Gigabyte GA-K8NS memory question

[ajac]

Okay I ordered another stick diffrent brand of DDR 3200 512mb. AND IT STILL DONT WORK TOGETHER. I put in my old DDR 2700 256mb chips and it runs fine I took them out put in the new stick uf munchikn DDR 3200 512mb and bam wont boot WTF is going on. I tried to put all 3 sticks of DDR 3200 in and it booted once then not again. Any ideas? I updated to latest bios version as well.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Don't know if this will help but clear the CMOS?
See if your power supply is good enough.

Sorry I don't know, all I can do is suggest what to do.
But I heard gigabyte's tech support is pretty good.

-The Pentium Guy

 

[ajac]

Power supply is more then adequte a true power 430 by antec. Maybe I should just call tehm hmmm

 

[Bullman]

Hello ajac!

Please tell m you found a solution?

What have you done?

Cheers

Bullman

 

[ajac]

nope found nothing so just gonna suffer. Put the other sick of DDR 3200 in another computer and it works fine so I dunno. Thinkimng baout getting another motherboard anyway.

 

[Bullman]

Hey ajac,

Just got it to work, although I ain't to impressed with what you need to do.

I booted to CMOS with one stick of RAM (Slot1)
Set Max Memclock to 133MHz.
Saved. Rebooted.
Shutdown.
Mobo now has Memclock at 133.
Installed second stick of RAM (Slot2)
Mobo boots up normally.

Seems if you use AUTO, 200 or 166, then you can't run 2 sticks of PC3200 DDR RAM.

Which begs the question why f-ing not? Rather have a mobo that runs it's RAM at full speed. Now benchmarked on Everset, CPU runs at a 2108 MB/s instead of an expected 3050 MB/s on a Memory Read benchmark, with the memory recognised as PC2100 DDR instead of PC3200 DDR

Why did I buy this motherboard again?

Give it a go anyway and let us know how you go.

Cheers

Bullman