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Memory: F3-10666CL8D-4GBHK x4 (8GB total)
Motherboard: ASUS P5K3 Deluxe, BIOS version 1206
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
I replaced my old memory sticks (two 1GB sticks of "DDR3-1375") with four of these G.Skill ones to get a total of 8GB. I am trying to install Windows 7 64-bit.
Well, Win7 behaved bad and eventually blue-screened. The trouble-shooter suggested to run the memory tests and sure enough, the tests failed.
So I ended up in BIOS tweaking hell. I am not an overclocker/tweaker. I am just looking for a stable system. Most of the settings in the BIOS are greek to me.
First I tried manually setting the parameters according to the specs of the RAM (8-8-8-21 1.5V), but that just made it worse.
After many adjustments, reboots, memtests, etc, I got down to DDR3-1066 @ 9-9-9-28 which passed the "standard" memory test of Win7. Things seemed to work for a while but then I got another blue screen. This time I ran the extended memory test and got failures.
Finally I removed two of the sticks (down to 4GB total) at the same DDR3-1066 settings and all the memtests passed. I thought maybe one of the two sticks I removed might be bad so I swapped them with the two working ones, but they also passed all the memtests.
So it looks like this MB has trouble handling 4x2GB? I asked over on the ASUS forums and so far got only one reply suggesting to set the "northbridge voltage" manually. I will follow up to get more details.
Meanwhile I am wondering if anyone here can help me with some suggestions specific to this memory part?
Memory: F3-10666CL8D-4GBHK x4 (8GB total)
Motherboard: ASUS P5K3 Deluxe, BIOS version 1206
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
I replaced my old memory sticks (two 1GB sticks of "DDR3-1375") with four of these G.Skill ones to get a total of 8GB. I am trying to install Windows 7 64-bit.
Well, Win7 behaved bad and eventually blue-screened. The trouble-shooter suggested to run the memory tests and sure enough, the tests failed.
So I ended up in BIOS tweaking hell. I am not an overclocker/tweaker. I am just looking for a stable system. Most of the settings in the BIOS are greek to me.
First I tried manually setting the parameters according to the specs of the RAM (8-8-8-21 1.5V), but that just made it worse.
After many adjustments, reboots, memtests, etc, I got down to DDR3-1066 @ 9-9-9-28 which passed the "standard" memory test of Win7. Things seemed to work for a while but then I got another blue screen. This time I ran the extended memory test and got failures.
Finally I removed two of the sticks (down to 4GB total) at the same DDR3-1066 settings and all the memtests passed. I thought maybe one of the two sticks I removed might be bad so I swapped them with the two working ones, but they also passed all the memtests.
So it looks like this MB has trouble handling 4x2GB? I asked over on the ASUS forums and so far got only one reply suggesting to set the "northbridge voltage" manually. I will follow up to get more details.
Meanwhile I am wondering if anyone here can help me with some suggestions specific to this memory part?
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