AW9D-MAX memory question.

Ashman UK · 23 May 2007 at 15:51

Hi all.

I have recently brought a new system and the memory i have in the system is 2x1GB G.Skilll 6400 ddr800 ram and running it on this Abit AW9D-MAX mobo.

I find that when i goto set the correct memory speed in the bios for these memory sticks...i.e. @ddr800 it saves and boots up fine into windows vista but then once i re-boot again it defaults back to ddr667.

I can boot up fine still, but at the memory speed of ddr667.

The volts are set @2.1v in the bios as recommended for these sticks but still it defaults after re-boot back to ddr667.

I can overclock the ram though so its over 800mhz when it in ddr667 by increasing the fsb but is there a way to get it to run @ddr800 without it reverting back or is overclocking it this way @ddr667 as fast as running it @ddr800 at stock?.

I have the two ram sticks on slots one and three.

I know maybe a bios update could cure this as this bios has shipped with bios 12 for this mobo but this is actually a replacement mobo as i tried to flash the bios a week ago in windows..(ive done this many times before succesfully with an abit av8 mobo in windows xp on old pc..) and the flash update froze halfway through which fubar'd the old mobo so im not confident about flashing a mobo again.

Hope that makes some kind of sense, any comments and suggestions would help thx.

Ashman UK · 23 May 2007 at 17:14

Just checked various settings again and only the bios boot-up screen reports the speed being @ddr677.

In the acutall bios settings its still reported @ddr800 and in windows using sisandra and cpu-z both say aswell the memory is running @ddr800 2:3 each time i re-boot aswell.

Which one would be correct out of the different speed reports out of windows and the bios?.

Thanks.

Ashman UK · 23 May 2007 at 22:31

Well after taking a deep breath and flashing the bios through using a floppy it flashed fine to bios 1.5 and now ddr speeds default to normal so all is normal now but i was bricking it while updating the bios after the last failed attempt that botched the previous board.

That said i know now to always flash a bios through dos using a floppy disk. Never again in windows

faz123 · 23 May 2007 at 23:00

i updated mine when bios 1.5 came out but did it in windows and all was fine. it seems to be very stable i have no issues at all with this bios

Ashman UK · 24 May 2007 at 13:44

Yeah i think faz when you flash through windows i read somewhere that you need to uncheck the bios block option or otherwise what happened to me can happen is some cases like mine.

Still bios 1.5 is up and running and yeah the system i would say is deffo more stable now its running @ddr800.

The main thing i have noticed and this problem has always been the most annoying for me with pc games especially is pausing and stuttering and reading from the hd in games has improved a quite abit.