I was helping my brother put a quick combo together with some spare parts today, but we were having trouble. It's a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard, X5660 cpu, and 6 x 2GB G.Skill DDR3 ram. With 3 sticks of ram installed in tri-channel it posts and operates fine. As soon as we populate the second set of ram slots, it will not post. All sticks pass memtest, but I'm not sure that means that are perfect for certain. Either set of triple channel ram works fine as long as they are in the first three slots. All six stick are the same part number, and worked together previously.
CMOS has cleared so many times, optimized defaults loaded. Everything is set to stock.
I am still leaning toward a ram issue. Anything other than memtest we can do to figure out what might be going on? It's a really simple setup, so frustrating.
CMOS has cleared so many times, optimized defaults loaded. Everything is set to stock.
I am still leaning toward a ram issue. Anything other than memtest we can do to figure out what might be going on? It's a really simple setup, so frustrating.