[gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: intel introduced an extension for spd information. The ram should work just fine. Intel motherboards might or might not make use of the additional information. so might or might not amd boards. And no, there won't be any risk. DDR3 is DDR3. Nice to know about adjusting the timings/voltages. Any suggested further docs or resources on this is of keen interest to me. Maybe an example? I never had to adjust timings/voltages before. Then again, I need to poke around the Gigabyte BIOS as these are my first Gigabyte mobos. Very advance Thanks to all responders. I'll give it a go and post back if there is any further issues. James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bios-a-z,1200-11.html toms has good guides on it. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Understanding-RAM-Timings/26/1 Its really as easy as navigating the bios to the memory section and changing the timing settings to manual mode. Then adjust to match the setting for the ram. These numbers are your major timings you are concerned with the others use either default values or automatic settings: 10-11-10-30 which break down to CAS 10, rRCD(RAS to CAS) 11, tRP 10, tRAS 30 your ram should also be 1T memory if you see a setting for it. -Andy On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:48 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: intel introduced an extension for spd information. The ram should work just fine. Intel motherboards might or might not make use of the additional information. so might or might not amd boards. And no, there won't be any risk. DDR3 is DDR3. Nice to know about adjusting the timings/voltages. Any suggested further docs or resources on this is of keen interest to me. Maybe an example? I never had to adjust timings/voltages before. Then again, I need to poke around the Gigabyte BIOS as these are my first Gigabyte mobos. Very advance Thanks to all responders. I'll give it a go and post back if there is any further issues. James
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?
On 03/05/2013 09:56 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: intel introduced an extension for spd information. The ram should work just fine. Intel motherboards might or might not make use of the additional information. so might or might not amd boards. And no, there won't be any risk. DDR3 is DDR3. I just discovered some bad DDR2 RAM in an older machine (2GB x 2) and I tested each stick separately using memtest86. The result confuses me: Each 2GB stick fails at exactly the same point in the test (0-32MB), and that seems improbable to me. I'm thinking the mobo might be broken instead of the RAM. Any ideas? Thanks. (I have only the one machine that uses DDR2, unfortunately.)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?
Am 05.03.2013 22:14, schrieb walt: On 03/05/2013 09:56 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: intel introduced an extension for spd information. The ram should work just fine. Intel motherboards might or might not make use of the additional information. so might or might not amd boards. And no, there won't be any risk. DDR3 is DDR3. I just discovered some bad DDR2 RAM in an older machine (2GB x 2) and I tested each stick separately using memtest86. The result confuses me: Each 2GB stick fails at exactly the same point in the test (0-32MB), and that seems improbable to me. I'm thinking the mobo might be broken instead of the RAM. Any ideas? Thanks. (I have only the one machine that uses DDR2, unfortunately.) Try adjusting the timing as noted on this thread. Maybe slower settings work better, even if they are below SPD. Also look at the voltages (most BIOSes show them). If they are considerably off, this could affect your RAM. A bad power supply is always a suspect when something breaks. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?
Test them in a different slot each individually. if still fails install both. swap back and forth. -Andy On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.netwrote: Am 05.03.2013 22:14, schrieb walt: On 03/05/2013 09:56 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: intel introduced an extension for spd information. The ram should work just fine. Intel motherboards might or might not make use of the additional information. so might or might not amd boards. And no, there won't be any risk. DDR3 is DDR3. I just discovered some bad DDR2 RAM in an older machine (2GB x 2) and I tested each stick separately using memtest86. The result confuses me: Each 2GB stick fails at exactly the same point in the test (0-32MB), and that seems improbable to me. I'm thinking the mobo might be broken instead of the RAM. Any ideas? Thanks. (I have only the one machine that uses DDR2, unfortunately.) Try adjusting the timing as noted on this thread. Maybe slower settings work better, even if they are below SPD. Also look at the voltages (most BIOSes show them). If they are considerably off, this could affect your RAM. A bad power supply is always a suspect when something breaks. Regards, Florian Philipp
