Hi Guys, I need some BIOS help on a GA-8I945P-G MOBO from gigabyte.
Yes this is an older board with a I945 chipset and a Intel pentium 4 CPU at 3 Ghz. I had this board for quite a while as a multipurpose rig with a few problems but for the most part it is a solid performer.
Recently I purchased RAM at PC workshop (which is the old PC club in SB CA. (Shameless plug??) The ram part number is T800UA1GC5 its DDR2 - 800 PC6400 CL5 it has the blue heatspreader on it and looks cool.
Here is my problem The memory is rated at a faster speed than my board supports here is a link for memory http://www.supertalent.com/products/...p?reg=N&mtid=2
and memory finder http://www.supertalent.com/tools/memoryFinder.php
If I plug in the GA-8i945P-G mobo in to configurator it advises slower memory in the range of 667Mhz. Question is will it work without any major issues if I have proper settings or should I ask for slower memory for this board 667Mhz
Also I have never really got help on setting up this BIOS from a pro, I have always used basic stock settings or slight OC with 2 x 512 sticks of 533 memory (yeah I know 1 gig is the pits huh)
I am considering using this as a secondary PC when my main rig is down or in the shop.
Here are specs..............................
CPU..................Pentium 4 630 CODE NAME PRESCOTT L2 cache 2 MB 3.0Ghz or slight OC
Mobo ...............GA-8I945P-G This board does not support SATA RAID :(
Ram..................T800UA1GC5 DDR2 800 PC6400 CL5 (2 x 1Gig)
but only one stick is installed for testing purposes. :)
Graphics.............Nvidia Geforce 6600GT 128MB (sticking finger down his throat)
Audio...................onboard
Hard drive WD 250 Gig RE IDE on the ITE 8212 IDE RAID controller in IDE mode
PS .....................Athena Power EPS 12V-550W
Case ...................Aopen
This memory may work better in my GA-EP45-DS3R board which has the 2 Gig stick of 800 Mhz memory FYI. But I was going to get a faster memory for that board for testing purposes of course.
Here are some BIOS settings
Robust graphics booster ..auto
CIA2.............................disabled
CPU host clock control .....enabled
CPU host frequencyMhz ....auto
PCI express frequency.......auto is 100 a good value like EP45?
system memory multiplier....auto
memory freq 333Mhz
DIMM overvolt................normal
PCIe overvolt.................normal
FSB overvolt..................normal
CPU vcore.....................normal
CPU vcore 1.3875
cas.....auto
Dram....auto
Dram Pre..auto
active....auto
MIB auto note this setting was being used with the 512 micron setting enabled before i installed this 1 gig stick o memory so i had to set it to auto as the other setting not make sense.
The PC started with these settings but only ran for ten minutes then blue screened. :(
Yes this is an older board with a I945 chipset and a Intel pentium 4 CPU at 3 Ghz. I had this board for quite a while as a multipurpose rig with a few problems but for the most part it is a solid performer.
Recently I purchased RAM at PC workshop (which is the old PC club in SB CA. (Shameless plug??) The ram part number is T800UA1GC5 its DDR2 - 800 PC6400 CL5 it has the blue heatspreader on it and looks cool.
Here is my problem The memory is rated at a faster speed than my board supports here is a link for memory http://www.supertalent.com/products/...p?reg=N&mtid=2
and memory finder http://www.supertalent.com/tools/memoryFinder.php
If I plug in the GA-8i945P-G mobo in to configurator it advises slower memory in the range of 667Mhz. Question is will it work without any major issues if I have proper settings or should I ask for slower memory for this board 667Mhz
Also I have never really got help on setting up this BIOS from a pro, I have always used basic stock settings or slight OC with 2 x 512 sticks of 533 memory (yeah I know 1 gig is the pits huh)
I am considering using this as a secondary PC when my main rig is down or in the shop.
Here are specs..............................
CPU..................Pentium 4 630 CODE NAME PRESCOTT L2 cache 2 MB 3.0Ghz or slight OC
Mobo ...............GA-8I945P-G This board does not support SATA RAID :(
Ram..................T800UA1GC5 DDR2 800 PC6400 CL5 (2 x 1Gig)
but only one stick is installed for testing purposes. :)
Graphics.............Nvidia Geforce 6600GT 128MB (sticking finger down his throat)
Audio...................onboard
Hard drive WD 250 Gig RE IDE on the ITE 8212 IDE RAID controller in IDE mode
PS .....................Athena Power EPS 12V-550W
Case ...................Aopen
This memory may work better in my GA-EP45-DS3R board which has the 2 Gig stick of 800 Mhz memory FYI. But I was going to get a faster memory for that board for testing purposes of course.
Here are some BIOS settings
Robust graphics booster ..auto
CIA2.............................disabled
CPU host clock control .....enabled
CPU host frequencyMhz ....auto
PCI express frequency.......auto is 100 a good value like EP45?
system memory multiplier....auto
memory freq 333Mhz
DIMM overvolt................normal
PCIe overvolt.................normal
FSB overvolt..................normal
CPU vcore.....................normal
CPU vcore 1.3875
cas.....auto
Dram....auto
Dram Pre..auto
active....auto
MIB auto note this setting was being used with the 512 micron setting enabled before i installed this 1 gig stick o memory so i had to set it to auto as the other setting not make sense.
The PC started with these settings but only ran for ten minutes then blue screened. :(
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