Hello all! I have an Acer Aspire 3 which I use as a general purpose laptop (web browsing, light gaming, remote desktop, etc.) and I have noticed recently that the ram speed is reported as running at a lower speed than it is rated for. The memory is in its factory configuration, with a single stick of ram in the machine, a 2400mhz 2gb Hynix stick of memory with 4gb more of Micron ram soldered to the board for a total of 6gb of memory. I noticed recently in task manager that the ram was reported as running at 800mhz which seemed odd considering the stick was rated at 2400mhz. CPU Z reported the same information, so I decided to boot into a live linux USB and run "dmidecode --type 17" to see if it was an issue with windows or something else. The ram speeds are reported at half since these are DDR (double data rate) dimms and I noticed that the speed is rated properly at 1200mhz (2400mhz actual speed), but for some reason there is a line called "configured memory speed" reading 800mhz (1600mhz is the real speed). This makes it seem like the ram is downclocked, however, I do not see any way to remedy this in the bios. I tried updating the bios as well since the laptop was running an older version but nothing changed. Is there anything that I can do to let the ram run at full speed or am I stuck with these lower ram speeds? Attached, you will find images from task manager and linux. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and kind regards
