Asus MAXIMUS Extreme V, 32GB ram issue.

[Rinji07]

Hi all! I have the board specified in the title, I have the Crucial Ballistix tactical 16GB 8-8-8-24 @ 1600MHZ @ 1.5v installed on DIM A1 and A2 and they work great! and fit under the TPC 812 that I have for a CPU cooler. So I go to microcenter last night and pick up another 16gb of this ram since it is working so great now. So I get home and install it and get code 55 on my board so I look it up and it is saying memory not detected. I went in and enabled XMP and set to DDR3-1600MHZ made sure that it was at 1.5v and nothing worked. I even tried only putting 1 ram stick into B1 no post. Put into B2 no post. *rips out hair*


Anyone got any ideas? The CPU is seated correctly and the socket is in good order and I know that b1-b2 work because I have had corsair dominator in there before of 32gb. However the HS/Fan wouldn't mount up correctly and I am sorry guys I REFUSE to do water cooling so do not preach to me about that 🙂 it just isn't going to happen. I will List my system specs now below.


System specs:

Board: Asus Maximus Extreme V Formula.
CPU: Intel 3770k @ stock settings for this particular problem.
GPU: Evga 690GTX
HDD/SSD: Samsung 840 pro 512 boot, OCZ vertex4 256. WD 2TB storage.
Case: HAF XM.
PSU: OCZ 850W ZX Series gold.
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Tactical 1600MHZ 8-8-8-24 Link for you all for helping on this particular issue.
http://microcenter.com/product/385179/Ballistix_Tactical_8GB_DDR3-1600_%28PC3-12800%29_CL8_Desktop_M...

I have BIOS 1604 installed, However it was directly updated from stock bios that ships with the board so I don't know if that is hindering something or not. I really do not wish to return this memory as it is so hard to find memory that fits perfectly under a heat-sink and fan. I went and checked on the Crucial website and it says that it is guaranteed to be compatible and it is as long as it keep it to 2 sticks in mem slots a1/a2. Anyone got any Ideas?

[Chino]

1. Put your first kit in slots A2 and B2. Turn your system on. See if it posts.

2. Remove the first kit. Now put your second kit (new) into the same slots. See if it posts.

Let me know what your findings are. 😉

[Rinji07]

lol, That will take some time to do I will have to do that tomorrow the TPC 812 is rather.... fun to remove and reapply when you use IC Diamond thermal compound.

[Rinji07]

I am reading in ALOT of places that I should up the voltage with this ram to 1.6v. Could that really stop it from detecting? I mean I understand it is not on the QVL, and the corsair 32gb kit I had did work in this board before so I am sure that averything else is fine can anyone shed some light if it would damage my ram if I changed it in the bios? or hurt anything elsE?

[Chino]

Well, pumping 1.6v to your RAM certainly won't fry it. Some of the lower end RAM kits nowadays use 1.65v as default. So you could try it.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your problem. You have no problem using 1 kit. But when you insert the other kit, it won't post and the QCODE 55 shows up?

[Rinji07]

Yes Chino that is correct. When I owned the Corsair 32GB kit it worked the heat sink on the ram was interfering with the heatsink of my CPU so I had to get ram that fit under it. So I bought these because they was rated 1.5v so I figured I would buy 2 more 8gb sticks 16gb total to add to my current 16gb of the same ram and the code 55 comes up, whenever I have them all in. but when I take them back out boots up just fine. I even tried putting 1 to make 24gb and 55 still came right up.

[Chino]

The first thing to do is to see if any of the new sticks are defective. If you use the method mentioned in my earlier post, you can test if any of them are defective. 😛

[Rinji07]

I had my roomie test the sticks in another pc and they have been running great all day long according to him. I thought of it this morning trying to eliminate all possibilities.

[Chino]

Then insert one kit into the A2 & B2 slots and the other kit into the A1 & A2 slots. See if it'll posts.

[Rinji07]

Does bios update 1604 contain all previous updates from all the other bios? or should i update it 1 by 1? then reapply 1604? I am just trying to learn as I go 😞 lol.