Bad memory or am I stoopid?

[unclebenny]

Ok, I bought some Gskill (non D9) and they're rated at 4-4-4-12 800Mhz. I can not for the life of me get them to run at these timings. I am running an asus p5b-deluxe with an E6600 @ 3.4Ghz. mem is reading as 1:1 378Mhz 5-6-6-18 right now. When I manually change the timings in bios it will not post. I've raised Vmem as high as 2.25V and still no go. So what am I doing wrong or am I just in need of rest? :bang head

This is the ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231087

[unclebenny]

Seriously people, dont be afraid to call me an idiot and point out my stupidity. I am running out of ideas on this mem issue; its either the mem or the board....the board was an open item from the egg so it may very well be the issue. Input is apprecaited!

[Yellowbeard XMS]

Try slowing the CPU back to stock and using a 2:3 divider just to test. You "might" be topping out your CPU at FSB378.

[unclebenny]

I find that hard to believe....I'm only at 1.4Vcore and 378 FSB on an E6600....

I am going to try and get it stable at 3.4Ghz first, then I'll go back and play with the ram some more at stock freqs. Either way, the board and ram are prob going RMA style this week.

[Yellowbeard XMS]

I find that hard to believe....I'm only at 1.4Vcore and 378 FSB on an E6600....
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That's why I said only for testing. It's a very quick way to eliminate the CPU or some aspect of your OC as being the culprit.

[meionm]

Did your memory settings window look like this

Disabled
Disabled
4
4
4
12
6
42
10
10
10
10
disable

In overclocking section of bios select memory divider manually, set it on the lowest one. Set memory voltage two 2.1v

[unclebenny]

Thanks for the settings. I'll check what I have and go from there. 3 hours into stress test right now, dont want to pull her out.

[Femto]

Double check and make sure your dividers are correct, and do what meionm suggested. After that, try running memtest86 overnight and see if you get any errors.

Good luck

[unclebenny]

Thanks much guys. I'll give those settings try tomorrow after work. I am going to see how long this thing will stay stable for at 3.4Ghz first.

Thanks again! :santa:

[unclebenny]

PIMP. Those settings worked. Ran mem test over night at 1.9V 4-4-4-12 and no errors. Weird. It must have been the divider; all the other settings were correct, all I changed was from auto to manual and set 1:1. Anyhow, its working and I'm happy! Thx for the help guys! :bday:

[RJARRRPCGP]

PIMP. Those settings worked. Ran mem test over night at 1.9V 4-4-4-12 and no errors. Weird. It must have been the divider; all the other settings were correct, all I changed was from auto to manual and set 1:1. Anyhow, its working and I'm happy! Thx for the help guys! :bday:

Reminds me of my Asus A7V8X-X. When it was set to "Auto", (or similar)
Windows had strange behavior, Windows would crash, except for safe mode.

I wonder if that's an Asus bug.