Problem booting with Corsair Dominator.

Prophet · 12 Sep 2009 at 16:41

My mate has a Quad Core CPU on an Asus Rampage Formula Motherboard. He's already running 2X2GB Sticks of Dominator PC2-8500 C5 with no problems.

He's bought another pair of the same Dominator RAM but it wont boot. The LED readout on the Asus Mobo reads 'Detecting DDR' but there no display etc.

I've upped the DDR voltage a little but no luck. He's upgraded the BIOS etc.

Any ideas?

RJC · 12 Sep 2009 at 18:16

Does the memory work individually.
Is the system overclocked, try doing a CMOS reset.

.:SAmSuNG:. · 12 Sep 2009 at 18:56

Have you tried upping the NB voltage?

Prophet · 12 Sep 2009 at 19:34

RJC said:
Does the memory work individually.
Is the system overclocked, try doing a CMOS reset.

Memory works in all configurations except when all 4 sticks are installed.

.:SAmSuNG:. said:
Have you tried upping the NB voltage?

No! Only the RAM voltage so far. Will give the NB a try.

BigRazer93 · 13 Sep 2009 at 13:15

The ram voltage are ment to be 1.65v, and if you cant run all 4, seems to be 1 stick faulty? Try and put each 1 in and find out which one is the problem? Also, check to make sure the mobo can handle more than 4gb's of memory. Lastly, flash the bios to a more up 2 date one?

Prophet · 13 Sep 2009 at 13:18

Ben-Irvine93 said:
The ram voltage are ment to be 1.65v, and if you cant run all 4, seems to be 1 stick faulty? Try and put each 1 in and find out which one is the problem? Also, check to make sure the mobo can handle more than 4gb's of memory. Lastly, flash the bios to a more up 2 date one?

RAM is rated at 2.1v, every stick has been tested, board can handle 8GB.

BigRazer93 · 13 Sep 2009 at 21:22

my bad i was thinking of ddr3, yeah ment to be 2.1v, is the cpu overclocked because add more memory cant affect the overclock

Prophet · 13 Sep 2009 at 21:52

Everything is factory default. No overclock etc.

BigRazer93 · 13 Sep 2009 at 22:35

wow sorry for my bad english lol, im a slopy typer, well im sorry i cant really help you now, good luck tho mate

Prophet · 13 Sep 2009 at 22:36

No worries mate. Everything helps

I'm going round tomorrow to try the NB voltage and a few more tweaks!

Prophet · 15 Sep 2009 at 19:08

Update..

NB voltage increased but the problem is still there. As soon as the PC starts the LED display Detecting DRAM and just sits there.

Anything else I can try?