G.Skill (F3-10666CL7D-8GBXH) problem?!?

[Jonathan Phoenix]

Dear Members,

I have custom built my 1st PC Mid Tower a few days back, with BRAND NEW products except SATA drive had that a month ago when using my old mobo.

Anyhow, I put them altogether using the suggested grounding aid in order to not create any issues,using the following purchases:

1x Cooler Master Case, windowed edition,
1x 850w plus 80 (what 80 means I don't know),
1x ASUS MAXIMUS V EXTREME,
1x HIS ATI RADEON (1024 MB) (H587F1GDG) Graphics Card Pci-e,
1x Orico five usb 3.0 Pci-e,
3x Areocool fans 120mm led (one blue intake and two red out-take),
2x XigmaTek XAF-F1452 led (blue intakes),
1x G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333mhz - F3-10666CL7D-8GBXH,
1x Noctua - Heatsink + Fan CPU Cooling Kit - NH-C12P SE14,
1x Transcend 8GB JetFlash 600 Hi-Speed 2.0 USB Flash Drive - for READYBOOST,
1x SATA WD BLACK 1TB (windows and programmes plus all personal data and family photo's, etc...),
1x Icybox IB-868 3.5 inch USB 3.0 Multi-Card Reader with USB Charging Port,
1x Arctic Cooling MX-2 8g Thermal Compound,
1x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Processor.

I think that's it...

I have braded the wires that need to be to make it neat and allow better air-flow.

I previously was using on my SATA (using the jumper to make it 3GB p/s - as the mobo before did not allow, well it said so mobo on the box 3gb p/s only) Windows 7 Ultimate and split it in two drives in theory, so a back-up could be created and updated every two moths or so.

I will point out now my budget set was exceeded, hence the cheaper RAM, but G.Skill said it would work.

Then problem struck:

I can not use the two rams only one to go past Post before BIOS, so used the mobo feature to bypass to get into post that made the single ram to a lower speed and auto did the calculations 'Code error on board 55.'

On sorting that, still only accepting one ram (tried most things from the internet, update BIOS, untick power surge feature and check XMP is enabled), it goes to black windows and just after you see the coloured balls it drops dead and, restarts the PC only to go back to the previous paragraph and manual button need pressing to get it past post and bios.

Thank for reading and anyhelp would be very much appreciated.

Regards and season greeting to all, Jonathan

P.S. hers 's G.Skill's internet site that so the DDR3 is compatible:

http://www.gskill.com/en/product/f3-10666cl7d-8gbxh

 

[Supahos]

do you have the ram in the slots suggested by asus? not going to look up which two that is, but I'm sure its in the manual. Also no reason to use any sort of jumper on the Sata that I know of, you can just use one of the 3gb plugs on the board, or hell run it in a 6gb it will just run at speed it needs to (or min did)

 

[Jonathan Phoenix]

Dear Supahos,

Yes tried multiple way from the user book and from Google.

ASUS do not suggest the DDR3 Ram as compatible on their latest 'Qualified Vender List (QVL)'. But G.Skill and Crucial are ones they say their products do/will/AND should!

ASUS on the on their latest QVL list do not show the latter.

Jonathan

I am pulling my hair out? I have tried the sata reduction jumpers, as you state and changed the location to the grey 3mb p/s SATA input, still the problem continues..

 

[gskill support]

Do you have any other DDR3 RAM you can test with? Sounds like the motherboard may be bad and needs to be replaced.

Thank you
GSKILL SUPPORT

 

[Jonathan Phoenix]

Dear GSKILL SUPPORT

Thank you for your response, The only way I one of two, take it to a local tech shop (such as: PC World), or buy another new set or should I get an RMA from you? And, ask for an alterative higher quality and pay the difference?

If the option you consider is the alternative what would be your consideration? DDR3 1333mhz, 1600mhz, 1800mhz, 2000mhz, 2133mhz, 2200mhz, 2400mhz, 2666mhz, or finally 2800mhz? And why please, is it will not be used for gaming really or serious overclocking, just middle of the road stuff.

Kind regards, Jonathan

 

[Tradesman1]

Do you have any friends that have sticks you could try?

 

[Jonathan Phoenix]

Sadly not they have gone to Laptops :-(

It's a catch 22 situation, local tech shop will want paying to test and different memory will be a cost...

G.Skill lave let me down on their advice listing for the DDR3 compatible list, I think!!

And, at Christmas so near too!

 

[Jonathan Phoenix]

Dear Members,

Just an update....

Thank you for your replies so far, I have upgraded Bios and its been accepted, but I am still struggling.

I have however, done something in BIOS (I don't know what), but A1 and A2 allow both ram's now.

someone said to change to single channel and what would that do for me well the mobo/rams?

Kind regards, Jonathan

 

[gskill support]

You want the memory to run in dual channel, not single channel. Performance is much better with dual. For dual, you need to use slots A2 B2 or A1 B1.

Thank you
GSKILL SUPPORT

 

[Tradesman1]

You want the memory to run in dual channel, not single channel. Performance is much better with dual. For dual, you need to use slots A2 B2 or A1 B1.

Thank you
GSKILL SUPPORT

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[Jonathan Phoenix]

Dear gskill support,

Please can we discuss this matter over PM's and we can update this thread formally after our personal to personal conversations (I have sent a PM to you now to start the ball rolling, so to say).

Kind regards, Jonathan