On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:37:20AM -0400, joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote: > Or, does it have to set the register values just enough to get > going so it can then detect spd? Probably true, the SPD EEPROM is on the RAM module itself so at least some part of the memory controller may need to be working to reach it. //Peter