Inadvertent OC?

[Garet Jax]

Hello all,

Is there any way to tell the recommended FSB for older RAM? My BE6 is still hanging and I think it is because I am running at 100 MHz FSB and one of the RAM sticks can't handle it. Is there any way to tell the recommended speed for a particular RAM stick?

I came to this realization on the way to work today so haven't been able to "test" things.

BTW - What can happen to a system when it is running out of recommended parameters for its RAM?

 

[Boonesmi]

unstable and windows errors if the ram is to far out of spec

 

[WildeBeast]

I did it today, unfortunately, tried to bump my FSB from 100 to 110 with cheap ram, and no boot. Cleared CMOS. BTW, I had a BE6 for a while and liked it.

 

[WarCon]

If your ram is run out of spec, as long as its running probably not much. But it will start locking up. I suppose if you was in the middle of writing files it could make some files bad, but not sure about that. I know if you hard drive or controller is flipping you can write bad files. But with CRC, just not sure it would make the change. But it can lock up your system regularly until it fails.

Sisoft Sandra has a section in it, I believe Mainboard Info that will read the little onboard (the memory) chip (the name of it has slipped my tiny brain - some motherboards set the memory timings with it) on the memory and tell you what type it is.