[Incompatibility?] Giga DS3 and Gskill HZ PC6400

[MonkSP]

A fellow of mine tried the mount an Intel 940D in the Gigabyte DS3 and GSkill HZ 2Gb PC6400 (those D9s..). But stranglely doesnt boot at all.

He had to switch to Gskill NS and then to NR and none of them booted.

Then he switched to 5400LA so he could boot. anyone had this problem? I am very concerned cause I already bought the Gskill PC6400 and the Giga DS3...

[clone38]

Mine works fine m8 so no need to worry,same board and ram as yourself.

[MonkSP]

Great! tkx for feeback. I will not worry then...

[mearle73]

Great! tkx for feeback. I will not worry then...

I would my 2gig of G.Skill ZX wont boot in it either!

[Silves]

Mine also wont boot. I have 1gb of Gskill 6400HZ and its a no boot on Asus P5B Deluxe and on Gigabyte DQ6.

[vudoodoodoo]

BIOS flash?

[mearle73]

BIOS flash?

Dident make any difference to me,if I put a cheap stick of ddr2 in it set the volts to +3 it will boot,take the cheap stick out,and it fails again,great

[xpsentity]

@All:

We have G.Skill people here.

[MonkSP]

So it's really true about some mems not booting with DS3. Anyone tried to flash bios?

[Chri$ch]

i hear about some problems with elpida chips and 965p chipset, and the
G.Skill ZX kits have Elpida chips?!

btw, i am waiting on my DS3 and 2GBHZ Kit

[Ldawg]

i hear about some problems with elpida chips

i heard this as well, hopefully a bios update of some sort could fix the issue

[celerity]

I got my 2x512 hz g.skill micon d9 today... unfortunately I wont get my conroe and ds3 until august, but I hope they will work fine.

[theteamaqua]

OCZ PC6400 works

also Corsair PC6400 and Corsair 8000UL works

Patriot PC7200 wont work

[thunderstruck!]

OCZ PC6400 works

also Corsair PC6400 and Corsair 8000UL works

Patriot PC7200 wont work

Thanks for verifying that. My 8000UL will be very happy. Well, maybe not that happy with the measly 2.5v this mobo allows (or is it 2.45v?)

[ArcTan]

Thanks for verifying that. My 8000UL will be very happy. Well, maybe not that happy with the measly 2.5v this mobo allows (or is it 2.45v?)

2.4v only
my 5400UL work fine

[GSKILL TECH]

We found the problem. It is causing by the Gigabyte bios auto detection. It boots DDR800 CL4 ram up with CL3. There is no way to boot CL3 up at DDR2 800 and also with 1.8v.

If you have ram that using CL5, I would suggest use that to boot up the motherboard and set your bios at CL4 on DDR2 800. Save the bios and swap to 2GBZX. That will solve the problem. However, this problem is actually causing by Gigabyte bios not the

[NoSinder]

OCZ PC6400 works

also Corsair PC6400 and Corsair 8000UL works

Patriot PC7200 wont work

How about Patriot PC5300?? Any testing on that?

[Richard Dower]

We found the problem. It is causing by the Gigabyte bios auto detection. It boots DDR800 CL4 ram up with CL3. There is no way to boot CL3 up at DDR2 800 and also with 1.8v.

If you have ram that using CL5, I would suggest use that to boot up the motherboard and set your bios at CL4 on DDR2 800. Save the bios and swap to 2GBZX. That will solve the problem. However, this problem is actually causing by Gigabyte bios not the

So basically my Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 and this memory won't work??

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231073

2GB ZX kit with 0605 batch, will G.SKILL help resolve the problem and consult with Gigabyte on a bios update?

What can i do?...if i can't boot with the memory and can't flash bios and don't have any other DDR2 modules...what can i do?

Can i swap my unused ZX kit with another set?

[ocZZZ]

ya, newegg doesnt charge restocking fee with unopened box rma. I suggest getting the team memory from tankguys.com instead (check bandwidth forum).

So basically my Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 and this memory won't work??

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231073

2GB ZX kit with 0605 batch, will G.SKILL help resolve the problem and consult with Gigabyte on a bios update?

What can i do?...if i can't boot with the memory and can't flash bios and don't have any other DDR2 modules...what can i do?

Can i swap my unused ZX kit with another set?

[bobdelt]

Go buy some ram at best buy, use it to post and change the ram setting so that hopefully the G.Skill ram will post now, and then return the other ram to best buy.

[Scarlet Infidel]

Does this problem only affect the DS3? What about the DS4 and DQ6?

[GSKILL TECH]

So basically my Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 and this memory won't work??

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231073

2GB ZX kit with 0605 batch, will G.SKILL help resolve the problem and consult with Gigabyte on a bios update?

What can i do?...if i can't boot with the memory and can't flash bios and don't have any other DDR2 modules...what can i do?

Can i swap my unused ZX kit with another set?

Well if Gigabyte is not going to fix it, then all of the ram with SPD 400 CL4 will not boot up. Currently we don’t know when does Gigabyte going to fix it. However I believe they will fix it soon. Since there are a lot of DDR2 800 CL4 memory. We are going to change SPD to CL5 at 800. that will solve the problem too but user need to adjust the timing by themselves.

[Scarlet Infidel]

I think most people buying g.skill know to set their own timings anyway so a wise move.

I hope my 6400 HZ boots up on my new DQ6, i dont have any other DDR2.

[GSKILL TECH]

I think most people buying g.skill know to set their own timings anyway so a wise move.

I hope my 6400 HZ boots up on my new DQ6, i dont have any other DDR2.

CL3 1.8v for 90% of MT chip is no problem to boot up. however we did find some MT chip for 800 2GBHZ can't not boot.
it is mistake by Gigabyte.... so our SPD can't not burn as 400 CL4...
we are going to change CL5...... no good cuz there will be a lot of user misunderstand about the CAS when they read the SPD
like what happened to DDR500 2GBHZ 3-5-5-10

[Richard Dower]

Could users please report their experience of using G.SKILL DDRII 800 memory with the Gigabyte 965P motherboards.

If you don't have a spare DDR2 module you are in trouble!...it won't boot and you can't flash to a later bios.

Maybe G.SKILL could repragram the SPD for it to have a CL5 value?