I’ll spare you guys the drama that I’ve said for the past 2-3 weeks so far, and just get right down to what’s been said (and what I’ve done).
This morning, I went to turn it on, and it took several attempts to turn it on (without it turning itself back off or beeping and then turning itself back off) until I got it to stay on.
The guy I spoke to is back from his family emergency, and good timing as I needed his help to tell me what to overclock my RAM, He didn’t understand why I even needed to do that. More responses came in (asking if there’s any error messages showing up when it’s beeping), and I explained what happened when I turned it on (and told them there were no errors).
Decided to go back to BIOS and take about 5 pictures of what I was seeing, and then upload them to the thread. Since then, the responses stopped coming in (for a good three hours). I started to get really annoyed, not being able to do anything about this issue. It’s like they saw my issue as a low priority. Tomorrow’s another meetup in E:D, and I’m going to miss it if I don’t do something (and make this CPU stable)!!
And ‘something’ I did. I unplugged my computer, laid it on my bed, and removed the two sticks of RAM I bought four months ago to make it 16GB. I put the sticks in a sandwich bag, to keep the dust off of them.
When plugging everything up, I decided to only plug in the essentials (keyboard/mouse/monitors/power). Went into BIOS to verify I was back to 8GB, and I was. Booted normally into Windows. With no internet connection, I shut down my computer and waited the minute.
Turned it back on…… NO BEEPS!!! 😮 FUUUCCCKKK YEEEEESSSSS!!!! FINALLY, I had a handle on the issue! Unfortunately, I’m stuck with 8GB ’till June. Tulsi is acting like 8GB is the norm..heh, not from what I’ve been told on the FTB Forum.
So this is great! It’s not beeping like a sheep anymore! Problem..SOLVED!! 😀
All there’s left to do now, is test the CPU (and get the temp stabilized for long-term gaming sessions). I re-used the settings I got yesterday(the fact I didn’t set them in BIOS, they got reset in AMD OverDrive) and ran the test, yet it seemed everytime the 15 minute mark hit, the CPU spiked in temp quite quickly into the mid 60’s. The only setting that seems to have worked, is 21x Multiplier, and 1.4V. When it spiked, it hit 60 but then started bouncing between 59-60 (and eventually leveling at 59*C). When the 25 minute hit and the test was completed (and I got my picture), I noticed the temp…actually going backwards (all the way to 52*C by the time I stopped the test).
Reported my results to the thread (including the picture), then started working on this very blog post. 10 minutes later, there’s a response questioning of why did I stop the test halfway. This was my bad for not resetting HWMonitor’s high/low display during the multiple testing I was doing. Guy I’ve been talking to, explained the situation for me.
Now I have to wait ’till tomorrow (as everyone has gone to bed), to hopefully know my next move in coming up with a temp fix (until I can do something in June)..aka, getting the 9590 out and getting my 4350 back in. Hell, with the incompatibility that I can’t have the 4x 4GB setup, I don’t want this motherboard (until I’m able to afford something that will). I want the 16GB I paid for, damnit!
However, there’s a 50/50 chance that the two sticks of RAM I took out, are now ruined when they went in the sandwich bag……as I’ve been told that plastic bags are known to have static. x_x FUCK!!!
JUST…GREAT!! I’m tempted to switch the RAM that’s currently in my computer, with these sticks in the bag (to see if this is the truth, and if I just lost a perfectly working $50 pair of RAM sticks due to not knowing). Tulsi claims it should be perfectly fine for the RAM to be in the bag.