Need help with new system

[renco55]

Hello,
I have just put new system together
MB- M4A87TD/USB3

ram- Patriot viper extreme pc3 16000 2000 Mhz 3x4 +12 gig

cpu- amd Phenom ii x4 black edition 3.4 Hz

The system will boot after a long time but the ram light on MB will go on and off with 2 sticks of ram in but won't boot with all 3 sticks in.

also noted during slow boot the errors of - EC flash corupt and over voltage

any ideas what the problem can be

 

[mosox]

Is this your RAM?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220543
Go in the BIOS and manually change the memory voltage to 1.65V.

If it doesn't work try with one stick of RAM at a time. If all work, add another one, try with each one at a time. Maybe one stick is bad.

 

[renco55]

Is this your RAM?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220543
Go in the BIOS and manually change the memory voltage to 1.65V.

If it doesn't work try with one stick of RAM at a time. If all work, add another one, try with each one at a time. Maybe one stick is bad.

yes that is the ram I have

Thanks for the reply mosox....I set the voltage to 1.65v and it seems to work ok...except only with 2 sticks of ram in I believe the third stick is bad,I tried it by itself and in combo with the other 2 sticks and that would stop the system from booting up. However it works fine with 2 of the 3 sticks.I'm doing a memtest with linux live cd and it shows the ram at 568 Mhz

Thanks alot for your time and help

 

[mosox]

Send it back (the whole kit) and we'll recommend you some cheaper better RAM if you provide a link to your HW shop. Off Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231405

The latencies matter (the lower the better) not the clock frequency.

LE: Also 1.5V RAM is the best.

 

[renco55]

Send it back (the whole kit) and we'll recommend you some cheaper better RAM if you provide a link to your HW shop. Off Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231405

The latencies matter (the lower the better) not the clock frequency.

LE: Also 1.5V RAM is the best.

Thanks again...I will return the ram .My HW shop is Canada Computers http://www.canadacomputers.com/

 

[mosox]

You can get one of those, 8GB is plenty:
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=24_311_312_612&item_id=035787
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=24_311_312_611&item_id=035768

 

[renco55]

the G.Skill seems to work fine so far the ....my son put the machine through some testing and said it seem ok now thank for your help

 

[renco55]

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