ctek Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 I already have a hackintosh running leopard on a GA p345-S3 and bought a Bad Axe 2 to run a 2nd one I also bought 4 sticks of 1gb memory. Whenever, I put 2 sticks in slots 2 & 4 the board refuses to boot. Is this like to be a faulty board - there were a couple of other posts about this but no real clear answer. Cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75156-bad-axe-2-memory-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 I already have a hackintosh running leopard on a GA p345-S3 and bought a Bad Axe 2 to run a 2nd one I also bought 4 sticks of 1gb memory. Whenever, I put 2 sticks in slots 2 & 4 the board refuses to boot. Is this like to be a faulty board - there were a couple of other posts about this but no real clear answer. Cheers I do have 4 1GB RAM sticks in my Bad Axe 2. Try to upgrade the BIOS (just in case) Else send it back for a refund. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75156-bad-axe-2-memory-problem/#findComment-531000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 I have had some possibly similiar memory-related issues with my Bad Axes (1's & 2's) as well. Moreover, one of my Bad Axe 2's refuses to boot (but I have yet to try to isolate the CPU and PSU as potential causes of the problem). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75156-bad-axe-2-memory-problem/#findComment-531044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibendum Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I can only put memory in the Channel A slots - i.e. the first black and blue ones. If I try and run it in dual channel mode, it will not boot. AND I've even purchased another BX2 MB and had the EXACT same results. I've got 4 gig of Dual channel ram sitting here and can only use 2 gig in non dual channel mode... Very Frustrating... PLUS the SATA speed is abysmal... none of the XBenches go over 100 - random write is 10... This is in SATA mode, not IDE... Patrick Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75156-bad-axe-2-memory-problem/#findComment-535883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Hmm... The memory controllers in Intel chipsets have got better and better with time (well same with everyone really, NVidia C55 won't run 8 banks at 1T ). I've got DIMMs which won't work in my 945 board which will work in my 965 board and also DIMMs which act up in the 965 boards (i.e. won't run dual channel, etc) but which perform perfectly when paired with my P35 board. Remember, regardless of the fact that Intel have only just stopped selling BA2, 975X is a 945-era chipset. Don't expect too much from it. I'm running 4 DIMMs at 450MHz, synced to FSB on my P35C-DS3 with no performance penalty vs. the two DIMMs I was running previously, which I would never have expected on P965, let alone 945/975. C55 already failed to support this configuration for me (it was just about OK with 2 DIMMs at this speed. I had to back off to below 400MHz with 4 DIMMs on that board.) Memory compatibility also varies hugely from manufacturer to manufacturer. Companies like Gigabyte, Abit, MSI, etc. are much quicker responding to bug reports and fixing their BIOSes than Intel themselves are. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75156-bad-axe-2-memory-problem/#findComment-535886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhalls Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 As i had a bx2, it ran without a hassle with 4 x 1 GB sticks. did you try all combinations to see if one or two of the sticks are falty? do the y work in the other machine? harddisk performance differs from haddisk model to harddsk model. try wd aaks drives, the 500 gb one is very good and fast. macpro disk perffomrnace is (in normal conditions not raid) not even better. what othe comonents do you use? which osx distribution? there are many variables... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75156-bad-axe-2-memory-problem/#findComment-535887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctek Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 Tried various combinations of memory - I bought some for an machine as well and that didn't work either. I now have an RMA so the board is going back - I am thinking of getting something different - can you recommend a similar board that will work out of the box. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75156-bad-axe-2-memory-problem/#findComment-536102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingtoseehere Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Tried various combinations of memory - I bought some for an machine as well and that didn't work either. I now have an RMA so the board is going back - I am thinking of getting something different - can you recommend a similar board that will work out of the box. I had trouble with the board not doing anything (not even trying to POST) when I tried to start out using some 2.2V Patriot RAM. The board by default doesn't give the RAM enough juice to POST. I had to buy some dirt cheap value RAM and boot with it enabled then up the voltage and then put in the better RAM and everything worked great after that. It lists the voltage in the Bad Axe manual, and it is pretty serious about it. Other than that no problems. I don't OC really so I can't say how stable the RAM would be overclocked, but it works fine at stock. Here is what system profiler sees: J6H1/CHAN A DIMM 0: Size: 1 GB Type: DDR2 SDRAM Speed: 800 MHz Status: OK J6J1/CHAN B DIMM 0: Size: 1 GB Type: DDR2 SDRAM Speed: 800 MHz Status: OK and Geekbench: Memory Score 2758 Read Sequential single-threaded scalar 3954 4.84 GB/sec Write Sequential single-threaded scalar 2887 1.97 GB/sec Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar 2189 8.17 Mallocs/sec Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar 2231 4.62 GB/sec Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar 2530 2.61 GB/sec Otherwise, this board is fantastic for Leopard. Everything but sound with no patching. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75156-bad-axe-2-memory-problem/#findComment-537122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctek Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 I tried upping the voltage a bit but no joy. Trouble is I dont really know what I am doing on that front. What did you up the voltage too?I have to make a decision before the end of the week as the board has to go back by then. I may give it another go tomorrowOtherwise I was thinking of getting a Gigabyte board instead - maybe a DS3 or DS4I tried upping the voltage a bit but no joy. Trouble is I dont really know what I am doing on that front. What did you up the voltage too?I have to make a decision before the end of the week as the board has to go back by then. I may give it another go tomorrowOtherwise I was thinking of getting a Gigabyte board instead - maybe a DS3 or DS4 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75156-bad-axe-2-memory-problem/#findComment-537387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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