How did you monitor the volts?
Does your PSU have a -5V rail?
Because my brothers doesnt so he cant see the display, and the BIOS he is using doesnt monitor Vdimm.
Can anyone suggest a program/BIOS version that does?
Thanks.
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How did you monitor the volts?
Does your PSU have a -5V rail?
Because my brothers doesnt so he cant see the display, and the BIOS he is using doesnt monitor Vdimm.
Can anyone suggest a program/BIOS version that does?
Thanks.
Why not look at the display on the booster?
The display doesnt work without a -5V rail, my bother doesnt have a -5V rail on his PSU. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Leary
click the link in side effects signature, on his website he has pictures of where to test the vdimm with a volt meter
and no bios on the neo2 monitors vdimm.
do NOT use that booster without knowing exactly what voltages your setting it to, all your gunna do is fry your ram or fry the mobo.
OCZ's website says the booster is only good up to 3.4v thats not true it will handle 3.8 just fine. your ram is gunna get red hot at 3.8v lol but the board will handle it.
i got some Corsair XMS PC3500 old school BH-5 coming in a few days so ill try that out and report back.
Sideeffect do you have anyways to setup 1.36 rev4 or 1.8 rev3 to run on bh-5 ?
or will i just have to use the usual 2-2-2-5 setting. ?
MSIMAX -
why are you running your AGP at 67 ?
what up guys, thought I'd update ya, I just installed my X2 4400+ :D
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CCBWE 0523VPMW
does this look good? been out for too long, got too much reading to do :P
send it to me ill test her out and let you know if its any good ;)
my neo2 won't boot with my new e6 venice. I get 2 red lights and 2 orange lights
did you flash to the new bios guy ?
you must upgrade.
also pull out the memory and use only 1 stick then see
reset the cmos using the jumper.
yada yada same ol tricks,., but be sure to upgrade to atleast 1.A or 1.B thats just gunna make sure you have the latest running bios from MSI
im running 1 stick of pdp xbl. tried resetting cmos but same issue. how can i flash the bios when it wont boot properly?
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Originally Posted by Lestat
He doesnt need to flash before booting with an X2 chip, He can use any BIOS from 1.36 and on. But only 1 core will show up untill he updates to 1.9, 1.A or 1.B.
You can't, the BIOS isn't the problem anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by fatfreepork
Do u know the board is good for sure? Have u used it with another CPU?
If you know the board works try reseating the CPU.
And whats the system do when u power it up?
Its possible he had a pre 1.36 bios on the motherboard. You still have the newcastle to put in and then flash to another bios?
like i said or i guess i didnt say i only implied it
stick in whatever chip you had before and reflash it to the 1.B bios.
i say the 1.B cuz that offers full support for the X2 plus Sideeffect has fixed a few things.
6 More BIOS's Added to the page...
1.B3 Beta
1.B3 Beta Mod by Murdok
1.B3 Beta XMOD by Murdok & Sideeffect
1.B3 Beta Mod by Sideeffect
1.B3 Beta Mod by Syar
1.B2 Beta Mod by Syar
BTW does anyone have anymore info on the XMOD?
USB2.0 Enabled or anything?
I bought the board used and never had another chip in it.
You said u get 2 red lights and 2 orange lights when u boot up, we need to know what lights are what colors tho. There is a lot of combinations where 2 lights are red and 2 are orange.Quote:
Originally Posted by fatfreepork
And can u ask the person you bought the board from what BIOS it has in it?
When i power it up, all the fans spin, hard drive seems to work, floppy drive has a light and it all seems good. My case doesn't have a speaker so no beeps i can use.
In the back, i have red lights on the bottom left and top right, and orange lights on the bottom right and top left.
I will ask about the bios.
In my neo2 manual this is what it says about that step of the POST.
So yeah it sounds like its hanging when trying to identify ur CPU.Quote:
-BIOS Sign On
This will start showing information about logo, processor brand name, etc...
I'd say find out what BIOS the board has, and if its pre 1.36 then your guna have to use another CPU like SE and lestat recommended.
