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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Dice on April 25, 2011, 02:14:37 am

Title: GA-X58A-UD3R problem with G.SKILL 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDR
Post by: Dice on April 25, 2011, 02:14:37 am

Getting error on startup:

"Recovering lost DRAM size"

My PC reboots 2 or 3 times giving this error, and then starts up fine on the next try.

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128423 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128423)

Memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=20-231-358&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=6#scrollFullInfo (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=20-231-358&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=6#scrollFullInfo)

If anyone can help with this problem it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R problem with G.SKILL 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDR
Post by: Aussie Allan on April 25, 2011, 08:28:03 am

 Ripper Price on the Memory, maybe should have moved to the states instead of Arctic UK...More information !!!
1) are you running W7-64 Ultimate or other ?
1a) are the dimms reporting to bios during boot correctly and at what speed...UD3Rs have an annoying habit of applying 1066 when ever it has trouble posting
1b) if not posting correctly,...manually configure in bios
2) are you targeting the white slots only ?
3) have you tried "Memtest" on all three DIMMs
4) if it fails test, run memtest on individual dimms in there home slot
Might not be the final fix but if you do these things will take a lot of things out of the equation....the first few thing I would try anyway!

 Aussie Allan

Title: Re: GA-X58A-UD3R problem with G.SKILL 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDR
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 25, 2011, 09:06:30 am

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

What Aussie Allan has suggested there  are all valid and would be usefull things to check.

You didn't say if it was a new build or whether it has been running alright up until now.

Often the reason for this fault is either bent pins in the CPU socket or down to settings. What is your QPI/Vtt set to ?