Can I put my 3200 OCZ RAM in my old KR7A-RAID mobo?

[monkeydust]

While I'm waiting for my ASUS A8N-SLI to RMA, I was wondering if I could add my OCZ 3200 RAM to my current KR7A-RAID mobo along with my 2100 speed RAM for a 2gb RAM total. I know the mobo isn't rated for that speed RAM but would it hurt anything?

 

[hundesau]

nope, nothing can get damaged. the ram will run at the speed of the lowest ram in ur system. but at least u have more ram.

 

[monkeydust]

That's what I thought. Thanks!

 

[Peter]

Yes you can. The RAM doesn't "have" a certain operating speed, the mainboard dictates that. The rating on the DIMM is just the _maximum_ speed the mainboard _may_ run it at. (There is a lower limit of 83 MHz though. PC2100 standard is 133 MHz, so no problem there either.)

 

[monkeydust]

It didn't seem to like having that extra RAM in there. While it did register ok, I would have bsod's and program crashes after a few minutes. So, I took it out.

 

[hundesau]

try other banks. sometimes its the combination that matters. i have 2 ram modules that wont work in bank 1+2 but are fine in bank 2+3. dunno why, its not a bug its a feature ;(

 

[Peter]

Always always always TEST your newly arrived RAM. www.memtest.org

 

[hundesau]

good idea peter, memtest also included in a very useful cd with alot of tools for testing, security and stuff: http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/download.html

 

[monkeydust]

Well, that was interesting. I never used Memtest before. I ran it on my old Kingston Value-RAM and got 41 errors. I ran it on my new OCZ 3200 Plat Rev 2 RAM and got 0 errors.

Thanks for the heads-up.