Ryan Norton
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I'm assembling a pretty basic PC for a friend's dad, using some new parts plus an A8R-MVP motherboard and 2x512MB OCZ RAM I had and didn't want to use anymore.
*A8R-MVP with 0503 BIOS, date 3/14/06 (old)
*X2 3800+
*OCZ 2x512MB DDR400 2-2-2-5 Platinum Rev 2 (old)
*320GB Seagate 7200.10
*PNY 7300LE
Everything is fine after WinXP SP2 was installed, EXCEPT the mobo is running the RAM at a 166MHz divider. This did not happen when I was using the same mobo and same RAM with a different CPU, when it was my personal system (before I decided the A8R-MVP was garbage).
I changed the mem divider to 200MHz 1:1 in the BIOS and the system hasn't crashed or anything; I just don't understand why a 200MHz HTT mobo and CPU would run DDR400 RAM at a lower divider when that'd never happened before. Any ideas? I'll get some CPUz shots up.
*A8R-MVP with 0503 BIOS, date 3/14/06 (old)
*X2 3800+
*OCZ 2x512MB DDR400 2-2-2-5 Platinum Rev 2 (old)
*320GB Seagate 7200.10
*PNY 7300LE
Everything is fine after WinXP SP2 was installed, EXCEPT the mobo is running the RAM at a 166MHz divider. This did not happen when I was using the same mobo and same RAM with a different CPU, when it was my personal system (before I decided the A8R-MVP was garbage).
I changed the mem divider to 200MHz 1:1 in the BIOS and the system hasn't crashed or anything; I just don't understand why a 200MHz HTT mobo and CPU would run DDR400 RAM at a lower divider when that'd never happened before. Any ideas? I'll get some CPUz shots up.
