Pi Black 800 and MSI P35 Platinum Combo issues

[DBR]

Hello,

I recently purchased two sets of Pi Black 800 ram for a total of 8gb. I tried to install the ram, however the system would not post. I then tried a single stick of the Pi and the same occurred. I have tried resetting the CMOS as well as setting the timings and voltage manually, however neither had any effect. I put back in the old ram (four sticks of kingston 800 for a total of 4gb) and the computer ran with no issue.

I am not sure I am running the latest BIOS (v1.3) and I have yet to try each stick of Pi individually to test for a bad stick. Besides this is there anything else I could try to make the ram work?

Any help is greatly appreciated!
DBR

[GSKILL TECH]

You'll definitely need to test each to see if it is a bad module causing problems.

The RAM should be able to boot up and allow you to configure settings in BIOS.

[DBR]

Thanks, I'll definitely do that.

I've tried re-setting the BIOS with one stick in and I can configure the settings. I set the voltage at 1.9 and the timings at 4-4-4-12, however the system would not boot after saving the settings. I've only tried to do this with a single stick so far, but it seems like a bad stick may be the issue.

[GSKILL TECH]

Try 2.0V

See if one module performs differently.

Also, send pictures if you can so we can verify all settings.

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

[DBR]

Well, I tested all the sticks one by one using three original sticks and one of the new Pi sticks. Every stick tested ok. I have now worked up to running the computer with three of the new Pi sticks and one of the originals using default timings and default voltage of 1.8. When I try and put the fourth Pi stick in, the computer will boot normally to the loading windows screen and hang. I'm running bios revision 1.1, Win 7 64-bit, and all of the original RAM is generic Kingston 1gb sticks. Sorry I haven't taken any pictures, but I can do so. What settings would you like pictures of?

Thanks
DBR

[GSKILL TECH]

Try boosting the NB Voltage or DRAM Voltage to see if that helps. You have the RAM set to DDR2-800 4-4-4-12?

Those settings should work fine.

For pictures, I just need to see CPU and memory settings pertaining to frequency, timings, clock values, etc. to see what's going on.