Is no one else having BSOD problems while having all 4 RAM slots in use?

[rene mauricio]

This may seem like an odd question but are any of you GIGABYTE users encountering (or have in the past) problems with your board when you occupy all RAM slots?

I just recently purchased a Z87MX-D3H and it is having stability issues. Upon further research I came upon this topic on the official UK GIGABYTE forums as well as read comments left on the actual NewEgg site. It seems like a lot of Z77 and Z87 boards have this issue but so far GIGABYTE has refused to acknowledge it. Looking around here at TweakTown I do not see mention of BSOD and so I am wondering if you guys managed to fix this issue with your boards or if I should RMA mine. Any help would be appreciated.

[wazza300]

Re: Is no one else having BSOD problems while having all 4 RAM slots in use?

you might need more vtt voltage with more ram/all slots filled

[skkane]

Re: Is no one else having BSOD problems while having all 4 RAM slots in use?

I have the same problem.

I had two gigabyte boards which did it. Now i'm on a Z87x-D3h but before it was doing it on a Z87X-UD3h (now dead :)). The ram is some older kingston hyperx 1600mhz, 4x4gb.

I spent AGES messing with voltages and what not thinking my 4400mhz OC was causing the random BSOD's when in fact in was the memory all along. I am running it at 1066mhz now with +0.2 system agent voltage / io voltage which is pretty bad. With 2 modules installed only they can do 1600mhz XMP profile1 enabled no problem. Put in the other 2 and all stability goes out the window.

Thanks Gigabyte for wasting my time and causing me alot of stress in the process. You're lucky i needed a PCI slot otherwise i would've gone with Asus all day long.

Get your **** straight, do not sell defective products to people. There is no point rma-ing because the replacement will most likely do the same. You need to fix the damn bios already or just pull out the board from the market all together. Say on the box 1066 mhz max with 4 dimm's installed... pigs

[rene mauricio]

Re: Is no one else having BSOD problems while having all 4 RAM slots in use?

I think I am going to return it. I am reading way too many cases of people having issues with 4 RAM slots with zero response from GIGABYTE that actually fix the issue. The most common replies from them are "faulty memory", "disable c-states" and "bad memory controller on CPU".



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[wazza300]

Re: Is no one else having BSOD problems while having all 4 RAM slots in use?

it shouldn't throw errors,not if its compatible ram,older ram might if it was designed for x58/p55 ect

you need to try with more vtt(don't know what its labelled as on z87) basically more memory controller voltage,esp with more memory

[boondocks]

Re: Is no one else having BSOD problems while having all 4 RAM slots in use?

I'm running Kingston 2400 quad channel with no problems with cpu clock all the way up to x49.
With the recent BIOS I've made no manual adjustments at all.

I ran a Kingston 1866 quad channel kit before the 2400 that ran well the best I remember, although I had to tweak with early BIOS.

[skkane]

Re: Is no one else having BSOD problems while having all 4 RAM slots in use?

Appears to be fixed with F9a. Haven't crashed yet @ 1600mhz xmp enabled but still testing. It would've crashed by now multiple times on F8 so keeping my fingers crossed.

[pcporemba]

Re: Is no one else having BSOD problems while having all 4 RAM slots in use?

I have a new Z87-UD4 and four sticks of Mushkin 997124R (PC3-1700 10-12-12-28) and if I enable the XMP profile I can not boot. I've lowered them down to 2,000 and no problems. Tried adding system agent voltage +.176 and running 1.62 to the memory. Boots just fine with only two sticks installed and XMP enabled. Using the modified F8 bios.