HELP! DS3 with new memories, random freezing at POST and setup

[ScythedBlade]

So, two weeks ago, I found out that it was my Patriot memory ... so I bought some G.Skill 6400 memory 5-5-5-15 ... I plugged it in, and so far, my DS3 v. 1.0 wih E6400 hasn't been able to go to bios every time ... in other words, it freezes at the DS3 Picture 9/10 times ... any suggestions? I seriously need fast responses, since I need it for HW.

 

[kurt454]

I have g.skill in mine, too. Every now and then mine will freeze halfway though Vista booting up. Have you overclocked any? my DS3 is revision 3.3. I have heard some of the older revision boards had memory compatibility problems with certain memory chips.

 

[ScythedBlade]

I'm not overclocking it ... and the thing is ... its freezing AT the BIOS ...

 

[ScythedBlade]

Most of the time, it freezes at finding HD

 

[kurt454]

You may just have a bad motherboard. Do you have a buddy with a different brand of ram, that might let you try a stick? How about if you pull your drives out. Will it still freeze in BIOS?

 

[ScythedBlade]

The memory is new, the board I've used since august ... I hell dont want it to be crapping out on me now ... it looks like I MAY have to RMA

 

[ScythedBlade]

*bump* people aren't helping fast enough ... T_T

 

[ScythedBlade]

*bump*

 

[jakegub]

first convince yourself it isn't an overclocking problem. Next if you think it is a hard drive problem, disconnect all your hard drives and keep booting up from a Bart's PE disk or Ubuntu or something like that. If it boots every time without the hard drives plugged in, then i would first try plugging them into different SATA ports, or if they/it are IDE I would try to use a SATA drive or something

 

[ScythedBlade]

a) it's not an overclocking problem because it's at stock
b) hard drives aren't connected

It's freezing at memory check and BIOS if im lucky enough to get into BIOS

 

[jakegub]

Are you using two sticks or one? try just using one stick to see if maybe one of them is bad

 

[ScythedBlade]

one sticks aren't working ... they're dual channel memory, is that the problem?

 

[jakegub]

no that shouldn't be an issue. If using one stick doesn't help, then the problem isn't with dual channel. take all components out and reseat them (probably not the cpu)

 

[ScythedBlade]

Might it be a chipset heatsink probleM/

 

[Fallengod]

Did you try taking one stick out and try with just 1 in? If I had to guess its either poor compatibility, the fact those gskills use 1.8volts instead of 2.0+ like other sticks, or bad memory?

 

[ScythedBlade]

it "could" be bad memory ... but like it doesn't even show anything if i use just one stick of either gskill ...

 

[ScythedBlade]

well, its the same thing with either memory installed ..