Z87X-D3H 4 DIMM Memory Errors

[sherpa25]

Hope to see an update to this, as I'm planning on getting this board this week.  Funny how mac59 got to have 4 RAMs work, considering they're not in the QVL.  Though I originally plan to use 2x8gb RipjawsX (F3-1600C9D-16GXM), I'm planning on upgrading later to 32Gb (for Video/CS6 stuff).  

Are there only selected GB Z87 boards affected by this, or has it been reported to happen w/ all GB Z87 boards?

Update: I read from a post in tweaktown from someone who had a similar issue w/ his Z87-UD5H, disabled UEFI and got 4 sticks to work.  Could this be 1 cause?

[mac59]

so, anyone try F6 BIOS yet? I'm a little reluctant to try since my system is stable at the moment..

[srjinatl]

Interesting question regarding disabling UEFI - I suppose there could be some link there. I don't understand UEFI well enough to judge whether there could be a link there or not. What are the implications of disabling UEFI? What do you lose doing that? Does that require you to reinstall Windows 8 if you had it turned on when you first installed the OS?

I agree that there is certainly something different with mac59's setup - perhaps it is the different sticks - and as you say even though they are not on the QVL - perhaps their timing is such that they avoid whatever problem there is with this board.

Question for mac59 - do you have UEFI enabled? Did you override your memory voltage or timings at all for the 4 banks that you have working in your machine?

Also with regards to your F6 question - I have not tried that bios yet. I am a bit reluctant to go there b/c when I went from F3 to F5 - I ended up "losing" my raid array - it was still there but the update caused Windows to stop loading the correct drivers - so I had to figure out the registry hack that I needed to do in order to force windows to load the right dirvers so that I could use the Intel software once it booted to add my mirrored drive back to the array. Kind of a pain to go through - and don't really want to go through that again if there is not a compelling reason to do so.

For now - I have sent back the other 2 banks of ram and am just running with 16gb until some conclusion gets reached (if ever) on what the problem is with these boards and 4 banks of memory.

[mac59]

I have UEFI enabled in bios (but not secure boot) and I am running windows 7 x64  in UEFI mode (not using mbr etc...). I haven't modified any timings etc. I just enabled XMP profile.

So just for the record, i could not get 4 dimms working correctly until I installed new Vengence pro sticks. This is a crap solution. I just happened to have some extra cash and needed 32Gb of ram (i run VMs a lot) otherwise i would be running on 2 dimms. I have no idea why new dimms made a difference. corsair website states new sticks are optimized for get 3 and 4 Intel cpus... whatever that means.

http://www.corsair.com/us/memory-by-product-family/vengeance-pro-series-memory/vengeance-pro-series-32gb-4-x-8gb-ddr3-dram-1600mhz-c9-memory-kit-cmy32gx3m4a1600c9r.html

"Performance and Compatibility
Vengeance Pro Series is optimized for performance on the latest 3rd and 4th generation Intel® Core™ platforms. XMP 1.3 profile support makes stable overclocking easy and automatic."

[GіgаbуtеSucks]

Want it stable with 4 DIMMs occupied? Lower your DDR3 frequency to 1066 MHz or lower.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about:


Is that unacceptable? Return your Gigabyte motherboard.

[srjinatl]

OK - I replaced my earlier Corsair memory that is on the approved list with the same Vengeance Pro sticks that Mac59 used successfully - and my machine has been stable for over a week. I have the memory at 1600 - and 9-9-9-24 - which is the std speed and such for this memory. No BSODS in over a week since install.

So apparently this memory has proved to be stable for at least a couple of us.

I am still at F5 bios level.

[CopperKiDD]

Are there only selected GB Z87 boards affected by this, or has it been reported to happen w/ all GB Z87 boards?

The little brother Gigabyte GA-Z87MX-D3H has the same problem. I using 4x4gb mushkin blackline kit and got various BSOD. Gigabyte Support has no answers yet. With only two memory slots, the Mainboard runs stable. Using newest BIOS F5.

[JonZ]

have the same problem with the Z87 UD3H with 4 sticks of Gskills that worked on my previous computer. If I lower the timing ram to 1333 mhz the system is a lot more stable.

[No457 Snowy]

Disappointing that this is still an issue with no update BIOS fix from Gigabyte. I just started another thread to enquire when will this fix be available, this thread is now months old and I just built a system on this board 2 weeks ago and now face this very issue. It's ridiculous as 1000's of these boards will have been sold in the mean time and more will be sold every day and the fact is they don't operate as advertised on the box. I see that 2 people report it will apparently operate using 4DIMMs with a very specific model of RAM, but that is a bit unrealistic since the "compatible Memory" for this board listed on the Gigabyte website is quite lengthy (and actually doesn't include that model RAM).

[musicmaker613]

Hey Guys, just wanted to throw my hat into this ring.  I can't get 4 DIMMs to work in my Z87X-UD3H either.  I'm using 4x4GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866.  This kit has been stable in every other system I've tried them in.  I've tried every possible combo of settings/timings and nothing works for more than about 20 minutes... Unless I run only two DIMMs of course.  Doesn't matter which pair of DIMMs or which channel pair on the board I use, two DIMMs are 100% stable.  4 DIMMs = guaranteed BSOD.  Again, just throwing that out there.  Strength in numbers, right?

[Skkane]

Wow! So it's february 18 now and the problem has still not been fixed.

Z87x-ud3h / z87x-d3h both f8 bios, both bsod with 4 x 4gb kingston hyperx ram. I have to set them to run at 1066Mhz with +0.2v system agent voltage and i/o to get the system stable. 1333mhz/1600mhz both bsod constantly.

0 problems on Asus z87 mobos but i need the pci slot.

Are we back in 2002? Did you forget how to make motherboards? Wtf Gigabyte?

[cativerio]

Yep, same here.

I bought this motherboard, since my brand new R9 290 kept on having BSOD, due to incompatibilities with my old GA-P55-UD4 motherboard. Happy to finally being able to buy a new board as well as cpu, now I am having a different kind of BSOD. Last board has BSOD because of graphics card, new board has BSOD because of some issues with 4 DIMMs. Not cool Gigabyte. Not cool.

[Skkane]

Appears to be fixed with F9a. Haven't crashed yet @ 1600mhz xmp enabled but still testing. It would've crashed by now multiple times on F8 so keeping my fingers crossed.

[cativerio]

Where do you get F9a from? The only two versions I find on the gigabyte website, are F7 and F8.

[Skkane]

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-beta-bios.html

See if there's F9a for your motherboard model.