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January 2nd, 2005 01:00
RAM speed, bus, multipiler and such..
hello
i was just wondering, has dell locked the bios on its computers(mine's a D800), to prevent customers from tampering with these settings? I came to think about it, since i noticed that on my order-confirmation, the line "266Mhz DDR Mem." is written. I then assumed it ment that the DRAM bus was running 133Mhz. That was later confirmed via cpu-z. Since a label on the memory module states it is a PC2700-module, i was wondering why it wasn't running at 166Mhz, since the module is 2700..? I also whent looking for the setting for this(and multipiler-settings) in the bios, but i am unable to find them. Therefore i ask, if the bios is locked in any way..
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Peter Cordtz, Denmark
Message Edited by cordtz on 01-01-2005 09:34 PM
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January 2nd, 2005 14:00
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February 5th, 2005 16:00
My D800 was also shipped with one 512MB PC2700 RAM module, the Dothan 2GHz Processor has a 400FSB but the RAM still operates at 266MHz so the limit may be in the mainboard.
Problems with BSOD's occurred when I added a second 512MHz RAM module which was PC2100 (that's all Dell offers on D800 UpGrade WebSite)
Problems went away when I removed this second module and I found a PC2700 module on Dells P60 UpGrade site.
I have no idea why Dell chose to equip my unit this way (it might run cooler?) but I see that the price is less for PC2700 than PC2100.
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