Hi, I'm not sure if this has been addressed already here, as far as I could see there wasn't any info about it.
I have a new system (budget 64-bit workstation) and I'm having trouble getting 8gb (4x2gb sticks) of Patriot ram to run with my Gigabyte motherboard.
I was able to get 3 sticks (6gb) to work by turning the DDR Voltage
Control in the BIOS up the maximum +0.3V setting, but 8gb won't work.
When I have the 4th stick in there, the BIOS can see 8gb, so can XP, but when I try loading anything that will genuinely suck up all that memory (like 64-bit Photoshop or MAX
2009), XP will immediately bluescreen. This blue screen occurred at 6gb as well before I increased the voltage.
I have tried increasing the NorthBridge
Volt Control to the maximum +0.3V with 8gb in there, and that actually
loads Photoshop CS4 x64 completely, but after about 3 seconds running...
blue screen (the blue screen is always the same, mentions "disk.sys").
This same problem occurred when I first tried using Vista on this machine
(which is all new components, all tested and all non-faulty)... Vista
blue screened constantly, but was impossible to figure out 'why' at the
time, but now makes alot of sense because of how Vista uses RAM for
application caching.
Basically, I need to know what BIOS voltage requirements/tinkering is
required to run a full 8gb of ram.
I only know enough about the BIOS to get me out of trouble, and I haven't hit a wall like this before. so you can understand that I'd be reluctant to run off and tinker with the DDR2 Timings without having a clue what those numbers actually do to the system. And I am even more reluctant to resort to flashing the bios without trying every other possible option first.
Everything is patched and up to date in XP, latest drivers for
everything. I have tried it with the my GeForce card removed, running the machine with the onboard ATI graphics, as well as disabling onboard graphics (via BIOS) while running the GeForce... same problem everytime.
I haven't diddled with any other power settings in the BIOS, and right now I'm running everything very smoothly with the 3x2gb setup (did some stress testing in Photoshop and Max and nothing crashed, nothing stalled)
Here are some hardware specs:
Patriot RAM model numbers: PSD22GH8002H
4 x 2gb PC2-6400 800mhz CL5
Gigabyte: GA-MA78GPM-DS2H(rev. 1.0)
AMD Athlon X2 5200+
Nvidia 9500GT 512mb
Win XP x64 SP2
Power Supply : 430 W
Bios at startup says it is F1
Any help would be muchly appreciated
I have a new system (budget 64-bit workstation) and I'm having trouble getting 8gb (4x2gb sticks) of Patriot ram to run with my Gigabyte motherboard.
I was able to get 3 sticks (6gb) to work by turning the DDR Voltage
Control in the BIOS up the maximum +0.3V setting, but 8gb won't work.
When I have the 4th stick in there, the BIOS can see 8gb, so can XP, but when I try loading anything that will genuinely suck up all that memory (like 64-bit Photoshop or MAX
2009), XP will immediately bluescreen. This blue screen occurred at 6gb as well before I increased the voltage.
I have tried increasing the NorthBridge
Volt Control to the maximum +0.3V with 8gb in there, and that actually
loads Photoshop CS4 x64 completely, but after about 3 seconds running...
blue screen (the blue screen is always the same, mentions "disk.sys").
This same problem occurred when I first tried using Vista on this machine
(which is all new components, all tested and all non-faulty)... Vista
blue screened constantly, but was impossible to figure out 'why' at the
time, but now makes alot of sense because of how Vista uses RAM for
application caching.
Basically, I need to know what BIOS voltage requirements/tinkering is
required to run a full 8gb of ram.
I only know enough about the BIOS to get me out of trouble, and I haven't hit a wall like this before. so you can understand that I'd be reluctant to run off and tinker with the DDR2 Timings without having a clue what those numbers actually do to the system. And I am even more reluctant to resort to flashing the bios without trying every other possible option first.
Everything is patched and up to date in XP, latest drivers for
everything. I have tried it with the my GeForce card removed, running the machine with the onboard ATI graphics, as well as disabling onboard graphics (via BIOS) while running the GeForce... same problem everytime.
I haven't diddled with any other power settings in the BIOS, and right now I'm running everything very smoothly with the 3x2gb setup (did some stress testing in Photoshop and Max and nothing crashed, nothing stalled)
Here are some hardware specs:
Patriot RAM model numbers: PSD22GH8002H
4 x 2gb PC2-6400 800mhz CL5
Gigabyte: GA-MA78GPM-DS2H(rev. 1.0)
AMD Athlon X2 5200+
Nvidia 9500GT 512mb
Win XP x64 SP2
Power Supply : 430 W
Bios at startup says it is F1
Any help would be muchly appreciated
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