Hello,
i have bought this rig from a friend as a fully working rig - works great!
only problem is that it only has 4gb ram with a 64bit OS - this ram being OCZ gold DDR3 PC3 - 12800
i bought myself some of this cheap skinny-looking ram from Kingston - 2x 4gb PC3 10600 CL9 - hoping to make a total of 8 - maybe with tweaking to 12 (with current ram too)
i put this ram in and it didn't work!
so i thought "Hm - it's not PC3 12800"
so i go and buy myself some other ram - my bank now looking quite empty
this package of 2x 4gb didn't work either - i suspected the ram at first so i sent it back and the man tested it saying it was fully working - he give me a refund anyway (Very nice seller)
so i was looking around the forums and it turns out this mobo DOES support PC3-10600 - so i go put it back in and it booted up!
...to the Windows loading screen - and thats as far as it gets - it just stops there- even with just ONE stick of this new ram in - totalling 4gb - same ammount as my 2x OCZ gold 2gb - it just sits there.... doing nothing...
HDD light flashing for a while but activity gets less until it's just idle.
i reboot and then it halts on error code d5 - Ram initialisation. (same error code that i got with the ram i sent back)
Now i heard some crazy thing that it was the GRAPHIC CARD!? i know! - tech support is getting worse!
so regardless of doubts - i put my brothers graphic card in here and that changed nothing (suprise suprise!)
so can anyone give me a clue as to what i'm doing wrong?
throw anything in the air, i'll try anything so long as it doesn't involve magnets + motherboard - although explosives may be fun.
Thankyou for your time,
Bugz.
i have bought this rig from a friend as a fully working rig - works great!
only problem is that it only has 4gb ram with a 64bit OS - this ram being OCZ gold DDR3 PC3 - 12800
i bought myself some of this cheap skinny-looking ram from Kingston - 2x 4gb PC3 10600 CL9 - hoping to make a total of 8 - maybe with tweaking to 12 (with current ram too)
i put this ram in and it didn't work!
so i thought "Hm - it's not PC3 12800"
so i go and buy myself some other ram - my bank now looking quite empty
this package of 2x 4gb didn't work either - i suspected the ram at first so i sent it back and the man tested it saying it was fully working - he give me a refund anyway (Very nice seller)
so i was looking around the forums and it turns out this mobo DOES support PC3-10600 - so i go put it back in and it booted up!
...to the Windows loading screen - and thats as far as it gets - it just stops there- even with just ONE stick of this new ram in - totalling 4gb - same ammount as my 2x OCZ gold 2gb - it just sits there.... doing nothing...
HDD light flashing for a while but activity gets less until it's just idle.
i reboot and then it halts on error code d5 - Ram initialisation. (same error code that i got with the ram i sent back)
Now i heard some crazy thing that it was the GRAPHIC CARD!? i know! - tech support is getting worse!
so regardless of doubts - i put my brothers graphic card in here and that changed nothing (suprise suprise!)
so can anyone give me a clue as to what i'm doing wrong?
throw anything in the air, i'll try anything so long as it doesn't involve magnets + motherboard - although explosives may be fun.
Thankyou for your time,
Bugz.