System freezes when in dual channel

[stew1411]

I just built a new system. The only part I reused was the CPU. When I have all 4 sticks of ram in, it will freeze during boot. Couple of reboots, once in windows all is good. Remove 2 sticks, never freezes. Is there a bios setting messing with it?

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 850

Ram: 4x4 GB 1600 G.Skill Ripjaws

[stealth80]

Try this:

 

make sure stick timings are at 2T not 1T, memory controllers can struggle with 4 sticks at 1T

[IsaacDaGrazin]

1 minute ago, stew1411 said:

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[stew1411]

Try this:

 

make sure stick timings are at 2T not 1T, memory controllers can struggle with 4 sticks at 1T

Is that something I can change in bios?

[stealth80]

3 hours ago, IsaacDaGrazin said:

quad*

Its a quad proc, but only supports dual channel, only intel X99 (on the regular market) supports quad channel at this time, don't confuse 4 sticks with quad channel.

 

@stew1411 yes it is in the bios probably under or around cpu tweaking

[IsaacDaGrazin]

1 hour ago, stealth80 said:

Its a quad proc, but only supports dual channel, only intel X99 (on the regular market) supports quad channel at this time, don't confuse 4 sticks with quad channel.

oh sorry

[stew1411]

So thanks for the replies. It wasn't the timing. The voltage was set too low out of the box. The bios had it set for 1.4 and I read somewhere that AMD systems needed the memory set to 1.7. So I did and been running fine ever since.