RWB
26 Sep 2003, 5:22am
Damn my hands hurt like hell from all this work! Pulling and shutting and pullinga nd shutting those gateson the Memory DIMMS to lock the memory into place.
First, I got my Kingston PC3200 C2 memory in today, wound up passing out in bed right after I got home from school. So I woke up a couple hours later, began putting in my new 1GB worth of the above fore-mentioned RAM. HyperX BTW.
Anyways, the fun part began when I put in the sticks and the system would turn on, but no post, no boot up, just the usual hated Black Screen and lots of repeating blinking lights on my Case. After putting them in-in every configuration I could think of between 1 Module and both modules at the same time in the 4 DIMMs I have. During which I tried my older RAM that worked just a few minutes before hand and BAM it would work perfectly fine.
Refusing to believe that the memory I ordered overnighted to my apartment, I kept trying and trying for a good hour, ugh my hands hurt still.
Eventually I just looked at the memory, staring at it with hatred and saw 2.6v, so I thought I might as well give it a try.
So I put back in m 1 stick of Corsair XMS DDR RAM that I knew would work, went into the BIOS and changed the Voltage to 2.6v, which BTW on my SINXP1394 MB is the HIGHEST it goes. After I changed it, rebooted, and shut down the system I took out the Corsair and put in one stick of the new Kingston RAM into the same exact DIMM.
IT WORKED!
So I shut down, put in the second stick in the second module so I could now have Dual Channel Mode. IT WORKED AGAIN!
Now that my system was up and running, and happy that my huge hands wouldn't have to creep into my system anymore, I started doing my usual Overclocking.
Kingston is reknown for Overclockability, so I set my FSB to 157, and my Memory had choices of (I am guessing off the top of my head right now) 371/393/418MHz speeds, 314MHz is default. Well at 314MHz I got 3500MBps in Sandra 2003, I upped this PC3200 400MHz Memory to the 418MHz mark, I mean 18 MHz is not something that should destablize this Memory!
My system wouldn't turn on.
So... after trying to getit to reboot, I realized I would have to once again, take out the memory, and put in the Corsair, then change the BIOS back to 2.6v and put back in the Kingston Memory. More finger loving goodness, not my sarcasm.
Well I fixed it, I set my memory timings to AUTO, set the memory to the 393Mhz area, and rebooted and it came on. Ran Sandra 2003, and it did 3800-3900MBps. Not shabby, but not what I want, I noticed my timings were 2.5/3/3/6 Which it is supposed to be 2/3/3/6 I think.
It currently runs and I am happy enough ATM. I wish I could set this memory to a higher voltage somehow, but I feel lost :(
If I ever destabilize my system, I know I will have to put in my Corsair RAM, which I am trying to sell. Imay have to take it off the market:bawling:
First, I got my Kingston PC3200 C2 memory in today, wound up passing out in bed right after I got home from school. So I woke up a couple hours later, began putting in my new 1GB worth of the above fore-mentioned RAM. HyperX BTW.
Anyways, the fun part began when I put in the sticks and the system would turn on, but no post, no boot up, just the usual hated Black Screen and lots of repeating blinking lights on my Case. After putting them in-in every configuration I could think of between 1 Module and both modules at the same time in the 4 DIMMs I have. During which I tried my older RAM that worked just a few minutes before hand and BAM it would work perfectly fine.
Refusing to believe that the memory I ordered overnighted to my apartment, I kept trying and trying for a good hour, ugh my hands hurt still.
Eventually I just looked at the memory, staring at it with hatred and saw 2.6v, so I thought I might as well give it a try.
So I put back in m 1 stick of Corsair XMS DDR RAM that I knew would work, went into the BIOS and changed the Voltage to 2.6v, which BTW on my SINXP1394 MB is the HIGHEST it goes. After I changed it, rebooted, and shut down the system I took out the Corsair and put in one stick of the new Kingston RAM into the same exact DIMM.
IT WORKED!
So I shut down, put in the second stick in the second module so I could now have Dual Channel Mode. IT WORKED AGAIN!
Now that my system was up and running, and happy that my huge hands wouldn't have to creep into my system anymore, I started doing my usual Overclocking.
Kingston is reknown for Overclockability, so I set my FSB to 157, and my Memory had choices of (I am guessing off the top of my head right now) 371/393/418MHz speeds, 314MHz is default. Well at 314MHz I got 3500MBps in Sandra 2003, I upped this PC3200 400MHz Memory to the 418MHz mark, I mean 18 MHz is not something that should destablize this Memory!
My system wouldn't turn on.
So... after trying to getit to reboot, I realized I would have to once again, take out the memory, and put in the Corsair, then change the BIOS back to 2.6v and put back in the Kingston Memory. More finger loving goodness, not my sarcasm.
Well I fixed it, I set my memory timings to AUTO, set the memory to the 393Mhz area, and rebooted and it came on. Ran Sandra 2003, and it did 3800-3900MBps. Not shabby, but not what I want, I noticed my timings were 2.5/3/3/6 Which it is supposed to be 2/3/3/6 I think.
It currently runs and I am happy enough ATM. I wish I could set this memory to a higher voltage somehow, but I feel lost :(
If I ever destabilize my system, I know I will have to put in my Corsair RAM, which I am trying to sell. Imay have to take it off the market:bawling: