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Old August 26, 2008, 02:23 PM
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Default Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L not posting with 4 x 1GB of ram, but with 3 GB
as titled, 4 sticks of 1 GB of ram will prevent the mobo from posting, while 3 sticks allow it to post? Why??
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Old August 26, 2008, 02:40 PM
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as titled, 4 sticks of 1 GB of ram will prevent the mobo from posting, while 3 sticks allow it to post? Why??
Can you tell us the (exactly)make and model of RAM...as well as what you have vDIMM set to in the BIOS?
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ocz ddr2-800 platium, vdimm at 2.2
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Have you tried each stick separately to rule out one being bad?
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My old P5B deluxe had a BIOS setting that had to be changed for more than 3.2GB.
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as titled, 4 sticks of 1 GB of ram will prevent the mobo from posting, while 3 sticks allow it to post? Why??
ocz memory can be extremely finiky.

With that said your probably going to have to try running with voltage of perhaps 2.0 or 2.1 and then make sure you loosen your timings say 5-5-5-15
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i havnt try loosening the timings yet, might work
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