Kingston memory incompatible with Gigabyte motherboard?

nocturnal1974 · 29 May 2013 at 04:06

Hello,

I have 2 x 2GB of Mushkin Silverline working perfectly with my Gigabyte ga-h55m-ud2h motherboard with an i3-530.

Recently due to a university project I have to data analyse 100's images at once and I thought a RAM upgrade would help speed up the process of doing it in batches (which is a real pain).

I ordered : Kingston HyperX Blu DDR3 1333MHz CL9 8GB DIMM Memory Module (Kit of 2).

This should be perfectly compatible as it is the same timings, voltage and speed. The mobo takes 4GB modules maximum. I replaced these with the 2 x 2GB modules in the same slots for dual channel operation.

The PC boots up although it will not load windows beyond 'CLASSPNP.SYS'

I even tried a new windows install on another hard disk and the same fault happened.

I am about to return the RAM as it does not work.

Any ideas?

Thanks

panyan · 29 May 2013 at 11:43

memtest to see if its the memory or the OS

nocturnal1974 · 31 May 2013 at 05:31

Not the OS.

I ran Memtest booted from a USB stick and Memtest 'stuck' at the beginning of the test regardless whether I only put 1 in or both in the allowed slot configurations!

I don't know whether it is faulty or incompatible.

I'm returning it today for a refund.

Cheers

apeksdiver · 31 May 2013 at 06:37

Faulty would be my guess.

Subliminal Aura · 31 May 2013 at 06:45

nocturnal1974 said:
I ran Memtest booted from a USB stick and Memtest 'stuck' at the beginning of the test regardless......

I have seen this happen before and thought wtf ?....
It's not down to hardware but because memtest is not loading properly.... Try a different version of memtest or one burnt to cd instead of a usb stick.

Actually I now remember as I write the problem was that memtest as an iso on a usb hard drive wouldn't load so I ended up using a linux live iso instead

wazza300 · 31 May 2013 at 10:23

you might need latest beta bios which is

GA-H55M-UD2H - F12c http://www.mediafire.com/?abb80enw0ly3hqh

I would try that first if no luck you can always flash back,you also might need a touch more qpi/vtt with 8gb

Subliminal Aura · 31 May 2013 at 10:25

wazza300 said:
I would try that first if no luck you can always flash back,you also might need a touch more qpi/vtt with 8gb

Nope. Have you ever seen memtest hang at the start without checking even a single bank ?

wazza300 · 31 May 2013 at 10:29

no but it could be bios issue? idk

if its bios the ram just won't work idk if that would affect memtest ect,

Subliminal Aura · 31 May 2013 at 10:33

Nah it's the way memtest loads and since he's using it from a USB stick the alarm bells sounded for me.

The point is that memtest should load and run no matter how bad the system is unless of course all the memory banks are faulty which is very rare.

I'm positive that if he burns an iso and gets it running it'll show the memory errors if any

nocturnal1974 · 31 May 2013 at 13:33

I ran memtest on my exisiting 4GB of RAM which works!

Memtest ran perfectly from the USB stick!

The memory is on its way back and the money returning to my account.

I'm not upgrading the motherboard bios either.

Cheers

nocturnal1974 · 31 May 2013 at 13:35

Memtest was not installed as an ISO file on USB, it was the latest version and I installed it as bios bootable.

Memtest hung a short time into the testing as did my windows 7 OS.

I think it was faulty RAM.

Subliminal Aura · 31 May 2013 at 16:08

OK well I've had instances where memtest hung without having checked anything ram which is what I thought you mentioned. This can happen on perfectly fine machines too

All down to the way it's written.

Well done fixing the problem