I am glad you saw the sarcastic humor in there lawrywild. I believe you have done a great job with this thread and have really gone above and beyond the "Call of Duty" with the help it has given.
WZ
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I am glad you saw the sarcastic humor in there lawrywild. I believe you have done a great job with this thread and have really gone above and beyond the "Call of Duty" with the help it has given.
WZ
Some misunderstood and used a lot of :bs:Quote:
Originally Posted by WeldZilla
:fact: Get a dog! :D
Great topic, good board!
Hello,Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfieg
I had exactly the same thing, Under device manager in IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers have a look at the channel your drive/drives is on, right click and select properties, click the advanced settings tab look at the current transfer mode. Mine had mysteriously changed to PIO when it should have been ultra dma 5, if yours is PIO right click and just uninstall the device. Next time you boot it should be back to normal :)
Cheers
Dan
I second that. Thanks lawrywild :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by WeldZilla
If you take the time to read through this thread it'll tell you everything that's possible and not possible with this board. I like this board and love this thread.
For all those who can't figure out why their system won't run right
1. stop overclocking
2. stop downloading pron
3 start reading instructions
So, for something different, which cooler are you guys using to cool the NB Chipset on this board? I'm most curios in waterblocks, since I'm considering this, but if you don't, post your cooling anyway.
A paste from lawry's first post :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Thewli
Recommended Chipset Heatsinks:
Thermalright HR-05 (use asus clip)
Thermalright HR-05 SLI (use asus clip)
Thermalright NB-1/C
Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II
Swiftech whatever they're called
ASUS stock cooler + 40mm fan
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I personally use the thermaltake extreme spirit II on air, but quite a few regular posted have the swiftech northbridge cooler.. MCW something? I forget the model as well.
How can you tell us to stop with the pron?! That's blasphemous! What else are computers good for? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by iadstudio
Hi, is there a particular breed of dog whose poo is better??? :-)
Chrisc
@ Alfieg
Quote:
slow booooooooooooooooot.
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Hello folks.
This is not regarding an issue with slow posting. It is regarding the bug where p5w and p5b based boards are slow to load windows. The windows load bar scrolls past 10-14 times at boot and that's with raid 0 raptorx and a high spec machine. i have found this with XP and Vista and have tried everything. I am considering offering a reward to the person who can fix this issue, it's been driving me nuts for months. Please Help!
I have had this problem a few times, the last pc I sorted this out on had the line on the WinXP load going across the screen about 40 odd times. How did I fix it....I simply booted into Windows then loaded the Intel chipset drivers again.
Then you will be back to about 6 scrolls during XP's boot up.
Give it a go if you havent fixed it yet.
Chris
PS. I seem to be stuck at 370FSB and I've tried everything in this thread.
PPS. What the max voltage I can safely take this X6800 of mine. It'll go 3.7+
Can someone with this board do me a huge favor?
Can someone measure the distance between the two pci-e 16x slots?
I need to get an SLi bridge for my bad axe 2 and found an asus one for $4 but want to make sure the length is right.
it should be somewhere close to 4cm (1.5 inch) or 6cm.
~6,3cmQuote:
Originally Posted by shimmishim
the MCX159-cu, I had that, but I'm using the extreme spirit II as well now, i believe it cools better and looks better.Quote:
Originally Posted by nickfd
thank you very much!Quote:
Originally Posted by BenchZowner
I come on here all the time to get help with overclocking, but most of the time its just the same
questions over and over and a forum so people can say how great their graphics card is or whatever.
What GFX card I have, or what hard drives I have provides zero bearing on overclocking profile, so
I'm not going to use this as on open forum to show off my wares.
All too rarely, people ask for screen shots of one's BIOS settings so perhaps they can replicate, but
people rarely post them. It's not like o/c is a big secret. My goal was to get as high a clock speed
at 'auto' settings in the BIOS while maintaining decent temperatures.
Anyway, I've had this board for a couple of months, and have tried everything. I'm Orthos stable with
the screen shots of the BIOS and all the settings for 13+ hours at the current speed/setup. But, when
I try and go to 378x9 (3.4ghz), I crash instantly. I can't get above the speeds I have no matter what.
I've tried the memset thing (doesn't make any difference to my performance, still stuck). Although I
would love to see advanced memory timings (my P5B-E has them), I dont' forsee it in any BIOS revision,
but, I'm not so sure that is the issue with this board.
I've read the forums (all billion pages) and it "might" be related to what week processor I have and all
that junk. I'm not sure what week I have (never looked on the box, and I probably threw it away).
Perhaps from my screenshots, someone can guuide me in what else needs to be done to get 3.4ghz (which is
all I want actually).
Yes, I've tried upping vcore, and MCH and FSB settings. But, still no luck. I see a lot of chatter on here
about doing MCH at 1.65v? Unless every board is different, one can be stable at auto settings and 3.3ghz.
I can post and boot in windows at 1.4v vcore at 378x9 (3.4ghz) but it crashes quickly (Orthos). I did a
memtest, and I have no errors. I tried 1.6v vcore I think just to see if what I could do, and I can get
a boot into Windows at 3.6ghz (400x9) with 4-4-4-12 timings, and I could do a cpu-z validation to show off,
but that does nothing for me or anyone else since its not stable.
I'm using air cooling - ZALMAN CNPS9500.
I have not done any modifications (no pencil, vdroop or anything).
I have no cooling on the NB, using everything out of the box.
Case is the Antec P180 (no modifications).
Antec NeoPower NeoHE 550 ATX12V 550W
Memory is:
Patriot eXtreme Performance
PDC22G6400LLK
2GB (2 x 1GB)
DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Cas Latency 4
Timing 4-4-4-12
Voltage 2.2V
Features EPP (Enhanced Performance Profiles) Ready
Temps under full load (Orthos) are ~55 for each core.
