Because my P5B has always worked well with my old DDR2-667 512MB modules I decided to use SPDTool and copied the SPD info off of them, modded it slightly and then created a 1024MB version and saved that to my Team and Crucial sticks. The Micron / Crucial generic DDR2-667 CL5 modules have always booted without any problems. I noticed that they use "EPP Not Supported" in the SPD table so maybe that is confusing the P5B when I have my 1024MB Crucial Ballistix and Team in there.
Before the SPD mod if I turned the power off with the 1024MB modules in there it would sometimes not boot after wards. Even Hibernate mode would cause an issue. No problems so far but I'll have to wait a few days to see how it goes. PM me if you have this failure to boot issue with the E8000 series E0 and the P5B and Ill let you know how this mod works.
Maybe when the Reaper's show up I'll be able to finally get a sub 10 second SuperPi run out of this old board without the voltage getting too crazy:
Here's how my Crucial Ballistix looks now with some very mild settings in the SPD table for better compatibility:
So far so good. It had a real bit-ch of a time booting up before but the P5B seems happier when the SPD info shows that it is very meek memory.It still overclocks the same.
Edit #2: I just did my first ever resume from Stand By at 500MHz x 8.0. When I first got this board it would never resume properly when the FSB went over 450 MHz and I'd always have to re-boot. This board gets better with age and bios updates.
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