nataSofCols Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Has anyone else had trouble running their Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 motherboard with Corsair memory (TWIN2X2048-6400 specifically)? The memory appears to work fine in other boards and the board appears to work fine with other memory, but I can't get the two of them to work together without getting random blue screens in both Windows XP and Vista. I'm trying to figure out if I need to send the motherboard back to Gigabyte or if I should contact Corsair about replacing the memory. Any feedback on this would be great, I'm getting desperate for a solution.:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nataSofCols Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 Has anyone else had trouble running their Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 motherboard with Corsair memory (TWIN2X2048-6400 specifically)? The memory appears to work fine in other boards and the board appears to work fine with other memory, but I can't get the two of them to work together without getting random blue screens in both Windows XP and Vista. I'm trying to figure out if I need to send the motherboard back to Gigabyte or if I should contact Corsair about replacing the memory. Any feedback on this would be great, I'm getting desperate for a solution.:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Have you searched the forums yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Have you searched the forums yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nataSofCols Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 Yep, searched the forums and did not find anything that would provide an answer to my question. I did see something about adjusting the memory timing settings manually and changing the voltage control, but I am still getting blue screens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nataSofCols Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 Yep, searched the forums and did not find anything that would provide an answer to my question. I did see something about adjusting the memory timing settings manually and changing the voltage control, but I am still getting blue screens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 Do you have XMS2-6400 5-5-5-15? Or (C4) 4-4-4-12? Set the Memory latencies /voltage manually to the correct settings in dual channel mode. USE Memtest to ensure you have no memory errors after setting manually. I noticed that you are overclocked in cpu are you set at 667mhz speed/divider? TimC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nataSofCols Posted October 21, 2007 Author Share Posted October 21, 2007 My bad on the PC specs. That system appears to be working when I use that memory, the problem is with another system. The system I am running the memory in is running at stock speeds with the memory running at 800 MHz. The memory is the 5-5-5-15 and I have set the timing and voltage per Ram Guy's recommendation for that board. I ran Memtest+ on this system again and it appears that one of the sticks is erroring out like crazy, just not sure how I was able to run with that memory in my system (listed under my PC specs) without erroring out all the time. I would be happy if I could just somehow replace this memory and motherboard with other brands and at no cost to me. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 22, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 22, 2007 Let's get them replaced, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psypuls Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Has anyone else had trouble running their Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 motherboard with Corsair memory (TWIN2X2048-6400 specifically)? The memory appears to work fine in other boards and the board appears to work fine with other memory, but I can't get the two of them to work together without getting random blue screens in both Windows XP and Vista. I'm trying to figure out if I need to send the motherboard back to Gigabyte or if I should contact Corsair about replacing the memory. Any feedback on this would be great, I'm getting desperate for a solution.:confused: Yep, luckily i found this topic through corsair support search I have exactly the same Mobo and i get bluescreens now from the latest world of warcraft patch :P , i really dont know if its the rams fault i never did check any settings to the ram because i dont know how. but the bluescreen said check the ram kind, appreciate any kind of help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 15, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 15, 2007 Do you have a setting in the BIOS called Write to PreCharge Delay? If so please set it to 15 and please make sure and set the memory Voltage to +.2 Volts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psypuls Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 didnt have such an option called precharge delay however i found a +voltage option on the ram M.I.T. and select DDR2 OverVoltage control and choose +0.2V and you could select all the way up to 0.7 but now i changed to +0.2, and i hope it gets better:P thanks i have another question please, since i have 4gb which is kind of much, is it good to disable the pagefile in windows? i want the computer to run from no virtual ram so it goes faster, is it true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekT Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 didnt have such an option called precharge delay however i found a +voltage option on the ram M.I.T. and select DDR2 OverVoltage control and choose +0.2V and you could select all the way up to 0.7 but now i changed to +0.2, and i hope it gets better:P thanks i have another question please, since i have 4gb which is kind of much, is