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11-22-2006, 11:52 PM
htltwb

i have a evga 680i and can overclock to 1900 fsb every easy but it seem like the fan header next to the i/o panel doesnt work. I was wondering if i am the only one with this problem because i am thinking of returning it and get one that works. I worry though that the new mb wont oc as well as this one. any thoughts will be helpful.
11-22-2006, 11:58 PM
damnnit

My fan header was down on this board until I attached a fan to the cpu header first. Try that if you havent.
11-23-2006, 04:33 AM
X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE

is any one getting a loud beep and C1 error?
11-23-2006, 04:42 AM
dinos22

Quote:

Originally Posted by zakelwe

That is very interesting. My X6800 also puts up terrible SuperPi results which runs minutes slower than it did for 32M on 975.

I think BIOS revisions will be the only hope for a fix for this.

Regards

Andy

time Lopri posted is decent for Allendale
11-23-2006, 04:49 AM
Pt1t

after evga, i m going to test that tonight :D

http://users.skynet.be/pt1t/Asus_Striker/back.jpg
11-23-2006, 04:54 AM
dinos22

that cooling is very funky :D
11-23-2006, 05:09 AM
icon57

is there any gas in those pipes? i would think you need some fans blowing over some of those fins...
11-23-2006, 05:52 AM
vmsein

Quote:

Originally Posted by palese

I just received Corsair 6400C3D today and only one stick will boot, if I try to run pair I get a C1 error, one stick will boot ok but the other one gives me C1 error. Any ideas:confused:

You may have received a bad memory stick. Perhaps it's RMA time:(
11-23-2006, 06:38 AM
sadcat1

I guarantee you that a C1 hex code(long beep) with two sticks of ram is a bad board. I had that. I replaced board the. same, so I replaced the ram. No help. Third board, both sets of ram work. Easy as pie. With mine even a single stick of ram did not work in either right side slot. Either stick worked in the left hand slots. Running again now, but have new ram I don't need.
11-23-2006, 06:47 AM
X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE

Quote:

Originally Posted by sadcat1

I guarantee you that a C1 hex code(long beep) with two sticks of ram is a bad board. I had that. I replaced board the. same, so I replaced the ram. No help. Third board, both sets of ram work. Easy as pie. With mine even a single stick of ram did not work in either right side slot. Either stick worked in the left hand slots. Running again now, but have new ram I don't need.

i get the C1 with long beep with 1 stick as well.
11-23-2006, 07:43 AM
Badge56

Quote:

Originally Posted by zakelwe

Also, has there been a fix yet for the ntune problem not being able to set the FSB correctly ?

Regards
Andy

My Ntune just disaperes if I click manual configuration.... Useless application !!
Any idea?:stick:
11-23-2006, 08:26 AM
gabriel_e78

Quote:

Originally Posted by Badge56

My Ntune just disaperes if I click manual configuration.... Useless application !!
Any idea?:stick:

Yes, you must change your country settings to ENGLISH (US)...

Unbelivable that Nvidia did't fix this yet...
11-23-2006, 08:34 AM
billdavis

Anyone know where the vdimm and vcore measure points are on this board

and are there any nb/sb temp monitoring tools for this board
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11-23-2006, 09:31 AM
lopri

People with memory stick causing C1 error in the debug code, boot the board with working stick(s) then configure your settings first. Play around for 5 mins and set a comfortable configuration for the working stick(s) and up the Vdimm a bit. Now clean the non-working stick with alcohol and air-dry it thoroughly.

Insert the non-working stick with a working stick. Tada. It should work now!
11-23-2006, 09:42 AM
palese

Quote:

Originally Posted by lopri

People with memory stick causing C1 error in the debug code, boot the board with working stick(s) then configure your settings first. Play around for 5 mins and set a comfortable configuration for the working stick(s) and up the Vdimm a bit. Now clean the non-working stick with alcohol and air-dry it thoroughly.

Insert the non-working stick with a working stick. Tada. It should work now!

Thanks lopri I gave it a shot but still did not work, I think my stick is bad for sure.

One thing that I am confused on, when I run Everest benchmark for Read, Write, Copy, Latency, I do fine with Latency but the rest blows, I would never have thought this with this ram. When I bump up the FSB my Latency shoots to the top on the benchmark but everything else suffers, If I do not OC my benchmarks on this ram is poor. Im running it at about 850MHz @ 3.4.3.9 cpu@3.3Ghz with 300.0 FSB

Thanks.
11-23-2006, 10:21 AM
lopri

Quote:

Originally Posted by palese

Clean the contact with alcohol, if I need to rma will the cleaning with alcohol be a problem?

Absolutely no. :) I had the same C1 problem with one of my sticks. I first thought my stick was defective because I didn't have a problem booting with my other pair. (Both pairs are exact same model, same batch)

After playing a bit with the working pair, I used canned air to blow any dirt away from the sticks and the slots. I also configured the BIOS settings to what I wanted (including Vdimm). Shut down the machine and inserted the problematic sticks, then it worked flawlessly ever since.
11-23-2006, 10:47 AM
lopri

Quote:

Originally Posted by palese

Thanks lopri I gave it a shot but still did not work, I think my stick is bad for sure.

One thing that I am confused on, when I run Everest benchmark for Read, Write, Copy, Latency, I do fine with Latency but the rest blows, I would never have thought this with this ram. When I bump up the FSB my Latency shoots to the top on the benchmark but everything else suffers, If I do not OC my benchmarks on this ram is poor. Im running it at about 850MHz @ 3.4.3.9 cpu@3.3Ghz with 300.0 FSB

Thanks.

There could be many reasons. I had a similar experience with Sandra where it used to give me half the bandwidth of 975X. In my case the problem was either NV IDE driver (not likely) or the Sandra itself. Uninstalled and installed a newer version, and problem was fixed.

What version of Everest are you running? Can you post a screenshot? Make sure it's at least Ver.3.
11-23-2006, 11:14 AM
palese

[IMG]http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/7595/readvf8.th.gif[/IMG]

Sorry as you can see I have no idea what I am doing, here is an example.
11-23-2006, 11:28 AM
hot_fifty

conroe do not have so much BW, but it dosent really need it. Just pure cpu power
11-23-2006, 11:33 AM
lopri

Are you running with 1 stick? Then you're losing the advantage of dual-channel so the score would make sense.
11-23-2006, 11:42 AM
sadcat1

I can tell you in my case no sticks work in the right slots, all sticks work in the left slots and when a stick is put in either right slot,I get C1 and a long beep.
11-23-2006, 01:32 PM
X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE

could it be evga'a board that is killing ram? because here is another report from some one with 2 bad sticks.

Quote:

Originally posted by linflas
and I have 2 GB of Gskill sitting on my desk waiting for an RMA number because one stick I know for sure has gone to the ******per, and another that I do not trust now, back to corsair for me, as soon as I get new one's back from RMA the gskill goes on ebay, and I get some better corsair stuff
11-23-2006, 02:05 PM
palese

Quote:

Originally Posted by lopri

Are you running with 1 stick? Then you're losing the advantage of dual-channel so the score would make sense.

Yes the other bit the dust:(
11-23-2006, 02:21 PM
nugzo

Just a thought about the poor Super Pi times...... Could the SATA/RAID issues with this board be slowin SP down? I get the RAID error pop-up frequently on my RAID 5 storage disk. when i get this error the system is slow to respond. That cant be good if the OS is freakin out over RAID errors when its tryin to do teh Pi.
11-23-2006, 04:15 PM
palese

I hope nvidia is working hard on a new bios and soon, only hope left is DFI . :fact:

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