celt43 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 I purchased today the Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R mother board and Corsair Twin2x4096-8500C5DF kit. Intel E8500 3.16ghz CPU. 9800GTX+ Video card. The shop says they go well together, my friend says no they do not? ... he says the ram is wrong for that board or it will need settings to be adjusted? ...he has me confused. Does this ram work on this motherboard ? Will I need to change voltage, timings or will the two work fine on Auto settings? thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJLeong65 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 You will need to set the timings, voltage and memory speed manually. This is because when set on auto settings, the settings will default to DDR2-800 (PC2-6400) speed with JEDEC-reference timings (5-5-5-18) and voltage (1.8V). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt43 Posted August 17, 2008 Author Share Posted August 17, 2008 5 -5- 5 -15 manually and voltage to 2.1v or 2.2 volt? thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 18, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 18, 2008 The Voltage will be printed on the modules but normally it will be 2.1 Volts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt43 Posted August 19, 2008 Author Share Posted August 19, 2008 ok yes I found it and it says 2.1 volts I change it to that and a problem happens... I go into my mother board bios and set the dram voltage to 2.100 v and the voltage text turns from white to purple. I save on exit and the system shuts down ? ... on reboot I go into the bios again and there is a large red warning box saying: "The system has experienced a boot failure because of overclocking or change of voltage, last setting in this page may not coinside with currenth/w states" So whats wrong? my manual settings are on 5-5-5-15. but the voltage is back on auto 1.8 ? Now what? help please.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almasri Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 ok yes I found it and it says 2.1 volts I change it to that and a problem happens... I go into my mother board bios and set the dram voltage to 2.100 v and the voltage text turns from white to purple. I save on exit and the system shuts down ? ... on reboot I go into the bios again and there is a large red warning box saying: "The system has experienced a boot failure because of overclocking or change of voltage, last setting in this page may not coinside with currenth/w states" So whats wrong? my manual settings are on 5-5-5-15. but the voltage is back on auto 1.8 ? Now what? help please.. Hi there, try setting the ram multiplier to 1:1 (some motherboards say 2) and changing the volts back to 2.1v Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 19, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 19, 2008 That might suggest some type of Voltage problem on the MB or the PSU, did you test the modules one at a time with the tested settings set manually with http://www.memtest.org? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt43 Posted August 19, 2008 Author Share Posted August 19, 2008 I have two systems bought on the same day. i dentical in every way. Both are doing this error when the ram voltage is set to 2.100v? Both Mbs are updated to the latest bios of F9f. Could this be the problem, somthing in the bios update? So unless two of four ram sticks are faulty ? Power supply is a thermaltake 750watt. both systems side by side for setup are doing the same thing. Is this board able to run these memory sticks? PS: ignore the new thread (post) started today by my brother titled "help needed urgently please" he failed to check if you had replied to this post. how do i delete it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 19, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 19, 2008 did you test the modules one at a time with the tested settings set manually with http://www.memtest.org? What was the out come of this? Also do you have the latest BIOS for the MB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt43 Posted August 19, 2008 Author Share Posted August 19, 2008 What was the out come of this? Also dod you have the latest BIOS for the MB? yes and the system froze a few minutes into the first pass. The second system went a bit longer than froze ?? both systems are only two days old. yes the bios is the new one at F9f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 19, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 19, 2008 Memtest will sometimes look like it froze but its still running in the back ground especially in test 3 and 4 and 5 and 8, check the clock and give at least 5 Min before you turn it off or reset. But if that is the case I would talk to the MB maker and see what they say but normally a hrd lock would suggest the CPU may not be detected properly or there is some other problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt43 Posted August 21, 2008 Author Share Posted August 21, 2008 I updated the bios and the system & memtest now runs but the ram gives errors at about 65% at the rated 2.100volts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 21, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 21, 2008 On what test were you getting errors, and did you test them one at a time and what were the exact settings you had set for both CPU and memory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt43 Posted August 22, 2008 Author Share Posted August 22, 2008 Update: if I recall it was test #5 65% but last night it gave errors at 14% test 1. this morning memtest halts and freezes within a few minutes. the time is not ticking over, the percentage does not move even if left an hour. I hit the escape key and nothing happens. locked up solid. The shop wants to replace the ram first before blaming the motherboard. The motherboard has had seven bios updates released by gigabyte in the past two weeks. Each one mentions memory fixs and enhancements? The shop turned off the Dram performance control from turbo (default) back to standard and it made no difference. They also tried turning on the XMP Extreme memory profile to on ( profile #2 ) and it made no difference. These two features I just mentioned are to be on or off in your view? really stuck with this, ram not compatible with the new bios updates or bad ram, or bad Motherboard? :( The shop says the power supplys are fine on both machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 22, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 22, 2008 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...
celt43 Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 The store replaced both sets of ram. The latest memtest runs over 2 hours and 4 pass's without any errors. The latest memtest does not show timmings? the 5-5-5-15 is no where to be seen? .. at last the system can get through 4 full pass's without any problems at all. :) thankyou. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 28, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 28, 2008 Thank you for letting me know and you should be using http://www.memtest.org Version 2.01. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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