as DDR1333 unganged mode)
WD Caviar Black 1TB (boot) + 2x Samsung HD103SJ 1TB
LITE-ON IHAS424-98 R (dvd burner)
Corsair CMPSU-750TX Power Supply
Viewsonic VA2431wm Monitor
Rosewill Challenger Case
Win7 Home Premium x86
I noticed that many times my machine would not come out of sleep mode correctly - it would hang or beep & I'd be forced to hold down power for 5 seconds to turn it off & then reboot it. Sometimes it will beep (10 times maybe? Need to count again), sometimes it would start to POST but would hang right after it reports my memory, sometimes it will detect drives correctly & then hang during windows startup (with the windows logo on the screen). I keep hard booting it off & eventually it will POST correctly & load up windows (so far). Once in windows, it seems to run fine. I turned off the sleep option in windows to avoid having the problems starting from sleep mode. But after a day or two I'll look at it in the morning & see that the screen is off, but the machine is humming away - all fans spinning, looking like the machine is alive with the screen blanked out. But the machine does not respond, the screen does not come on, and if I try to connect to a shared drive from another machine it says it cannot be located. So windows is hung. Then I have to hard reboot it & go through the previous steps until I can get windows started.
I had my two samsung drives as raid1 on the gsata controller & thought maybe that was the issue, so I put them back on the 850 SATA ports & turned off raid, and I still have the issues. I've tried Bios' F4/F5/F6 and it is still an issue (currently on F6). No overclocking, nothing out of the ordinary in my setup as far as I know. Temps all look good inside windows.
The common problem seems to be when I boot up from sleep or off mode after it's been sitting for a while (cold boot). I was not able to duplicate any boot problems once I booted successfully into windows unless the machine was off for a period of time.
Last night I reset my bios settings & lowered my memory timings for my memtest runs to 1066. When I set the memory clock to x5.33, it changed my default timings to what is shown under the "Auto" column in the attached snapshot. I changed the minimum ras active time to 21T, and changed the Trfc0/2/3 to be 110ns. Not sure if that is good or bad.
I ran 12 passes of memtest with 1 stick in slot 1, and there were no errors.
This morning I put stick2 in slot 1 & had problems booting with various beep combinations. After a couple tries it booted to my memtest cd & is currently running, but I expect it to come out clean as well.
Apparently I can't upload images here - I'll try to set up something where I can link to them. My latest memtest runs were with the memory underclocked to 1033 with 7-7-7-21 @ 1066 tRC=27 CR=2T
Originally I had it @ 1333 with 7-7-7-21 2T
Do you have any advice on how I should be setting timing for this memory? Or are there known issues with it on an AMD platform?
Pic of memtest passed on 1st stick in slot 1.
Pic of current dram config.
Pic of default voltages.
Pic of current cpu-z report for this memory setup.
Thanks.
System specs - all new components:
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE 3.2GHz
GA-890FXA-UD5 v2.1 Motherboard w/F6 Bios
HIS Radeon HD 6850 graphics
4Gx2 GSKILL F3-10666CL7D-8GBRH (7-7-7-21-2T) (Runs as DDR1333 unganged mode)
WD Caviar Black 1TB (boot) + 2x Samsung HD103SJ 1TB
LITE-ON IHAS424-98 R (dvd burner)
Corsair CMPSU-750TX Power Supply
Viewsonic VA2431wm Monitor
Rosewill Challenger Case
Win7 Home Premium x86
I noticed that many times my machine would not come out of sleep mode correctly - it would hang or beep & I'd be forced to hold down power for 5 seconds to turn it off & then reboot it. Sometimes it will beep (10 times maybe? Need to count again), sometimes it would start to POST but would hang right after it reports my memory, sometimes it will detect drives correctly & then hang during windows startup (with the windows logo on the screen). I keep hard booting it off & eventually it will POST correctly & load up windows (so far). Once in windows, it seems to run fine. I turned off the sleep option in windows to avoid having the problems starting from sleep mode. But after a day or two I'll look at it in the morning & see that the screen is off, but the machine is humming away - all fans spinning, looking like the machine is alive with the screen blanked out. But the machine does not respond, the screen does not come on, and if I try to connect to a shared drive from another machine it says it cannot be located. So windows is hung. Then I have to hard reboot it & go through the previous steps until I can get windows started.
I had my two samsung drives as raid1 on the gsata controller & thought maybe that was the issue, so I put them back on the 850 SATA ports & turned off raid, and I still have the issues. I've tried Bios' F4/F5/F6 and it is still an issue (currently on F6). No overclocking, nothing out of the ordinary in my setup as far as I know. Temps all look good inside windows.
The common problem seems to be when I boot up from sleep or off mode after it's been sitting for a while (cold boot). I was not able to duplicate any boot problems once I booted successfully into windows unless the machine was off for a period of time.
Last night I reset my bios settings & lowered my memory timings for my memtest runs to 1066. When I set the memory clock to x5.33, it changed my default timings to what is shown under the "Auto" column in the attached snapshot. I changed the minimum ras active time to 21T, and changed the Trfc0/2/3 to be 110ns. Not sure if that is good or bad.
I ran 12 passes of memtest with 1 stick in slot 1, and there were no errors.
This morning I put stick2 in slot 1 & had problems booting with various beep combinations. After a couple tries it booted to my memtest cd & is currently running, but I expect it to come out clean as well.
Apparently I can't upload images here - I'll try to set up something where I can link to them. My latest memtest runs were with the memory underclocked to 1033 with 7-7-7-21 @ 1066 tRC=27 CR=2T
Originally I had it @ 1333 with 7-7-7-21 2T
Do you have any advice on how I should be setting timing for this memory? Or are there known issues with it on an AMD platform?
Pic of memtest passed on 1st stick in slot 1.
Pic of current dram config.
Pic of default voltages.
Pic of current cpu-z report for this memory setup.
Thanks.
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