stonefisher Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Hello, After saving up for over three years I build a nice little machine for work and play. Only problem is one of the gfx cards had to be RMA'd as it lit up my games like a Christmas tree.Fixed it and now my only problem is the memory. My computer does not always see all 12GB and fluxes between 6 and 12GB. Of great interest is that it has noticed half a memory module before eg. 8.5GB. I updated the bios from FA to FB as it stated better memory compatibility. And it worked to a certain extent. It now see's all the memory all the time. Now I just get BSOD's several times a day. Mostly it says its the "memory manager" and once in a while something like "page fault in non paging area" I have run the default inbuilt mem test software in windows 7 and found no errors. I do not want to run it on extreme as it would take over 24 hours to complete and the computer is next to my bed and has 9 deafening fans in it. I asked for help by gigabyte for help for which there first response was send the card back but ripping out motherboards is not as easy as swapping memory modules around and I need it for work. There second response was to send me a BIOS that was not on there website FB19 which had no noticeable affect. I have switched back to the first BIOS as at least it doesn't crash the computer. Any help in resolving this situation would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Can you list the settings you have made in the BIOS for memory, CPU, and voltages? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonefisher Posted November 18, 2010 Author Share Posted November 18, 2010 Well i have left everything at there default settings except for the memory which i have tried in XMP profile 1 before switching it back again. If theres any specific numbers you need I can go look for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonefisher Posted November 24, 2010 Author Share Posted November 24, 2010 I dont know what information you want so i took some screenshots. http://s1003.photobucket.com/albums/af160/stonefisher/bios/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonefisher Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 Please any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 These links may be of value? http://i4memory.com/f54/asus-x58-6-12gb-memory-overclocking-detecting-less-memory-than-installed-19200/ http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82274 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonefisher Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 I been reading and I came to the same conclusion. The bios update fixes the detection problem but causes lots of problems due to auto settings not being good enough. What settings should i be using on my setup? I looked at the links trackrat posted but I don't really get it. Cheers Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djsounds02 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 I too have the same problem on the same motherboard I have just built the system today, Damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonefisher Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 Well I have done a memtest86 on all 12gb for over an hour with no errors with Bios FA. Memtest on Bios FB and FC returns 100's of errors within minates. Does this mean I can assume theres nothing wrong with my hardware and its a BIOS problem. How can I make Bios FA detect all the memory all the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Do you see all of your memory when using FB or FC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonefisher Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 FB and FC always see all memory but suffer data corruption. FA randomly see between 6gb to all memory but never any corruption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Well it sounds like it's clearly a BIOS issue then. Have you talked with Gigabyte to see if they have a fix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonefisher Posted December 20, 2010 Author Share Posted December 20, 2010 :( I suppose I should have another go. FB was supposed to be the memory compatability update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonefisher Posted January 8, 2011 Author Share Posted January 8, 2011 Well I contacted Gigabyte again. and they happily ran tests and showed me pics to prove that the memory should run fine on my computer. I ran further tests and noticed that errors occered at around 5gb and 11gb. Also it occured with the memory in the tri channel slots 1, 3 and 5. I swapped memory from slots 0 and 1, 2 and 3, 4 and 5. I ran memtest again and got the same error results in the same areas in the same slots. This leads me to believe the memory is fine and that it is either a cpu or motherboard problem. The question is how do I find out which? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Swapping parts is the only way to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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