How to use 2.2V RAM in a 1.8V board

[Cromewell]

To unlock advanced settings you have to press ctrl-F1 from the top level menu in the BIOS. This will open up a lot more options in the MIT section.

 

[Moocher]

yeah I did that, but I did not see anything about Memory expert in there.

 

[Cromewell]

It's probably called something else. I don't know if your board supports EPP or not though. I'm trying to get the manual but the download is really slow. It's probably easiest to just set the timings and voltage yourself then to spend a lot of time looking for an option that may not exist.

 

[Moocher]

the problem is that I'm not sure what timings to set it to? I set it to 5-5-5-16 and my comp did not post. Although I may be using an old version of Memtest because it says I have a Pentium III when Im running a dual core E5200. Oi I keep hitting a dead end with this thing.

 

[Euklid]

Use the ones CPUID sees in EPP.

Memory frequency: 800mhz
4-4-4-12-21-2t
Memory voltage: 2.10V

 

[Moocher]

k ill try it again

 

[Moocher]

It still failed the memory diagnostic, maybe I'll update the BIOS

 

[Moocher]

any idea what else could be the problem?

 

[Moocher]

Its been running stable for now, not IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error as of yet. I did find an EPP setting...but it was the parellel port. My problem now is that I am getting screen tearing, but I will post that in the appropriate forum.