Asus K8N-E DLX

[coinz]

So I recently bought two sticks of 512 mb OCZ Gold pc3200 memory upgrading from the 512 generic stick I had in the motherboard..Problem is that the computer will not boot to the 400 mhz memory speed I set it at. Keeps defaulting to 333 mhz, if I take out one stick of ram it will run fine at the 400 mhz.. Read around a bit, changed the timings downgraded the bios nothing seems to work. Another thing is does it make that big of a difference between the 333 and 400 speeds 1gig at 333 compared to 512 at 400?

thanks

 

[coinz]

^bump

 

[RoadStar1602]

Did you try using ONLY DIMM1 & DIMM3 slots as outlined in Table 1 on page 2-12 of manual?

 

[Bob151]

I just purchased a pair of 1GB PC3200s and the system keeps coming up at 333. Doesn't matter which slot 1 & 2, or 1 & 3, even though page 2-12 explicitly lists that either doublesided or singlesided DDR can be plugged into 1 & 2 and achieve 400.

I'll bet you have a HW Rev 1.04 board (not to be confused with BIOS rev), like the rest of us early adopter suckers. There have been a number of problems with the 1.04 HW rev. First, I learn that OC'ing abilities are extermely limited compared to the 1.05 HW rev. There their in the memory voltage limits only on the 1.04. Then my NIC dies.

Then yesterday I remove my 3 512 DDR and install my recently purchased 2 1GB DDR. You see, the manual says that 3 will run at 333, and 2 will run at 400. I wanted more and faster. But not on the 1.04 HW rev. Asus can't even build a product to follow their own manual.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-44867.html. The thread begins with this very text, "Right, decided to start another thread for this motherboard as the old one was basically about how bad it was." And that thread opened up on 08-16-2004.

I've never been so disappointed with an Asus board as I am with this one. Not many people got the 1.04 PCB.

I'm sure that Asus thanks you for being a good sport and buying their fine board.