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Re: hello evryone Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H rev 1.0

Re: hello evryone Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H rev 1.0
« on: April 20, 2011, 12:09:21 pm »
Please help
I have a Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H Motherboard rev 1.0
AMD phenom ii x4 965 processor
Corsair dominator ddr3 ram 1600mhz 9 9 9 24 timings

mY ram is not running at full speed running at 1066?
when i try to overclock my processor computer just freezes or dosent even load up, black screen?
when i try to install new windows 7 it doesnt allow me, half way though it just FREEZES??
PLEASE HELP, ANY SUGGESTIONS?
THANKS
« Last Edit: April 20, 2011, 12:10:42 pm by adam919 »

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Re: hello evryone Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H rev 1.0
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2011, 12:43:09 pm »
Have you checked that your RAM is OK by running Memtest?  If not this is the first thing to do. You can download it from here: http://www.memtest86.com/download.html
Let it run for at least 10 passes on each stick and post back when you have tried that.
Remember, when all else fails a cup of tea and a good swear will often help! It won't solve the problem but it will make you feel better.

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Re: hello evryone Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H rev 1.0
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2011, 03:44:35 pm »
From personal experience, it is best NOT to have your CPU (or GPU) overclocked when installing Windows.

Once you have it installed, you can mess around with overclocking all you want.

But, leave it (and the memory) at stock speeds until you get the installation done, all Windows Updates applied (including Win7 SP1) and all settings configured.

Also, once you have that done, I would strongly recommend that you use Macrium Reflect (free edition) to create a backup image of your installation.  That way, if things really go bad during overclocking attempts you have a working version to go back to.