ahci and required drivers

[wilbur]

After doing some reading, it appears that my motherboard (p35-ds3p) has automatically, already adjusted the timings, hence the different timings between waht the memory spedc. and the BIOS settings, as mentioned earlier. I may of coiurse be totally wrong?

At the moment cant take the risk of trial and error adjustments as this is my only computer.

 

[Dark Mantis]

Don't worry about changing something and then your computer will be messed up. This is not a problem as you can always clear the CMOS and load Optimised BIOS Defaults to put you back to your basic setup.

[wilbur]

Ok, since my last post i have bee struggling to find these settings to adjust, as mentioned. ctrl+f1 does not work, unless I am doing this combination in  the wrong option, if indeed it requires that.

what should the settings be for this RAM and is my assumption correct that my bios has indeed adjusted for the RAM. If this is the case and form the information I have posted previously - has the auto adjustment, in your experience, been correct, I was unable to find the current voltage used, I did see it a few days ago, but cant find it on the option I have.

[Dark Mantis]

The BIOS reads the SPD on the memory modules and sets timings to whatever it is reading there.  Normally you can physically override this but after going through the BIOS on your board it is severely limited.

I couldn't find any way to manipulate the settings as I would normally expect to. No guarantee but the best I could come up with is as follows:

I have just gone through the BIOS for your motherboard and it is fairly crap in as much as allowing manipulation of the various settings. You have no option to set the memory timings at all. We can however increase the DDR2 overvoltage. This is done in 0.05v increments, so increase it by 0.5v in total. The Northbridge (MCH) can also be tweaked and is done in 0.025 steps. Increase this by 0.05v total. This may be enough to help stabilise your system but if not try changing the Highspeed DRAM DLL Settings from Option1 to Option 2. Then save and exit.

[wilbur]

Oh, the joy of progress and technology, this was an excellent mother board it its day, hence why I bought it.

I did see these options and the, but as they did not relate to my need I thought I must have got it wrong. I noticed Option 2 on hte DRAM, which as far as I understood, was not necessarily faster, but, may improve stability, but again did not match what I was looking for.

Than you, I will try this tonight. I was concerned about stuffing it up completely, especially when I was in the overvoltage section. So I erred on the side of caution and did nothing.

As for on of my earlier questions, will I still need to do a memtest, one stick at a time, or was the test with all four acceptable?

[Dark Mantis]

Chances are that if you have tested them all together but still done the full test procedure all the way through that they are fine if you didn't get any errors thrown up. I wouldn't bother doing them all again singly if I were you.

When you are going to try the tweaks just do one at a time and that way if anything goes wrong you will know which one was the problem.

[wilbur]

Yep, 8hrs 10 passess and all 10 tests each time. but not a single error. 10/0

Fun tonight then.

Thanks, will post back later.

[Dark Mantis]

Yes that should be fine then. Well good luck for tonight and i will look forward to heareing if you got on much better.

[wilbur]

I metioned in a previous post that I had seen a set of menus which I could no longer find. Well to, accept that, would be to accept possible insanity. I have just managed to activate the hidden Ctrl+f1 menu, which has the manu I was talking about. That means that I sane, allbeit tis is subjective. I remember trying it a couple of days ago but it did not appear to work, well it did, but I did not know how, or when it did.

Is this therefore the set of menus which you made reference to in your previous post. if it is, then it is showing settings of 5-5-5-18 which is not my stick spec. wouild you be able to, assuming this is the correct menu, advise of the corretct setting for my stick, which I will now be able to input manually.

[wilbur]

Well, changed timmings to reflect spec on stick, and it worked I ran a benchmark using everest. and compared it to the benchmark pre-changes. there is a slight improvement, but this small change could be significant. I would post the two benchmarks but not sure how to do this. tried additional options but it just creates a link to where they are stored on my pc.

is there a way to just upload them on a post?