Monitor won't come off standby after setting 3200 ram to 400Mhz in bios

yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
edited February 2004 in Hardware
My asus P4C800 E-Deluxe motherboard won't send a signal to my monitor anymore after setting the ddr memory from auto to what it is rated at (3200/400). It is Corsair 512mb XMS. Tried cmos resetting multiple times, is there a trick to this (i.e. turning power supply unit off completely, keeping it on, changing cap when system power is on, time, anything?)?

This error appeared the first time after changing the memory:

Bios Badchecksum

which repeated over and over, then it said it was scanning floppy and couldn't find it over and over, I reset computer and now can't get video. Just to let you know this is my THIRD board that I have had. First board DOA (no video). Second board no video after changing a hardware component (taking out/putting in same video card, VIDEO CARD IS FINE!!!). I am on the third board and ANGRY! I may be on my FOURTH soon! Well not really soon, it takes 3 days to request RMA, 7 days to ship to California, 2+ weeks for them to process it, 7 days to send back. This is all with expensive long distance phone call, unreliable tracking/no tracking whatsoever, and the hassle of taking out components and putting them back in, hoping the harddrives aren't messed up. It has also been down a little while and I just got it set up. Now, I have been overclocking just to 3 ghz from 2.8, but it was working fine for 2 days straight at this setting. Why the heck would there be a problem if I set memory speed at its stock setting?!!!!!! I only changed the setting because I have a HIGH suspicion that auto just means lowest acceptable settings for the board and nothing more.

{EVERY PROBLEM I EVER HAD WITH THIS SETUP (besides Microsoft) WAS THIS MONITOR STANDBY PROBLEM!}

HELP!~~~~~~~~~~~~~<screem>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::eek::mad::mad::mad::confused::mad::mad::mad::eek::mad::mad::mad:

Comments

  • NebulousNebulous New York, The Empire State
    edited February 2004
    Auto means it will run the safest, required settings by the ram's manufacturer, not the slowest.

    You may have inadvertinley killed something by overclocking the ram over it's specs..

    I would unplug the monitor, remove the video card and ram also unplug the psu and remove the cmos battery for several hours and pray this resets it.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited February 2004
    Okay will do, after some more cmos attempts. The memory is DDR 3200/400Mhz though, and this board supports only UP TO 400mhz so this can't be overclocking, right. 400 matches 400, that seems to make sense to me.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited February 2004
    Whoooofta! Its fixed!

    Thread closed.
  • jnash007jnash007
    edited February 2004
    What was the cure?
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited February 2004
    some more cmos attempts, the one that got it to work was when I turned computer power on and changed the jumper while it was on, it automatically shut down. I waited a couple hours. Then I put jumper back, I think I still had to power computer on (push button), but forget sense my other computer is opposite (1machine auto turns back on, 1 does not).
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