gigabyte ds3 HELP

[amd4life]

anyone have this board yet that can help me

I have a d940 (soon to be e6300), 4gb ocz CAS 4 ddr2 6400 platinum (2 matched pairs), ati x1900 AIW

and for the life of me I cant get the darn thing to even boot to bios

I went back to my old standyby (ecs 945 lol) and it runs fine same quipment

anyone having any issue with this board and OCZ memory ?

some guy one newegg reviews said you needed cas 5 memory to get to the bios

any help

if not this thing is getting rma'd like asap lol

 

[zsdersw]

I'm also having trouble with my DS3 board.. possibly the RAM is incompatible, possibly the motherboard is bad... either way I'm going to sell the RAM and probably RMA the motherboard if a stick of qualified memory doesn't get the thing to POST.

 

[amd4life]

yeah thats what I was thinking on the RAM too, who knows maybe Ill just rms it and get the asus

anyone else with some ideas

thx

 

[Hidden Hippo]

I don't believe that RAM is compatible. On the Gigabyte site there is a page with compatible RAM and none of the OCZ stuff is listed there.

 

[Aluvus]

The DS3 has issues with RAM. If the SPD reports the memory should be configured as CAS latency (CL) 4, the DS3 instead sets CL to 3. Most CL4 memory will then fail to boot, as CL3 timings are just too difficult.

There are a few solutions available.

1. Avoid buying CL4-rated RAM. CL5 memory is cheaper, though you sacrifice performance.

2. Grab a non-CL4 stick (know anyone that can loan you some DDR2?), drop it in, then go into the BIOS and manually set the CAS Latency to something easy like 5. Then put in the memory you actually want to use, and adjust timings as needed.

3. Contact your memory manufacturer. Some manufacturers will take the memory in on RMA and reprogram it with "fixed" SPD data. G.Skill will do this. They will set CL to 5 and send it back to you. This will get the system to boot with the memory, then you will want to change the setting back to 4 in the BIOS.

4. Wait for a BIOS update from Gigabyte. It is expected, though not certain that they will release a BIOS update in the near future to correct the problem.

Obviously the other solution is just to buy a different board.

(Copied and pasted from my post elsewhere.)

 

[crimson117]

I had compatibility problems with the Gigabyte DS3 mobo and some G.Skill DDR2-800 ram. I think it was that by default the mobo would supply a max of 1.8v to the ram on boot, but the ram itself needed 2.1 or so volts or it wouldn't work. You could change it in the bios to give it 2.1v... but you can't get into the bios without ram

Some people worked around it using some cheap 1.8v ram to set the bios to give 2.1v, then swapped in their 2.1v ram and it worked. But I wasn't interested in this workaround, and instead ordered some A-DATA Dual Channel 2048MB PC4200 DDR2 Memory (ELJKD1A16K).

 

[amd4life]

welp thx guys, thats is the ticket I think--darn thing even shorted out on me last night

mine is going back,as im not planning on replacing 4gb ram anytime soon lol

is the asus any LESS memory finicky