Or you can buy a bios chip with the latest NEo 2 bios from here Badflash.com
Then you just have to switch the bios chips over. Then after you can boot you can hot flash the old chip to a new bios as well and then you have a spare.
Its always good to have a spare bios chip. Especially with all the different beta and mod bios files that are out at the moment to try.
Of course, if you don't want to spend the money for another bios chip, you can do a hot swap bios flash if you have another motherboard with the same type of bios chip socket. Just use the same flash software as the original motherboard's bios. Be sure to disable bios caching before doing this.
guys I need some help with my timing, I have OCZ EL GOLD PC4400 Memory and I need to find some good timing to get me overclocking, I would like to get the new VX series but can't right now, so any help would be appreciated
Also I'm using the latest MSI bios 1.A and I'm wondering if anyone else is having problems with USB 2.0? all of a sudden windows is saying I don't have any usb 2 capable ports when I used to....
previous owner says 1.9 official MSI beta bios.Quote:
Originally Posted by D3kMatrix
ah I see, dumb:banana::banana::banana::banana:s at MSI disabled usb 2 in their new bios, wtf kinda :banana::banana::banana::banana: is that? any how whats a good bios for the X2's?
so far I got my 4400 to 2.5 although I have to use 3-4-4-8 timings, I'm also amazed at the temp and wondering if they are infact true, right now idle its at 25C which would be a first for me as my FX53 would idle round 38-40 and even my 3700 around the same
I have switched to Rev2 ... for me it seems more stable than TCCD version ...
I continu my test but I begin to be lazy of test stability :( ... Why the nf3 doesn't support high fsb in sync ?! with a dfi nf4 my sticks run @ 290mhz lol
Continue the great work ! all modders/dev/testers ;)
alright I've gotten up to around 2.6 with my x2 4400 but I'm wondering how I can set the voltage in bios since I can't seem to go above 1.4-1.45, I saw some others got up to 1.54 or so and I'm wondering how they got theirs up there as mine doesn't seem to allow it
well i finally friggin did it.
finally got my video card going
i just gave it a shot of "act right" and now its acting right
i flashed it with the same bios i had in my old BFG 6800 GT that was a killer card.
now whats really screwed up is that i had done this already several times about ohhhh..... .... over a month ago, but it wasnt this card it was another 6800 Ultra...
so.. i now have finally broken 6000 in 3dmark 05 and 14,000 in 3dmark 03.
man talk about being really ticked off at a video card lol.
i do believe that the cpu is dieing though... im having alot of troubles staying stable at 2.6 or above... right now im at 2520 and its fine so... HTT = 280 1:1 CPU = 9x
I also have probs with the tccd version but not the rev2. Does anyone know what these patriots have in them? I thought they were tccd. See my sig for specs.
Any 1B3 TCCD version? I found that the 1Amod TCCD version provides me the best performance
So can anyone direct me to upping the vcore properly since it hasn't been normal for me at least since using the new cores
You need to use the % to get higher vcore. I have found that 1.375 at 8.3% gives me around 1.47 vcore. I think if you go higher than 1.425 it will go to the default vcore.
uniacid if you look in the bios there is a setting called % over Vid
set the regular VID(vcore) to 1.45 and then set the % to 3.3 5 8 or 10 that will raise it up to 1.5v 1.55v 1.6v and 1.65v
1.65v is the max your gunna get
just set the regular to 1.45 then set the percentage to 3.3% and then see how high you can go then go to 5% and see
but you need to run Prime95 for a day to really break in the cpu then raise the voltage and overclock.
dont forget if your ram wont handle a higher HTT then your out of luck... or you could run the ram on a divider..
i dont have an X2 nor know very much about them so i dont know what the voltage limit on the X2 is so be careful
hmm I believe I set mine to 1.45 with 3 or 5% up but it seems like 1.440 is the limit, I'll try 1.425
edit:
ok 1.425 with % seems to work, kinda weird why its like that
I also have another question, how can I run two instances of prime95 to test both cpu's
you dont actually test both cpu's it does it on its own. it will use both cores. or it should be using both cores as far as i know. i could be wrong though
but yes there is a way to run 2 prime 95's to really test your cpu but i dont know how to do that.
