Kyuss9 Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 I've been trying to do a memory upgrade from my current 2x2GB Corsair Dominator Kit (CMP4GX3M2A1600C8 1600MHz 1.65v ver3.1) to a 2x4GB kit, but without any luck since Windows 8.1 freezes on start up. I first tried with a Vengeance kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9R 1600Mhz CL9 1.5v) and following Corsair's phone support exchanged it for a XMS3 (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 1600Mhz CL9 1.65v ver.3.24), which is the one I'm trying to put to work now. The results are the same: The BIOS boots fine, identifies the memory without problem but Windows still freezes at startup and Memtest freezes on test 2. This happens even with only one DIMM inserted, and regardless of using Default/Auto or XMP settings... Putting the old memory in, everything works just fine. I would really appreciate any help you could give. Thank you. CPU-Intel Core i5 680 (3.6Ghz) Motherboard-ASUS P7P55D Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 please make sure you have the latest BIOS installed and with 1 new stick installed reset bios to defaults first, reboot with both sticks at stock defaults then apply XMP and reboot. i hope that does it :): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyuss9 Posted December 1, 2013 Author Share Posted December 1, 2013 Hi, Yes, I have the latest BIOS. I've just completed the procedure you described, but the end result was exactly the same...Windows freezes and so does Memtest :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanutz94 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Kyuss9 try enabling the XMP profile and then manually set the voltage to 1.55v-1.6v and see if that helps any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyuss9 Posted December 2, 2013 Author Share Posted December 2, 2013 You're talking about DRAM voltage, right? Dou you think it could be related to IMC voltage? That's the one that varies most from the default (or auto) values to XMP values (from 1.150 to something around 1.300). Actually, that's also the value that differs most from the old memory settings too. Pretty much everything else has similar values in both XMP profiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanutz94 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 You're talking about DRAM voltage, right? Correct. and that is all you should need to adjust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyuss9 Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 Thank you for your help, but unfortunately it didn't work. I ended up exchanging the new memory kit for a different one from another brand (sorry Corsair), and now it's working fine. I still like Corsair products, and will buy them in the future, but incompatibility with two different memory kits that were supposed to work, just got too tiring after a week of messing around with the Bios. Thank you once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 sorry to hear it did not work out for you right out of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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