ECS K7S5A, a not so disasterous story of ram bus speeds.

[Tekchip]

Just kind of curious if any one has had any problems with Ram bus clock speeds. I ordered 2100 DDR Ram from pricewatch not paying to much attention to the manufacturer(yeah I know my mistake). I've got it in my system running an ECS K7S5A mobo with a 266FSB 1.4Ghz Athlon, 256mb of no name ram, and some other assorted hardware. I havn't had any real problems with the board or proc. but when I try to bump the bus speed up to 133/133 the machine goes in to the customary reboot after a bios change. Then it starts spinning up the cd-rom drive in short bursts and video never comes back. I have to reset the bios to get the machine to boot again. All is fine if left that way. Is there any way to truely see what your ram bus speed is running at with in windows? Can any one provide some insight in to this issue. I've all ready updated the bios in case the ram was NEC of some sort.....I'm just stumped. Help! Thanks in advance to any one who can help!

 

[Duvie]

Did you place the cas latency to 3? Did you try bumping the other memory timing to less aggressive settings...

I would try a different stick and if you can get that to work...rma the crap!!! Get crucial!!!!

 

[JediJeb]

What Power Supply are you using? That seems to be one of the biggest factors with problems on this board, especially when running a 1.4tbird.

 

[Tekchip]

Havn't played with the cas settings...didn't cross my mind. Thanks! Also I'm currently running a really small PS 250W deere. I would consider the PS as being the problem but with one of my two cd-rom drives disabled mathmaticly I fit under the power requirements. All though not 'certified', as though 250W changes when it's called 'certified' or not. And I'm able to burn cd's where as before disableing that cd-rom I was unable to. Apparently I'm running with enough power. Call me crazy. Regardless I'm picking up a new PS as soon as I have enough cash.

I'm gonna go play with bios settings and see if I can't make it work. I'll let ya know if that doesn't work out. I've thought about RMA'ing the ram all ready but I can't find the reciept. Ah well...next pay check I'll hit up the PS and the crucial.

Thanks for the responses and idea's!!!