Quote: Originally Posted by
fieseler 
np, im a bit confused myself. My cpu is reported as 2.83ghz now, its just the ram which is causing trouble.
I have everything set to auto and the bios used to report ram running at pc2 5300. now its gone down to 4300 for some reason. Cant seem to find what mhz its running at (cpu-z reports as being 333.3 mhz which would be 667mhz i guess).
Also, whenever i restart, the enitre computer will shut down for 5 secs before rebooting. Thats even restarting from within the o/s and from the bios.
ok.......333mhz would be 667mhz in ''dual channel'' which = pc5300, but you have pc6400 (800mhz) yes..??
you'll need to enter the BIOS & change the RAM divider, hopefully your board will allow this otherwise you'll be stuck @ 667mhz...
the setting will be in the ''advanced options'', look for ''divider'' or ''RAM frequency'', this will either give you a set of ratios or a set of possible frequencies....
you should currently be @ a ratio of 1-1 (which is the lowest on an intel rig), take it up a notch & reboot, if its a ''frequency'' list thats even easier, just set it as close to 800mhz as you can & reboot.....
if this fails to post you may need to give the sticks a voltage boost (board willing of course), so just adjust the ''V-DIMM'' setting up a notch if needed.
you shouldn't have to touch the timings, but if all the above fails we can play around with them later.....
SK