Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - help!! installed 2xddr400 mem and was detected as ddr333

alibaba · 09-16-2004, 02:20 AM

thanks for the advice, do think it may be the non match thing.. tried using 2x256 ddr 333's (1 kingston, 1 samsung) and had dropped to 266.. this never occured in my old mobo w/c was some unkown hong kong brand called 2themax..

now have to go thru the hassle of haggling to get it exchanged, salesman who sold me the mobo ('cuz he didn't hav antyhing else) and 1 of the mem insisiting it should work..

anyone have comments on how good/bad biostar is? wanted an MSI which I think is only 10 bucks more elsewhere but was lazy to somewhere else and thot all mobo should be about the same, should have done it for the reliabilty and additional mem slots (biostar only has 2).. hate these pressure salesmen...

btw, tried adjusting freq thru the bios.. it only has option for 100/133/166 and auto.. think 166=333 MHz so it detects 400MHz on auto only, but problem is auto does not detect it as 400 MHz when both slots used..

no reply from biostar, and they had a bios fix in their website for this problem if 4 banks are used.. tried installing it and does not solve the problem.. not sure why they had a bios fix for this problem for 4 banks when their mobo only has 2 banks.. strange and does not work also.. my bios ver is newer than the fix..

09-16-2004, 02:20 AM	#4 (permalink)
alibaba Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 3 OS: XP SP2	thanks for the advice, do think it may be the non match thing.. tried using 2x256 ddr 333's (1 kingston, 1 samsung) and had dropped to 266.. this never occured in my old mobo w/c was some unkown hong kong brand called 2themax.. now have to go thru the hassle of haggling to get it exchanged, salesman who sold me the mobo ('cuz he didn't hav antyhing else) and 1 of the mem insisiting it should work.. anyone have comments on how good/bad biostar is? wanted an MSI which I think is only 10 bucks more elsewhere but was lazy to somewhere else and thot all mobo should be about the same, should have done it for the reliabilty and additional mem slots (biostar only has 2).. hate these pressure salesmen... btw, tried adjusting freq thru the bios.. it only has option for 100/133/166 and auto.. think 166=333 MHz so it detects 400MHz on auto only, but problem is auto does not detect it as 400 MHz when both slots used.. no reply from biostar, and they had a bios fix in their website for this problem if 4 banks are used.. tried installing it and does not solve the problem.. not sure why they had a bios fix for this problem for 4 banks when their mobo only has 2 banks.. strange and does not work also.. my bios ver is newer than the fix..