Hi,
I recently purchased GA-X99P-SLI. I purchased 4x 16GB sticks. If I install all 4 sticks I get continuous short beeps (incorrect ram slot) and does not start :-[. If I use only 2 sticks it boots (any 2, so it's not RAMs fault). Please find attached images. Am I missing something ? Do I need tweak something in the motherboard bios for the quad channel to work properly?
they are in 1 3 5 7, so something in the bios maybe?
Bios is the the latest version... It's just a month old bios.
I've got the same motherboard running the F2b bios from last year, updated the bios when I got the board. F2b was the first bios update that supported 16 GB sticks. No issues with 4 modules at 8 GB. When I switch around dimm sticks I sometimes have an issue locking them in place. I'm not a fan of the one sided clips. Maybe yours aren't inserted correctly.
Oh wait I have the GA-X99-SLI not the GA-X99P-SLI but should be the same
According to the picture above.
He now has populated A1, B1, C1, D1 which according to the tabel seems to be correct indeed.
But maybe he should fiddel arround with the sticks a bit. A2, B2, C2, D2
Or disable xmp firstly.
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XMP is disabled. The only configuration i did not try is A2, B2, C2, D2 all other (A1,A2,B1,B2), (A1,B1,C1,D1), (A1,B1,C2,D2) I tried. I will try that and update. I really don't want to unpack everything and send it for RMA. A lot of hours was wasted.
DDR4 RAM can be very fickle. I've had 4 X99 Gaming 5P boards and 2 of those didn't like my Team group RAM despite in theory being identical. If there's OC switch near the CPU socket it may be worth setting that back to normal. Not al X99 boards have it. Otherwise it should automatically sense the quad channel.
Number 1 is test each stick with Memtest86+ for say 5 mins to make sure you're not being mislead by another problem.
Certainly worth clearing the CMOS with a jumper as I have to do that when swapping DDR4 between my systems.
The fact that it beeps straight away to be honest is not encouraging unless you know of someone else having used the same hardware combo.
BIOS update has been covered but you might be lucky if you set the RAM voltage manually to v1.35 and find the "CPU System Agent Voltage" setting and set it to +0.150V or maybe +0.250V as that does have a positive affect on RAM stability when using OC RAM. Might help here.
Well, it works fine now... What happened I have no clue... I put it in A2, B2, C2, D2 it was just continuous boot cycle. So put it back in A1, B1, C1 and D1. Whola!!! all of sudden it started working. Wasted my time whole night yesterday. Anyway thanks for all the help :)
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I will try mem86+ before using it in full swing :) What are the recommended settings? I am leaving things as is except for frequency which I changed to 2.4Ghz as that's stick's recommended settings. I ordered the same RAM (same model number) so that I don't end up with sub timing issues.
For settings I've always used the XMP profile (assuming it has one) to set the RAM speed which usually also ups the CPU by the BCLK clock speed alone. As my DDR4 RAM is 3000 MHz my 5820K will run at 4.125GHz just by setting the XMP profile.
The two voltage settings I mentioned are more for fixing instability with the DDR4 RAM above 2133 MHz so unless you have more issues they are probably OK on auto. plenty of guides on the net otherwise.
Haha lol thats kinda Spooky. ☺
Swapping DDR4 between systems does that as well. You have to start from a clear CMOS and the board "Learns" the DDR4 characteristics during the cold boot.