RAM issue

[Paladone]

Hey guys,

So I have had this issue for a long time although it's been happening more recently now. Maybe once every couple of days. I am pretty much certain that it is an issue with my MB/RAM but I have no idea how to fix it. The reason I think it is my MB/RAM is because my MB won't let me run my 2400MHz RAM at 2400MHz (I do have the correct timings). When I boot it up with the RAM at 2400MHz, it won't even load up the bios and I have to do a CMOS clear to be able to even get to the bios. Thus, I have just been running my RAM at 2133MHz for the last year or so, which has been a pain because it would occasionally BSOD but as I said it's happening more often now. So my question I guess is, why can't I run my RAM at 2400MHz?

Thanks

 

[jboydgolfer]

that CPU runs 1866 , after that iirc it requires an Overclock. obvious buti thought id mention it. sometimes its the simple stuff

 

[cadaveca]

Hey guys,

So I have had this issue for a long time although it's been happening more recently now. Maybe once every couple of days. I am pretty much certain that it is an issue with my MB/RAM but I have no idea how to fix it. The reason I think it is my MB/RAM is because my MB won't let me run my 2400MHz RAM at 2400MHz (I do have the correct timings). When I boot it up with the RAM at 2400MHz, it won't even load up the bios and I have to do a CMOS clear to be able to even get to the bios. Thus, I have just been running my RAM at 2133MHz for the last year or so, which has been a pain because it would occasionally BSOD but as I said it's happening more often now. So my question I guess is, why can't I run my RAM at 2400MHz?

Thanks

Your CPU isn't fully capable of running 2400 MHz ram speeds. It's quite normal. You can try boosting VCCSA and or I/O voltage, but I have seen IVB-E CPUs that could not even do 2133 MHz reliably without voltage tweaking.

 

[Dead_Again]

If I remember rightly, the issue is over the voltage with this board (used to own one briefly) and the RAM. As @cadaveca has stated previously, the cpu is not "fully" capable of running at 2400MHz ram speeds (check with Intel via the ol' googleness). However Asrock claimed this wasn't an issue, and even went as far as to state that all G.Skill RAM was fully compatible. I know I personally had to compromise at 2133MHZ speed for stability (things would work fine even after a burn-in, then nothing until a reset)...

 

[Paladone]

If I remember rightly, the issue is over the voltage with this board (used to own one briefly) and the RAM. As @cadaveca has stated previously, the cpu is not "fully" capable of running at 2400MHz ram speeds (check with Intel via the ol' googleness). However Asrock claimed this wasn't an issue, and even went as far as to state that all G.Skill RAM was fully compatible. I know I personally had to compromise at 2133MHZ speed for stability (things would work fine even after a burn-in, then nothing until a reset)...

Your CPU isn't fully capable of running 2400 MHz ram speeds. It's quite normal. You can try boosting VCCSA and or I/O voltage, but I have seen IVB-E CPUs that could not even do 2133 MHz reliably without voltage tweaking.

Ahh okay. Is that hard to to? I don't have a massive amount of experience with overclocking.

 

[cadaveca]

Personally, I'd say it's not hard, but then there is a long list of members here who I know defer to me when it comes to memory tweaking.

What I would do, in your position, is first I would try to simply just set the first 4 timings into the BIOS manually without using XMP, and see how that goes. Should that fail, then I'd be setting secondary and tertiary timings manually, and then playing with voltages. Like I mentioned earlier, for your CPU, it'll be the VCCSA and I/O voltages that need to be adjusted. They could even simply be too high and the excess causes the errors... so to do that sort of tweaking, you first need to reset your BOIS completely, and then go into the BIOS, check monitoring pages, and see what your defaults are, then set those defaults manually. Then you can do incremental increases while running memtest to see wha happens to errors with stock volts, and then with volt increases.