Ram Upgrade No Boot - G.SKILL DDR3 from 4GB to 8G on Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2HB

[Rick_6]

Hello,

Hope someone can help me out here. I'm trying to upgrade my RAM from 4GB to 8GB which will max out the motherboard. I dropped in the new chips and PC begins to boot to windows, however restarts back to black screen after a few seconds of the windows logo (win 10). Ran memtest86 and gets 25% through first test and restarts the machine. I can get into the BIOS and mess around, but nothing has helped so far. Trying the old RAM chips (G.SKILL also incidentally) and rebooting the machine works fine. Also, I believed the RAM was bad so I RMA'd them and got new ones back, same issue, which makes me think it's a problem with my either my setup OR Mobo / RAM combo. Here's my setup:

Mobo - Gigabyte GA-H55-M-S2H rev1
BIOS - R7 (just updated trying to solve this issue)
RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3-1600 CL9-9-9-24 1.50v PC3-12800 4Gx2 (2 DIMMS)
CPU - Core i3-530 Clarkdale Dual-Core 2.93 LGA1156
OS - Windows 10

If anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears. Not overclocking or anything the BIOS settings are mostly all Auto... tried to enable XMP profile 1 - no dice.

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions!

-Rick

 

[popatim]

GSkill doesnt show any current ram with H55 support
http://www.gskill.com/en/configurator?manu=54&chip=0&model=0

You might want to try Crucial, they show two 8gb kits available.
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Giga-Byte/ga-h55m-s2h

 

[alexoiu]

It might be a compatibility issue.
I'm using these RAMs: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-Desktop-Memory-CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8/dp/B004E0ZKOI with a P55 board.

 

[Tradesman1]

What model of GSkill (the new ones) - would guess your old might be Ripjaws or NT, and the new is a newer line of DRAM - the earlier DRAM (RJ and NT) is made with low density chips (2Gb) where all DRAM today is made with high density memory ICs (4Gb). Would suggest look for the original RJs (not the X or Z lines) or their NT value DRAM line. Current models of DRAM will be problematic on 1156 mobos

 

[Rick_6]

GSkill doesnt show any current ram with H55 support
http://www.gskill.com/en/configurator?manu=54&chip=0&model=0

You might want to try Crucial, they show two 8gb kits available.
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Giga-Byte/ga-h55m-s2h

Thanks, I think I'm stuck with these G.Skill chips though. I didn't attempt to install the chips before 30 day returns on newegg.com so I RMA'd with G.Skill warranty thinking the chips were just bad. All is not lost if these won't work in the H55 board because I do have a few more machines I'm building which may work out for these G.Skill Ripjaws. At which point I may go with what you suggested above.

 

[Tradesman1]

Might also check with GSkill support gskilltech@gskillusa.com

 

[Rick_6]

What model of GSkill (the new ones) - would guess your old might be Ripjaws or NT, and the new is a newer line of DRAM - the earlier DRAM (RJ and NT) is made with low density chips (2Gb) where all DRAM today is made with high density memory ICs (4Gb). Would suggest look for the original RJs (not the X or Z lines) or their NT value DRAM line. Current models of DRAM will be problematic on 1156 mobos

Old working ones: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231193
New broken ones: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314

To me the specs look pretty similar except the capacity being more... it could be like you say the newer RJ might be on high density which messes with the H55 somehow.

 

[Tradesman1]

The new are base RJs (original) so should work (at least by themselves), if no joy with that, check for a BIOS update