OCZ Gold PC6400 & Asus M2N series
Hey neat, I think this is my first post in the OCZ area...
Anyway, I recently spec'd out a customer system with the 2GB Gold PC6400 pack and an Asus M2N-SLI motherboard.
Some guy is bitching about incompatibility between this RAM and the Asus M2N series on the Newegg reviews. Please tell me that guy's experience is just a fluke and these will work fine together... because, as far as I know, the parts have already been ordered in for this customer.
Thanks!
Rob
Anyway, I recently spec'd out a customer system with the 2GB Gold PC6400 pack and an Asus M2N-SLI motherboard.
Some guy is bitching about incompatibility between this RAM and the Asus M2N series on the Newegg reviews. Please tell me that guy's experience is just a fluke and these will work fine together... because, as far as I know, the parts have already been ordered in for this customer.

Thanks!
Rob
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There is a new bios in the works that solves many of the booting issues, but you do need to get it booted to flash it, so this many times involves a stick of DDR533 (PC4200) "cheapo" ram so you can get the bios flashed.
Once they are up and running....they work just beautifully.
I'm surprised that the motherboards can cause incompatibility issues with the RAM these days, since AM2 has the IMC.
CB put the PC together last night. I was there for the build, because I wanted to see AM2. Big deal... and apparently the low-end X2 chips don't come with the AMD heatpipe cooler now? Anyway, we booted the PC, and got 1 long and 2 short beeps. At first it did this no matter what, and this is the same post code that we get when there is no RAM in the machine, so we assumed it was the RAM incompatibility. We finally got it to boot into BIOS with one stick of RAM in the thing.
Once in BIOS, I set the Tras to 15 and the command rate to 2T. I also set the speed to 400MHz. Magically, the rig booted. And we installed Windows. And, as nervous as it made us, we updated the BIOS from the version 0202 that came with the board to version 0304. We also have both sticks of RAM in the machine now.
We thought that would work. It didn't - apparently this BIOS doesn't completely remove the compatibility issues, because turning the speed of the RAM back up to either 667 or 800 (we didn't try 533) the computer will lock up during Windows loading. The problems are at least cleared up to the point where the rig seems completely stable with the RAM at 400MHz, but not at all if we raise the speed to its stock level.
Any ideas? Did we not get the version of the BIOS that clears up the compatibility issue? Is there something else we're missing here?
Tony is working on getting a reply from Asus as to whether the M2N and M2N32 can use the same bios...right now we are on hold regarding the M2N
Can you let us know as soon as you find out? This client is itching to get his new PC, and I don't want to wait too long to fix the troubles.
Try the other pair of memoryslots and see if that works better. It worked pretty well with the MSI board.
I thought I sent you a link in a PM?
Cool, I'm anxious to see if it has any effect.
I'm stuck.
I want to raise the memory voltage as suggested, but I can't find the option anywhere in the BIOS menues. Can you point me to where the option is?
I did, however, forget that I had told him I would also grab him a new keyboard and tack it onto him invoice (dolp!) so, I'll be stopping at Microcenter this evening to grab a nice but cheap keyboard to give him tomorrow.
Thanks for your help with the RAM, it seems to be working great now.
I do not believe the M2N32-SLI WorkStation board supports EPP profiles with the original BIOS, you will need to update to the 502 version for compatibility purposes. The EPP RAM is great for those users who do not wish to adjust their BIOS extensively or are uncomfortable doing so, but still want to get the most out of their memory. The EPP PC2-7200 RAM would be suitable for your system and I think you will be quite happy with the performance afforded by upgrading to this product.
I have an M2N-sli deluxe board, and am using the 2gig ddr2 OCZ value kit 5400. In order to get the system to boot, I had to go out and buy some cheapo ram to flash the bios from 202 to 304. Once flashed, it was possible to boot, so I installed the OS using the cheapo ram, then swapped in my OCZ ram, and it seemed to work.
The real problem is only visible after some use. The system appears to be completly unstable using the OCZ ram. I used nothing but the newest drivers from the internet, but the results where the same. System would often not boot up, the system was unstable in windows, and had loads of corrupt file messages. I have just tried boosting the ram voltage to 2.10 after reading this forum, and would like to know how the rest of you are handling the situation.
Thanks!
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe + OCZ PC26400 "special ops"