F3-17000CL9D-4GBXL unstable @XMP on Asrock P67 Extreme6

[obsidianghost]

One kit, not two kits together in the same system.

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

The memory is called "4GBXL." One "kit" is 2 sticks of 2gb each, no? This is what I have. Only one kit of F3-17000CL9D-4GBXL. Is that not correct?

[GSKILL TECH]

Yes, one 4GBXL kit should work fine. For some reason I may have thought you had two.

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

[obsidianghost]

Yes, one 4GBXL kit should work fine. For some reason I may have thought you had two.

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

Well, my problem is that it doesn't work.
I'm still not clear on any voltages or other settings I should try...?...

[Tradesman]

With the ASRock mobo, would just have to experiment, the ones I've worked with have for the most part been flaky with the voltages they show you are at....if they have it on their QVL, then ASRock should be able to provide the exact settings they used....this is suppose to be their head guy:

pablomedina@asrockamerica.com

[GSKILL TECH]

Send them in for RMA to try a new kit. Also, did you test one module at a time?

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

[obsidianghost]

Send them in for RMA to try a new kit. Also, did you test one module at a time?

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

Yes I tested one module at a time. I will not hassle with RMA but thank you for the advice. Guess I'll just stick with lower speed or try more voltage settings...

[GSKILL TECH]

If you use a lower frequency, you can lower timings as well. That will make up the performance.

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

[obsidianghost]

Thanks, good advice.

[arklab]

Woops!


First i saw a sticky about MSI p67 boards misbehaving, and now it's Asrock.

What's a person to do?

[Tradesman]

Can always think about the ones we seldom ever see here (ECS, Jetway, Sapphire, etc)

[obsidianghost]

Woops!


First i saw a sticky about MSI p67 boards misbehaving, and now it's Asrock.

What's a person to do?

I'm not convinced that it's the motherboard...

[arklab]

Can always think about the ones we seldom ever see here (ECS, Jetway, Sapphire, etc)

Thank you for the reply, but ...

That's hard to do when they don't make a Z68 motherboard.

[Tradesman]

ECS and Sapphire have P67s so the Z68s will be on the way - as far as MSI goes just had the misfortune of getting one of their P67A-GD55 mobos, it turned out to be one of their many with the infinite power loop problem, reviewed it on the Egg, got a response from MSI, contacted them (which by the way, don't think they even read them, they just stick a stock reply out there to look good). Explained the loop where it start to power up, shuts off, etc - one of his suggestions was it's the OS.........hmmmm......not even getting to BIOS, let alone the OS, so how can it be the OS.....another suggestion was the DRAM...even though I explained I tried numerous sticks of different flavors about half of which were on their QVL....and ALL the sticks are perfectly good and work in a variety of other systems.....