Core i7 Memory recognition Problems

[Dwebtron]

I had the same issue on a i7 build. It was a completely different motherboard and ram though. I tried everything just like you. Come to find out I had some bad ram. I'll guarantee if you run memtest you're gonna get some errors. Run memtest and post back.

fuck. will do on this motherboard, even though i did for a few minutes on another one. I'll let it run overnight this time.

Okay, ... some basic questions:

1. Are you running the latest BIOS?
2. Have you tried clearing the CMOS?
3. Is that RAM on the Asus QVL for that MB?

yes, yes, and i believe so.

 

[Dwebtron]

fuck. will do on this motherboard, even though i did for a few minutes on another one. I'll let it run overnight this time.



yes, yes, and i believe so.

Actually, come to think of it, when I clear the CMOS, USUALLY it (not always) works. That is, untill I power-cycle the machine. One option, it seems would be to clear the CMOS on every boot? But come on... that really sucks.

 

[Dwebtron]

I had the same issue on a i7 build. It was a completely different motherboard and ram though. I tried everything just like you. Come to find out I had some bad ram. I'll guarantee if you run memtest you're gonna get some errors. Run memtest and post back.

Welp, here's the results after 9 hours:

I realize it was cut off at the end, but it was:

Errors: 0.

Over night, I was letting it run on 10G but I lost power. I was able to check it after 3 hours and it had 0 errors with 10G. Also, it showed slots 0,1,2,3,4,5 all identical to how it shows them now. After losing power, I turned it on and ran it all day this way. Remember, earlier I had said that if I clear the CMOS it works until I power it off (I can restart multiple times and keep the 12G). Once i power it off, my 12G will become 10G agin, until it's been unplugged for about 30 seconds.

 

[Dwebtron]

bump?

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/257429-30-asus-delux-issues

After doing some reading online it seems asus does have some known memory issues on the x58 platform. I'm betting you sent in your defective board to asus and they sent you an also defective board that had been rma'ed to asus for the same issue. Crappy practice. It sounds as if you're in the cycle of swapping out other rma boards with asus. They probably just get the rma boards and as long as they boot they are approved to go out again. I would demand a new one from asus but even then at the rate they are having the issue you might end up with another defective board.

 

[Dwebtron]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/257429-30-asus-delux-issues

After doing some reading online it seems asus does have some known memory issues on the x58 platform. I'm betting you sent in your defective board to asus and they sent you an also defective board that had been rma'ed to asus for the same issue. Crappy practice. It sounds as if you're in the cycle of swapping out other rma boards with asus. They probably just get the rma boards and as long as they boot they are approved to go out again. I would demand a new one from asus but even then at the rate they are having the issue you might end up with another defective board.

so uh.... what do i do? I don't wanna be out the cost of this mobo, as much as it sucks..

 

[Dwebtron]

I would just like to mention that today I added in an Nvidia 9500GT to this computer so that I could use a third monitor, and when I booted it up I had 12G of ram. Also, I restarted during the driver installation, and like usual it's still here. Maybe a fix to my problem is to keep installing a new video card?

Is there something about installing a video card that would reset my CMOS or something? Granted I did un-plug the PC from the wall during the 'operation'...? There isn't some easy way to constantly make my computer think that it was unplugged after every power-off? The CMOS wasn't necessarily cleared, because my boot order and other BIOS settings are still in-tact....?

 

[nboy22]

You could probably just pull the CMOS battery and then connect your computer to a surge protector with a on/off switch. When you're done with the computer and turn it off, make sure you also turn the switch off on the surge protector. This will make the computer lose all the bios information every time and it should reset to the default settings of the bios. It is bad if you want to overclock, but other than that I think it should work.

 

[Dwebtron]

You could probably just pull the CMOS battery and then connect your computer to a surge protector with a on/off switch. When you're done with the computer and turn it off, make sure you also turn the switch off on the surge protector. This will make the computer lose all the bios information every time and it should reset to the default settings of the bios. It is bad if you want to overclock, but other than that I think it should work.

Not a bad idea. However, I've noticed that my BIOS settings are always the same, and are not necessarily reset every time... Like today, for example. I have 6 hard drives in here, and every time the CMOS gets reset, I have to tell it to look for my boot drive. When I put the new card in there, I didn't have to, it had remembered. But, Magically, my 12G is all accounted for...?

Does that make sense to anyone? I'm pretty confused by it..