I think I have gotten rusty on tweaking bios settings. I probably could have gotten that ram to work on this mobo...too late now. :) Live and learn.
I'm going to get at least 2 more years on this mobo, though. upgrading the processor, pirmary HD, and ram. moving to 64-bit Win7. ---- DSinc <dx7...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Anthony, > Either save your new RAM for a future upgrade (m/b), or return; OR, > troubleshoot why it does not work with what you have. Good luck! > > The way stuff has gone in 2008-9, not surprised. > It is very tough now to move OLD stuff forward, I have found. Methinks > the BIG boys really want all of our old stuff dead. JMHO. > Best, > Duncan > > > Anthony Q. Martin wrote: > > I just put 8 GB of G.Skill ram only my Mobo (Gigabite P35-DS4). This is > > DD2-1066 CL5-5-5-15 ram. I got this from NewEgg. > > > > I quickly noticed Win7 would crash before too long. Finally, I got into > > Prime95 and it immediately halted saying that there was an error in > > calculation (it was getting wrong results for known calculations!). After > > seeing this, I put the old 2G of HyperX DD2-800 ram back in the system. > > Prime95 seems to be working now, though I have not completed a full-length > > stress test. I have been using this ram for the last two years, though. > > > > I did try a few other setting of the timing on the G.Skill ram, but never > > got to anything that seems stable. > > > > Should I keep going with this ram (while trying to find some setting that > > works) or seek to return for an exchange with Newegg? By the way, the old > > ram gets a 5.5 on Windows Experience Index while the new ram gets a 7.2. > > > > Thanks. > >
