I been waiting like 2 hours for windows to install. SOmething is not right. :(
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I been waiting like 2 hours for windows to install. SOmething is not right. :(
Uh... hopefully I'll be embarassed and that'll be it. I just loaded optimized defaults and went on my merry way. I'll look for this option. Thanks.
Right now I got windows loaded but I'm sitting at the startup screen. Maybe in a year and a half it will get in and I can restart and try this. It has got to be something dumb on my part like this. I was just thinking once windows got on I'd be set but ... waiting...
I would think the bios would default to stuff like this. Just a regular IDE 8MB WD here. Nothing bizzare about it.
Edit: IDE DMA transfer Access = enabled. Is this it? Anyone want to shoot me a PM or anything so I dont jack the thread be my guest. Performance is pitiful. I had swapped HDDs it took so long for windows to install I thought it was hanging. AHHHH!!!
edit2: put in my pci hardrive controller card and the system is still f'ing retarded. WTF!
Dear Chaintech, Just set the board up today. I am not happy so far with the performance and overclocking options. board is unstable past 220mhz and won't boot out of bios at any higher mhz. even lowering ht link to 3x doesn't help. memory is good, psu is good, cpu is good. I have very good luck with other motheRboards except this one. My friend also has the board and new gigabyte Nf4. He gets much better results on the gigabyte. HT up to 280mhz. He only gets 220mhz on the chaintech too. We need your bios team in Taiwan to look into a better bios. So far not one bios or drivers on the Chaintech support site. This is unacceptable. Please update bios for better overclocking performance. Also pci-e voltage would be nice. vcore over 1.7v is also preffered, but not absolutely necessary. Main issue here is the low frontside bus issue. 220mhz Maximum overclock is not a good thing. Please help. VNF3 was an amazing board!! We expect the same from VNF4 Ultra. Many overclockers are buying this board due to value price. There are many options, Asus, Gigabyte, MSi, etc.. Chaintech is a good company with solid products, please keep it up!
:)
If you want to see how your board is doing, please follow this thread from top overclocking forum in the world. Many company reps come here for feedback and support, please join us on the forum. Oskar Wu(DFI, Former Abit engineer) OCZ memory reps, gskill,Top 3dmark orb scores are here. etc.
http://xtremesystems.org/forums/show...d=1#post648962
Thanks for your time.
Hopefully they will respond asap, if they pull their socks up and fix up all the negatives of this board which mainly looks like it is the bios it will be one of the top boards especially for its price.
Nice mail you have send them trans am. Hopefully they will respond.
That is what I thought. Chaintech back to their old self, in other words a crapy motherboard.
bad luck John again :DQuote:
Originally Posted by JNav89GT
I wouldnt just say that fir the time being, it might be a s simple as a bios update and you have yourself a top board :DQuote:
Originally Posted by joe2004
Just thinking back how many problems i had with the neo2 :mad:
Now everything is rock stable at high HTT and etc...
What should I do? rma board back to newegg and wait for neo4 or other pci-e 939 offerings? or hold onto it and wait for bios fix? or rma for now and order another if bios fix happens? or sell it on ebay rma = bad Karma? Either way, I'm using trusty dfi 754 for now.Quote:
Originally Posted by [ r2 ]
I thought this was funny... http://www.computerhq.com/hardware/p...id-532379.html
Well since you not planning on using it for now you have few options to take:Quote:
Originally Posted by trans am
-rma
-wait for bios update
If you do rma as it might take sometime you will receive a later release with bios update and etc...
I doubt that Chaintech will release a bios soon, they might be a beta bios floating somewhere soon though.
Look the board once it matures should run well thats the deal for most cases of new releases, however some just get lucky you know the drill ;)
My K8NXP-9 will be here on thursday. I'll post some results.Quote:
Originally Posted by µnrealneo²
No Bios update will get you from 220 to 300, that is only wishful thinking expecting unlikely. RMA it, keep in mind that in every chipset 90+ % of the motherboards are mediocre or just bad. This is just one of such boards.
I remember Chaintech for a long time, only 150 was their first exceptional motherboard. Gotta wait for DFI, Epox or new MSI to see if they make something worth spending $100+.
I been at this 8 hours and I cant even get windows to boot in under like 20 minutes.:(:(:(
Most of the time I try and switch ram it just fugging beeps at me and whatnot. ABout to throw it through the window. The newegg ad says only return for same make and model. Maybe they'll bend but man I am dissapointed.
There are ways around it. especially if you order another or different all together. Just tell em you want a different board and you are going to order another and then you want them to refund your card when they get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by texuspete2k2
For those getting pci-e boards using your current 20 pin atx cable, I just found these. they convert 20 pin to 24 so you can use your psu without any problems. 20 to 24 pin ATX Adapter
http://www.power-on.com/connectors-adapters.html
Thanks for the link. Maybe I'll try one of those. Do you know how to force 2T on this POS per chance? I don't see it in the DRAM config.
