Re: Puzzling Problems -- Pulling Hair

Paul wrote:


Return the bad stick and try again. It could even be the SPD that
failed, and not a memory chip. (SPD connects to the SMBUS, a serial
bus that goes all over the place. A failure by any device on that bus,
can cause the bus to stop functioning.)


I put the bad stick in the mail to Crucial about an hour ago. They're shipping my new stick today.

When I explained the details to the nice lady at Crucial customer support, she suggested I manually set the voltage to 2.2v. So with the one good stick installed, I have just set AI Overclocking to MANUAL in order to get access to DRAM voltage options. I've set DRAM Frequency to DDR2-1066MHz and I've set the voltage to 2.2v. Everything seems stable, and in fact even with just the one 1-gig stick of RAM installed, things seem to be running a bit faster now.

She too saw no reason to think I had harmed my memory sticks through improper BIOS settings. She assumes the AUTO settings should have boosted the voltage properly when DRAM Frequency is set to DDR2-1066MHz, but like you she believes the user should be in control.

She said my only problem may be that I have just had very bad luck. I agreed that that is one possibility. We'll see what happens.

Paul, thank you once again for your very valuable assistance.

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Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog
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