I5 2500k - Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Overclocking

Tenatious · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:13

wazza300 said:
remove mb battery for 30mins and start over,then put battery in,load optimized defaults in bios and set your bios settings then at gigabyte splash screen press and hold alt and f12 to flash back up bios chip with main bios chip version so that both bios's have same bios version then try booting with two sticks

Managed to press Alt + F12... it does the Writing Bios Image..... 4080K OK... then resets? Is that how it's supposed to do it?

MOOGLEYS · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:14

Tenatious said:
Managed to press Alt + F12... it does the Writing Bios Image..... 4080K OK... then resets? Is that how it's supposed to do it?

It resets when finished and you should be back to the stock bios with all settings re-set..

Tenatious · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:15

MOOGLEYS said:
It resets when finished and you should be back to the stock bios with all settings re-set..

Yeah. Okay.... back working again with 1 stick of Ram. Going to try and put two in now and see what happens.

wazza300 · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:16

yes its best to always load optimized defaults after flashing bios too,then your all reset to enter your oc/bios settings

if your still having problems i would switch to another ram brand if i were you,save having the hassle of getting the crucial to run,but good luck

Tenatious · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:17

Same problem... resetting its self at "Loading Operating System"... also, I did the BIOS update to 7C, yet it still says F5?

MOOGLEYS · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:17

Tenatious said:
Yeah. Okay.... back working again with 1 stick of Ram. Going to try and put two in now and see what happens.

Make sure you have them in the dual slots i.e 1&3 or 2&4 I think it is as I have read about people having issues if the ram is not in the dual slots.

MOOGLEYS · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:18

Tenatious said:
Same problem... resetting its self at "Loading Operating System"... also, I did the BIOS update to 7C, yet it still says F5?

If you have recovered the bios it will have re-flashed back to the board shipped default. Try running memtest on your ram booting from a usb stick.

Tenatious · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:18

MOOGLEYS said:
Make sure you have them in the dual slots i.e 1&3 or 2&4 I think it is as I have read about people having issues if the ram is not in the dual slots.

It's in 2&4.

wazza300 · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:18

i think its skip a slot plug stick in skip a slot plug stick in in direction from cpu socket for dual channel (two sticks)

Tenatious · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:20

It definitely doesn't like that 7C bios.... wont boot after putting it on... has to revert its self back to F5 :l

MOOGLEYS · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:22

The Ram should be like this for dual with 2 sticks.. It does sound like you might have some other issue there though. Is this a new build ?

wazza300 · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:23

gimme the name/model of your board theres new beta bios just out

Tenatious · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:25

Z68XP-UD3P

Yeah. Its a new build.

wazza300 · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:26

heres f7e beta bios from good source

http://www.mediafire.com/?k1dk4s3lcyo8yag

heres beta bios page

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-beta-bios.html

Tenatious · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:36

If I can ever get back in to QFlash I'll try it out

Jay794 · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:37

If you're board is broke why not just RMA it?

Tenatious · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:38

Well I don't know if it is the board....

wazza300 · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:40

might need to use @BIOS if bios is larger than 2mb then once flashed go back to using qflash,i wouldnt say its mb id say its a bios issue/incompatibility with that make/model of ram,i would switch to corsair vengeance ram if i were you,its cheap and rma/or sell on your crucial ram? but its up to you

Tenatious · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:42

I know this may sound like a bit of a stupid question.... but does something still need to be connected to CPU_FAN if it the CPU is being watercooled?

Tenatious · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:45

wazza300 said:
might need to use @bios if bios is larger than 2mb then once flashed go back to using qflash,i wouldnt say its mb id say its a bios issue/incompatibility with that make/model of ram,i would switch to corsair vengeance ram if i were you,its cheap and rma/or sell on your crucial ram? but its up to you

Problem is I have no other RAM here with me to test if that is causing the issue or not.