Quote Originally Posted by Fulgore0rb View Post
What is your "Row Cycle Time" (tRC) running at? I have a 9600BE so I wonder if yours will be running different auto timings. The memory claims it needs 48 but the BIOS won't allow anything above 42 (and does 33 on auto!?!) And do you have them ganged?

Anyway here are my settings: (Using "AUTO" in the bios.)


NOTE: What shows in the "AUTO" column while you are actually in the bios are not necessarily the values used when the memory itself is set to "AUTO".

This memory is in dual mode un-ganged.

Currently at this time everything other than the NB and HT all settings are at what the bios puts them at when you select "OPTIMIZED". (The NB/HT are at 1.8Ghz.)

I have run it with the Extreme "Tweak" stuff enabled and disable with no real change in stability. I have also tried with HPET enable and disabled. I have used both ganged versus un-ganged. 1 stick of ram instead of 2. I have also tried setting the row refresh cycle to 195ns. None of those things helped.


It could be the memory. But even if I change the speed to DDR2-400 it still has the same instability. Or I should say it MIGHT have the same instability. It takes MUCH longer to have problems. (And if I put in old DDR2-400 sticks... they have the same problem.)

It could be the CPU... and I would be much more tempted to RMA this if others did not have the same problems.

Perhaps I have two different stability problems. One that shows up at 2.0Gb NB immediately if the ram is at DDR2-1066... and another problem that shows up later regardless of the NB.


AUSSIE: When you say "ramp up drivestrenth" which ones? To what value? There appears to be 6 of them.

(I have attempted to play with them a little... but either I didn't notice too much or it immediately rebooted. But I'll try some more.)