Might try RMA?
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Might try RMA?
According to pcprobe ive been getting vcore spikes. I have itset to 1.4v plus over voltage enabled in bios which gives me a 1.45v reading in windows. If i leave pcprobe on for a while, the alarm goes off and vcore shows upto be 1.55v. This has happened to me 2 times yesterday. The board has been okay so far imo. Its dual prime stable but i get random lockups. I dont think its a power issue since im running a seasonic s12 600w. Although i should say it locks up when i start pcprobe or when pcprbe has been running. It hasnt locked up when pc prbe isnt running so its prolly just that program crashing my rig.
I should also add my BIOS bug findings. When using 2 sticks of ram in sinle channel mode, the dividers and command rate cannot be changed. You can change it in bios but it has no affect. Moving a ram stick over to dual channel mode, dividers and command rate works again.
Are you guys leaving ECC enabled? It seems it only enables other options which are off by default so it seems like it wouldnt matter if it was enabled or disabled?
maybe it hads to do with your mem beeing pc2700?
and what exactly happened with the cpu that died?
you were running it where and then did what and then it died?
cpu had no IHS. worked flawlessly in my dfi ultra-d board.Quote:
Originally Posted by saaya
redid my water loop cuz the position of the cpu socket was different.
stuck in my opteron to test board out. everything was fine.
stuck in my SD. board booted but shut down after a few seconds.
made sure block was making good contact with chip.
turned on again and it shut off again.
stuck in my opteron. everything worked again.
so either bad contact killed the chip or something else. not quite sure.
stuck the SD in my dfi and it wouldn't even turn on
My rig has been rebooting alot lately. Its just quirky. I think it is somehow related to the LAN drivers. When i first formatted, windows update found a new driver for the lan so i installed it. With that new driver installed, the pc will hang anytime i have multiple downloads going. I did a driver roll back and it seems to have fixed that problem. Now i cant run winamp, it always crashes with some error. When i look at the error report, it says something aboout invalid IP? Im confused about this board. Ill give it another week or so and if it keeps giving me problems ill try the DFI or sapphire board.
No issue for me as far.
except to low vcore settings ;)
THis is really wierd everyone having issues but mine is running flawlessly after beating it over the head for a couple hours.
Well lets see how things go when saaya gets his and the x1600pro cards.
Mine runs perfect too. I have a SD 3700+ in it. No freezing, no reboots, no vcore spikes (though the vcore is about .05v higher than settings), no download problems.
However, a lot of settings don't seem to actually change their values. I can not undervolt at all. It just stays at 1.4 in bios which is 1.45 in Windows.
P.S. I did get C&Q working now. It was my own fault it wasn't before, didn't know about the Windows power management settings.
So, it runs well, but it's not perfect.
Anyone else having some audio problems with the onboard? I get a lot of static/interference. Well, maybe a lot is an overstatement, it's not really noticable in any games, but for music it's easy for my ears to pick up. Also, Why on earth does it beep once at me every boot up? And another thing, since I plugged in the PSU fan monitoring cable at the bottom of the board, my 7800GT fan doesn't slow down in Windows like it did before. I haven't unplugged it yet to see if that goes away, but anyone else have that issue either?
And is it just me, or is it wierd that all CPU multis are unlocked in BIOS, but changing them above maximum just doesn't do anything? Either lock the settings, or let the changes I make work (ie. vcore undervolting).
Anyway, back to the games. :)
from your post its obvious you havent been in the hardware loop for a while :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Psyche911
most of the stuff you report is normal, viceocard fan not slowing down could rather be a videocard driver thing id say.
and the audio stuff...
everything else you report is normal :D
No problems here neither, lan driver is the one that came in the CD, didn't try sound as of yet so don't know about audio glitches, if it wasn't for the 1T issue when running high HTT 1:1 the board would be just what i hoped it would be.
so it doesnt run high htt with 1t?
Except for the Anandtech review i saw noone running more than 260 HTT 1:1 and i couldn't with 2 different boards.Quote:
Originally Posted by saaya
I've been "in the loop," just not part of it. Second PC build, first was a Northwood on an ASUS P4C800-E. Never a single problem with that board, which is part of why I'm surprised with the few glitches I have with this ASUS board. I figured it probably was the videocard driver, but it's a strange coincidence it happened on the first boot up after plugging that wire in.Quote:
Originally Posted by saaya
The audio issue really does dissapoint me though. That's part of why I bought this board, the HD audio that nForce lacks. Still happy with my purchase overall. I need to figure out overclocking with this BIOS/Athlon 64 general practice.
Well been running mine for several days now as well.. Everything has worked fine so far, but my current ram is has never ran for squate on 1T on any board, got some more ram coming on wed, so we will see then.. Just did the vcore mod, couldnt stand the 1.55v limit (smallest volt mod I have done thus far, but wasnt as bad as i had feared), did not have any VR here, so I just used a 10k ohm resistor instead, gives me max vcore of 1.71v on my winnie and FX set at max volts (1.45v + overvolt).. Now I can actually see what this board can do. I have not witnessed any spikes on vcore before or after mod? Anyone else other than Hybrid?
Anyone else notice that no matter what volts your running, cpu-z doesn not read past 1.45v... I just thought it was not picking up the overvolt, but even at 1.7v cpu-z still says 1.45 but speedfan and bios read 1.71v?
Same here with cpuz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eradicator
Also, i can confirm what Althes mentionned previously iirc, when running 4 dimms the board will force a 166 divider wich is pretty annoying as that's what i planned to do if 1T should remain impossible. I think i need to test this beta to see if it solves the problem as it seems nobody tried it already.
I've tried the beta, I can't get 1t stabel even at 240Mhz, used the same voltage that i used with my Neo4 and no go, even the voltage for my opteron stayed the same, max is about 1.5ish
I set the ram to 2t and everything seems ok so far, no reboots. My settings are 10x260 with 1.4v + OV enabled and 166 ram divider. So my ram is only running at 216 mhz with 2t timings which is crappy imo. I hope asus gets this fixed soon.
*edit* It locked up 2x in the last 10 mins at 2t timings. Im about to throw this board out the window.
damn that sux...
might need a chipset voltage mod for higher 1t maybe?
and the divider thing with 4 dimms should be moddable in bios, we just gotta find somebody with bios skills :D
Unless you bought ECC specific ram you dont need this enabled... unless you are referring to ECC for L2..Quote:
Originally Posted by Hybrid
Ok, the board is stable at stock clocks but not when OC'd. The weird thing is that im running the cpu at 2.6ghz which i know its capable of since that what it did on my neo4. At 10x260, the asus board is dual prime stable for 16 hours before i stopped it. It crashes almost anything program i try (winamp, firefox, IE) at 2.6ghz. Strange that it can pass prime for 16 hours and yet crash all my apps.
crap...i'll buy an other Ultra-D then...
the onboard lan on a lot of asus boards locks up with the newer versions. use an older version, not the one windows autoinstallsQuote:
Originally Posted by Hybrid
Yea i rolled back to the original lan driver but still get lock ups. Im ganna try the sapphire or dfi board.
I can get the board to run 290 1:1 with gskill 4800la 2*256 sticks at 1t.
Have to run 2.5/4/4/8
The sticks can run 2.5/4/3/5 at 300 1:1 on the ulra-d.
SO I think achipset mod is in order