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Asus M4A87TD Evo and Gskill RAM
Windows 7 Premium 64Bit
Amd Phenom 2 x4 955 Processor 3.2 GHZ
ASus M4A87TD Evo Motherboard
GeForce GT430 Video Card
2 sets (4 sticks) of Gskill F3-10600CL8D-4gbhk ddr3 1333RAM
I installed all four sticks of Ram the computer worked great until I shut down and re-started in the morning to find the PC wouldn't post. I pressed the Mem Test button on the mother board and after a few attempts the PC boots up and runs fine till I once again turn the computer off. I also check video card and Power supply which seem to be working just fine, I am certain that the culprit is the motherboard settings.
I removed all sticks except for one and everything works fine even after shutting down the PC. I have yet to test each stick by itself but I intend on tomorrow though I don't think I'll find a bad stick. I should say at this point that I was previously running with one stick of RAM and everything was fine.
I have gone into the BIOS and did the following:
Set CL Latency to 8
Set Ras to Cas Delay to 8
Set Ras Pre time to 8
Set Act Time 21
Manually set DRAM voltage to 1.5 volts
Manually set DRAM Frequency to 1333
I've read that I need to set CPU-NB to 1.20 from the current 1.10 but not sure how to do that, will contact ASUS (as useless as they've been so far) to get assistance there. Also saw in a Gskill Sticky to set CPU host/bus frequency to 240, but that was for DDR3 1600 and not 1333, I'm fine with not over clocking the CPU or RAM.
Also thought that I read elsewhere that I should turn on XMP, but where the option should be I get Automatic, Manual, or D.O.C.P. Perhaps I need more than 1 stick to make the option appear?
So to sum up my current to do list:
1. Test each stick by itself.
2. Determine how to change CPU-NB to 1.20
3. Test RAM in pairs
4. Turn on XMP (if possible or needed)
Anything I missed or any suggestions? I tried getting help from ASUS but the stock answer they seem to give is "You got the wrong RAM" which stinks since I asked a ASUS tech over the phone if this RAM would be compatable.
Amd Phenom 2 x4 955 Processor 3.2 GHZ
ASus M4A87TD Evo Motherboard
GeForce GT430 Video Card
2 sets (4 sticks) of Gskill F3-10600CL8D-4gbhk ddr3 1333RAM
I installed all four sticks of Ram the computer worked great until I shut down and re-started in the morning to find the PC wouldn't post. I pressed the Mem Test button on the mother board and after a few attempts the PC boots up and runs fine till I once again turn the computer off. I also check video card and Power supply which seem to be working just fine, I am certain that the culprit is the motherboard settings.
I removed all sticks except for one and everything works fine even after shutting down the PC. I have yet to test each stick by itself but I intend on tomorrow though I don't think I'll find a bad stick. I should say at this point that I was previously running with one stick of RAM and everything was fine.
I have gone into the BIOS and did the following:
Set CL Latency to 8
Set Ras to Cas Delay to 8
Set Ras Pre time to 8
Set Act Time 21
Manually set DRAM voltage to 1.5 volts
Manually set DRAM Frequency to 1333
I've read that I need to set CPU-NB to 1.20 from the current 1.10 but not sure how to do that, will contact ASUS (as useless as they've been so far) to get assistance there. Also saw in a Gskill Sticky to set CPU host/bus frequency to 240, but that was for DDR3 1600 and not 1333, I'm fine with not over clocking the CPU or RAM.
Also thought that I read elsewhere that I should turn on XMP, but where the option should be I get Automatic, Manual, or D.O.C.P. Perhaps I need more than 1 stick to make the option appear?
So to sum up my current to do list:
1. Test each stick by itself.
2. Determine how to change CPU-NB to 1.20
3. Test RAM in pairs
4. Turn on XMP (if possible or needed)
Anything I missed or any suggestions? I tried getting help from ASUS but the stock answer they seem to give is "You got the wrong RAM" which stinks since I asked a ASUS tech over the phone if this RAM would be compatable.
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