Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

[shovenose]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

Did you install sli bridge? If so remove it maybe it will work then?

[Uranium-235]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

if I remember off the top of my head, in MT86+ you hit C and then...2? I think

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

as for your existing Win XP 64 bit install, that would probably BSOD no matter what, as you would probably have the wrong chipset drivers loaded, as i assume the last motherboard to boot that OS had a different chipset.

Very true.

[gg1978]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

as for your existing Win XP 64 bit install, that would probably BSOD no matter what, as you would probably have the wrong chipset drivers loaded, as i assume the last motherboard to boot that OS had a different chipset.

[gg1978]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

i had a typo in the post about how i was running that board.. I had a PCIe 9400GT in the top PCIe slot, so that definately should work OK.. when you put two cards in SLI, i'm not sure if the PC will show a POST display on the second card..

I was running 8 pin CPU power and the 24 pin ATX connector, as the acbel 550W PSU had both of those.. I don't recall any other connectors on the motherboard itself though

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

I saw this in the Board's manual:

There are three power connectors on your Thunder K8WE.
The Thunder K8WE requires an EPS12V/SSI EEB 3.51 (24 pin + 8 pin) power
supply to boot. TYAN recommends using a split plane power supply because of
the amount of power the S2895 requires.
You also have an option of using an SSI v3.51 workstation power supply. This
is recommended when running both PCI Express slots

Does that still apply if the GPU's have direct PSU connections?

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

There was an Xp x64 install on the RAID array which immediately BSOD'd... however, I don't know if it was working previosly or not as V3 wasn't stable.

The win 7 disc BSODed within seconds of a DVD boot attempt. BIOS would boot the disc, then a sec or two later, BSOD and hard reboot. Like something major was up. A RAM mapping issue would make sense but if it was working on 8gb ok, then I don't get why 16GB wouldn't. I may do a CMOS reset and start from scratch.

[Per Hansson]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

KZG's aside I think this is a software issue, do you have the latest BIOS?
I would try XP 32bit, 64bit, Win7 32bit, 64bit
In no particular order.

Also keep in mind several Windows OS have had issues during installation with more than 2/4GB of RAM, so might be useful to remove all sticks bar one during install and let it do all Windows updates then put them back in.

Also in systems like these the mapping of memory above 4GB is very important, there I can't help you with what is correct but trial and error usually solves it, or post what options you have and then I can give some recommendations.

What it basically comes down to is KISS, i.e. remove/disable anything the system does not need to POST, then try install, if it works enable/reinstall things one by one

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

ECC was indeed enabled. Not sure on Memtest... I knew it reported ECC status but I didn't know there were settings within memtest.

My only other idea is since the upper pci-e wasn't tested... that could be the issue. Lot's of KZGs around there, so I'm still thinking a recap of all the KZGs would be a good idea just to be safe. KZGs make me wanna anyway...

[Uranium-235]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

I mean ECC in memtest86+, not in the cmos

[gg1978]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

might find this helpful...


http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/26...-windows-64bit

[gg1978]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

It was running with (8) 1GB sticks of Reg ECC DDR, that were HP server pulls and a pair of Opteron 848's. I did run memtest on it over the weekend before i pulled the board from the system it was in. ECC should have been enabled already. It had one of the 550W AcBel PSU's running it. I never did try the second PCI slot, it had a 9400GT in the top PCIe slot.

[Uranium-235]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

yeah rat in memtest did you turn on ECC?

[goontron]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

Moderators don't take sides.

exactly and this moderator power has gone to your head for sure! and if you start to ban any of us for comments stating how your MOD power has gone to your head, we will chat with chris too.
(this has happened on the forum i own before)

[thesloc]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

ECC Ram = FAIL

[shovenose]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

Moderators don't take sides.

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

its on topic get use to it, we all have!

Just as much as deer repellant is a hunting aid.

[goontron]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

To those commenting on the post number one disclaimer: the job of a moderator is to keep rhreads on topic. This is not a "workstations suck" thread, so my disclaimer was warranted.

Any further complaints: pm topcat.

its on topic get use to it, we all have!

[Uranium-235]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

Seems so. I actually managed to get Windows Vista SP2 working on my Tyan Tiger MPX S2466N-4M board, even the onboard NIC which has no Vista drivers, with no issues... then I installed WinXP Pro SP3 on it. I probably could get Win7 working on my board if I even bothered to do so.

thats a 180 degree difference between his and your board. His is a 64-bit opteron server with an nvidia chipset

vista probably had your drivers built in cause its such an old board

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

To those commenting on the post number one disclaimer: the job of a moderator is to keep rhreads on topic. This is not a "workstations suck" thread, so my disclaimer was warranted.

Any further complaints: pm topcat.