EP41-UD3L ram issues

[infinity]

Hi there I am new to this, I have bought this motherboard and it won't accept  8 gig of ram, accepts 4 gig no problem I am using OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 / 800MHz / NVIDIA® SLI™-Ready Edition 4 x 2 sticks, Intel quad core Q6600, Nvidea 8800 GT graphics card, with windows 7 ultima 64 bit OS. Checked the Bios its only showing 4096 ram, have individually checked each stick and all working fine, any help would be appreciated.

[Fatman]

I think your best to go to the OCZ forums and ask for answers there........I got this information below from the OCZ site

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr2_pc2_6400_sli_ready_edition_4gb_dual_channel

'OCZ PC2-6400 4GB SLI-Ready memory modules are programmed to boot at 800MHz DDR2 with tight timings of 5-4-4. Only motherboards equipped with the custom-designed BIOS, such as those designed for NVIDIA nForce SLI MCPs, can detect the optimized SPD profiles and ensure the memory functions under the best possible conditions'.

Did you do any research before you decided on OCZ? Or do you know of anyone else with a similar setup? I have found that OCZ and Gigabyte tend to have issues, I have a  Ga-P35-DQ6 that wont run 4x1 gig of 1150mhz ram.

So maybe you are limited to running 4 gig.

[infinity]

Hi thanks Fatman, the OCZ ram came out of a system that had crashed and burned, didn't realise there would be an issue with OCZ ram and a Gigabyte motherboard. Will check on the OCZ forums now.

[infinity]

Have found out what the problem is apparently because of the chipset configuration it will only accept double sided ram in two slots, if you want to use all 4 slots you can only use single sided ram. Which in MHO is bloody stupid as most high end ram is double sided.

[Fatman]

Glad you found out the answer to your problem and now you can stop banging your head on the wall :-P