wierd ram on boot...

[ex247]

... i boot, and i have 2x512 sticks of PC3200 DDR400 and when i boot it says
"DDR 266MHZ DUal Channel, Linear mode" but shouldnt it be DDR 400MHZ instead of 266MHZ?

i have no idea why or if it should say 400 or not. any responces would be much appreciated

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

what's your cpu's FSB?

 

[ex247]

heres everything from CPU-Z, as it is currently... maby i needa change something but i dont know just what.

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

strange. you have the ram set to 1:1 in the bios?

 

[ex247]

see that could be the problem, i dunno where that is in bois, i dont see it in any of the menus

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

it'll probably be labled "memory frequency" or something similar. i haven't worked with a newer asus board, so i dunno where to go looking for it. maybe in the advanced chipset properties, if such a thing still exists

 

[ashmedai]

see that could be the problem, i dunno where that is in bois, i dont see it in any of the menus

I haven't been in my p4p's BIOS in a while, but you'll have a choice between Auto/400/333/266 or something like that, put 400.

P4P screws up and detects the wrong speed on boot sometimes. Just power it down and let it try again.

 

[ex247]

as was def right, i had it on its "Overclock 10%" in the bios, i changed it to manual, and i see all these new options, one of wich is the dram frequency, changed to 400, and presto all set, heres a pic to show yall.




like always, the people here know it all thanks again,

only 1 more question, see where it says "CPU External Freqency" set bettween 200-400, its @ 200 now, what happens if i up it? will it raise my CPU core MHZ by that much? so its @ 2.4ghz now, if i do it @ 300 will it go to 2.5ghz or....?

 

[ashmedai]

Pretty sure that's the FSB clock setting. So it'll raise the CPU by (increase x multiplier). The multi should be 12 if you're stocking at 2.4GHz on a 200MHz FSB. So 250 would give you 3GHz.

BTW, "weird".