Seeking mainboard recommendations (now: Gigabyte H55-USB3)

[Richard Pieri]

On Nov 25, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> 
> I thought with modern memory modules and motherboards the guessing games
> the BIOS used to have to perform was supposed to be eliminated by having
> the RAM specs stored in a EEPROM on the memory module. Hasn't that been
> the standard for a decade or more?

There is another factor.  Every BIOS that I've ever worked with has a fail-safe default.  My ASUS P5N-E SLI defaults to 5-5-5-15/1.9V for RAM timings and voltages because it is a safe default for DDR2 even though the RAM is rated 4-4-4-12/2.2V.  Overriding the fail-safe defaults requires manual intervention.  Not knowing how the rest of the BIOS is configured on the OP's board I am guessing that it is the same sort of fail-safe setting.  There are other things that it could be that aren't faults.  That simply is the first one to check.

--Rich P.