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Hiya-Thanks for looking over all of them. Brother - Not as far as I know? I have a Canon printer IP5200 and CanonLide60 Scanner, and that's about it....mysterious...!
I took out the 3rd module, so system is back to 4Gb, and this time it sort of froze. Before it was freezing with no HDD activity and no response from the keyboard or mouse. When I started up just now, straight after removing the new module, everything worked (HDD activity, keyboard, and the right click on the mouse). The only thing I could not do was move the arrow on the mouse. So I restarted by navigating through the ctrl-alt-del and tabbing to power off, which it did with no complaints. Could serial.sys be something to do with the crappy old mouse I have?
Thanks!
EDIT - This might help you on your quest to solve the P5QL memory settings difficulties:
In BIOS, under Advanced>Chipset>Northbridge Config settings>DRAM Timing Control I have set this to Manual and changed the first 4 entries to correspond to the 5-5-5-18 latency settings of the XMS2 module. That is:
CAS# LATENCY - 5 DRAM CLOCKS
DRAM RAS# TO CAS# DELAY - 5 DRAM CLOCKS
DRAM RAS# PRECHARGE - 5 DRAM CLOCKS
RAS ACTIVATE TO PRECHARGE - 18 DRAM CLOCKS
The RAS ACTIVATE TO PRECHARGE under AUTO was at 15, not the 18 stated on the module, so this was the only thing that was changed from the default value coming out of AUTO settings. So yes you were well informed and correct that AUTO does not necessarily correspond to what the module should run on.
Under AI Tweaker I set DRAM Frequency to DDR2 800MHz and the memory overvoltage to 1.85, since that is the lowest value and the only value I can see that would correspond to the Tested/SPD voltage of the module of 1.8V. That way less of the values are on AUTO.
Having just made these changes, guess what - no freeze after startup-hooray!!
Last edited by hannibal; 18 Mar 2011 at 05:55.