I am using Arctic Silver 5 as well.
If you want to use these settings for yourself, go ahead. Once again, there isn't any secret to them.
If you screw something up, don't think that I'm responsible though.
http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bios1uv6.jpg
http://img251.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bios2gg7.jpg
http://img92.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bios3sp6.jpg
http://img251.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopxr4.jpg
Anyway, if anyone sees something in the BIOS that is obvious that I should be doing differently, then
please point it out and I'll give it a shot.
Thanks for all the help in the forums thus far, got me to at least this point.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Digidish
psu problem, maybe? Name the rest of your hardware.
Your voltages looks good to me, maybe you should try 1.55/1.65 in the mhc.
Change your cpu multi to 8, and see if its the cpu that is holding you back
edit: Im sorry, I didnt understand, it crash your computer and it reboots, or it crashes orthos?
I did try x8, x7 everything. Won't let me do anything. 367 is the highest I can do. I"m stable at 367, if I do even 368 ... crash.
Orthos fails, no reboots.
I tried all voltages, even vcore up to 1.6v
Nothign seems to work. My P5B-E with this chip can do 400x9 no problem with 1.45v vcore.
K...thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeus
I have tried version 1.0.5.0 & 1.0.4.7 and both hanged.
I have the revison 1.04 P5W DH so may be they change the ICS ?
Anyway I'll keep it @ 420 1:1 for now
I also own the P5B wifi dlx ( similar to your P5B-E ) & imho this board is not as forgiving when it comes to o'cing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Digidish
It won't get you far if you set both vICH and vMVH to auto, especially the vMCH setting on this board is very much different from P5B-E.
Try vMCH=1.65 and vICH=1.3 but you definitely need beefier cooling on the northbridge.
There'll be work cut out for you to fine tune the P5W, but when it's done properly, I think you'll like this board better.
@digidish --> Enable SPD Timings in BIOS
[QUOTE=monza1412]psu problem, maybe? Name the rest of your hardware.
Your voltages looks good to me, maybe you should try 1.55/1.65 in the mhc.
Change your cpu multi to 8, and see if its the cpu that is holding you back
Hi, the Antec is fine,made by seasonic...
ChrisC
From looking at your BIOS screenies:
- Try CPU Internal Thermal Control "Off"
- SPD Enable and DRAM Throttling Threshold also disabled. Regarding the SPD, some people (like me) can't OC after a certain limit (360 - 370 FSB) with SPD disabled. Enable it and give it a try - hoping that your RAM's EPP should be able to detect/use the proper timings.
Even though you mentioned that you would like to reach a stable OC with everything on auto, I believe that that might be one of your issues. I can reach a 'BF2142 stable' 400 FSB on my board with everything on auto, but it becomes much smoother when I up the voltages a bit. I have mine at:
vMCH - 1.65v
vFSB - 1.40v
vICH - 1.05v
Also, regarding temperatures, I strongly advise to replace the NB's and SB's thermal paste. It's not as complicated as it might look (at least for my noobish eyes it looked that way).
Like Monza mentioned, it could be a PSU issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Digidish
From the first post:Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
I have exact same problem as above.
I cant get my board past 366Mhz FSB unless I increase voltage to vMCH - 1.65v, vFSB - 1.20v and vICH - 1.05v. After doing this I can get to 370Mhz but thats it. I have have altered the vMCH, vFSB and vICH to there max voltage and I still couldnt get past 370Mhz FSB. All I get is a blank screen upon boot. I have only tried up to 1.4625 or so volts to the processor but what can I safely go up to? It is water cooled using an Asetek Extreme kit.
I can run the processor at 370 * 10 but cant run it at 400 x 9. Odd huh?
I set the MEM to SPD but I am wondering if its has something to do with the SuperTalent modules I use. The are supposed to run at 4.4.3.8 @ 800Mhz but cpuZ report the SPD setting at something different at the default speed. Would this have an effect on the overclock of the FSB at all when I set them to SPD to get past the 370Mhz or so FSB wall? I can run this memory at 1066Mhz using 5.5.5.15 timings so it isnt the memory speed holding me back.
I have some different PC800 modules arriving soon so will try those and see.
Any help appreciated.
Chris
Sounds very similar to most of us that have earlier week produced CPUs. I have a week 27 if I remember (check my sig), and slightly over 380fsb is my absolute max. I'm on water and can and am pushing 1.60-1.61 vcore to the chip and idle at 55c, gaming at 65c, and torturing (prime95) at 71c. That's fine for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisUK
Have you tried using memset to set your tRFC and tRD to 42-8 ? I'd recommend to boot to your stable clock with loosened timings, SPD if necessary, set your tRFC and tRD, and clockgen/setfsb/whatever up to a higher fsb. Lots of people have to do this to hit higher clocks.
Hey,
Finally recieved my new motherboard after my first one died, but i'm having some probs already.
It came with bios 1601/1602 (can't remember which). I've flashed it to 1901, but since then i've wanted to 'downgrade' the bios to 1407 and have found that I can't flash to anything older than 1901 anymore. I've tried AsusUpdate, with the downgrade option checked, then i've tried EZ Flash, and then AFUDos... nothing seems to work! Does anyone know why this is happening or what i can do?
Thanks
AFUDOS v2.11 flashback should work ( and works ).
But there's a new kid on the block ( LOL ), flash to BIOS v2001 ( check pages 202-205 of this thread ), then you can downgrade with Asus Update & EZ-Flash ( within BIOS ) :)
[ to downgrade with Asus Update you gotta "tick" the "Downgrade" value in options ]
I just picked up this board, what do i need to do to get Vista "sleep" mode working?
Thanks