Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 and Gskill 2X2GB F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL

[tbone50158]

INTEL i5 760
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3
Gskill 2X2GB F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+ Video Card
Ultra LSP650 650-Watt Power Supply
Windows XP 32 bit
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS 640GB SATA
LITE-ON SATA DVD Writer
Canon photo printer and scanner

Built system 5 weeks ago with intention to load Windows 7 Professional 64 bit up-grade. Started with blank hard drive, installed Windows XP with service pack 2. Was told by Microsoft that I had to do this because I was upgrading, is this true? I got a special deal because I am a college student. Was able to load Windows 7 but it took some work. After installing windows 7, my system was unstable, got BSOD many times. I never got a good look at error codes because they flashed quickly or system would crash when it was idle and no one was using it. I flashed bios to F9. I tested both memory sticks and slots 1 and 3 with no issues. Installed latest drivers for MOB, printer, scanner and video card. Started to have booting issues. Reinstalled operating system several times to try to get system stable and to boot. Finally decided to just install windows xp and see what happens. Been using XP for 3 weeks with no issues other than Microsoft explorer locking up every once in a while. Would really like to upgrade to windows 7, but I am tired of fitting this build and I really don?t know what to try next. Does anyone have any advice?

[GSKILL TECH]

Enable XMP in BIOS, then reinstall Windows 7.

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

[tbone50158]

no-execute memory protect is already enabled. Is this what you mean?

[wevsspot]

Nope, that's not what he means

Here's what you need to do;

Enter BIOS

Choose first option in the BIOS Menu which is MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T)
Open that menu
Scroll down to Advanced Memory Settings
Open that menu
The first option in the Advanced Memory Settings is Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P.) default setting is [Disabled] change that to [Enabled]

Save changes and exit. Reboot.

[tbone50158]

XMP already set to profile1. The 2 available states are disable and profile1.

[wevsspot]

That would be the correct xmp profile then. You have two options.

Try to further tweak the BIOS settings to get your rig stable or RMA the memory.

[tbone50158]

I am not a tweeker so I would like to RMA the memory. Is anyone from Gskill okay with this? Thanks

[wevsspot]

Main page on the forums here.

Scroll down to RMA Service

Select your region

Complete the RMA request per the instructions