The memory's 400mhz. No wait, 333mhz. Wait, 400...

[crsgardner]

Has anyone experienced this?

I recently put together a new rig with an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (a very common board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131517) nVidia 7800GTX and 2 sticks of OCZ DDR400 PC 3200 RAM (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146969). The initial build and install went smooth.

I upgraded the BIOS, and all of a sudden the board was "auto-detecting" the memory as 333mhz. I did a few reboots just to make sure it wasn't a glitch, then manually set the memory to 400mhz. Worked fine. I was disturbed to see it "auto-detecting" the wrong speed, so I turned auto-detection back on to see what it thought now. 400 mhz. What the heck?

I found that everytime I flashed the BIOS (to no matter what version) it would always "auto-detect" the wrong speed. Set the speed manually then change it back to auto-detect: voila, the correct speed always appears.

Is this a flaw of the board, a flaw of the sticks, or am I otherwise going crazy?

 

[rammstein junkie]

wrong fourm?

 

[n7]

Why did you crosspost this within three minutes of your original post?

 

[gac009]

stop flashing the bios then.

if you can make it read as 400mhz and everything is fine then what do you want on the video forum?

 

[crsgardner]

It was a mistake folks, chill. I created the message in this forum first, realized it was the wrong one, and posted over in General. I was closing a bunch of windows, saying post to each one, and didn't realize I crossposted. Not everything's a conspiracy.

 

[VIAN]

Wow, are you EVER in the wrong forum.

I have no clue, whose fault it is, maybe if you had different memory sticks/mobos to test it out. But if it works by just manually setting it I wouldn't worry about it.