I switched from Kingston HyperX PC4000 @ 2.5-3-3-7-1T to OXZ Gold 2-2-2-5-1T. The problems lies in the fact I can not post with the settings I had the HyperX running at, and I forgot to set everything back to default before I switched out. Is there a jumper I can mess with to revert to default Bios settings, or something I can do to get into the bios. The troubleshooting indicator on the back hangs and beeps at memory damaged or installed improperly. I know the RAM works because I had it in a P4 rig before I switched out. Anything I can do to get it to boot or post to bios?. Also, is there a way to mod this mobo to get more DDR voltage for optimal use on the OCZ Gold since it loves the juice?
man dont you guys have a manual or go to the msi site to download the manual ?
there is a jumper underneath the orange PCI slot called JB1 i believe.. i can never remember the name of it but its a single lonely jumper all by itself about 2 inches or so from END of the mobo, and right at the bottom edge . just move that from 1/2 to 2/3 for 5 seconds then move it back. with the system off please lol.
You need to reset the cmos its a little jumper loccated at the bottom of the board below the last pci slot.
Its kinda right in the middle and just below the orange pci slot. It will probably be a green cap with 3 pins. The cap is over the bottom two pins. Turn the pc off then take cap off and move it to cover the top two pins then move it back again then turn pc on.
The Max DDR voltage is limited by hardware not my the bios. The way to get more is by using a ddr booster or you can mod the board also but id get the booster if i were you.
You need a mod version of prime testing the normal prime will just test 1 core. I thought i heard they have the version that supports dual core at the prime95 website. Did you look there?Quote:
Originally Posted by uniacid
Thnx, I have the manual, I just couldn't find it, besides, that is what people hang in forums for, to help others, or to complain opinions. Am I right? :) Thanks again though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lestat
Quote:
Originally Posted by sideeffect
I would get the booster, but I have an XP-90 and it will not fit under there. :( Besides, this is just going to be used for a bit longer as I am getting a DFI Lanparty NF4.
For the Cmos reset, move the green cap (where is the "JBAT" text) for 2 second and back to the original position. Photo :
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got my mem today will test later on hopfully good results :)
good stuff guy how much ?
thats probably gunna be TCC5 be mindful of that stuff its not known to work very good on NON NF4 boards.
i have the OCZ PC4800 Platinum and it is pretty much designed only for the Nforce 4 boards like the DFI and ASUS.
i can only get around 280 2.4-4-3-10 on the neo2. even if i go to 3-4-4-10 or 3-5-5-10 it wont go any higher.
also try to stay with 2.7v my ram dont really work any better with more Volts. but try 2.8 and 2.85
does the X2 have the unlocked multipliers ? i hope so cuz then you can really crank the ram as far as the board will let you otherwise your gunna be stuck at a low ram speed.
lastly.. my ram can go 242mhz 2-3-2-10 so try that for yours also when you mess with different speeds.
and Acyd -
i didnt mena to imply you were lazy or dumb or anything, just surprises me that people ask certain questions here cuz it would take way way less time to go to google or the msi site and find the info.
and the JBAT1 jumper or reset cmos is in the manual and pretty clearly marked if i remember correctly but its been a while since i saw a NEO2 manual lol.
right now im up to 290x9 but with the 10x i get errors from all parts of the mem
The multis with the x2 are locked for upper multis. Mine is capped at 10x. I am thinking about getting a dfi lp nf4 ultra d soon. It depends on how cheap I can pick a pci video card. This memory does okay for 1gb sticks.
trying to figure out what to do when u get errors in test 5 i know not to raise volts but ive been using winbond stuff since i started all this tccd is new to me
Ok, I tried the JBAT1 jumper, and I tried taking out the battery for over 5 minutes as someone in another forum suggested. No luck, I had the jumper switched for like 2 minutes. Was that to long should I try it just for a few seconds, then put it back. I can not get this damn thing to boot with MyOCZ or some Corsair XMS. What else can I try aside from buying the HyperX PC4000 I had in it before to get it to boot?
