maximus vii gene Ram voltage issue

[Zarrin]

I am having an issue, with my board or Bios, I have ram that needs a 1.5V to run though the bio keeps loading it at 1.65 and Freezing the bio's upon loading. I am trying to figure out how to force the voltage to 1.5 or to reset it and try letting it find it's self again, I can boot fine with my old ram. The ram in question is Kingston Hyperx Fury blue, 8 Gb sticks (2 paired for a total of 16 Gb's. The annoying thing is I know there is a setting somewhere to knock it down just can not locate it and google has not been a help.

[Nate152]

Hello Zarrin

The Dram voltage is located in the bios on the extreme tweaker tab. Enter 1.50v then hit Enter, then F10 and Enter to save and exit.

Does the Dram voltage stay at 1.50v?

Combining two sticks of the same ram is not a good idea, but if it works for you all is good. 🙂

[Zarrin]

The only thing I was worried about if I did that, was the old ram would stop working. Old ram was kinston Hyperx blue XMP (2 4gp sticks)

[Nate152]

If you're using two different sticks/kits with different specs run them with the one that has the lowest specs, you'll most likely have to set it manually, otherwise just run with 8GB.

[Zarrin]

I have tried just running one stick and the bio's keeps crashing after a few seconds of being loaded, the same thing happens when I try the other single stick, A single stick of my old ram works fine when I tried it as a comparison. Each of the new ram sticks are a matched set, I am almost leaning towards a MB issue, but I am having a problem narrowing it down.

[Nate152]

What cpu do you have ?

Have you tried pressing the clear cmos button and/or pressing the memok button after installing the new ram?

[Zarrin]

I have did the Mem button and it seems happy, does a reboot or two and then boot's though I have not yet tried to clear the Cmos, will try that in a bit, though my CPU is and Intel I7 4790k 4.0 GHz

[Zarrin]

Just an update, the cmos reset seemed to do the trick, it knocked the voltage of the ram down to 1.5v though now I am still getting the problems of the random crashes, back to the drawing board, back to the debate on what part is flaking out my thanks.

[Nate152]

If your ram is in the red slots try them in the black slots.

Is this any better?

[Zarrin]

I have tried both slot's it was the reason I picked up new sticks of ram i was getting random crashes when gaming, though I ruled out my GPU when I ran fur mark for 2 day's, Though when i ran Prime I would crash sometime as soon as I ran it. Figured my ram was done,