P4N Diamond, No Post Memory Detection Test Fails

Just got all the parts for my new system and the motherboard hangs at
the Memory Detection Test phase

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 541 3.2GHz LGA 775
Memory: 2GB Kingston 533MHz, 1GB per module
Video Card: BFG GeForce 5800 GT OC
Powersupply: Enermax 600W

Once in a while the board will go into decompressing bios image to
ram, and then hang there. I'd say about 1 out of 10 times. All other
times, it hangs at the memory detection test.

Any ideas? Memory is installed one module Channel A, one module
Channel B.

All power connectors, etc. are properly connected.

Thanks,

 

Try one module at a time. You could have a bad one. Can you borrow a known
good stick of ram to test? Also, did you clear the cmos and load fail safe
defaults?

DaveL

 

Hi,

Had extly the same problem with the Diamond (AMD). Tried just about
everything including clearing the BIOS and removed and shorted the battery.
Replaced the memory chips with an old PC2100 module and the board started
immediately. Entered all the corrct timings for my 2 new Corsair modules and
put them back in (removed the old PC2100 module) Since then everything has
worked beautifully, not a single crash. even when overclocking the RAM.
I suspect the reason for all this is that the BIOS did not clear properly
and did not recognize my Crucial Ram but used really conservative settings
with the old 2100 module.

Best of luck

Ben