msi x58 pro memory problems

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Hi Al l,
I am really new to this type of computer building lark, I have the above board, with a 1tb sata drive , 3 sticks of 2gb memory, 1600 dominator, problem is icannot get it to run at 1600 and windows only see's 3.700gb not 6gb.All sticks are inthe right places, can anyone take me under there wing and help me with my bios settings?
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Mike ( UK )
 
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you should have bought one already built and you would not be sitting there swearing at it
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Tell her that those ready mades are boring.  Nothing to play with in the BIOS, no mistakes to be made, not much learning-how-things-work involved, no fun.  The swearing is part of the fun.  I do it all the times when stuff doesn't work.  :biggthumbsup:
 
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Jack t.N. said:
Tell her that those ready mades are boring.  Nothing to play with in the BIOS, no mistakes to be made, not much learning-how-things-work involved, no fun.  The swearing is part of the fun.  I do it all the times when stuff doesn't work.  :biggthumbsup:
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Oh, wonderful times. :lol_anim:

tworiversuk said:
sorry for all the rush, you must think I'm a 12 yr old kid ,waiting for christmas, I am 53 and never done anything like this before, the wife is screaming in my ear '' you should have bought one already built and you would not be sitting there swearing at it ''
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Rushing is fine if you don't break things. ;)  I rush my builds.  I rip the parts out the boxes; have a bench test ready in 2 minutes...  Once I see the thing POST, I power it off and sling it in the case.  From parts in boxes to completed install takes me about 20 minutes. :lol_anim:
 
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Aaron said:
Rushing is fine if you don't break things. ;)  I rush my builds.  I rip the parts out the boxes; have a bench test ready in 2 minutes...  Once I see the thing POST, I power it off and sling it in the case.  From parts in boxes to completed install takes me about 20 minutes. :lol_anim:
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You have to hurry with all that  RAIN :lol_anim: :lol_anim: :lol_anim: :lol_anim:
 
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When you enabled XMP, was the memory voltage automatically raised to 1.65V?  If not, manually set it to 1.65V and try again.  Also, disable Spread Spectrum in BIOS Setup.
 
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set the dram voltage to 1.65
enabled the xmp
diabled the spectrum
set the values to 8 8 8 24
but still would not boot
gets to the microsoft scrolling light and freezes
learning all the time
 
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yes, updated to a75221ms v8.6 091009
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Did you clear CMOS with the main A/C power cable removed from your PSU after the update?  If you haven't, please do that next and load "Optimized Defaults" in BIOS after that.

Once you are done with that, try these settings:

- Manually set the memory ratio to x5 (=DDR3-1333)
- Raise the memory voltage to 1.65V
- Manually set the command rate to 2N
- Set the main RAM Timings to 9-9-9-24 and tRFC to 74

See if that works.
 
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