High Density Fatbody D9DQW...?!?!

[MACMAC]

Ok, here's the problem.

Me and a friend have tested out about 18 sticks of OEM 1GB PC2-4200 D9DQW.

Now, this stuff will not boot in an Asus P5B-DLX(i965 chipset), Asus P5N32-SLI (nForce 4 SLI chipset), Asus P5AD2-Premium (Intel 925X chipset), Asus P5WD2-Premium (Intel 955X chipset).

So I have contacted the original reseller, and he says that they work fine in a Dimmtester.com SP3000, in a Gigabyte 8VM800PMD(VIA chipset), and in a
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3(i965).

Lastly, he told me they were High Density Memory(128x4)

Asus purposely does not insert support for high density memory in their bioses.

But that's not even my real question, the whole high density memory aspect confuses the hell out of me. How do you turn perfectly functioning Fatbody D9 into high density crap without remaining it? Does it come down to the IC maker or the actual stick builder?!

[ozzimark]

yes, D9DQW is 64x8... not 128x4. the 128x4 "version" of D9DQW is D9CGH

[MACMAC]

yes, D9DQW is 64x8... not 128x4. the 128x4 "version" of D9DQW is D9CGH

Ok, that's what I thought. Micron couldn't possibly make x4 DRAM without renaming the chips.

So the hell could be the problem?

Maybe the SPD is messed up? Could be set to PC2-3200....

[ozzimark]

quite possibly it's messed up.. hard to find out for sure though

[MACMAC]

Supertim0r will be testing the sticks in some Intel branded boards with i945 and i975X chipsets today, and DS3 tomorrow.

And then, at worse, going to flash them with Patriot PC2-5600 XBLK dumps.

[DaWaN]

If SPD is corrupt you can always hotswap them

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

does high density D9 overclock notably worse?

[STEvil]

you cannot hotswap SPD's. You cannot hotswap ram, either.

[MACMAC]

you cannot hotswap SPD's.

Well...just use Thaiphoon, call the actual procedur whatever you want.

You cannot hotswap ram, either.

Actually...apparently...you can.

DaWan claims he did it, with no negative repercussions.

Check it out.

[nn_step]

Well...just use Thaiphoon, call the actual procedur whatever you want.



Actually...apparently...you can.

DaWan claims he did it, with no negative repercussions.

Check it out.

There is a massive difference between CAN and Should.
Like you can park in the lobby of a police station but it isn't a good idea

[STEvil]

should have been more correct: not very bright to hotswap ram.

If you cut the trace which supplies power to the DIMM slot you could put a switch in to turn it on/off while hotswapping, though.

[MACMAC]

I absolutely agree that it wasn't a good idea on his behalf, just thought you might be interested to see that someone pulled it off