Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

[Jason Weisberger]

I've had mine for a while now, so I wouldn't be surprised if 1.5 was the
correct voltage for your sticks.  Double check the manufacturer's website to
be sure.
On Feb 28, 2011 2:06 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> Jason Weisberger wrote:
>>
>> I actually have 4 gigs of gskill DDR 3 1600 and from experience I can
>> tell you that the stock voltage on those chips is set too low. The
>> company actually recommends that you use 1.9 volts while most
>> motherboards will default to 1.5 or 1.6. Double check this however,
>> because I know they were working on some JEDEC compliant DDR 3
>> (standard voltage of 1.5) a while back but I'm not certain if they
>> just decided to throw in the towel on that effort. My system would
>> crash using 1.5 but wouldn't produce any errors on memtest86+. This
>> all just sounds too familiar.
>>
>>
>
> I updated my kernel so I had to reboot. I checked the voltages and it
> appears to be set to 1.5. It was set to auto, when I selected manual,
> it said 1.5v. I don't know for sure that is what it is when it is
> running tho. That could just be where it starts when in manual mode.
> Since it is working now, I set it back to auto. Don't want there to be
> anything, so I ain't going to start anything either. ;-) According to
> gkrellm, Vcore1 is 1.39. Vcore2 is 1.52. I assume that is Vcore2.
>
> I just bought my memory sticks in the past month or so for the last
> three. The first stick I got was about 2 months ago. Maybe the new
> ones are "improved" or something? How long you had yours?
>
> Is there some way to check on BIOS settings while booted into Linux?
> I'm talking about things like timings and such. I have gkrellm set up
> for some stuff. Just don't see timings and such in there. Just curious
> tho.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>