GA-G41M-Combo, installing 8gb ddr3

Kurgen

Kurgen

Kurgen

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I have the motherboard above, in my second PC which is for non gaming stuff.
the current working ram is 2 x 2gb Samsung DDR3 1333. I wanted to upgrade to 8gb.

I have tried

Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 2x4gb
Avexir DDR3 1600 2x4gb
Kingston HyperX Fury DDR3 1333 2x4gb

all give the same result, rapid short beeps and wont boot. According to the manual it should work and I thought even 1600 was supposed to just slow down to 1333.

clip from manual

DDR3: 1.2 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 8 GB of system memory
2.Support for DDR3 1333(O.C.)/1066/800 MHz memory modules
 
put 1 old stick back in, entered bios, manually changed multiplier until it hit 1333 then manually set timing to match new ddr3 chip, save , reboot swap chip, still the same, doesn't work... getting annoying
 
Samsung running at 1333, yes latest bios revision.. also tried the CPU Host Frequency up until it the memory MHz jumped to 1333/1600 still wont boot with anything but the Samsung chip installd
 
every search on googles seems to state problems with this board on anything above 1066 ddr3 using 4gb modules.. looks like I'm stuck with 4gb as 1066 ddr3 is like rocking horse poop
 
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