Okay guys,
I had received the replacement DRAM only to realize that I had fried the E7500, i guess tweaking the BIOS. Luckily, it was under the warranty. I received today the replacement E7500 (I was running an older Pentium D940 in the meantime).
I am having difficulties setting up the BIOS so that the CPU is optimized and the DRAM is running at XMP. Somehow I suspect the XMP is related to the CPU being used, and though I was able to run the DRAM at 800mHz, I think my CPU does not support it.
Could someone be kind enough to guide me thru the Bios setup for this E7500? I am way over my league here...
This is how it runs with BIOS Optimized settings:
And this is what I have when I try to run at XMP:
I know I am messing up some very basic concepts, regarding Bus speed, FSB, DRAM, and on top of this, I don't know much about XMP. Here are few sticking questions:
1- How can it be running at 1333mhz FSB if the E7500 only goes to 1066Mhz nominal?
2- How should I set the CPU Host Freq / Clock Ratio and have the XMP mode?
3- How to set the DRAM to run at 800mHz?
Thanks again in advance,
BB