Here is my setup:
Machine just arrived yesterday, I haven't updated the BIOS, I assume it's up to date as the last ASUS update was in May, it's October. All settings are default out of the box. I have memtest86 running off a USB drive, the machine itself has 1 SSD, and 6 4TB HDs (using a SATA PCie card).
ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0
Crucial 16gb (2x8GB) ECC DDR3 SDRAM CT2KIT102472BD160B
AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition FX-4300
The issue:
When I run memtest86 (5.1.0) in default setup, basically 1 core, 4 passes, it runs fine. However when I change the setting to Parallel or Round Robin all 4 CPUs it fails. It hard crashes, no keyboard, have to power-off/on. It crashes on test #1, within 15-20 secs.
If I specify a core that is not 0 (basically 1,2 or 3), it doesn't hard crash but basically just hangs on test #1, the timer keeps running but nothing on the screen changes (waited 10 minutes).
Question:
Bad hardware? Or software? Or this is some setting I have to worry about? Never ran into an issue where if the memory meets mobo specs it doesn't just 'work'. Could that be what is happening here?
Machine just arrived yesterday, I haven't updated the BIOS, I assume it's up to date as the last ASUS update was in May, it's October. All settings are default out of the box. I have memtest86 running off a USB drive, the machine itself has 1 SSD, and 6 4TB HDs (using a SATA PCie card).
ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0
Crucial 16gb (2x8GB) ECC DDR3 SDRAM CT2KIT102472BD160B
AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition FX-4300
The issue:
When I run memtest86 (5.1.0) in default setup, basically 1 core, 4 passes, it runs fine. However when I change the setting to Parallel or Round Robin all 4 CPUs it fails. It hard crashes, no keyboard, have to power-off/on. It crashes on test #1, within 15-20 secs.
If I specify a core that is not 0 (basically 1,2 or 3), it doesn't hard crash but basically just hangs on test #1, the timer keeps running but nothing on the screen changes (waited 10 minutes).
Question:
Bad hardware? Or software? Or this is some setting I have to worry about? Never ran into an issue where if the memory meets mobo specs it doesn't just 'work'. Could that be what is happening here?
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