somebody help!! something's wrong..

[turbox997]

NEVERMIND FORGET ABOUT IT... I just flashed to 623-1 seems to be working ok now.


i don't know if it's my board or the ram, but either way its the ram in some sort.

First off I have the mushkin hp blue 2gig kit(in sig.), I've posted here before about them, yeah i don't like 'em, but no one's buying them so i guess i'm stuck for now...

since I can't clock high, I end up clocking low...whatever it is, it just doesn't want to be stable...I think I should actually tighten my timings more since they are running at 133mhz(divider) with my cpu running at 2.80ghz.

SOMETHING'S WRONG!! EVER SINCE A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO MY RAM IS REALLY SLOW, WON'T RESPOND WELL TO ANY CHANGES, AND CPU-Z WON'T POST ANYTHING?? WHAT'S WRONG??

edit* cpu-z decides to work now..

here's a pic of my A64current timings after and since its been acting funny(i change one thing on it and it freezes on me, here or bios setting), and a pic of my cpu-z that's missing info.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5404/currentramsettings0604thumb2vo.th.jpg (http://img138.imageshack.us/my.php?image=currentramsettings0604thumb2vo.jpg)

[turbox997]

any suggestions on making this smoother?? what to lay off of in the bios setting or what to change??? I accept the fact that these don't want to go above 210mhz...so if it won't go up and i have to keep it low...i guess i'll use lower timings...

[Deathspawner]

What exactly is your main problem? Is the memory just not stable, or are you upset you can't keep it at stock settings? The HP series is definitely a tricky one to tweak with.

286 * 10, 7:10 = 2.860GHz with 204MHz memory.

If it's a stability issue with your ram, you may want to loosen some of your secondary timings, like tRRD, tRTW.. etc.

[turbox997]

Yes, actually both, I just want to use my ram at decent performance.

Even at 18x mhz's... because for whatever reason it will not even boot at a 7:10 divider.


Anyone know of a good guide with the timing theories and what effects what so I know what I'm actually doing? I mean I know the CAS, Trc, trrd, and tras to some extent, but the rest of the numbers are a bit sketchy to me, I barely change one and my whole rig won't boot.

=P