well first off you NEED the ddr booster resetting the bios defualts the memory voltage to like 2.7v
i cant say this enough you NEEEEDDDDD the ddr booster so you can get above 3v.
the OCZ and mushkin are real flakey when it comes to booting the UTT ram at low volts. ive seen it way way too many times.
are you able to verify that the ram is even good ?
screw that hyperX 4000 that stuff is the worst PC4000 on the market i have seen generic 4000 overclock more than this stuff does. lol
anyways your not gunna get high voltage ram to run on that board even at low clocks without a ddr booster.
but it is surprising that it wont even boot
pull one stick out and leave one in, try that see what happens.
frankly your not gunna overclock that ram unless you have the booster and really. tccd ram will run 2-2-2-5 just like that UTT stuff will at low mhz.
where is your old ram ?
MSIMAX your running your running your X2 at almost 2.7ghz thats pretty good. and thats a damn good overclock for that ram on this board wish my OCZ would do that.
i think me and sean need to have a talk.......
also 10x multi's seem to be goofy even the venice's and other chips.
its also part of the motherboard ,,, same with mine if i switch to 9x or 8x i can get a higher HTT.
try 8x and run the ram on 166mhz and see how far you can crank her up...
what is your cpu voltage at ? and what is your ram voltage at ?
I had to sell the HyperX a couple months ago as I needed the cash I got out of it. I know it didn't OC worth a crap. I do not need the booster to boot up some Corsair CH5 as I had used that same ram to boot into the bios before when I messed something up. I have tried the 1 stick, 2 sticks, 4 sticks. I think I may have screwed something up, though I have no clue as to what. I got the OCZ not really for this setup, but for the setup I will be making around Christmas time. I just wanted to run it stock so I can play games without my wife wanting her PC back. :)
I think My neo2 Platinum is broken. Keeps rebooting now after its been on for maybe 30 mins then wont start up again. I have to leave it off for maybe 2 - 3 hours then start it again and it works for maybe 30 mins again.
Get windows bbcode 9c error which is faulty CPU, M/B or RAM. The ram i have tested in another pc and its good. So its either faulty cpu or motherboard and i really dont think its the cpu.
So looks like my time with the neo 2 is short lived. Need another motherboard now. Not sure if ill get another neo 2 or get a DFI nforce 3. I cant go Nforce 4 yet because i would need to sell my 6800gt agp card and buy a SLI card and also id need a 24 pin PSU and i dont have any money ....
poop :mad:
is the SBridge fan running ?
are all your temps looking right ?
how bout booting into linux if you have linux does it do the same thing ?
got a spare HD laying around you can load windows on and see if that works ?
I would say call msi and see what they say, and then RMA it. The neo2 is almost NOT worth RMA'ing but for guys like us who cant afford it we almost got no choice.
Can anyone please tell me how to increase the voltage to the northbridge? I've been told that raising the AGP voltage also increases the voltage to the northbridge, is this true? If it is what the max safe AGP voltage you can use? (I have a 6800GT).
Thanks muchly.
there is no northbridge on an AMD64 system. the northbrodge is part of the CPU itself/
what you see on the motherboard is the southbridge.
It's a big discussion about if raising the apg voltage helps in overclocks.
Frankly and i say this with 100% honesty and becuase i have tested it many many many times. there is no difference if you raise the AGP voltage.
BUT some people claim it helps i say it dont but thats on my motherboard and thats with MY testing.
if you raise the AGP voltages its not gunna hurt your video card cuz the videocard only uses a very very minute amount of what you set in the bios. In fact 8x AGP only uses 0.80v if i remember correctly. where as 4x AGP uses 1.5v and 2x uses 3v.
go ahead raise the agp it might help.. for me it doesnt do anything but make my southbridge chip get hot lol.
