On Sep 3, 7:28*am, Carlos <Car...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Hi Carlos,
As you have been extremely helpful through the years, I thought I’d
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. That’s 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.
Here’s 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?...Language=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, you’ve been unusually helpful!
Jim
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