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supadex
09-18-2012, 09:46 AM
I'm probably asking a silly question....but here goes.
At first boot up, everything goes well aside from the fact that the BIOS screen tells me the 8 GB of Corsair Vengeance 1866Mhz memory is set to 1333Mhz. If I change the frequency to 1866, the system becomes unstable, and freezes up. Is the memory bad/broken or am I doing something wrong? The operating system is not yet installed, but it will be Windows 7, 64 bit.
Here is what its installed on:
AMD X8 FX8150
ASUS M5A99X Evo

Is this something that will work properly once the OS is installed?
Please help! Thanks!

RickyTick
09-18-2012, 10:44 AM
Make sure the ram voltage is set to 1.5 volts. Other than that, I'm not sure.
I found this on the Asus website for your motherboard.
"* Due to CPU spec., AMD 100 series CPUs support up to DDR3 1066MHz. With ASUS design, this motherboard can support up to DDR3 1333MHz."