problems with ripjaw 16000CL9 and Gigabyte P55M-UD4

[dimester74]

System

CPU - i5-750

M/Board- Gigabyte P55M-UD4

Memory- 4gb Rip jaw 2000mhz CL-9

Video- Gigabyte Ati HD 4350

P/Supply- Hunt key/ Ever green 550w (also was using a Silverstone Strider 500w)

O/S Windows 7 ultimate


I cannot get this to run stably at all, every time I cold boot I get bsod's
this is the second M/board I have used (returned the first one as faulty) even the techs at my local computer shop are unable to sort this issue and they thought that it was in fact a faulty board causing the problem as well!

The only thing that it can be is the memory because all the other parts have been changed out.
Unless I have now recieved 2 faulty motherboards in a row (not acceptable at $230 AU)
neither board would run stable with fail safe defaults, and with XMP (profile 1) enabled (only profile option given), this sets the memory to 2000 mhz @1.65 volts and this is OK till you cold boot & it blue screens giviing memory related error codes, I haven't touched any other settings except enable XMP yet I have run Memtest and both times it ran at 2000 mhz for 6 hours with no errors?
& default settings just wont run at all (on the first board it would actually cause the power supply to hiss "Hiss" unless XMP was enabled)

I am starting to think that these modules are just incompatible with the board or possibly incompatible with chipset? because I have read this same problem with other brands (Asus etc) on these forums, i hope this is not the case because they were $165 for the modules but i cant return them because they (according to memtest) arent faulty. Gskill and Gigabyte both state compatibility on their website!
Any Ideas??

In fact I used Gigabytes compatibility guide as a reference before purchasing the memory

[Tradesman]

you'll want to enter the timings manually 9-9-9-27, DRAM Voltage at 1.6, Command Rate at 2T, Speed 2000, disable XMP.

Does your PSU (s) have an 7 pin power connector for the EPS/ATX 12 volt (CPU Power) connection or only 4? Will want the 8 pin as the MC is in the CPU and your running 2000 DRAM.

Also, you may have to OC your cpu, and also add a bit of voltage to the CPU/MC (memory controller) to get get by the cold boot issue.

[dimester74]

Cheers Mate, I will give that a go and let you know how it goes, am pretty sure the techs at the shop tried this with the first board I had but I will try it anyway, I'm tempted just to go & buy a generic 2 gig stick (for now) and be done with it!

Both P/Supply's that I've been using for testing are 8 pin

[dimester74]

Nah still unstable

Ok cheers for the reply & I tried what you said + i found this on here and tried as well.
This was closest board to mine anyways & its pretty much same as you said too do.

this seemed fixed the cold boot issue (used to either blue screen or want to do a windows repair or just continually restart) but now it is very unstable and crashes within half hour.

I swear this is a lot of hassle just to get the damn things running stable, my mate has 2000mhz corsair and all he had to do was disable intel turbo boost and enable XMP thats it and its run fine for at least as long as i have just been tryin to get mine just to "run"!
So any other suggestion's ?




Intel i5 750 CPU:

Advanced CPU Features:
CPU Clock Ratio ................................ [14x]
Intel(R) Turbo Boost Tech .................. [Disabled]
CPU Cores Enabled ............................ [All]
CPU Multi Threading .......................... [Enabled]
C3/C6/C7 State Support ................... [Auto]
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) ................... [Auto]
C3/C6/C7 State Support .................... [Auto]
CPU Thermal Monitor ......................... [Auto]
CPU EIST Function ............................ [Disabled]
Virtualization Technology ................... [Disabled]
Bi-Directional PROCHOT ..................... [Auto]


Uncore & QPI Features:
QPI Clock Ratio ...........................................AUTO
QPI Link Speed .............................. AUTO
Uncore Clock Ratio...........................AUTO
Uncore Frequency .......................... AUTO
Isonchronous Frequency ..................[Enabled]


Standard Clock Control:
Base Clock (BCLK) Control ................ [Enabled]
BCLK Frequency (MHz) ..................... 200
PCI Express Frequency (MHz) ........... [100]

C.I.A.2 [Disabled]

Advanced Clock Control:
CPU Clock Drive ..............................[800mV]
PCI Express Clock Drive ................... [900mV]
CPU Clock Skew ............................. [0ps]


Advanced DRAM Features:
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P) ......... [Disabled]
System Memory Multiplier (SPD) ........ [10.0] (choices are Auto/6/8/10)
Performance Enhance ...................... [Standard]
DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD) .......... [Expert]

Channel A + B + C

Channel A Timing Settings:
##Channel A Standard Timing Control##
CAS Latency Time ...................... 9
tRCD ....................................... 9
tRP ......................................... 9
tRAS ....................................... 27

##Channel A Advanced Timing Control##
tRC ........................................ 33
tRRD ....................................... 4
tWTR ...................................... 5
tWR ........................................10
tWTP ....................................... 21
tWL ........................................ 7
tRFC ....................................... 74
tRTP ....................................... 5
tFAW ...................................... 20
Command Rate (CMD) ................ 1

Advanced Voltage Control:

CPU
Load Line Calibration ................. [Disabled]
CPU Vcore ............................... 1.275 [1.275V]
QPI/VTT Voltage 1.150v ............ 1.100V [1.190V]
CPU PLL 1.800v ....................... 1.800v [1.900V]

DRAM
DRAM Voltage 1.500v .............. 1.650V

[GSKILL TECH]

Command Rate 2
Load Line Calibration - Enabled

You can also try enabling the XMP Profile to configure memory settings for you.

Thank you
GSKILL SUPPORT