Asus P4C-800 deluxe and DDR 466

[Haggar]

I have some parts that I am putting together and they are as follows:

P4C-800 Deluxe
1g Kingston HyperX DDR 466 mem
Intel 2.4 533fsb cpu

I keep getting blue screens. is the ram too much for the CPU? for this cpu
to work I should down grade my ram to DDR 333???

TIA

 

[Paul]

I have some parts that I am putting together and they are as follows:

P4C-800 Deluxe
1g Kingston HyperX DDR 466 mem
Intel 2.4 533fsb cpu

I keep getting blue screens. is the ram too much for the CPU? for this cpu
to work I should down grade my ram to DDR 333???

TIA

Did you turn up Vdimm a bit ? 2.7V wouldn't hurt.

I don't see the memory on here. Do you have a URL for
the datasheet for the memory ?

http://www.kingston.com/HyperX/products/khx.asp

Maybe you have two of these ?

http://www.valueram.com/datasheets/KHX3700A_512.pdf

If you are not overclocking the processor, that memory should
have plenty of headroom, and should not be a problem.

Test the memory one stick at a time, with memtest86+ from
http://www.memtest.org/ . That is a floppy based test program.
If the memory gives errors in there, and the errors always
have the same memory address, then the module could be bad.

Also, get a copy of CPUZ from www.cpuid.com , and check
all the settings used by the BIOS. If you are still
having problems, post the info from CPUZ.

Paul

 

[ElJerid]

I have some parts that I am putting together and they are as follows:

P4C-800 Deluxe
1g Kingston HyperX DDR 466 mem
Intel 2.4 533fsb cpu

I keep getting blue screens. is the ram too much for the CPU? for this cpu
to work I should down grade my ram to DDR 333???

TIA

If your ram can run fast, it can also run slowly. No problem here.
Supposing that nothing is defective (cpu, mobo, ram),
check in the bios (if you can go there) if the fsb is set at the right speed
(533 i.s. of 800). If you can't go into the bios,clear the cmos by changing
the appropriate jumpers (see your manual) or by removing the battery for a
minute.

 

[Haggar]

I didn't think there should be. I can't adjust the fsb in the bios, the cpu
seems to be locked as it says "diabled".

Im going to try default settings, a reboot and another install.

 

[Paul]

I didn't think there should be. I can't adjust the fsb in the bios, the cpu
seems to be locked as it says "diabled".

Im going to try default settings, a reboot and another install.

Set "AI Overclock Tuner" to [Manual]. Some other settings
will magically appear when you do.

You can use a Performance Mode of [Standard], to get a few
percent more performance from the RAM, but avoid [Turbo]
unless you want to see a blank screen on the computer.
AFAIK Turbo is only for the owners of 2-2-2-6 type RAM.
And if you had RAM that could handle aggressive settings
like that, you would undoubtedly be setting the RAM timing
manually anyway (for test and tweak).

When playing with the Performance Mode, you can judge the
effect by using memtest86+ . There is a bandwidth indicator
in the upper left hand corner, and one of the three indicators
(one with lowest values), gives the memory bandwidth. As you
play with system settings, you can quickly boot into memtest86+
and observe the effect it is having.

On my P4 2.8GHz, with 2-2-2-6 RAM, I get 2732MB/sec [Standard]
and 2667MB/sec [Auto]. That is dual channel. In single
channel mode, I get 1681MB/sec. With 3-3-3-8 timing, the
single channel drops to 1584MB/sec. That should give you
some idea what mode you are in. All those measurements
are from memtest86+ .

Paul