Help!!!!!!!!

[WC Annihilus]

I was a friggin noob and meddled in things that I don't understand. I changed the timings down in my BIOS from stock and now my memory fails the POST memory test! Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is there anything I can do?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! (I'm scared to say this but I changed from 3-3-3-8 to 2.5-2-2-6, look how much of a noob I am !!!!!!) Plz help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[JN]

Did you change the settings back to what they should be, or are they still set at 2.5-2-2-6 ?

 

[ionicle_old]

clear the CMOS theres a jumper on your motherbord, its next to the battery, it should have 3 pins, and a jumper is over 2 of them, move it to the other 2, asin shift it acros, for 5 second...then move it back n boot up, this will clear the Cmos, and you wil have to set everything in the bios again, but it wil make it work, i had this problem before, jsut never with memory, but that resets everything to default

 

[Dav0s]

*stands back in amazement, at ionicles very first constructive post*

gratz dude! reps!

 

[ionicle_old]

wow...finally apreachiation so i got it right then? lol!

 

[NickS]

Yes ian!! Cept you forgot to say to unplug your PSU .

Nice job, Reps

 

[ionicle_old]

most reps i have ever got in one go, 8 off dave, and 7 off you nick lol

 

[WC Annihilus]

Well, I would like to change the settings back, but as far as i know, I can't get into the BIOS (when I turn on comp, just blank screen and the POST beep). I'll try what you said Ionicle and hopefully it'll work. Also, my friend told me that I might have done damage to my memory (more like amazingly likely). Do you think so? How should I test it?

 

[ionicle_old]

clear the cmos first then if theres any problems post bout them after

 

[NickS]

Lol I give out seven? Holy sh*t.

 

[ionicle_old]

yea, cos i was on 100 from the 8 dave gave me, and i am on 107 now lol

 

[ionicle_old]

right, well, between us on msn we managed to kinda solve it..we hope lol...

 

[Eguy]

why did you double post ian? :noobsign: :rollingla

 

[NickS]

Haha, :0wned:.

 

[bloodthirst]

right, well, between us on msn we managed to kinda solve it..we hope lol...

ian do not post up anything about solving it on msn lol.

 

[WC Annihilus]

Well, the comp is running now, and I ran Memtest86 one pass (took like 40 minutes ) with no errors, so as far as I can tell my memory came out of the experience unscathed .

Just out of curiousity, Frag's guide says that once I bump up the settings a bit (each time) I should run 5 passes of Memtest86. If it takes 40 minutes for 1 pass, do I still need to run it 5 times? Would 1 be enough?

Thanks again and reps to Ionicle :worship: :worship: :worship:

 

[|3ourne]

only be concerned about memtest #5 and #8.

#5 errors = voltage problem 99% of the time

#8 errors = alpha timings , usually your Tref value in the bios.

 

[WC Annihilus]

Does that mean I can configure it so that it only runs those 2 tests and then run it 5 times?

 

[|3ourne]

yep , when u start memtesting press these letters in a series

for #5 : c - 1 - 3 - 5 - enter - 0

for #8 : c - 1 - 3 - 8 - enter - 0

that should get u to run loops of those particular tests only .