Building A New Workstation

[cwo_ghwebb]

Got the Intel DX38BT motherboard, Quad Core 9470 cpu, 4GB Corsair DDR3, 9-9-9-24 settings, sata drive, nVidia 8800GTS video card and the darn thing hangs for five minutes on booting and no OS will run.

When the comp boots, during the post screen, in the lower right corner codes come up (like when you got a PCI Post board in the thing). E7, then 0, 94 (is where it hangs), then EB.

My understanding it's clearing keyboard memory, but doesn't seem right.

I tried resetting BIOS to default. Removed battery and rebooted. Installed Vista, then XP. Thing has been driving me nuts all weekend. Can't get any OS to boot. Any suggestions?

[clevalley (Premo)]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

Got the Intel DX38BT motherboard, Quad Core 9470 cpu, 4GB Corsair DDR3, 9-9-9-24 settings, sata drive, nVidia 8800GTS video card and the darn thing hangs for five minutes on booting and no OS will run.

When the comp boots, during the post screen, in the lower right corner codes come up (like when you got a PCI Post board in the thing). E7, then 0, 94 (is where it hangs), then EB.

My understanding it's clearing keyboard memory, but doesn't seem right.

I tried resetting BIOS to default. Removed battery and rebooted. Installed Vista, then XP. Thing has been driving me nuts all weekend. Can't get any OS to boot. Any suggestions?

Dude - :shouldhaveboughtadell:

I would call the manufacturer or distributor of the motherboard... without manuals or customer support forums for the make/mode I would not know where to start.

[czygvtwkr]

Usually something like that means the motherboard can handle the processor, but the bios needs flashing to support that particular processor.

I also had a similar problem one time turned out to be a bad chipset on the mb.

[cwo_ghwebb]

Originally Posted by czygvtwkr

Usually something like that means the motherboard can handle the processor, but the bios needs flashing to support that particular processor.

I also had a similar problem one time turned out to be a bad chipset on the mb.

It was fine until I hooked up the hdd. I'm building this myself, but waiting for this darn thing to boot forever is driving me crazy!

[unixpirate]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

Got the Intel DX38BT motherboard, Quad Core 9470 cpu, 4GB Corsair DDR3, 9-9-9-24 settings, sata drive, nVidia 8800GTS video card and the darn thing hangs for five minutes on booting and no OS will run.

When the comp boots, during the post screen, in the lower right corner codes come up (like when you got a PCI Post board in the thing). E7, then 0, 94 (is where it hangs), then EB.

My understanding it's clearing keyboard memory, but doesn't seem right.

I tried resetting BIOS to default. Removed battery and rebooted. Installed Vista, then XP. Thing has been driving me nuts all weekend. Can't get any OS to boot. Any suggestions?

IRQ conflict

[cwo_ghwebb]

let me check and get to you in the morning

[TWL]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

Got the Intel DX38BT motherboard, Quad Core 9470 cpu, 4GB Corsair DDR3, 9-9-9-24 settings, sata drive, nVidia 8800GTS video card and the darn thing hangs for five minutes on booting and no OS will run.

When the comp boots, during the post screen, in the lower right corner codes come up (like when you got a PCI Post board in the thing). E7, then 0, 94 (is where it hangs), then EB.

My understanding it's clearing keyboard memory, but doesn't seem right.

I tried resetting BIOS to default. Removed battery and rebooted. Installed Vista, then XP. Thing has been driving me nuts all weekend. Can't get any OS to boot. Any suggestions?

RE: memory. how many sticks? if two, place them in slot 1 and slot 3. If it is a 4GB stick, take it back and get 2 2GB sticks. It seems this MB only takes up to 2GB per stick. Is it/are they rated for 1.5v? If not you need to manualy adjust the voltage for your memory in the BIOS.

[cwo_ghwebb]

Originally Posted by TWL

RE: memory. how many sticks? if two, place them in slot 1 and slot 3. If it is a 4GB stick, take it back and get 2 2GB sticks. It seems this MB only takes up to 2GB per stick. Is it/are they rated for 1.5v? If not you need to manualy adjust the voltage for your memory in the BIOS.

I have four 1GB sticks. DDR3 is expensive! I set the voltage manually in the BIOS. Maybe I got a bad stick. I'll take out the second bank and keep playing with it.

Thanks!

[basher]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

Got the Intel DX38BT motherboard, Quad Core 9470 cpu, 4GB Corsair DDR3, 9-9-9-24 settings, sata drive, nVidia 8800GTS video card and the darn thing hangs for five minutes on booting and no OS will run.

When the comp boots, during the post screen, in the lower right corner codes come up (like when you got a PCI Post board in the thing). E7, then 0, 94 (is where it hangs), then EB.

My understanding it's clearing keyboard memory, but doesn't seem right.

I tried resetting BIOS to default. Removed battery and rebooted. Installed Vista, then XP. Thing has been driving me nuts all weekend. Can't get any OS to boot. Any suggestions?

check out the reviews on: Newegg.com - Intel BOXDX38BT LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX DDR3 Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

people with similar problems, one guy wrote:
"However excellent this motherboard may perform, the state it arrives in is absolutely terrible. The original BIOS has a lot of bugs. The most annoying bug is that the BIOS will ignore the boot order that you select and boots to the hard drive first. So if you select to boot from the CD and you have a hard drive with an operating system attached, then it will simply ignore the CD and boot from the hard drive. There is a BIOS update that fixes this but it is a pain because you’ll have to go to another computer to create the bootable CD or USB drive to update the BIOS. Once I finally got the BIOS updated I discovered that there is a problem with booting from a Windows XP CD with this board, XP doesn’t have the necessary drivers to recognize the SATA HD and the board doesn’t come with the floppy port. So for that I had to buy a USB floppy and create a driver disk for the Windows installation."

[GWguy]

I used to build my own, but for all the problems (like in this thread) that you can run into, and because you get into finger-pointing between vendors, and the time, money and frustration you invest, I'll do a little research and get a packaged system with a warranty. I just don't have it in me anymore to build from scratch.