MSI messed up DFI has a seperate setting for "Chipset Voltage" well MSI didnt wanna do that.
it's a general thought that 1.7v is the max you wanna go.
so anyone try these new bioses? I'm wondering which I should use :P
1.B3 Beta
1.B3 Beta Mod by Murdok
1.B3 Beta XMOD by Murdok & Sideeffect
1.B3 Beta Mod by Sideeffect
1.B3 Beta Mod by Syar
1.B2 Beta Mod by Syar
tuff to say id start with 1.B3 Beta Mod by Sideeffect.
unless you have tccd ram i dont think the Gold is tccd isnt it Hynix ?
either way start with that bios and see how far you get.
yeah I believe its hynix
yeah use that bios i mentioned it should be just fine. if not use a different one until you get the right feel.
how far have you been able to go with that Gold hynix.
my last hynix was PC4000 Gold Rev 2 which totally sucks unless you slam it with 3.4v or higher then lol i was able to run 290 2.5-4-3-10 but without that much voltage it didnt overclock very good. but i have never tried the 4400 it may be different.
my highest that I ever tried was this
http://intenseghetto.com/o/albums/be...md/300cpuz.JPG
http://intenseghetto.com/o/albums/be...300cpuzmem.JPG
8.5 multi makes the ram not 300mhz
thats an old version of cpu-z that wasnt showing real ram speed.
a 8.5 multi and 300 HTT would make the ram like 280mhz i believe. UNLESS the FX-53 doesnt do that with the 1/2 multipliers i thought all A64's did that.
Hmm Left pc off all night got up today put it on and its been on for 3 hours no problems. Was playing games for 2 hours of that time.
Yesterday it wouldnt boot with stock settings and 3 different sticks of ram i tried in single channel. I think its gotta be something with the sensors or something with the power supply.
Yesterday it wouldnt save anything to the bios. Like it would curropt the bios everytime i changed a setting. Had to clear cmos all the time. I really hate problems like this which arent easy to diagnose. :slapass:
It happened to me once before this issue and it fixed itself after pc being off for a night. After that it didnt glitch again for like a month and a half with pretty much 24/7 usage. Last time though it worked when i used 1 stick of ram thats why i thought it had really broken this time when not even 1 stick of ram would work.
just weird.
Prime95 on X2 for both cores :
- just download the last version
- install it twice in two different directories
- launch both Prime95.exe and start a torture test on both (CPU usage should be at or near 100%)
Then you can tell the OS to run one instance specifically on CPU0 and the other one on CPU1, to do that ctrl+alt+del to the task manager, process tab, highlight one of the Prime95.exe with a right click then chose "define affinity" (should be near that, my WinXP is a french one) then tick CPU0 only. Do the same to assign the other Prime95.exe instance to CPU1.
This way you can identify which core will limit your overclocking (my CPU0 limits me to around 2610 MHz, while the other had no problem to reach 2700+ MHz stable -X2 4200+ at 1.53 v). BTW last 1.0B bios is OK, but I miss the possibility to have higher vcore : anything above 1.45 v in bios led to no more than what the 1.45 v option gives - around 1.42 v for me - , +10% gives between 1.53 and 1.58 volts (core voltage seems to be quite instable if I believe CPU-Z).
2,5
.................... After writting post above pc restarted and wont boot again now ....YAY. So it wouldnt crash at all while gaming at heavy load but it crashed when im idling.
That makes no sence. Removed all my diskdrives and dvd drive. Still wont save the bios settings and crashes again ...
It could be a cold boot problem i guess but strange time for that to emerge after 3 months usage at sub zero.
mine is crashing all the time to SE... for no reason it just started doing this yesterday ? maybe day before ?
i can NOT even with older bios hold anything above 2.5ghz my cpu is dieing or the motherboard is dieing.
i cant afford this crap... dam it i cant afford this to be happening....
Lestat and sideeffect
Sounds very much like the problems I had with this dam mobo. Got sick off getting it stable fine for some time then problems with the overclock - did it with the winnie I had so got a venice and that did then the same. The NF3 really does have some issues on the AGP mobos when overclocked long term. I have two 2500bartons sat right next to this system, which run overclocked long term with an issue hit 65degrees Celius on a hot day and still run on no problems.
the NF4 from what I have read does seem better but I dont want to fork out for a new graphics card as well as a mobo yet!
