text_combined: greg freemyer tlvognmhkkorgmailcom thu feb 28 2008 145 pm felix miata wrote 20080228 1312 gmt0500 greg freemyer apparently typed weve struggling couple machines attempting add memory ie 2gb 4gb machines stable upgrade assumed video card logic issue etc someone told us typical bios voltage setting memory bus tweaked add ram ie lower small amounts ram higher bigger amounts really strange adjusted 2 machines seemingly running fine really typical thing uncommon experience ddr ive often needed 26v instead 25v one case 27v instead 25v dont think amount ram populating board anything test new ram use memtest86 several passes ram simply needs voltage standard motherboard spec note shopping around ram ram specs list higher nominal like 26v 25v otherwise expected added ram exact match existing ram brand chip stampings case 4 sticks bought together effort get things stable 2 time stable 4 little googling see people saying adjust voltages get 4 1gb sticks work one threads found said issue fixed adjusting northbridge voltage instead fyi working personally may details wht voltages tweaked wrong anyway rather strange guess 4gb world need prepared mb bios voltage timing tweaking morning discussing mb use future systems looking going back intel wonder problem anyway one reason standardize mb dont want learn sort thing greg greg freemyer litigation triage solutions specialist httpwwwlinkedincomingregfreemyer first 99 days litigation white paper httpwwwnorcrossgroupcomformswhitepapers9920days20whitepaperpdf norcross group intersection evidence technology httpwwwnorcrossgroupcom fri 08 aug 2008 004110 0500 opensuse adding ram voltage adjustment