Re: Syncronizing bios speed with ram speed

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:52:31 +0100

Tangerine wrote:

>Can anyone tell me how I syncronize bios speed, with my ddr ram speed?

If the hardware of the motherboard can handle the speed of the RAM there
is nothing for you to do. If it does not, it will not work properly
whatever you do. And if you are adding some that has different
characteristics from what is already there, you are asking for trouble
from the mismatch 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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