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NinjaZX6R

RAM Junkie
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Nov 19, 2002
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In slots 2 & 4!
Thought I would share some interesting results with you guys really quick. I've never seen this happen before.

The board I am using is a P5W DH. I had my E6400 in there with ram running 1:1, so I was running ddr2-800. I just bought a 661 and wanted to try it out in here. For the initial setup, I used 1:1, which put my ram at ddr2-400. It is teamgroup pc2-5300 3-3-3-8. The computer was utterly unstable. I tried many different timings and voltages. It made me think the CPU was bad because that was the ONLY thing I had changed. Just for the heck of it, I changed the divider to run DDR2-800 and what do you know...it runs perfectly stable at 1:2! Change it back to 1:1 to make sure I'm not going crazy and it becomes totally unstable again. Has anyone seen this before?

-Collin-
 
NinjaZX6R said:
Thought I would share some interesting results with you guys really quick. I've never seen this happen before.

The board I am using is a P5W DH. I had my E6400 in there with ram running 1:1, so I was running ddr2-800. I just bought a 661 and wanted to try it out in here. For the initial setup, I used 1:1, which put my ram at ddr2-400. It is teamgroup pc2-5300 3-3-3-8. The computer was utterly unstable. I tried many different timings and voltages. It made me think the CPU was bad because that was the ONLY thing I had changed. Just for the heck of it, I changed the divider to run DDR2-800 and what do you know...it runs perfectly stable at 1:2! Change it back to 1:1 to make sure I'm not going crazy and it becomes totally unstable again. Has anyone seen this before?

-Collin-
Yes (10....)
 
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