MinstrelKnight Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Hello everyone! I have recently purchased Vengeance Pro Series — 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 DRAM 2400MHz C11 Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2A2400C11R) for my P5QC. The version is 5.21. I have cleared CMOS before installing the kit, but the problem is that the motherboard won’t post. It just spins the chassis and cpu vents. I have trained installing single module but with same results. I have without success tried setting memory options in BIOS (with the old memory in the motherboard) to: • DDR3-1600 and memory latencies on AUTO • DDR3-1800 and memory latencies on AUTO • DDR3-1600 and memory latencies on 11-13-13-31 • DDR3-1800 and memory latencies on 11-13-13-31 Finally, I have raised the ticket to Corsair support and here is the correspondence: I must admit that I am surprised that customer service will advise you to buy a product from another company and not being able to recommend anything from their own products. I would really like to stay Corsair customer, but the customer service is not helping. Is there anything else I can do to resolve this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kromel Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 I have the same motherboard and recently bought XMS3 4GB DDR3 1333 C9 and it seems that only older versions work (mine is 3.19). The motherboard does not support high density modules and you have to look for low density ones. Tried different versions of XMS3 5.24 and 7.25 and they do not work since they are high density. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinstrelKnight Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 Thanks for the info Kromel! I read DDR3 IC Inquiry sticky thread. It seems that my vengeance kit is not working not because it is too fast as customer service stated, but because it is high density. The version is 5.21 which means it has 512Mx8 ICs. Your version is 3.19 which means it has 256x8 ICs. Is it safe to say that if I am able to find a version which corresponds to low density it will work on my motherboard? Even if it is a vengeance or dominator series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kromel Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Mine has 256x16. I would say it is but memory is memory and you never know before you run the memtest ;). Try low density, there is nothing more you can do anyway. I hope you updated bios to the latest version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinstrelKnight Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 Yes, 256x8 on each side. I have flashed BIOS to latest 2103, just forgot to mention it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinstrelKnight Posted October 30, 2016 Author Share Posted October 30, 2016 Hey Kromel, did you have to set up anything special on order to make the memory work? Like clear CMOS, set the latencies and voltage manually? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kromel Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 No, not at all. I was lucky enough the first time that I received from the online shop a 3.19 version that worked in my computer. One week later I tried another module of the same version, but got blue screens. Eventually, I found another module on another shop that worked flawlessly. The computer, if you have it on auto setting, automatically makes the configurations needed for RAM. At least in my case I didn't have to do a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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