Morning folks!
In the midst of finally getting an upgrade from my AM2+ 720BE and have been building the following core parts:
So, I have come to first power up to check everything is OK before standing the unit up and putting the hard disks etc in and the machine keeps restarting with a diagnostics code '55' - which basically means it cannot find any RAM.
I don't have a second DDR4 compliant machine to drop the RAM sticks in to and I don't know anyone who has gone to DDR4 other than myself. I have tried moving the RAM about through every slot possible (1 stick at a time) and it refuses to go any further through the boot sequence. I had spotted the spec of the motherboard is given as:
Here lies the problem, the motherboard is refusing to see the pre-configured 2400MHz RAM and I can't get in to the BIOS to change the settings to remedy the issue (have to assume XMP is off by default or something similar). This leaves me with at least a couple of scenarios:
So, what would you guys do? Beyond the swearing that has already taken place!?
Do any of you have any bright ideas on how to circumvent this and give me option 3 (get it working OK as it is)?
I can't work out how the motherboard is supposed to ever support anything other than 2133MHz if I have to go out and buy a 2133MHz stick (or set) and listing it as supported when the RAM can't be detected just seems ridiculous!
I must be missing something
P.S. Having had a bit of a Google it appears the same issue has been experienced elsewhere on both this motherboard and the Gaming 7 version. Option 2 is basically what people have done to fix it but it seems stupid to advertise the board as supporting higher frequencies without making it clear you need this extra hardware. The manual inside only says it supports 2133MHz, this isn't what is given on the product advertising and presumably this is all caused by a default BIOS setting issue.
In the midst of finally getting an upgrade from my AM2+ 720BE and have been building the following core parts:
- i7-6700k
- Giga-Byte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5
- Sapphire R9 390X (this being the one that was on the early Boxing Day offer and what kicked off this whole thing)
- EVGA 1000P2 1000W
- 16GB (2x8GB) 2400MHz DDR4 Crucial Ballistix Sport
- NH-D15 cooler (currently only got 1 fan fitted so I can access the RAM)
- and the usual peripherals
So, I have come to first power up to check everything is OK before standing the unit up and putting the hard disks etc in and the machine keeps restarting with a diagnostics code '55' - which basically means it cannot find any RAM.
I don't have a second DDR4 compliant machine to drop the RAM sticks in to and I don't know anyone who has gone to DDR4 other than myself. I have tried moving the RAM about through every slot possible (1 stick at a time) and it refuses to go any further through the boot sequence. I had spotted the spec of the motherboard is given as:
- Support for DDR4 3466(O.C.) /3400(O.C.) /3333(O.C.) /3300(O.C.) /3200(O.C.) /3000(O.C.) /2800(O.C.) /2666(O.C.) /2400(O.C.) /2133 MHz memory modules
Here lies the problem, the motherboard is refusing to see the pre-configured 2400MHz RAM and I can't get in to the BIOS to change the settings to remedy the issue (have to assume XMP is off by default or something similar). This leaves me with at least a couple of scenarios:
- The RAM I have is dead and I can't prove either way it is or it isn't as I have no stable system to put in to as a test-bed
- I need to now buy more RAM at the slower clock to set up the motherboard and presumably to lock it down to 2133 and run the RAM I already have at this slightly lower speed permanently (or until a fi comes along)
a) I buy a 4GB stick, lock it down and swap out the lower stick for the RAM I already have (£20)
b) I buy a 2x4GB kit and lock the BIOS down and then drop the RAM I already have in as well and hope that dual channel runs OK with two different pairs of RAM (£39)
So, what would you guys do? Beyond the swearing that has already taken place!?
Do any of you have any bright ideas on how to circumvent this and give me option 3 (get it working OK as it is)?
I can't work out how the motherboard is supposed to ever support anything other than 2133MHz if I have to go out and buy a 2133MHz stick (or set) and listing it as supported when the RAM can't be detected just seems ridiculous!
I must be missing something
P.S. Having had a bit of a Google it appears the same issue has been experienced elsewhere on both this motherboard and the Gaming 7 version. Option 2 is basically what people have done to fix it but it seems stupid to advertise the board as supporting higher frequencies without making it clear you need this extra hardware. The manual inside only says it supports 2133MHz, this isn't what is given on the product advertising and presumably this is all caused by a default BIOS setting issue.