Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

[Agent 47]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

I was using - dram 1.60v, qpi/vtt 1.210v, cpu 1.21875v.
Now I'm testing with this:
dram 1.64v, qpi/vtt 1.190v, cpu 1.21875v.

[wazza300]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

you might be better off with another brand of ram if you can get it stable, like corsair or kingston ect,some brands have issues and you shouldnt really need to tweak that much for 4gb and 1333mhz speed

[Agent 47]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

Hey bro, i would love to get kingston/corsair/ocz ram. But the truth is, in my country those brands ram are unavailable in the market. So I had to buy silicon power.
Now tell me, is this becomes dangerous to tweaking my system like this?

[wazza300]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

yes i understand,no it shouldnt hurt anything,but the ram should run at its rated 1.5v without problems if not then its no good,you could try emailing gigabyte and ask them to send you a custom bios for that ram? maybe it would help,its not the ram its the bios not supporting it fully like the more popular brands

[Agent 47]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

Thanks for the heads up. I will email gigabyte shortly.

[Agent 47]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

Hey guys, I just checked my ram is in the supported list of the motherboard.

Look here:

[wazza300]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

still could be a bios setting then

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

Try 1.55-1.6V for your ram, it will be fine

[Agent 47]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

Try 1.55-1.6V for your ram, it will be fine

I tried that, but it fails.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

What QPI/Vtt are you setting?

[Agent 47]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

I emailed to GIGABYTE as wazza300 suggested.
They replied:

Dear Rana,

Thank you for your kindly mail and inquiry. About the issue you mentioned, attached is the latest version BIOS for the motherboard. You should be able to update it and try again later. After bios updating, please do not forget to load BIOS fail-safe default setting and please also do not try to overclock your system at this moment.

For more information about BIOS upgrading, please click HERE.

If you still have any further question or suggestion about our products/service, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will try our best to help you resolve the problem ASAP.

Regards,
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY

I did exactly they told me to do. Updated BIOS from F8 to F9. Loaded BIOS fail-safe default setting. But still I'm getting the damn blue screen. Here's the message I'm getting from windows error reporting:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 1000007e
BCP1: FFFFFFFFC000001D
BCP2: FFFFF88004456010
BCP3: FFFFF88005D978C8
BCP4: FFFFF88005D97120
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\110410-37908-01.dmp
C:\Users\Agent 47\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-83647-0.sysdata.xml

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C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

I don't know what to do now :S

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

Start over in the BIOS, this time load Optimized Defaults, then save/aply/reboot F10 Back to the BIOS.

Then set your ram voltage to spec, if 1.65V ram set 1.66V, then set QPI/Vtt to 1.2-1.3 and see how things go.

7e is often memory, so be sure your timings are not set too tight as well.

[Agent 47]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

Ram timing is:
9 9 9 - 24 (stick 1)
9 9 9 - 24 (stick 2)

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

That should be fine, do you have the voltage set and have you tried various QPI/Vtt amounts?

Have you tested one stick at a time with memtest86+? If not please do, then see if there are any differences, maybe one stick is bad, or both?

[Agent 47]

Re: Having problem with GA-P55 motherboard after installing 2x2 gb ddr3 1333 bus ram.

I did memtest86+ 3 times. 1st 2x2 stick, then 1 stick and then the other stick.
No error found. Here's the results:





I loaded optimized defaults and set voltages like this:



Result: I got a blue screen during start-up.

Then I loaded optimized defaults again and this time I haven't tweaked voltage settings:



Result: Windows starts normally for now.

Here's some images from BIOS:








N.B: Both rams are rated 1.5V.