Hope u guys get it sorted as I have like others been watching your hard work trying to get this sorted with all the bios mods. In hope that when u do I am only a flash away from a decent stable overclock. until then I am in STD blues
Keep up the work and thanks for all your words of wisdom
Zeus
I tried the 1.B3 bios modded by sideeffect and it seems to give me much lower memory b/w than 1.9 does, tried fiddling with the timings but I'm not exactly sure what setting caused it to be so low.
Also I have a question for anyone with an X2, after overclocking in bios and loading up in windows, I'm using clockgen inside of windows to overclock higher but when I run sisoft sandra it seems to not update the cpu speed and the results although cpu z displays the updated speed and fsb, I'm wondering if clockgen isn't overclocking correctly within windows for anyone?
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Originally Posted by sideeffect
i had a similar problem its was because condensation was forming on circuits in the cpu area and around it i just put grease around it and no probs since
also with my new ram im 3gig stable
wow guy awesome!!!!!!
whats your ram setting 2.5-4-4-10 ? 2.5-?-?-?
vcore ?
vdimm ?
my damn mobo is almost dead,,, it will barely run anymore overclocked.
the corsair xms bh-5 wont even run 250mhz so i know for a fact now its the motherboard.
i cant deal with this anymore aarrrrggggg
what specs?Quote:
Originally Posted by msimax
and lestats I can't wait to get a DFI :P
yeah no doubt man you set that chip and ram on a DFI NF4 and its gunna explode youget more than 3ghz i bet
and yes i mean what specs are you at right now
HTT
vcore
vdimm
ram cas timings
cpu multiplier
Thanks msimax i think ill take the clamshell off and reinsulate around the socket tommorow. See if that helps at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by msimax
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still gotta prime for a longer period of time
dude are you running your ram at 246 3-4-4-10
god man tighten that ram up
2.5-3-3-8
thats just silly to run the ram at that low with just loose timings your performance will be better if you do it. thats hynix though it will not run any lower than 2.5-3-3-5
I will later, I just don't like having to reset my cmos when having it too tight
you dont have to reset the cmos guy
that ram will run 2.5-3-3-10 i guarentee you. if you have to reset the cmos i will start a thread witha formal apology for making you go thru that.
drop that ram down
what you really need to do is drop the cpu multiplier down 2 steps and then raise the ram and run memtest until you get errors then back the ram down until it works.
ok then check your cpu speed, and raise the multiplier up 1 step and lower the ram so its the same as when you ran memtest..
Im thinking about taking the vapochill off the cpu and using it on the 6800 instead. The cpu does 2750 mhz on air anyway, not much more with vapochill. The 6800 might benifit more from the coolness.
2.5-4-3-7Quote:
Originally Posted by Lestat
im thinking bout selling my setup but having a hard time making up my mind if i should go dfi or wait for ati boards :confused:
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hey sideeffect can u update your tccd bios so it can have Longer max. async. 8ns => 9ns
Well apparantly 9ns isnt a good setting. It causes random crashes. Not sure if its a memory problem or a chipset problem but if you look around people will say 9ns is bad. I tend to believe them. You never see any high overclocks listed with 9ns async.Quote:
Originally Posted by msimax
i hate my neo2 i truly hate it
Mine is working again now i think. I took the clamshell off and applied lots of grease but it wasnt that. It was the hose after a bit of usage the insulation was letting a very tiny bit of moisture through and was resting against the power supply :stick:
Well ive wrapped some more foaming around the tube and sealed it with plumbers tape so hopefully it wont happen again. Was only a very tiny amount of moisture.
@ SIDEEFFECT
excuse-me, are you able to modified bios 1.3b6 with 150 and 183 dividers? many people with phase-change system needs vcore +15% and +18,3%
many thanks
bye
no you cant
there isnt a need for 183 when you have a 1/2 cpu divder anyways.
been trying to run prime95 on both my die's but they seem to error out, no actual crashing but prime95 just showing that an error happened, what do you guys think it could be? I tried to game for about an hr and it was very stable and temps were good, maybe I should try tightening my mem timings?
that means u failed Prime :(Quote:
Originally Posted by uniacid
yeah but I didn't have windows crash, I also ran super pi and it ran fineQuote:
Originally Posted by Zeus...
