KK266 running memory at 27.5 MB/s ?????

[whom2be]

Hello all,

I recently bought a bunch-o-stuff from newegg.com . Among my purches was an IWILL KK266-R.

My system:

Win 98
Iwill kk266-r
(2) 40GB Ibm 60 gxp's
256MB Memory pc150 cas2
Geforce 3
Creative SoundBlaster Live Gamer
and Plextor CD Writer

Problem:

I have run SiSoft and it shows my system to be screaming fast, except for the memory.
SiSoft rates my system on par with a 1Ghz Athlon.
With the results:
INT ALU/Ram Bandwidth 541MB/s
FLOAT FPU/Ram Bandwidth 608MB/s

I have also run a program called MEM86. That alarms me even greater!
Result:

AMD Athlon 1397 Mhz
L1 Cache 128K 13967 MB/s
L2 Cache 256K 4655.9 MB/s
Memory 256K 27.5 MB/s (********?????????*********)

This program has features to test for memory errors. There were no errors reported, even after 9 hours of running the program.

I also have a problem with Raid. It will not partion or format more than 12.9GB.
I don't know If that is my lack of knowledge configuring raid arrays or the mobo.
The drives work perfectly in non-raid though.
I mention it for possible enlight to memory problem.

What I have done:

I have swaped my memory with two other computers. All memory worked fine in the other computers. MEM86 reported 100 to 107 MB/s (other computers have 100MB FSB).
All three memory sticks reported 27 MB/s on my computer.

I have checked the BOIS and set the timming to the lowest setting. I dont have those numbers off hand. I think they were 5-2-2-2.

I only have a few days to get a RMA# from newegg. If you have any advice please post.

Thankfull for Advice

Andy

 

[Shack70]

how old is that mem86 program??? It may not be able to handle ram as large as 256. I also have the KK266-R and can't seem to get the RAID setup to work. I fear I may have to re-install windows to get it working right.

 

[whom2be]

Well as for the raid...
I don't know. I tried every possible plug,master,slave, and tripple checked the raid jumper. Even tried disabling the raid jumper. Nothing worked. I can get the Bios to make one array, and it recognizies all 80GBs. But when I go to fdisk or format I get the same results each time. It only recognizes 12.9GBs.

Mem86:
I dont know how old it is. But I put it on three computers and it showed the same results for each stick of memory. My computer all three sticks = 27.5MB/s. The other computers all three sticks = 100MBs.

Anyone have advice on the slow memory?

Is it the mobo?
Or Bios?
OR????

 

[BIGGDOG]

Hey guys what are the problems you are having with the raid setup and the KK266 R

 

[Priit]

In Memtest86 homepage under problems there's mentioned that

<< The memory speed for AMD Athlon CPU's is reported as 17 - 25MB/sec. This is far less than expectations. The memory speed is measured and not computed. This discrepancy is being investigated. >>

. BTW my Duron700 with PC133 CAS2 RAM got only 18.5Mb/s out of it, too. Memtest86 isn't some old crappy program, it's able to test up to 2Gb RAM and supports all new x86 platvorms/features...

 

[whom2be]

Thank you Priit

I never thought their might have been a problem with mem86. Due to the poor Memory performance reported under SiSoft 2001, I did notcheck the Mem86 site for known errors.

I wonder if SiSoft has the same problem? I guess I'll have to go to the site and look into it.

Thank you again.


Any other advice out there?

Andy

 

[Priit]

Dunno, are you overclocking your T-bird or is it stock 10.5x133? If it's not overclocked and runs 133Mhz memory/FSB, then your memory scores seems pretty normal to me. How are memory timings set in BIOS, maybe you running your PC-150 SDRAM at 133Mhz CAS 3-3-3? IMHO Sandra is synthetic and stupid benchmarking tool anyway, I wouldn't worry about it too much...

 

[whom2be]

Nope,
not over clocked. at 133 and a 5-2-2-2(lowest setting) timing.

ohhh, I forgot to mention my CPU.

I'm running a 1.4Ghz Athlon.
&quot;INT ALU/Ram Bandwidth 541MB/s&quot;
&quot;FLOAT FPU/Ram Bandwidth 608MB/s&quot;

do those numbers seem a bit slow?