Asus Striker 2 Formula am I doing somthing wrong?

[Rob 80386]

I have an Asus Striker 2 Formula Motherboard, however I've just purchased some Geil Black Dragon 1066MHz PC8500 DDR2 Memory, it works at 1066MHz when only 2 slots are used (Dual channel mode blue slots) but when all 4 are used (Quad channel mode) it only works at 800 MHz, my front side bus is 1333, memory voltage 2.2v recommended.

Am I doing something wrong or is my board at fault

Does anyone else use this board and have they experienced this problem?



Kind Regards Rob 80386

 

[Steep]

The manual mentions something about setting the speed in the bios when using 1066 memory but there's no mention of it running slower with 4 sticks in it.

 

[dod]

try upping the voltage on the northbridge a notch, might be all it needs

 

[kapawayna]

As dod said i would try upping the power the amount that it says in the books are a minimum so they tend to run a little slow on them

 

[cowasaki]

What are you sticking in the other 2 slots? Do you have 4 sticks of the Geil RAM?

 

[Rob 80386]

What are you sticking in the other 2 slots? Do you have 4 sticks of the Geil RAM?

good point, I forgot to mention i bought a quad channel kit (4 sticks of memory).

I'll try the upping the voltage on the north bridge and the memory, then see if it does the trick

kind Regards

 

[Rob 80386]

I've upped the north bridge voltage and the memory voltage, it works now at 1066 in quad channel mode without crashing