Added 5 New BIOS's to the page:
v1.B4 Beta
v1.B4 Beta XMOD by Murdok & Sideeffect?
v1.B4 Beta XXMOD by Murdok & Sideeffect?
v1.B4 Beta MOD by Sideeffect
v1.B4 Beta MOD by Syar
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Added 5 New BIOS's to the page:
v1.B4 Beta
v1.B4 Beta XMOD by Murdok & Sideeffect?
v1.B4 Beta XXMOD by Murdok & Sideeffect?
v1.B4 Beta MOD by Sideeffect
v1.B4 Beta MOD by Syar
raillex -
no not NF3 ... NF4 if you wanna do 300mhz 1T 1:1 then you wont do it on a NF3 board or if you do its rare very rare.
the DFI nforce 4 boards are the only ones that do that and infact if you look at gskills website they recommend that ram and the LA stuff for high HTT on a DFI NForce 4 ONLY!
If you want to go to the MSI NF4 do it but be aware there are rumblings that the boards hates the new cpu's. might wanna check the MSI forum.
Matrix -
links for new bios's are dead, i assume that it just takes a little whie for the host to update ?
LOL! It would probably be good if I actually uploaded files to the server wouldn't it :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Lestat
Fixed now, thx
Copy your installed Prime 95 folder into a new folder which you can call something like "Prime95copy"Quote:
Originally Posted by uniacid
Open Prime95 in the two Prime95 folders you now have. Then "control alt delete" to open the task manager. Go the the second tab in task manager -processes, you should find two instances of a process called prime95. Right click on the first, set affinity to "processor 0", Right click on the the second, set affinity to "processor 1. "
Then start the same tests on both copies. Good luck!
Thanks matrix
unfortunately i refuse to flash to these new bios's until they fix the AGP Throttling issue.
has anyone been able to verify if the issue is still there with the 1.b4 bios ?
Dont know yet Lestat. I still dont get it :p:
Nothing much has changed in 1.B4 so i think you probably will get the problem still.
it has to be a power issue related to the ATI/ Nvidia Speedup. or a MHZ issue where the NV/ATI speedup thinks the card is overclocked to far and throttles back.
i have never checked the official MSI version only your version.
Did you get any verification whether the official versions do it to or just yours.
I initially had mentioned not altering the ATI/NV speedup setting to see what it does. i doubt it would help cuz your just chnaging the defualt setting but anything is worth trying.
I have the problem with both 1.A0 and 1.B3, haven’t tried 1.B4 yet tho. I don't see why it would be any different tho.
As soon I get my G.Skills back I'm going back to 1.90 Mod by Murdok, It seems to be the best for me so far.
The only reason I'm sticking with 1.B3 right now is to use the 150 divider on this BH-5.
Sideeffect, Is there anyway you can disable the option in the BIOS that controls its ability to throttle the GPU?
If you ask me the MB shouldn't be able to decide that anyway, should be up the nvidia drivers/thermal sensor on the GPU board.
Matrix and SE and Murdock
ill tell you right now and ask nicely
DUMP THAT STUPID XXMOD 1.b4 bios.
1)
cmos checksum error happens every single time
2)
you can not enter the bios all it does it go to a blinking cursor
3)
i have no idea what that ATA Security thing is but it looks like a 100% homebrew piece of crap and its doing all kinds of freaky crap.
4)
it says "Hit ctrl-s to enter setup" but guess what.. there is no setup and ctrl-s dont work.
LUCKILY i was able to hit F1 at the cmos checksum error and boot to a floppy and flash back to 1.8 MSI bios. (im doing that cuz when i rma this board i need to let them see that the board is :banana::banana::banana::banana:e even with the official msi bios.)
please remove that bios. i dont know what it is or who made it or whatever but get rid of it before someones board gets toasted from this goofy bios.
and if someone can add a "ATA Security ROM" which is useless i mean technically without knowing anything about it all it should do is password the drives for security or encrypt the data, and frankly unless your in a high security infastructure, thats pretty lame and useless and uses needed resources.
opps i was gunna say if someone can add a security rom the by gawd someone can add Memtest into the bios and make it a boot option. like Hit CTRL F2 for memtest
its a 4 meg rom chip not all 4 megs are being used. its only a 512k rom which of course if compressed yes but you obviously added a security rom so add memtest instead ;)
well i do believe the throttling is gone.
but performance is suffering for some reason.
i went from 6131 to 5883 in 3dmark '05 6800 Ultra @ 450/1120
What BIOS are u using? 1.B4 XMOD?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lestat
If so I'll test it out tomorrow after work and see if I take a performance hit, and if the throttling is gone.
erm Xmod is nothing to do with me.....
