- Joined
- Mar 4, 2007
- Location
- Perth, Western Australia
I bought this motherboard a couple of months ago along with some other new gear, and it was running fine for a while with no issues whatsoever. A couple of weeks ago I started experiencing random BSoDs of the nondescript IRQL not less or equal variety. After some troubleshooting I discovered that the HDD I was using as my system drive was at the end of it's life, so I replaced it.
With the new HDD in place Windows installed fine, and I was able to install all the drivers without any hiccups. A couple of hours later, however, the system started blue-screening again; this time with random error codes that were different each time. When I tried booting the system again all I got was POST code 45. The system will now only POST with ram in slots 1 and/or 2; slots 3 and 4 cause the system to throw that 45 code at me. Even when it does POST, Windows BSoDs during the 'Starting Windows' screen; something it never did before.
After some reading it was suggested that I manually set the RAM voltage to 1.5 instead of Auto. It was at this point that I discovered that the BIOS wont actually let me click on most of the settings! The only settings I have been able to modify are the boot options, and I can click on some (not all) of the sub-menus. Even after clearing the CMOS (using both the button as well as removing the battery) and re-flashing the latest BIOS I still can't modify any settings.
I would consider myself fairly experienced when it comes to this sort of thing, but at the moment I'm just lost. I've tried pretty much everything I can think of to troubleshoot the issue: reseating the CPU, trying the RAM in all possible configurations, just using the iGPU, only having the system drive plugged in, etc. I just don't understand what could be causing all these issues.
With the new HDD in place Windows installed fine, and I was able to install all the drivers without any hiccups. A couple of hours later, however, the system started blue-screening again; this time with random error codes that were different each time. When I tried booting the system again all I got was POST code 45. The system will now only POST with ram in slots 1 and/or 2; slots 3 and 4 cause the system to throw that 45 code at me. Even when it does POST, Windows BSoDs during the 'Starting Windows' screen; something it never did before.
After some reading it was suggested that I manually set the RAM voltage to 1.5 instead of Auto. It was at this point that I discovered that the BIOS wont actually let me click on most of the settings! The only settings I have been able to modify are the boot options, and I can click on some (not all) of the sub-menus. Even after clearing the CMOS (using both the button as well as removing the battery) and re-flashing the latest BIOS I still can't modify any settings.
I would consider myself fairly experienced when it comes to this sort of thing, but at the moment I'm just lost. I've tried pretty much everything I can think of to troubleshoot the issue: reseating the CPU, trying the RAM in all possible configurations, just using the iGPU, only having the system drive plugged in, etc. I just don't understand what could be causing all these issues.
