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ferdin1500   11-02-2008 at 06:27:59 AM

Hey Guys ,

I got a new 1gb DDR 400 Ram for my PC, I already have a 1gb DDR400 ram

so now i have 2 X 1Gig of Ram

Now the problem is that My windows Doesnt load, it goes up till the welcome screen and then my system restarts on its own,
thinking that my new ram might be faulty i put the new ram alone and rebooted my PC, it works like a charm ..
so when i install both the RAm ,it doest boot.

then i changed Memory frequency on my BIOS setting, default was Auto, i changed it to DDR 333, it didnt work and then again i came down to DDR 266, now it works fine..

now i m a little confused, my RAM is DDR 400 , am i running my PC at a lower Speed.. ??

or is it something to do with the dual channel thingy?

INtel 865 GV chipset
Win XPsp3
P4 2.66
Geforce 6200
2 X 1gb ram DDR400


thank u all for ur replies..

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ragsters   11-02-2008 at 06:59:13 AM
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When your running dual channel mode DDR 400 is actually running at 200 x 2. DDR stands for double data rate therefor doubling the frequency of 200. I think you are actually overclocking your ram by setting it at 266.

To make sure of all this try running cpuz and check what the ram speed is set to.
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

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Zorg   11-02-2008 at 07:29:57 AM
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ragsters wrote :

When your running dual channel mode DDR 400 is actually running at 200 x 2. DDR stands for double data rate therefor doubling the frequency of 200.

Actually it has nothing to do with dual channel, just the fact that it is DDR.

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ragsters   11-02-2008 at 07:51:21 AM
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Your right Zorg. My bad.

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Zorg   11-02-2008 at 07:52:00 AM
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No big deal.

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ferdin1500   11-03-2008 at 05:49:57 AM
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thanks for all your replies..

@ ragsters . sp what you are saying is that whatever i have done is correct and my rams are not running at a lower speeds..


I have 2 Ram slots

anyways i ran the CPUIZ and i got the following results for the
( i saved it as a DOC)

1 gig Ram (Memory Frequency For in the Bios option is set to AUTO)
//docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddzxgt3_1gtv76p6s


2gig ram (Memory Frequency For in the Bios option is set to DDR-266)
//docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddzxgt3_0d6834sc7

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