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I am having intermittent problems with this ram on my Crosshair V (bios 1102). Sometimes I cannot get my computer to boot. I see a red ram led on the motherboard board light up letting me know that it is a ram problem.
I had noticed when I first installed the 16GB kit and opened CPUID and AIDA64 that it contained two dimms that were labeled F3-17000CL11Q-16GBXL and two that were labeled F3-12800CL9Q-16GBXL.
I set the kit to 1600MHZ 11-11-11 30 1.6v to see if the errors would stop. Sometimes problems showed up after the bios change and sometimes not.
I decided to remove 2 of the dimms and reboot to see if I could nail down if it was a single dimm or the set or whatever. Both dimms were seated in the red slots.
I found the problem dimm (F3-12800CL9Q-16GBXL) and restarted with memtest to test it. Errors appeared after 20 minutes.
I ran the test again and no errors after 3hrs of testing per dimm - strange.
Well I decided to put them all back and see if I could run with stablility after booting into windows7 x64.
No overclock - just whatever changes needed to run them at 1600MHz. No freezes at this time,… but a sometimes unresponsive or sluggish desktop.
I decided to clear the bios even though I hadn't done any overclocking and see if it would help.
When I restarted with all dimms, the computer rebooted with setting the cpu at 3.2GHz and the ram at 1333MHz 9-9-9 24 1t 1.5v.
After the restart the computer seems to run better. No freezing, no aborted starts, no hesitations or slow responses.
I borrowed a 2-dimm 1333MHz 8GB kit of RIPJAWS that I used to verify that the motherboard is in good order. That board is fine, it even overclocked that ram well.
I realize its hard to reach high speeds on ram with the AMD PHENOM II cpu and especially with 4 dimms. I purchased this ram to be ready for the AMD FX-8170.
I didn't think it would be this hard to get it to run on the FX-cpu above 1333MHz.
Okay so after all that, my questions are:
(1) Do some ram kits need burn-in time before they settle?
(2) Is it normal to have a 4-dimm kit with 2 paired ram of different speeds?
Any suggestions or do I need to get the kit replaced?
I am having intermittent problems with this ram on my Crosshair V (bios 1102). Sometimes I cannot get my computer to boot. I see a red ram led on the motherboard board light up letting me know that it is a ram problem.
I had noticed when I first installed the 16GB kit and opened CPUID and AIDA64 that it contained two dimms that were labeled F3-17000CL11Q-16GBXL and two that were labeled F3-12800CL9Q-16GBXL.
I set the kit to 1600MHZ 11-11-11 30 1.6v to see if the errors would stop. Sometimes problems showed up after the bios change and sometimes not.
I decided to remove 2 of the dimms and reboot to see if I could nail down if it was a single dimm or the set or whatever. Both dimms were seated in the red slots.
I found the problem dimm (F3-12800CL9Q-16GBXL) and restarted with memtest to test it. Errors appeared after 20 minutes.
I ran the test again and no errors after 3hrs of testing per dimm - strange.
Well I decided to put them all back and see if I could run with stablility after booting into windows7 x64.
No overclock - just whatever changes needed to run them at 1600MHz. No freezes at this time,… but a sometimes unresponsive or sluggish desktop.
I decided to clear the bios even though I hadn't done any overclocking and see if it would help.
When I restarted with all dimms, the computer rebooted with setting the cpu at 3.2GHz and the ram at 1333MHz 9-9-9 24 1t 1.5v.
After the restart the computer seems to run better. No freezing, no aborted starts, no hesitations or slow responses.
I borrowed a 2-dimm 1333MHz 8GB kit of RIPJAWS that I used to verify that the motherboard is in good order. That board is fine, it even overclocked that ram well.
I realize its hard to reach high speeds on ram with the AMD PHENOM II cpu and especially with 4 dimms. I purchased this ram to be ready for the AMD FX-8170.
I didn't think it would be this hard to get it to run on the FX-cpu above 1333MHz.
Okay so after all that, my questions are:
(1) Do some ram kits need burn-in time before they settle?
(2) Is it normal to have a 4-dimm kit with 2 paired ram of different speeds?
Any suggestions or do I need to get the kit replaced?
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