it good to disable the pagefile in windows? i want the computer to run from no virtual ram so it goes faster, is it true? If you continue to have stability issues, then with 4 X 1024 of 800Mhz DRAM, I advise you to drop your bandwidth to 667Mhz in order to allow the Northbridge/Memory Controller Hub access and load times. Then apply your overclock. Set your Vdimm to 2.0v and your Northbridge/MCH to 1.5V. If you decide to disable your pagefile, you will still have a pagefile. Windows will create a temporary one as it will NOT run without one. As well, Windows needs at least 256MB of Pagefile on the Boot Drive to allow memory dumps when your computer blue screens. You do NOT want to lose this very valuable method of determining the event that caused your blue-screen. Some will advise you to disable the page file, but if you want minimal use of a page file, then create a small 512MB Permanent swap file on your boot drive, thus limiting page file usage and maximizing DRAM useage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psypuls Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 thanks for the help but now I am allmost certain that this problem is from a bad patch released from world of warcraft, because it never happened before this patch and its messing with my hardware. i did all kinds of benchmarks there was no problem with rams and so on but blizzard dont believe it. oh well it will get fixed in the future i hope. thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Run the WoW repair tool. It's in the WoW root directory, and it's called Repair :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 That file got hit by Leeeeerrooooooyyyyyyy......JENKINzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nataSofCols Posted November 17, 2007 Author Share Posted November 17, 2007 FYI, I had the 2 sticks of memory replaced and that seems to have fixed the issue. Not sure why I never had problems when using it in my other system, but the memory was definetly bad on the Gigabyte board. Just ran MemTest86+ on one stick at a time and let it run for at least 3+ passes. Second stick was just going error crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekT Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 FYI, I had the 2 sticks of memory replaced and that seems to have fixed the issue. Not sure why I never had problems when using it in my other system, but the memory was definetly bad on the Gigabyte board. Just ran MemTest86+ on one stick at a time and let it run for at least 3+ passes. Second stick was just going error crazy. Good to hear that your issue was resolved. Let us know if you have any other problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psypuls Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 If you continue to have stability issues, then with 4 X 1024 of 800Mhz DRAM, I advise you to drop your bandwidth to 667Mhz in order to allow the Northbridge/Memory Controller Hub access and load times. Then apply your overclock. Set your Vdimm to 2.0v and your Northbridge/MCH to 1.5V. If you decide to disable your pagefile, you will still have a pagefile. Windows will create a temporary one as it will NOT run without one. As well, Windows needs at least 256MB of Pagefile on the Boot Drive to allow memory dumps when your computer blue screens. You do NOT want to lose this very valuable method of determining the event that caused your blue-screen. Some will advise you to disable the page file, but if you want minimal use of a page file, then create a small 512MB Permanent swap file on your boot drive, thus limiting page file usage and maximizing DRAM useage. :sigh!: the error won't stop, i tried to remove my 2 new rams and it solved the problem! so i am now 100% sure that these bluescreens are caused by my 4 ram sticks somehow, would you advise me to keep playing with just 2 ram sticks or do the things you mentioned set it to 667mhz and vdim 2.0v northbridge mch 1.5 , but i am not experienced with my BIOS, can you give me any ideas of where these settings could be? i checked alot but i dont seem to find much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 2, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 2, 2008 Did you test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psypuls Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 i have run a test for 4 hours now how much longer is it going to continue? i couldnt wait anymore so i quit after that. please check the picture and tell me how it is looking http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5829/dsc00212bf1.jpg sorry for bad quality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Did you test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org?i have run a test for 4 hours now how much longer is it going to continue? i couldnt wait anymore so i quit after that. please check the picture and tell me how it is looking http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5829/dsc00212bf1.jpg sorry for bad quality Like RG said, please test ONE stick at a time. In your screenshot it shows 1 error, and it is around the 3 GB mark, which wouldn't happen when testing one stick at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psypuls Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 does the test stop automaticly then? because 4hours feels kinda much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 it doesn't stop at all, just keeps looping ad infinitum. 3 passes is sufficient Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psypuls Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 do you mean i have to remove 3 rams from the slot, all time untill all are tested and test them one by one like that or can i set any settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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