Hi all,
I recently received a replacement mobo EVGA x58 sli board, as on the previous faulty board only 1 ram slot functioned. Im now installing 6gb DDR3 Corsair Dominator 1600mhz with an i7 920 and EVGA GF 295, but the pc will only POST with 1 x 2gb stick of ram installed. It will boot with any of the 3 sticks in any of the 3 coloured slots, so all the dimm slots and ram sticks work fine, yet it shuts itself off as soon as its switched on if 2 or 3 sticks are installed. The bios is set to power off on all errors, but im guessing it isn't wise to disable this as it will probably damage the system.
The bios has been fully flashed to EVGA's most recent one, i've set the ram timings to 8-8-8-24, command rate 2T, dimm voltage to 1.65V and even changed to frequency to 1600mhz manually, yet if i put in any extra ram it powers itself off instantly. I've contacted OC support and they were unable to help any more than this far, so i have no idea how to get the system to boot with 6gb instead of 2. It's running 100% stable with 1 stick in as well and i've tried installing all 3 sticks in the other paired slots also. I haven't tried upping the NB voltage; would this make a difference? And which part of the bios does the NB voltage come under as i've been unable to find it.
Any ideas much appreciated
I recently received a replacement mobo EVGA x58 sli board, as on the previous faulty board only 1 ram slot functioned. Im now installing 6gb DDR3 Corsair Dominator 1600mhz with an i7 920 and EVGA GF 295, but the pc will only POST with 1 x 2gb stick of ram installed. It will boot with any of the 3 sticks in any of the 3 coloured slots, so all the dimm slots and ram sticks work fine, yet it shuts itself off as soon as its switched on if 2 or 3 sticks are installed. The bios is set to power off on all errors, but im guessing it isn't wise to disable this as it will probably damage the system.
The bios has been fully flashed to EVGA's most recent one, i've set the ram timings to 8-8-8-24, command rate 2T, dimm voltage to 1.65V and even changed to frequency to 1600mhz manually, yet if i put in any extra ram it powers itself off instantly. I've contacted OC support and they were unable to help any more than this far, so i have no idea how to get the system to boot with 6gb instead of 2. It's running 100% stable with 1 stick in as well and i've tried installing all 3 sticks in the other paired slots also. I haven't tried upping the NB voltage; would this make a difference? And which part of the bios does the NB voltage come under as i've been unable to find it.
Any ideas much appreciated
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