2 CPUs from china, both of them have issue with memory

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Yarik Dot

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So, I bought 2 CPUs from china. One was a month ago - E5-2618Lv2, the other one was half a year ago - E3-1220Lv3.

Strangely both of them have issue if I populate memory according to the manual.

Tested MBs:

X10SSL-F + E3-1220Lv3. If I populate DIMM A1 or DIMM A1 + DIMM B1, I get B7 (memory issue) code during bios startup. If I populate DIMM A2 (+ DIMM B2), it works fine. If I populate all modules, there is still B7 code. It however works with E3-1230v3.

X9SRW-F + E5-2618Lv2. It only works with DIMM B1 slot populated. Any other configuration doesn't work at all. As soon as I replace the cpu with any other non-china, it works.

Do you have similar experience?
 

Khampol

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Jul 30, 2019
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I just bought also one E5-2680 V3. But RAM all new brand from Newegg. So far so good.