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[Shadowthor]

So latest bios is still 0407?

[traveler]

Well Buds ... I'm still having troubles. But I'd rather be tweaking BIOS settings than troubleshooting a floppy drive.

@Rickpatbrown - Thanks for your reply. I've been using both Memtest86 and Memtest86+. I'd like to see either one of them run with zero errors at this point.

No matter what I set things to, there are too many errors showing in Memtest86 and Memtest86+. This happens using any RAM slot and trying either of the two RAM sticks.

Currently I have been testing with one of the sticks in slot 3 and just tried the following settings:
CPU ratio ........................... 8.0
FSB freq ............................333
PCIE .................................100
DRAM freq ..........................DDR2 667
DRAM command rate ............ 2N
CAS ................................... 5
RAS to CAS ......................... 5
RAS pre time ....................... 5
RAS ACT time ...................... 18
Common performance level ..... 07
CPU voltage ........................ 1.3625
CPU PLL voltage ................... 1.6
NB voltage .......................... 1.55
DRAM voltage ...................... 2.1 + .1 overvolt = 2.2
FSB termination voltage ........ 1.4
SB voltage ......................... 1.125
SB 1.5 voltage .................... 1.55
CPU spread spectrum ........... disabled
PCIE spread spectrum .......... disabled
All other items are on auto or default settings

I started off using lower voltages and hoped that increasing the voltage would eventually result in zero errors in a Memtest pass. But that never happened (at least with the various settings I tried).

What do I have to set the BIOS settings to in order to run Memtest and get zero errors? Can it be done with this RAM? I'd like to see stock CPU speed (2.66) as well as at least a medium OC (3.0 to 3.2) run Memtest with zero errors with this RAM. Or can it not be done?



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[GAR]

So latest bios is still 0407?

yes but 0308 looks to be the bes bios so far.