>On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:09:26 -0500, Breck Fontaine
><BreckFonta***@spu.edu> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>     I have a Biostar M7NCD motherboard. It has 2 memory slots with
>>256 megs PC2700. I just bought 1 stick 512 Megs PC2700 from NewEgg and
>>they sent me PC3200 instead (not to happy). Should I send it back or
>>can I adjust via the BIOS for the 3200 to run as 2700 (or again just
>>send it back)? I know my way around the BIOS but have never
>>overclocked anything nor adjusted voltages. Any help would be
>>appreciated.
>>
>
>You're better off with PC3200, it's backwards compatible.
>You should not need to set the bios any differently, just
>pretend you have a PC2700 module in your hands and proceed
>accordingly.  The bios does not set based on memory PC(nnnn)
>speed, it sets based on the FSB and percentage off of that
>(for nForce2), based on the CPU installed.
>
>FWIW, I have a similar Biostar board and found that even
>with CAS3 memory, it was more stable set to CAS2.5... for
>whatever that's worth.  Test the resulting config with
>memtest86 for several hours prior to booting the OS.