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Carlosinfl

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I just pieced together a new system for the house & I took my time installing everything to avoid simple mistakes however the machine is just beeping at me. I am not sure but I have a feeling it either does not support my X2 CPU or just does not like the RAM. The back of the DFI box says this board supports 939 AMD 64/FX CPU's upto 3700+. I don't know if that just means that 3700+ was the best CPU at the time or it just can't handle 3800+ or better CPU's?

The only hink I have done to get a responce from the machine is take once piece of DDR RAM in DIMM1 and flash the BIOS. Then I get a DFI POST logo and I get a message that reads something like:

To use single channel RAM, please put RAM in Slot 1 and to use dual channel RAM, please put RAM in DIMM's 2 & 4. When I do this, I get just the single interval of beep over and over untill I flash the BIOS again.

Every power cable, fan connector, jumper looks to be where it should. I am using the card in the 16x PCI-E slot closest to the CPU which seems to be labeled PCI-E1

Here is the list:

AMD 64 X2 4200+ (dual core) CPU
DFI UT NF4 SLI-DR
Nvidia 7800 GTX (single GPU)
Thermaltake 480 PS
Corsair XMS 3200 DDR RAM Link
 
Most 939 boards will support the X2 with a BIOS update. Make sure your board supports it and flash it to the proper BIOS version.

Secondly, have you looked up the beep code? They actually tell you what's wrong. :p My nforce board also verbally speaks the error by default, so plug in your speakers and/or look up the beep codes.

You said you flashed your BIOS. Or do you mean you reset your BIOS? I'm thinking you reset them. But, if you actually flashed it, you must be able to boot off a floppy. Run memtest on each stick of RAM to make sure they're working.
 
S1nF1xx said:
Most 939 boards will support the X2 with a BIOS update. Make sure your board supports it and flash it to the proper BIOS version.
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He should still be able to use the X2 to boot without a flash because the motherboard will only detect one of the cores.
 
I will try today a single core 939 but I have a feeling it does not like el' RAM. :(
 
No, that is all I have that is rated at 550W max. I know they are not the most reliable but it works and does the job.
 
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