My bios files are on my site. Xmod is the german MSI forum bios. I also think you misunderstand what im able to do to the bios files. I dont rewrite the AGP bus or anything if theres a problem with the agp in my mod bios theres a problem with the agp bus in all versions of the same bios.
Although there isnt a problem for me or most people so its a bit hard for me to diagnose. Out of 4 people i have heard about that have the issue 1 was able to fix it by disabling throttling and another was able to fix it by changing latency.
The other 2 which includes Lestat werent able to fix it. Everyone else i have asked about it has had no problem at all.
So is it a bios problem or a hardware configuration problem? I believe its a bit of both the bios is more selective about hardware and needs more configuration. I wish i got these issues so i could work out whats wrong.
wait a minute
SE how are you disabling throttling ? you mean with RivaTuner or via a setting in one of your bios's ?
and yes its near impossible to fix something that doesnt happen to you. so tons of respect to you for even trying to fix it :toast:
Matrix -
I am using the 1.B4 By Syar. i believe all he did was show the hidden items.
maybe its just me but im seeing alot of undervoltage with the 1.B4 on the vcore.
havent tested vdimm yet
Just you.
yep just you.
hhmm figures
oh well my Ultra-d comes on thursday
im gunna take this board out and poke some hole's in it with the ol ladies .38 since i sold my S&W 9mm
Suddenly I can´t get my Redlines to boot. If I disconnect the booster and use my Corsair XLPT Tccd it works great. Then after a while I turn it of, and put the booster and Redlines back again. Now the Redlines work great again, I can run memtest @260Mhz without failing. Overnight I turn the computer off. Next morning I can´t boot again. Whats going on?
ram is toast
mobo is :banana::banana::banana::banana:ty when you run high volts with a booster
head over to Mushkin's forum you'll see tons of people saying this then their redline dies completely
it runs fine for a while then if you power off it just beeps or wont boot.
ok then you pull the ram out and let it sit overnight or a few days then it works again.
this cycle keeps going until the ram total dies
do some testing but its possible the ram is dieing.
my neo2 did the same thing to some redline. the neo2 is only rated for 3.4v with the booster if you didnt know. So it may harm things to run higher voltages.
try the ram in another system if possible
But as long as I keep it at 3.4v they should survive, don´t you think!?
I guess Murdok figured out how the do the dividers by him self? Because for the first XMOD BIOS he did he had u add the dividers first correct?Quote:
Originally Posted by sideeffect
I just figured he did the same thing this time so I added ur name, I'll fix that.
And I know u don't normally do anything with the AGP, but was wondering if u could.
And Riva tuner and the AGP lat are no help in stopping my 6800GT from trottling.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Leary
well ... if you look at the ram 3.4v is only rated for 250mhz. and to go higher you need more volts especially on this mobo.
but thats not the point. the point is every post i have seen where this starts happening its cuz the ram is dieing. nothing will fix it now. so watch it carefully.
I know with mine once it started beeping it was done.. nothing worked.... the ram wouldnt even boot at stock 200mhz WITHOUT the booster. which it will do normally.
Yup I have 2 pairs of BH-5 which behaves like this after using the booster to boost the vdimm to 3.5V+, after 1 or 2 days, they couldn't boot at the HTT before and they needed 3.2V to boot at default settings (200MHz 2-2-2-5). Strangely I put it in my friend's DFI NF4, I can reach 250MHz+ again....Quote:
Originally Posted by Lestat
my dead readline stick lives again
is ddr500 at 2-3-3-7 good from a tccd stand point or is it average