Computer Hardware Support - Re: New RAM causing a strange boot problem...
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:58:59 GMT, "Dom">i've looked in the BIOS settings (F2 from bott-up) but there is no section
>to set memory voltage.
It is possible to have someone use a multimeter to check the
currently used memory voltage (if you know someone with this
skill/ability), OR it "might' be visible in a bios health or
hardware monitor page. It could be that your board is
already using 2.6V.
>
>The memory is elixer memory and the site says that I should be running at
>2.6v but if I have no way to change the memory voltage should I take the
>memory back to the shop?
Yes if you find no other recourse, return it sooner rather
than later if there is a purchase-warranty in effect.
>
>As I say it works fine and stable every other time I boot the machine which
>is more a pain than annoying.
If it's a problem with the power or motherboard, it could
easily be that you will face the same situation with
different memory too, but until you try different memory it
is an unknown variable... since you don't have the other
memory yet and any memory bought "should" work, it seems in
your best interest to return it and get a different
make/model of memory, not an exchange for exact same memory.
>
>i'm not a techy so if you are explaining what I need to can I request you
>put it into plain english please.
The bios setting should be fairly easy to spot, there aren't
a lot of different voltage settings in a bios, usually one
for CPU, chipset, AGP, and memory. Not necessarily all (or
even any) of those but if it's there you should see it, it
would be only a matter of which was which, understanding
what Gigabyte had named it but still the choices would be
voltages like 2.5, 2.6. 2.7, etc.
SInce you bought it from a shop, you might see if you could
take in the system and (while you're there hopefully) they
could try different memory, that is, without charging a fee
to do it.
posted by crash @ 3:56 AM
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