Super PI is a quicky test of stablity
Prime (more of an acid test)doesnt crash (unless your system is very unstable) it errors
either up the volts CPU/mem relax the mem timmings/HTT/xCPU
has your mem passed memtest86 at the current setting with the cpu multipler turned down (more than one complete pass - five or overnight)
did i tell you guys how much i hate my neo2
and i have officially added my 3200+ into my pile of worst ever purchased hardware...
UNLESS when i get my ultra d it totally opens up and just screams,, this is the worst cpu/mobo combo i have ever ever ever had becuase of this motherboard i have traded away a gig of gskill LA ddr600, a gig of ocz pc3200 plat a gig of ocz oc4000
and im now trading my ocz pc4800 for a gig of corsair xms bh5
i tested the bh5 yesterday and the :banana::banana::banana::banana:e wont even run 250mhz friggin god aweful motherboard is just puking out cause everything to run like crap.
I’ve been thinking about selling my neo2 and 6800GT for a DFI for a while now.
And it’s souly because of the ram problem I have.
So I know how u feel :P
Removed my vapochill and running on air for the first time since i got the board and tested on air. My temperature shows again in bios which is nice. Going to see if i get crashes on air.
If its stable on air i think i will attach the vapochill to the 6800. If anyone has done this before please give me some hints. Im aware ill have to improvise some way of attaching the vapo head. I have the socket 754/939 clamshell and the socket A/370 plug. I think the Socket A attachment would be best to work from.
Seems the 6800 also gets cold temp bug. Dont know why all these sensors cant go below 25 degrees without freaking out. The sensor i use on my vapochill i got free with a fan and it reads -30 degrees quite happily.
but the DFI NF3 still has issues, think I will get a PCIexpress socket to AGP convertor.:cool:
Then jump on the NF4 wagon
Uh... is it that the Neo2 hates a lot of ram, especially the BH-5??? or do you still believe it's bad RAM?
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Originally Posted by Lestat
I dont think its the Ram IMHOQuote:
Originally Posted by Jhya
I have had this Mobo for 10 months which overclocked fine at first. But long term stablity at a reasonable overclock wasnt possible. At first I thought is was me. But know other users seem to be having the same problem and they have tried lots off different ram. I think its the NF3 platform! I hope I am wrong, but it wouldn't surprise me to see the DFI AGP having the same problems long term. After all the DFI still has issues and with it being late with its 939 AGP mobo it should off had plenty off time to get the issues sorted B4 selling.
Hello there, but its a bit more like "o Hell" here, as I cant make my freshly assembled MSI KTN 9393 Neo2 X2 3800 combo be nice and play with the onboard IEEE 1394 or anything I put in any PCI slot.
My rig is SP2 dual prime stable from stock to 2.4 Ghz and currently at stock, just reinstalled XP with all updates.
Im using modded BIOS 7025.1.B3 as its the only thing that will give me at least USB 2.0 on this setup.
Ive been waiting a few days to get posting rights here, as you folks seem to actually be discussing technical issues, like APIC.
The Sandra 2005 MoBo report warns me I should have APIC enabled but don't, as it is needed for a mulitprocessor setup and gives more and better IRQs. Is this my likely issue and how do I enable APIC in this BIOS, or what else can I do. Please be gentle-Im not pretending to be an expert and this is my first post here.
Hi Aardman
Well first thing you want to do is disable everything you dont want to use in bios. Like if you dont use either or one of the lan sockets disable it, same with the sata ports and serial ports etc.
This will free up your IRQ's. Dont turn APIC off i very much doupt thats your issue. Enable firewire and when pc boots it has a screen with your devices that are booting. Does it show Firewire there?
Then when you get into windows look at your IRQ assignments and see if firewire shows there.
The Apic options is in the bios erm i think its in advanced chipset features. If you cant find it in the bios what version of the 1.B3 are you using?
Have a question, is ok bios Neo2 MOD1B3 for CPU Opteron 144 soc 939?
Have any experience with this?
Can anyone tell me the difference between bios:
v.1.B3
v.1.B3mod
Look in the changelog.