GA-X38-DQ6 POST problem

[helix2]

Having an intermittent issue when cold booting my GA-X38-DQ6. This ONLY happens when it cold boots and then only if it has been off for awhile. I get the initial normal post very short beep......then one very long beep and one shorter long beep before windows boots. Not sure if this counts as one long one short or one long two short.....or continuous long beeps. Everything seems to work fine and this ONLY happens on a cold boot and doesn't actually seem to effect anything as far as booting running BF2142 etc. Here is the system

Q6600 @ 3ghz (FSB 333)
2gb crucial 6400 @ 4-4-4-12/800
evga 8800 GTX KO
2x SATA HDs
Creative X-Fi
DVD-R
Logitech MX518 mouse
keyboard

Power Supply: Enermax EG495P : 485W


I'm a bit stumped. Why would this happen on certain cold boots? I haven't had any other problems (rare lock up in TF2). Recommendations? Should i RMA it? Could it be that with all my stuff the power supply is insufficient and causing the cold boot problem?

Thanks

Helix

 

[The-Noid]

That is a memory problem.

Fairly common problem with Micron D9 (the IC's inside your crucial ram). Not really much of a choice but to RMA them or put up with it.

 

[Quiksilver]

Have you tried using the 2.2v that crucial seems to suggest using on these sticks, I mean if the issue is still their at that voltage then I would have to say its time for an RMA.

 

[helix2]

Originally posted by: Yoxxy
That is a memory problem.

Fairly common problem with Micron D9 (the IC's inside your crucial ram). Not really much of a choice but to RMA them or put up with it.

Well crap...if that is the case i'll just put up with it and look for an upgrade. Can you suggest a DDR2 (probably 1066) that does NOT have this problem. I would RMA them but with memory so cheap not really worth it.

 

[helix2]

Its at 2.1 now...i can push it to 2.2....

 

[Spamdini]

im having a similar issue with my board, the same one. what happens is when i reboot or shut down for long periods of time it seems, it does a boot cycle, which is a part of the quad bios feature based on what ive read. what it does it begins booting, doesnt even get to the point where the screen detects it and then stops, tries to boot, then stops. this goes on until it finds settings that will work. now i also have patriot extreme pc2-6400 ddr2 (4GB, 2x2GB) memory, which needs to run on 2.2V, but i cant for the life of me find where to change this nor do i know how. do i have to do it in small increments or can i just put it to 2.2?

i got this system tuesday and its basically been doing this since then.
thanks in advance.

 

[JASTECH]

helix2, look on my signature and you see what I use on this rig and Mr. Beagle uses the same and we have no problems. I would switch to it.

Spamdini, to see more Advanced BIOS settings press Ctrl + F1 in the main menu of the BIOS setup.

Hope this helps, JASTECH

 

[Spamdini]

ok...i went into bios and uped the DRAM voltage to +0.40, which would put it to 2.2v correct?

 

[Spamdini]

im still having this boot problem every time the system is shut down for a longer period of time. the shortest time it has been down and reproduced the problem was ~8 hours, other than a full on restart from within windows, which always seems to work fine. any ideas? ive contacted gigabyte and they havent gotten back to me yet.