X58 platinum no post no beeps sometimes

[anthony j]

Hello, I have a x58 platinum setup that has been running great since March. Recently it will not boot sometimes no post or bios and no beeps it does this once out of four starts about. The computer has been working very good no problems with it running. All LED's come one and are blue and all fans work when it fails to post there is no blinking from the hard drive activity light and no post screen or beeps. Some of the things I have tried are as follows: Checked all connections, changed boot seq to hard drive only, disabled quick boot. I'm going to try a diff graphics card and one stick of ram to see if that solves anything.If it was a hard drive problem,graphics card, CPU, or ram would'nt I get some error beep tones and a post failure in bios? I get neither.Here are my specs I hope I do this right.

x58 platinum bios ver 3.3 4/2/09
Core i7 920
6x2 gb ddr3 OCZ xmp 1600 mem
thermaltake 850w 70 amp power supply
1x GTX-470 graphics card
WD 500gig 32mb black sata 2
win 7 64bit

 

[anthony j]

ok reduced it down to 1.58 I will test that at cr-1 tommorow. Thank you so much for the help.

 

[anthony j]

HU16E  Ok after 20 starts I think it's safe to say the cr-1 is safe. I just hope the cr-1 is stable in games ect. Back on the DRAM voltage the XMP settings had it set at 1.65v in CPUZ right on the edge. I did lower it to 1.58v last night. Going to test some games out. Thank you again!

 

[HU16E]

Going to test some games out. Thank you again!

Your welcome! Hope it is stable now too! I think you have a pretty good working knowledge now concerning the RAM & how to set everything up. If any BSOD's, a typical stop code for RAM is 0x0000050 which means a bump in DRAM V. is needed. 101 & 124 are more CPU/QPI stop codes. Anyway, if you haven't done it yet, in the case of BSOD's remaining on screen long enough to get a stop code, when in Windows, go to start, control panel, system, advance settings, startup & recovery, settings tab, uncheck auto restart.  

 

[anthony j]

Thank you for teaching me how to do this your knowledge was very helpful. I'll update latter on the progress. I do have a trouble ticket submitted to OCZ I will see what their response is.

 

[HU16E]

Many times, RAM speeds as 'rated' by manufacturers don't work out here in the real world. Most 1600 RAM is 1066 or 1333 chipped & overvolted & undertimed in a sanitary lab environement when packaged & sent to the consumer market. This in itself causes all kinds of problems when it's purchased & expected to perform as advertised. To make matters worse, the CPU IMC unless you have an EE CPU, is the native limitation of 800/1066 support. One little trick I have learned, & it has worked every time, is if a 1600 speed is desired for example, I would buy an 1866 (or higher) kit & set them up to run 1600 manually.

 

[anthony j]

Thats a good trick! The 1333 speed I'm running vrs the 1600 I understand there is not much of a difference. I do hope the cr-1 holds up I have read on other posts people having problems with that vrs cr-2. We will see. There is some false advertizing in the memory market. I don't remember this many issues with ram in the DDR and DDR2 days. I do remember RAMBUS and their over priced ram.

 

[HU16E]

There is some false advertizing in the memory market.

Misleading for sure.

The 1333 speed I'm running vrs the 1600 I understand there is not much of a difference.

Would you believe sometimes as little as a couple fps? It's true, I've seen it with my own eyes!

 

[Jack the Newbie]

I don't remember this many issues with ram in the DDR and DDR2 days.

Kingston had a memory kit sold as DDR2-800 which consisted actually just of DDR2-667 modules.  They sold them with a 2.xxV voltage recommendation to get the system stable @DDR2-800 / 5-5-5-x.  But such examples were exceptions rather than the rule.  These days the unquestioned impression of "performance" and overclockability at a minimum price seems to be the essential key that drives sellers and buyers.