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Post by gamer135 on Jan 18, 2006 13:40:19 GMT -5
Hello, this is my first time being on the site, so please help me out here. Back in november, i decided to buy 2 gigs of Corsair XMS ram, same speed and same timings. This is the problem, they are PC3200 (400) and my bios reads them at 333 mhz, this is the crazy part; CPUZ reads the ram at PC3200. I have no clue why the bios reads it wrong, while CPUZ and windows reads it right.
I also was following up on bios updates and i found out that the Gen 1 and Gen 2's have the same chipset, i was woundering if i could us the Gen 2's bios instead the gen 1?
I would really appreciate some help on this, forgive me if this confusses you, i does to me too and forgive me if i have terrible sentencing.
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Post by TRow on Jan 18, 2006 15:02:49 GMT -5
Did you buy 2x1GB sticks? or 4x512MB Sticks?
What are the CAS timings: 2.5 or 3.0?
What Bios you using?
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Post by gamer135 on Jan 18, 2006 17:45:55 GMT -5
Oh, sorry i forgot to be a little more detailed on the ram, But i order 4 sticks of 512 mb Corsair XMS ram and the Timings are 3-3-3-8. As i said, they are PC3200 (400), just to let you know
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Post by crusier on Jan 18, 2006 23:09:32 GMT -5
4 sticks of value add cas 2.5 runs fine here...your answer will likely be in getting a dump of the spd info off each stick...I did get the 333 when running 2 sticks of the above with the original 2 sticks of cas 3 infinion. I'll look around given time to see what I used to get it all off the sticks.....asfor the gen2 bios...I'd skip it as the gen2 has a sata raid chip which the gen1 does not.... cpu-z-118 in about spd dump will do www.powerleap.ca/Downloads/you will have to look further fo the specific breakouts of the spd data...... my spd dump of the corsair value ram is at www.frontiernet.net/~twilight96/spd.txtthe spd dump on the olde Infinion is at www.frontiernet.net/~twilight96/spdInfinion.txtI seem to recall it isn't an uncommon problem and most peeps resolved it by returning the xms for value add corsair mem and pocketed some change...... |
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Post by gamer135 on Jan 19, 2006 0:22:35 GMT -5
crusier, if i do what you said about using cpu-z-118, it while fix my problem of what it is showing in the bios screen?
Also, what is so different from the Gen 1 and Gen 2' mobo? Just a question that came up about that raid chip you were talking about.
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Post by crusier on Jan 19, 2006 14:25:35 GMT -5
No...it won't fix your problem. It will shed light on what the problem is. In the case of the mixed infineon and crucial sticks here, the bios looked at the spd and saw two sticks that supported cas 2.5 and two that supported cas 3.0 out of the possible speeds specified therein and went with cas 2.5 at 333, which is where they matched. The raid controller chip in the gen2 and not in the gen1 is the sata controller for any sata hard drives in your system (The raid offered by dell on the gen1 machines was an add in card) The gen2 should have a raid setup in bios to handle it. There was also a microphone jack installed in the front ports. That shouldn't have any conflicts in itself.
The actual format and data in the spd of memory sticks is non standard and varies from manufacturer to manufaturer. How the system handles it is strictly a function of the bios. Trow may still have his xps motherboard available. I believe it was a gen2 and was starting to suffer from some swollen caps.
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Post by gamer135 on Jan 19, 2006 14:46:22 GMT -5
Alright, thanks for answering my questions. I dont have a digital camera at the moment, if i did i would take pictures of the new fans, ram and video card i put in the system.
UPDATE: Apparently the ram that i bought back in november were not the same version as to the other ram, i had tested out the ram today and found out that Newegg.com had send me two complety different version of the ram i had purchase, i am asking them right now to exchange them for the right version's.
Again, i thank you for your support for helping me trying to fix my problem
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