[gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?

2013-03-05 Thread James
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?

2013-03-05 Thread Andrew Hoffman
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

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?

2013-03-05 Thread 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?

2013-03-05 Thread Florian Philipp
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?

2013-03-05 Thread Andrew Hoffman
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