P4C800-E Deluxe Memory?

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What memory are you using on this board? I'm about to buy one and put
a GB of RAM on it in two sticks and don't want to fart around with
RA'ing memory due to compatibility problems. I'm considering ECC, but
may opt for non-ECC to get faster RAM timings.

I've read about some memory incompatibility issues with this board but
can't sort out whether they were only with early revs of the BIOS or
if they're real problems to watch out for. Let me know what memory
you're using with this board, BIOS rev, memory clockings, CPU speed,
whether you're overclocking CPU and/or memory.

Thanks.
 
I'm using Corsair TWINX-3700 (a pair of 512 for a total of 1 gig) with a 2.8
Gig p4 cpu. The only problem I had was that the 3700 wouldn't work all the
time till I cranked up the memory clock to the same value Corsair tests them
at (memtest86 would always get 1 or 2 failures, usually in test 4 with the
default BIOS settings). It has been very fast and stable since I put it
together and tweaked the memory setting (back at the beginning of
September). Probably 3700 is overkill, but it is fast :-).

The one problem I have noted is that the microphone input doesn't
seem to work on the built-in sound system (not that I care about the
microphone, but I was just testing everything one day and found it
didn't function).
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I'm using Corsair TWINX-3700 (a pair of 512 for a total of 1 gig) with a 2.8
Gig p4 cpu. The only problem I had was that the 3700 wouldn't work all the
time till I cranked up the memory clock to the same value Corsair tests them
at (memtest86 would always get 1 or 2 failures, usually in test 4 with the
default BIOS settings). It has been very fast and stable since I put it
together and tweaked the memory setting (back at the beginning of
September). Probably 3700 is overkill, but it is fast :-).

The one problem I have noted is that the microphone input doesn't
seem to work on the built-in sound system (not that I care about the
microphone, but I was just testing everything one day and found it
didn't function).
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Do I understand that you're saying you can't run the memory any
_slower_ than a certain speed? That sounds pretty strange. Then are
you running the memory bus faster than 400MHz?
 
Thomas said:
I'm using Corsair TWINX-3700 (a pair of 512 for a total of 1 gig) with a 2.8
Gig p4 cpu. The only problem I had was that the 3700 wouldn't work all the
time till I cranked up the memory clock to the same value Corsair tests them
at (memtest86 would always get 1 or 2 failures, usually in test 4 with the
default BIOS settings). It has been very fast and stable since I put it
together and tweaked the memory setting (back at the beginning of
September). Probably 3700 is overkill, but it is fast :-).

The one problem I have noted is that the microphone input doesn't
seem to work on the built-in sound system (not that I care about the
microphone, but I was just testing everything one day and found it
didn't function).
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I don't know about your board but the older ASUS boards (TX97's) used a
stereo jack for the microphone input. You need a stereo to mono adapter
from Radio Shack to use one microphone.


regards
Ernie
 
Do I understand that you're saying you can't run the memory any
_slower_ than a certain speed? That sounds pretty strange. Then are
you running the memory bus faster than 400MHz?
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Yep. Won't run at default speed. I forget exactly what setting I used. I
switched memory to manual from automatic, then craked it up one notch and my
intermittant memory failures disappeared.

It may not be all that strange. The little electrons have to be kept
busy or they fall asleep - with high speed memory running too slow
some of them get bored and forget things (at least that's what I
tell myself :-).
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