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Kingston Hyperx RAM is not compatible with my gigabyte board

Hi All, i am using gigabyte h55sm -s2 motherboard since 5 years. earlier i was using dynte 4gb*2=8gb ram ddr3 for my board. recently i have upgraded to kingston hyperx fury ddr3 ram of each 8gb*2=16 gb. after installing the new 16gb ram i am not able to load the windows os & i am not able to install the any os at all. it always stucks in a phase called " starting winodws". i dont know what is the issue. when i have seen the gigabyte site, they says that i can install upto 16gb ram maximum. but it is not working for me at all. can anyone of you please tell me how can i get rid of this problem ASAP.
my email id is sekhar.basis123@gmail.com. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Tiger

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Re: Kingston Hyperx RAM is not compatible with my gigabyte board
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2015, 02:26:37 am »
Buying the wrong memory can be a problem, as can not knowing how to set memory clock speed and DRAM voltages and timings.

Perhaps you can identify your specific HyperX Fury memory product. "each 8gb*2=16 gb" does not tell me much of anything.
Try identifying the part number.
http://www.kingston.com/us/hyperx/decoder/

Capacities of up to 8GB (single) and 8GB–16GB (kits) are available. It sounds as if you are combining singles.

Since the CPU contains the memory controller, it would help if you could identify that too.
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AgentFXA

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Re: Kingston Hyperx RAM is not compatible with my gigabyte board
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2015, 04:16:50 am »
What I read here your mobo can do max 8GB ram hence 2x4GB
http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3509#sp

and make sure your ram is max 1666 speed
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