I couldn't find it either. the bios engineer must've clocked out a little early on xmas eve before finishing this bios lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by texuspete2k2
why did you get this board? was it the price? it didnt look very good to me from what i saw
i think it will be hard to top the dfi for quite some time, even when the dfi 939s come out the 754 board will be on par
when i get 939 i want the gigabyte 3d1. why did you guys get a normal 6600gt? why not sell 6800 agp for a pcie one or a x800xl? or arent they out yet? i dont know nf4 wont be out till january where i am same with the new pci e cards
Well, I'm not sure if you are refferring to me at all, but I wasn't sure the Asus wasn't going to have it's fresh out of the oven problems either and that was $250+. This is also my first A64 setup and I am not used to having all this money invested in cpu's etc. I thought it would be easier to know I didn't have over $500 in cpu and mobo under my first use of my prometia in a 24/7 rig. I dint know I wouldn't be able to get it to reasonably boot or I would have gotten anything else. I did rely a bit on the vnf250 reputation and in my A64 nubness thought I could rely on HTT multi and AMD's mem controller to take me where I wanted to go or not. My graphics is a BFG 6800GT OC.
I am going to format and try and start over with win2000 (if I can find my copy). You see my XP copy is an upgrade copy. I am just trying to get win98 minimal install going. Something that takes my AMD XP box about 20 minutes to install, whereas here 30 minutes to boot. I used delpart to whack the windows partition and formatted it into FAT and all that. I do this all the time but not working now. Yesterday was my day for messing with this. Now I have a lot of crap to do that I will probably cancel being comp crazed and all. Hope I make some damn headway. Off to work to sulk now... :(
Quote:
Originally Posted by reject
Why do you ask stupid questions?
lol
seriously, we got it cause the vnf3 was decent and figured the VNF4 might be as good, and it's cheap. 6600gt are cheap and are actually available, and they are the best cards you can buy for -$200 have you seen any great deals on x800xt pe? pci-e yet...NO! x800xl doesn't come out 'till mid Jan to Feb. look around man. I am not going to buy another 6800gt just for pci-e. I think x850 pe or x800xl is next. Oh, and the 6600gt is my wifes card.
not everyone gets products from company reps. i think 3 people on xs have neo4's and x800xt pe pci-e cards.
I remember the first A64 board in the USA it was the chaintech nf3-150 and it was an ok board 260mhz fsb and showed the world what bh-5 clocked like on a64 setups, but after a few weeks gigabytes nf3 with a crappy 5:4 ratio kicked its butt. They are OK boards and thats it there quality can't touc that of gigabyte and there overclocking can't touch that of other brands like Asus, Dfi and others..
I bet the gigabyte nf4 4x shows its power very soon as HT means jack sh*t really up to a point as we all set 3x anyways and tests show that the higher the fsb the more you need to drop ht to gain speed in select app's.. Ive seen 3x HT beat 5x HT in 2001 3dmark so HT isn't all that important. If the bus is saturated too much you don't want too high a HT bus selected.
I hate those purple cap's could you tell me what brand those are on there if you get time?
Gigabyte isn't know for making quality boards andQuote:
Originally Posted by choseone214
I can't remember the last time an Asus A64 board was really known for it's overclocking ability. :stick:
Btw, those "Purple" caps are very high quality.
it wasnt a stupid question, i was only meaning why buy now when everything is so new, i would wait till a few reviews and till the refresh cards are out
i didnt know that the x800xt pcie was any rarer than the agp one ive seen it online for aus
and you can sell your agp 6800gt and get a pcie one for litle cost i think
:confused: :)Quote:
Originally Posted by trans am
are you xxxxxxx, lol gigabyte makes some of the finest boards quality wise around. They are some of the fastest stock boards on the market and they always are top notch in the overclocking feild.Quote:
Gigabyte isn't know for making quality boards and
I can't remember the last time an Asus A64 board was really known for it's overclocking ability.
Btw, those "Purple" caps are very high quality.
The asus a8v 2.0's only fault is lack of vdimm. If it had 3.8v vdimm it would be one of the best 939 boards on the market period!!!! Ive seen the VIA chipset hold a 247mhz fsb at 1000mhz ht. The only flaw with the via chipset a8v was the lack of vdimm period. Clock for clock it still rivals the NF chipsets.
and those cap's are not that great. I can assure you and thats why I wanted the name brand I work on repairing electronics day in and day out and those look to me like a low end brand.
:) now back to the subject at hand the chaintech nf4 :)
Ok choseone. Since you work on reparing electronics all the time, you must really know what you are talking about. Sorry for the argument. I noticed you are new to the forum, welcome. Maybe you should read the socket 939 motherboards tweaks and issues thread before making those statements. You know a lot...do you know how many A64 boards I've had since AMD 64 came out? And maybe my opinions are based on actual first hand experience with the boards and not by some review. I ordered the VNF4 so I could let other members know if it was a good board. There are no reviews on the board so I took it upon myself to try it for the rest of you.