Asus P6TD Deluxe & bad memory?

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crazybee

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Ok folks I think "The HIVE" has a problem....

It seems that from a cold boot alot of times it only sees 4Gb memory and not the 6Gb Memory I've installed, but once its been on for a couple of mins and re booted a couple of times it sees the 6Gb and boots into Win7 64Bit Home.

Mobo: ASUS P6TD Deluxe
CPU: Intel i7 960 3.2Ghz
Memory: 3x 2GB G.Skill NQ DDR3

I've changed 2 things in Bios regarding the memory which are the to match the memories clock speeds (1600 & another thing that says to make sure its double the memories speed) and everything else is on Auto.

Changes Made:
DRAM FREQUENCY = DDR3 - 1600Mhz
UCLK FREQUENCY = 3200Mhz

Havent OC or changed anything else from default.

I am unsure how to move forward or test the memory properly to see if that is the problem or the Mobo's memory slots :(

Any advice would be great?

p.s. I've just updated my Bios to the latests 0501 from the Asus site, will report back if it fixes the problem
 
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Havent OC or changed anything else from default.
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You do realize that all 1366 processors do not support ram over 1066 MHz and thus by setting the ram to 1600 MHz you are overclocking the ram controller on the CPU. And with overclocking there is no guaranty that you will get any speed.

Put the ram back to auto or 1333 MHz or 1066 MHz and see if the problem still occurs.
 
drescherjm said:
You do realize that all 1366 processors do not support ram over 1066 MHz and thus by setting the ram to 1600 MHz you are overclocking the ram controller on the CPU. And with overclocking there is no guaranty that you will get any speed.

Put the ram back to auto or 1333 MHz or 1066 MHz and see if the problem still occurs.
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ok putting everything back to default (AUTO) and see what happens, thanks for the tip

is there anyway that I can test out the memory sticks to see if there is a bad one or not?
 
ok folks, I've done the 1 at a time DIMM test and one of the DIMMS could be bad, I say could be cause when I booted up from this stick it took longer to boot than the other 2 I tested first. It got stuck on the ExpressGate screen on my Asus and I had to power off and on but then it booted.

Proof of a bad DIMM stick?
 
it's possible. I suggest running memtest on that questionable stick to verify your suspicions.
 
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