G SKill NR PC2-6400

davvy76 · 8 Aug 2006 at 12:15

LordShadow said:
With my DS4 I have been totally unable to get the NR RAM to post, sorry. I assume it will be same story for DS3.

EDIT : I now have mmy RAM posting and booting properly but I had to use some opld generic RAM to overvolt by 0.3v and set the timings manually to 5-5-5-15.

EDIT 2 : While it will just about POST the system hangs in or before getting to windows. It seems very unstable.

Same here, g.skill nr and ds3 = no boot, no bios display, nothing just a constant power cycle.

matt1 · 8 Aug 2006 at 13:24

davvy76 said:
Same here, g.skill nr and ds3 = no boot, no bios display, nothing just a constant power cycle.

I think the BIOS is set to a lower Vdimm and tigher CAS latency than the memory can handle, you may have to acquire another cheap stick of DDR2 in order to boot, get into the BIOS and change the memory settings. Then it should work fine.

quickfix · 8 Aug 2006 at 14:06

matt1 said:
I think the BIOS is set to a lower Vdimm and tigher CAS latency than the memory can handle, you may have to acquire another cheap stick of DDR2 in order to boot, get into the BIOS and change the memory settings. Then it should work fine.

It doesn't. For some reason it resets these settings.

davvy76 · 8 Aug 2006 at 14:30

matt1 said:
I think the BIOS is set to a lower Vdimm and tigher CAS latency than the memory can handle, you may have to acquire another cheap stick of DDR2 in order to boot, get into the BIOS and change the memory settings. Then it should work fine.

I've already tried that mate, first thing I thought of when the system wouldnt start, went into the bios with (ctrl f1) changed timings to 5-5-5-15 and the volts to 2.2v, put the gskill back in, still no boot. As we speak I am dual priming at 400x7 mem 1:1 with a stick of kingston 533 ram (1.9v), the ds3 board is completely mad.

richardw · 9 Aug 2006 at 10:50

davvy76, try your GSkill + Kingston AT THE SAME TIME (and maybe the Kingston in slot 1, with the GSkill in slots 2 and 4 if thats the dual channel slots) and change the CAS to 4. If the machine boots fine into Windows then remove the Kingston stuff...

My Abit will run the RAM at CAS 3 if it set the CAS to auto, 3, 5 or 6. If i set it to 4 then it will run at 4 :confused: