8GB (or16GB) set for ASRock M3A785GMH/128M?

[shomije]

Hello,

Does anybody have experience with this mobo? I wanted to upgrade my Athlon II X2 425 (running on win7) and bought 8GB set F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL, but even after updating BIOS to latest v, 1.50, couldn't boot.

QVL on ASRock's website is more than a year old..http://www.asrock.com/mb/memory/M3A785GMH128M.pdf

pls help

[Tradesman]

Try with a single stick and then if can gget into BIOS set the timings manually and try with the DRAM voltage up +.05 and the CPU/NB up .1 -- if it boots and is stable can then play with voltages to lower if possible

[GSKILL TECH]

Is this a new motherboard? Or did you have other memory in it before? Do you have other DDR3 memory you can test with?

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

[shomije]

First of all, thank you all very much for answering. I find this forum very useful and interesting.

Motherboard, together with all other components was bought in first half of 2009. It was meant to be a budget PC, but upgradable. It was paired with Kingmax 2GB 1333MHz DDR3 and is still run with it and 32-bit win7. Due to fallen prices of memory and risen supply of 64bit software i decided finally to upgrade. First wanted to change RAM and then switch to 64bitOS if everything is OK (maybe a little upside-down process, but I wanted to do easy part first..).

After reading a lot of threads from this place (+consulting IT literate friends) and spent two days tweaking BIOS, changing singles from the set- slot to slot. BIOS recognized the memory and showed in witch slot it is, but couldn't boot. I returned new memory to the store and gave a try some Mushkin 12800, low CL memory (they didn't have any 1333mhz 8GB set in stock) and it worked- on 1333mhz though. So I presume that particular set of Ripjaws was corrupt? Anyway, didn't bought those pricy Mushkin's (2x sum I decided to spend).