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Nice to be welcomed so quickly - thanksQuote:
Originally Posted by stummerwinter
I think i have plenty of cooling on the CPU... I have the Si120, an 80mm over the ram and accross the open space of the HS and a 120 onto the GPU's. The CPU HS is never hot, bearly ever warm even at the base. Ambiant air is 16c and the HS base (by heat pipes is 24) Southbridge is 22 - 24
Its also cold here tonight but it makes no difference.
Not that i'm unhappy with sub 20 seconds super-Pi 1M
Give the LS a shot. Gaining ~20-25MHz FSB is not uncommon going from air to SS. The VCCA mod is also helpful.
Hello guys,
Today i installed a sata controller on my AOpen because the raid onboard doesn't work and i'm having problems, after instaling windows, the performance is so weak, i get 28mb average speed and burst also 28mb, i don't understand what's happening, if the problem is on the motherboard or the pci card...
Does anyone here tryed to instal a sata raid controler on AOpen?
Using this 2 disks(maxtor diamondmax 10 300gb) i had great performance on my expert, don't know what's wrong.
Help plz ...
Thank you.
Hi,Quote:
Originally Posted by eLias
I tried 2 different Raid cards and both suffered the same issue you have. I tried both PCI slots, but no good... performance was about 1/3 non raid on the SATA mobo slots.
I think you would have to get a very expensive raid card that does all the work on the card to get it to work.
This is imo the one real let down of the Aopen board.... who builds a board like this and does not put a $20 raid chip in it for SATA??? :(
My advice is dont bother... go back to non raid.
I just can't believe it ...
I had so much problems geting this motherboard and now i'm just sad...
I wasn't giving much relevance to the fact the raid wasn't working, i thought a simple pci raid controler would do it but i guess theres no way to have raid on this board, its just stupid ... What about that raid utility program for windows and all that stuff while comp is booting ...
Did they Forgot in the end that there was no sata raid controler on this MB ?
Amazing...
I just turned my computer on after using it last night and it won't post. The Boot LED flashes once for about .5 seconds and then disappears. I follwed the manual for clearing CMOS and that did nothing. I then detached all devices from the board, except the RAM and HDs, and I still can't even get the Boot LED to even flash. The manual says that the LED should flash on and off while POSTing. I switched the RAM around to use different slots. I've also put the 667Mhz jumpers back on. Also removed the battery while clearing CMOS and nothing. I'm currently trying a very long CMOS clear to see if that does anything.
Long CMOS clear didn't work. I then removed Merom 7400 and looked for any signs of damage - nothing.
Nothing has worked. This board has the vcore and vdimm mods.
Does anyone have any idea?
That load screen is for IDE raid, canbe disabled in BIOSQuote:
Originally Posted by eLias
the board just doesnt support sata raid
I had to buy another i975 board since my last one didn't start. I'm using a Merom 7400 and my fear was that I would receive this new board from newegg and the bios would NOT be 1.03b. Sure enough, I got R1.03 bios according to the first screen. It won't boot up past the "PCI device listing" screen.
How do I flash the bios with 1.03b if I can't get past the PCI Device Listing screen? Would a bootable USB stick work?
EDIT: I actually have a laptop with a Yonah chip. Although I much rather not, I guess I could pull the chip out and use it on the Aopen board to flash to the 1.03b. But I really don't want to resort to this since I paid a buttload for the laptop and I've never taken a laptop apart before.
Thanks
You need to put another cpu to flash the board ...
I have now been able to try my Merom 7400 on 2 Aopen boards. The first board had vcore and vdimm mods and the processor made this horrible sound whenever it was under load. It sounded like a train braking hard on the tracks. But what's weird is that my new board (no vcore, no vdimm mods) doesn't make that sound at all. I actually got a higher FSB on the board that made the horrible sound - 225 stable FSB. My newer board struggles to get a stable 220FSB. I'm going to try remounting the heatsink to see if that helps.
I've pretty much had it with this Aopen POC board. I can't wait til Conroe is released so I can put my Merom 7400 into my Acer 8200 and not make this Merom ES purchase a complete waste of money.
My remote doesn't work properly. Sometimes when I boot up, it just doesn't work, other times it does (nofi what the problem is though)
Are also other people who experience this problem?:stick:
Yes, I get a high pitched squeal whenever I move the mouse, or whenever my hard drive (Seagate 7200.7 120GB) seeks/reads/writes.Quote:
Originally Posted by PkG.1337
Going to swap in some different hardware (hopefully) later this week to see if it helps at all.
That's because you use the onboard soundcard I guess? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by zoob
It's coming from the motherboard itself :P I'm thinking it's one of the coils near the mosfets. No speakers are plugged into this rig yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by WeedJunk
Danger30Q should be able to comment on this... he was the one who I noticed brought up the squeal in the Yonah guide.Quote:
Originally Posted by zoob
Question : has anyone here actually had a Merom on SS Phase ?
My former 2600ES had a FSB wall of about 245Mhz on air, 263 on Phase. So it actually made sense to put it in the freezer ;) My Merom has a FSB wall of about 225-227Mhz. So my question : is it any use to put this one on Phase ? Can I expect any gains ?
I tested my T7400ES under DICE last night, but still stucks at 230 MHz to 235 MHz. Strange, that my T2600ES has with the 1.03b also probs under DICE.
With the 1.04 I reached 275 x 13 1M...
Wierd BIOS, anf no other at the horizon...:(
Looking forward to getting this board. It should be good. I will be posting results in a few weeks.
i am waiting for t7600 to come out or a better conroe mobo
Source of the squeal on my board is the L6 Sunlei R28 inductor. If I apply any sort of pressure to it, the squeal is muted, but not completely gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by zoob
Does anyone have experience in silencing these things? Or perhaps is this grounds for an RMA? These are enclosed in little black squares, so I can't readily access them to put on some plastic spray or varnish.
Got the board today. Thanks to Karaktu at Anand (#1 on the Heatware list).
The board looks good. Not sure which bios it has so I am going to start out in a test bed and then add the Merom after using my T2500 I got laying around.
I am hoping for around 2.6-2.7ghz. 3.0 ghz would be gravy.
My build thus far:
Asus 975 ydga
Merom 2.0 ghz T7200 ES
2 X 1 GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 6400 Memory 4-4-4-15
300 GB IDE drive
DVDRW I need to get
Cooler Master Real Power 550
PCI Express Vid card to buy (Will go cheap as I am waiting for the 7950 GX2 to drop or go Crossfire)
Lian Li PC60APlusII
This will be my main rig to go with my Dell Precision M90
Hi!
I have a T2300 stepping 8 CPU and this board. Managed to reach 255mhz(x10), but not even 1mhz more. It doesn't get any better if i increase voltages. At 2540Mhz the CPU is fully stable with 0.95Volts.
The funny thing to me s that, i have to set Vdimm to 2.1ghz to have a stable system (the rams are 2x1gb Corsair Value Select 667s). If a decrease voltage to 2.0 it crashes while POSTing. Ive even tried some fancy Mushkin stuff, but didn't help...
I've read the first 10 pages of this topic only. Is there any way to increase FSB furthermore? I really hope so :)
Thank you in advance!
255 has been the boards post limitation... clockgen or remote control will allow further increases
Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hassan
-Clockgen doesnt work for me. Every attempt to set fsb causes instant freeze.
-Remote workd fine until the sensor was pushed aganst a metal part on the chassis. There was a short circuit, system went off, and then... nothing... remote is out of order :upset: :brick: :cussing: :censored:
any suggestions?