D865PERL and slow dual-channel memory
Beemer Biker
bought a matched pair of corsair xms DDR-400 memory. That worked o.k. and I
ordered the same type of memory for the 865PERL mombo. I cannot seem to get
it to be recognized as anything other than DDR-266. With a 2.4 Celeron it
will not post when setting speed manually to 400. Instead, it stops and
informs me that it cannot read the SPD setting (no SPD or inconclusive) If
I set the speed manually to 333 it will boot XP. But still, the intel
monitor indicates the memory is only DDR-266 and that AIDA32 diagnostic
(even the latest one) reports no SPD settings at all. The same AIDA32 shows
the proper speed settings for the ASUS A7N8X which is also a "dual channel"
memory (whatever that is).
I put in the lastest bios, downloaded yesterday.
any ideas?
I could have gotten really cheap memory if I knew I could only run at 266.
clittlefield
the motherboard documentation. Not going to do it with Celeron.
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> And without an 800mhz processor you won't get 400mhz on your memory. It's
in
> the motherboard documentation. Not going to do it with Celeron.
>
Thanks...i was not aware of that...makes sense, but I would have thought the
memory would be recognized as DDR400. One of my kids motherboards went
bad...about 5 capacitors swelled up and one actually popped and leaked. A
cheap PC-Chips P3 mombo and I have had about 4 fail like that exactly.. He
wanted a real P4 but the price is too high and he can spend his own 0.05c a
year from now get himself a real pentium.
It would be nice to know if the memory actually ran at 400 like they
claimed. It is suspicious that the SPD cannot be read by the bios at 400mhz
but can at 333. I ran seti for one work unit at the 266 setting and it
took 6 hours. Not too good, about what a 1.3 tulatin P3 would do, but he
wont be using it for that.
CriticalMass
>
> It would be nice to know if the memory actually ran at 400 like they
> claimed.
It does. I just put together an 865PERL system with a P$ 3.2Ghz processor.
Boot up reports the bios sees 1Ghz Ram Dual channel 400Mhz.
CriticalMass
>
> It would be nice to know if the memory actually ran at 400 like they
> claimed. It is suspicious that the SPD cannot be read by the bios at
400mhz
> but can at 333.
It does. I just put together a 3.2Ghz system with the 865PERL, and bootup
reports 1 Ghz RAM running Dual channel at 400Mhz.