GAK8NS-PRO Two Sticks Memory At 200Mhz

[wallis]

has anyone managed to get 2 sticks of memory working on this board using bios F10 or above? mine only seems to detect 2 sticks of memory at 166Mhz.

 

[UMfanatic2k6]

you might have a defective board, you might have to manually raise the clock speed, I had to do this on a motherboard once, but I came to find out that the memory was defective, I have also had this problem with a CPU before

 

[Stumps]

I recently upgraded to the GA-K8NS PRO + AMD64 3000+ (venice core) with 2x 512mb DDR400, before I upgraded to bios F13 it would only recongise them as ddr333, but as soon as I upgraded the bios it now works as ddr400, only problem I have encountered is I can only use 2T timings not 1T....but everything else is fine and runs very stable

 

[wallis]

well to update ...i just installed F13 bios on my GIGABYTE K8NS PRO from F6 and the best i can set memory is 183Mhz, ahh well at least its better than 166Mhz previously.

 

[Stumps]

are you sure that your memory is actually DDR400?, if it is a cheaper brand of memory it could just be relabeled DDR333.

 

[wallis]

its kingston ddr 400

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: wallis
its kingston ddr 400

well you have better quality memory than I am using, I have Seitec DDR400, which is pretty generic, SPD timings are 8,4,4,3@400mhz, however and this is a very BIG however, I have found this memory to be much better than some of the more expensive stuff and I currently have it running at 6,2,2,2.5@400mhz with 100% stability, at 450mhz I can use 6,3,3,2.5 with out any instability.

check your memory timings, maybe you might have to relax them a bit to reach 400mhz.
I haven't used kinston in awhile so I'm not sure of the quality of late, but they used to be pretty good.