10.8.5 freezes Haswell

[wildleaf]

After trying a million things, I ended up to find out this is the popular 4 memory slots issue on GA Z87 board. So if I only put memories in two slots, I have no issues....yet. It has been up for 2 days and 3 hours. I've tried all kinds of things...gaming, video editing, even sleep works without any issue...

I tried to download the latest beta bios F7b but that didn't fix the memory issue. I can't live with only 8GB in my box. So if this is confirmed the issue I will either have to get two 8GB sticks which is expensive or replace the mb with Asus or Asrock.

 

[Behodar]

Ugh. I'm also using four slots. Can everyone else having this issue confirm how many slots you're using?

 

[wildleaf]

Ugh. I'm also using four slots. Can everyone else having this issue confirm how many slots you're using?

See here. Plus this is not just Mac. I don't know why it has still not brought any attentions to Gigabyte.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-h...s-freeze-when-using-4-healthy-sticks-ram.html

 

[Behodar]

Great… I wonder whether we'll see a firmware update for this at some point then.

I still haven't had any crashes since changing from "turbo" to "normal" but it looks like it'll only be a matter of time before it happens again. If it does crash again then I'll pull a stick out; I'd rather have the stability than the extra 4 GB. Hopefully I can put the extra stick back in with a future update.

Thanks for digging out that information though; I definitely appreciate it

 

[Behodar]

Hmm, still not a single crash since changing to "Normal". I think it's been more than a week since the last one so that may have actually fixed it!

 

[Behodar]

Guess whose machine just crashed

I've set the BIOS back to "turbo" and have removed one of the RAM sticks.

 

[Behodar]

In case anyone's still following this, I am still having problems. I've tried various settings including memory speed in BIOS, number of RAM modules, whether USB 3 is enabled or not, BIOS version (updated from F5 to F7), using the Nvidia drivers instead of the Apple ones… and nothing seems to help. I did, however, get coloured squares on the screen this morning so I've now removed my GTX 760 and am using the Intel 4600. I'll post back if/when it crashes again…