- Sep 12, 2018
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I wanted to put this in the thread that already exists for this topic but the reply button is not there.
I have been having booting issues. Here is my current configuration:
MSI x99a godlike gaming carbon MB
i75820K CPU
32 Ram 8x4 F4-3400C16Q-32GVK
evga gtx 1080 sc
750 watt psu nova gold
About 3 years ago my "buddy" who supposedly builds computers for a living gave me a list of parts and we put together a custom build, it had all the same parts except I had a gtx 970 graphics card and a MSI x99a Krait Edition mother board.
I have never overclocked the computer in any way. With the old components we would have occasional freezes when playing graphically instance games. My son got into obs while gaming so I dedided the 970 wasn't cutting it for this and got the 1080. Installed the 1080 and everything worked good for a day or 2 (it is a beast compared the 970). then we started having booting issues with no display unless we reset the bios and left the computer unplugged for a long time. Called friend and we ran some diagnostics and he said it was probably a bad motherboard so I dropped 400 bones on the new to me godlike gaming carbon. Installed everything and it worked great for 1 day.
I am getting booting issues again but this motherboard has a debug readout and the codes always have something to do with memory. So, I was thinking probably just not seated correctly. I took all the RAM out and rotated them. They are in slots 1,3,5, and 7 as manual says to. Reboots running great!!!!, for 1 day 🙁. So I repeat the process but try each stick in slot 1 by itself to see if I have a bad card. Every time with any card it will boot up perfectly but only 8 RAM aint gonna cut it. Then I put another card in slot 5. Boots up 16 ram, great. When I try to install the 3rd in slot 3 or 4th in slot 7 I am still only registering 16RAM. The bios recognizes that all 4 are plugged in and what they are but board explorer doesn't show anything! CPUZ and windows both show 16 RAM. Once they showed 24 when I had 3 sticks installed but the screen froze and it rebooted with 16. Right now it is running fine but on 16RAM despite having 32 Ram installed. Truthfully I don't know if I ever had all 32gb of ram working. I wasnt a tester! I seriously doubt it is a cpu paste or pin issue as this board is new and I just installed the cpu a week ago.
So this got me to researching the issue here on this fine MSI site and I found the other thread and it is apparently a very common problem. Then I came to these 2 sites after reading the other thread.
http://www.gskill.com/en/configurator?manu=55&chip=2276&model=2778
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/X99A-GODLIKE-GAMING-CARBON#support-mem
My memory is not listed on either site nor is any other 3400 RAM. So, Im thinking from day 1 with my original build I had too high of a frequency of RAM especially the krait edition MB. The highest RAM speed listed on msi support for memory on either board is 3333 and I have 3400 sticks. Im thinking my bud didn't do his research and told me to get the wrong parts and they worked just not well. So my question is do I need to buy new memory that is on the compatability list or do you think I can tweek the bios enough to get these sticks to work. There is 1 XMP profile. Should I turn it on or do some manual tweeking? If manual, what would I change? How much stress will all this added voltage put on my motherboard? If I run xmp can I still overclock the cpu slightly later? Am I better off in the long run just getting appropriate sticks even if I can tweek the bios for these? Im not in front of that computer or I would tell you what the xmp profile settings show. I will add that when I get home tonight.
Thanks in advance.
I have been having booting issues. Here is my current configuration:
MSI x99a godlike gaming carbon MB
i75820K CPU
32 Ram 8x4 F4-3400C16Q-32GVK
evga gtx 1080 sc
750 watt psu nova gold
About 3 years ago my "buddy" who supposedly builds computers for a living gave me a list of parts and we put together a custom build, it had all the same parts except I had a gtx 970 graphics card and a MSI x99a Krait Edition mother board.
I have never overclocked the computer in any way. With the old components we would have occasional freezes when playing graphically instance games. My son got into obs while gaming so I dedided the 970 wasn't cutting it for this and got the 1080. Installed the 1080 and everything worked good for a day or 2 (it is a beast compared the 970). then we started having booting issues with no display unless we reset the bios and left the computer unplugged for a long time. Called friend and we ran some diagnostics and he said it was probably a bad motherboard so I dropped 400 bones on the new to me godlike gaming carbon. Installed everything and it worked great for 1 day.
I am getting booting issues again but this motherboard has a debug readout and the codes always have something to do with memory. So, I was thinking probably just not seated correctly. I took all the RAM out and rotated them. They are in slots 1,3,5, and 7 as manual says to. Reboots running great!!!!, for 1 day 🙁. So I repeat the process but try each stick in slot 1 by itself to see if I have a bad card. Every time with any card it will boot up perfectly but only 8 RAM aint gonna cut it. Then I put another card in slot 5. Boots up 16 ram, great. When I try to install the 3rd in slot 3 or 4th in slot 7 I am still only registering 16RAM. The bios recognizes that all 4 are plugged in and what they are but board explorer doesn't show anything! CPUZ and windows both show 16 RAM. Once they showed 24 when I had 3 sticks installed but the screen froze and it rebooted with 16. Right now it is running fine but on 16RAM despite having 32 Ram installed. Truthfully I don't know if I ever had all 32gb of ram working. I wasnt a tester! I seriously doubt it is a cpu paste or pin issue as this board is new and I just installed the cpu a week ago.
So this got me to researching the issue here on this fine MSI site and I found the other thread and it is apparently a very common problem. Then I came to these 2 sites after reading the other thread.
http://www.gskill.com/en/configurator?manu=55&chip=2276&model=2778
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/X99A-GODLIKE-GAMING-CARBON#support-mem
My memory is not listed on either site nor is any other 3400 RAM. So, Im thinking from day 1 with my original build I had too high of a frequency of RAM especially the krait edition MB. The highest RAM speed listed on msi support for memory on either board is 3333 and I have 3400 sticks. Im thinking my bud didn't do his research and told me to get the wrong parts and they worked just not well. So my question is do I need to buy new memory that is on the compatability list or do you think I can tweek the bios enough to get these sticks to work. There is 1 XMP profile. Should I turn it on or do some manual tweeking? If manual, what would I change? How much stress will all this added voltage put on my motherboard? If I run xmp can I still overclock the cpu slightly later? Am I better off in the long run just getting appropriate sticks even if I can tweek the bios for these? Im not in front of that computer or I would tell you what the xmp profile settings show. I will add that when I get home tonight.
Thanks in advance.
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