Newbie Question Time: P4P800 Deluxe and TWINX512-3200LLPT ...

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Connor

Soon to be getting both, along with the case and p4 3 chip. I have a
120gig and 80 gig hard drive and other accessories already for it.
After putting the system together, do I immediately go into bios and
adjust the settings for the ram? Or should the motherboard
automatically detect and choose the right settings for the memory? The
memory has the ' Plug-n-Frag Auto-Configuration', which I'm assuming
will tell the board the right settings. I think.
Will it also immediately enable dual-channel mode and the 'mam'
technology?
I have the bootdisk cd-rom with the latest memtest, should I first
boot into that and have it check the memory for errors?
I'm still stuck in the p3 world...never fiddled with memory latency,
voltages, dual-channel, etc for memory chips.
 
Answer Yes to yourself.

Start by going into bios and do a quick look see and getting to know where
everything is.

Don't fiddle with anything in bios - only make needed changes. Check the
bios version - have the latest bios and correct flash program at hand to do
the update if a) you have problems or b) it is quite out of date.

Check memory is on SPD - you want to prove your assembly is right before all
else, then do some basic testing by running memtest86, a windows install if
all is ok...

Run memtest86 for as long as you can (run it overnight some time soon).

Check all discs are visible in the bios that should be.

I always disable controllers that I will not be using.

After you have proven the system is stable, then you might wish to optimise
the system config in bios. But remember you are unlikely to gain any
improvement in performance without a loss of stability. If you use a RAID 0
disc config, and overclock, you are inviting disc corruptions.

- Tim
 
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