Re: K8N-E Memory
- From: nospam@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul)
- Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:38:11 GMT
In article <zJStf.7965$Or5.6985@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Michael-NC"
<NoAddress@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just put together a K8N-E board, not the deluxe version, with the latest
> Bios. I understand the board will not run 2 double banked dims at 400MHz. I
> have two 512MB doubled banked, CorsairVS doubled banked dims and the board
> will only clock them at 333MHz. Has anyone installed any 512MB single ranked
> dims in this board and can reccomend a particular brand?
>
> I bought the board at Newegg for 70 dollars along with a AMD3700 for 200
> dollars that came with a free 80GB WD JB HDD. Pretty sweet deal. Although
> it's a dead-end config with no upgrade options, it works for me right now.
> The K8N-E was little flakey about losing the boot drive, (2 WD 75GB Raptors
> in raid 0) until I disabled all other boot drives in the bios and the raid
> setup is very unintuative but this board seems as rock-solid stable as the
> A7N8X-Deluxe with AMD 3200 it replaced.
Line 18 in Table 1 of the user manual, or line 12, are the best
configurations for two double sided DIMMs. The processor has two
address busses (one is the ones complement of the other), and one
bus is connected to DIMM1, while the other bus drives DIMM2 and
DIMM3. For best results, the DIMMs should be positioned to
spread the load across the two busses, and that is what the
line 18 and line 12 entries in Table 1 are doing for you.
Try setting "Memclock Mode" to manual, then set "Memclock Value"
to DDR400. Save and exit. Insert a test floppy with a copy of
memtest86+ on it, which should be able to boot the computer on
its own, as long as the floppy is selected as the boot device.
A CD can be prepared with memtest86+ on it if you have no
floppy. Test the memory while using the new, higher memory speed
selection, to make sure everything is error free. The newer processors
are supposed to have better memory drive characteristics, and
it is possible you'll get it to work fine at DDR400. But don't
boot back into Windows until you have completed your memory
testing first. Allow at least a couple of complete passes of
memtest86+ error free, before booting Windows.
HTH,
Paul
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