Inserting extra memory.

michaelcbell

michaelcbell

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Hi all,

I've had my overclocked system for a couple of years now, still running great. My friend recently upgraded his RAM and gave me his old chips.

The type I currently have installed are Corsair (3x2gb) CM3x2G1600C9.

I'm trying to get my friends to fit in the other 3 slots on my GA-X58A-UD3R mother board.

His memory is came from his OCUK system and is Kingston HyperX DDR3 KHX1600C9D3K3/6GX

When I first put the new RAM into the other 3 slots it worked fine for about 5 mins before cutting out (black screen). I have since tried multiple configurations but to no avail.

Is there any way I can get his memory to work in my machine? I haven't touched the timings, left everything on the OC settings in the bios that came with the system but I'm happy to change stuff in the bios if you think it will help...

These are the configs I've tried with the results:

How the motherboard manual describes the slots:

Blue Slot (DDR3_2)
White Slot (DDR3_1)
Blue Slot (DDR3_4)
White Slot (DDR3_3)
Blue Slot (DDR3_6)
White Slot (DDR3_5)

1)
b- nothing
w - corsair
b- nothing
w- corsair
b- nothing
w corsair

= works great

2) same but with kingston memory - works great.

3)
b- Corsair
w- Kingston
b- Corsair
w- Kingston
b- Corsair
w- Kingston

= recognises 12 gb ram okay for 5 mins then black screen

4) Same but swapping the Corsairs for the Kingstons - 5 mins then black screen

5)
b- Corsair
w- Kingston
b- Corsair
w- Kingston
b- nothing
w- nothing

Recognises 8gb dies after 5 minutes

6)
b- Corsair
w- Corsair
b- Kingston
w- Kingston
b- Kingston
w- nothing

Recognises 10GB (only usable 8gb) - lasted for about half an hour then died. (realise this is a non-scientific part of my test but solution worked the best for the longest) I was thinking the slot channels might work in pairs in which case I could buy just one more kingston chip and have matching across the pairs... Possibly the extra unnecessary kingston chip in the DDR3_6 slot threw it off?

This is confusing me a lot. I've run windows memory diagnostic when in options 1 and 2 and the results came out absolutely fine leading me to believe the chips are all fine...

In the motherboard manual it recommends using the same RAM manufacturers/capacity etc. but says it has this "flex memory mode" that runs when they are different. But I dont see this message when it boots. Am I missing something?

I'm running the F5 version of the Bios. Everything else is working great just want to get this new ram installed and working reliably....

Any help you guys could provide with this would be greatly appreciated.

Apologies for the somewhat essay length request for help, just wanted to let you all know what I've tried.

Many Thanks,
Mike
 
Thanks for the reply, I know what you mean but there's no BSOD, the whole thing just cuts out.

Is there a way of configuring 2 sets of differently branded RAM? (3x2gb)(3x2gb) Would I have to manually set some timings/voltages in the BIOS?

Would love to get this working with differently branded RAM otherwise I'll have to buy a whole extra set of one of the brands I already have....
 
thanks for all your help. I'm having no luck with getting the configuration to work. Think I'm a bit out of my depth trying to adjust all of the voltages as the system came overclocked. I've tried a load of combinations, voltages, timings etc. but cant produce a system with 12gb that manages to get all the way to log in screen again. I'll just bail and see if I can get another matching set to the first lot I have. Do you know if there's any place you can swap RAM for other RAM??? I'm in London

Thanks again, M
 
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