marcusofmonti Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 What are the optimal settings in the BIOS for the SK8N for stability/performance? I tried changing some of the settings based on this post from 2004 which was the same MOBO, same memory except only 512mb total and different processor. Did not work out too well as computer crashed each time as Windows started to load. Probably I guess something needs to be different than on that PC. Question however on two areas of the Corsair Response to the post. Area one: One spot said the Dram Background Scrub should be set to "Enabled." Well in the Bios for the SK8N you can select Enable, or one of the following: 40ns, 80ns, 160ns, 640ns, 1.28us,2.56us, 5.12us,10.2us, 20.5us, or 41.0us,81.9us,163.8us, 327.7us, or 655.4us. What one should have they selected. Area two. Said to set the memory clock to 200. Well Asus messed with convention on this MOBO as 200 is not half of the total clock speed but the total clock speed. So if you want to run it at 400MHz you need to set it at 400MHz. Setting it to 200Mhz runs it at 200MHz. Link to article. Is it normal when configuring memory the memory for the BIOS to show memory clock 100Mhz in white non changable text. I think that the MOBO is kind of saying the memory is running at that clock speed? Or does it always just show 100MHz. Same type of text you see in there for fan speed and temp so it leads me to believe that is what the mobo is detecting. Below are the settings I am curious about along with the values from the other SK8N thread if someone could change them to what they think the ideal settings should be: DRAM...................2.7V Memory CLK.........:200 MHz CAS Latency........:2.0 TRCD..................:3CLK TRAS..................:6CLK TRP....................:2CLK Master ECC Enable.........................[Enabled] DRAM ECC Enable...........................[Enabled] L1 Cache Background Scrub.............[Disabled] L2 Cache Background Scrub.............[Disabled] DRAM ECC Enable...........................[Enabled] ....DRAM Background Scrub..............[Enabled (WHAT SETTING THOUGH] ....DRAM SCRUB REDIRECT...............[Disabled] ....ECC Chip Kill..............................[Disabled] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusofmonti Posted November 26, 2005 Author Share Posted November 26, 2005 I rebooted again and used the above settings but did not turn on Error Correction and it now seems to work just fine. I saw another post on the forum using the advanced search feature which stated others had same issue with this motherboard not booting if ECC is enabled. Seems silly you "have" to buy ECC memory for the SK8N Motherboard when you can't "use" ECC memory enable due to crashing. Does this therefore mean you really don't need ECC memory in the 1st place? In doing a Sandra Memory Bandwidth test it suggests: Warning W5010 : Cannot use large page memory pages due to lack of privileges. Fix: Use the Local Security Policy to give yourself lock memory pages privilege. Large memory pages greatly improve performance when large memory blocks are allocated Good idea or bad idea to change it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 30, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 30, 2005 There was an error with the driver that prevented it from working with WinXP with ECC enabled. But I would hope that has been solved. Just try it and see if you have a problem, but if its working I would leave it as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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