FINALLY! Barcelona(s) + Asus L1N64......
Here's a cut and paste from my post in the VIP section here @ XS:
*Please don't PM me for the bios. I have to first get permission since it's not my property ;) *
Good news:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9...erifiedwy2.jpg
Bad new:
1. Bios seems to clear itself every time I change the memory config. I was going to start testing for a bad stick/slot, but then I got tired of setting every bios option after swapping out each stick :rolleyes:
2. I either have a bad stick, a bad slot, or this bios doesn't like to boot with 4x2gb of DDR2. It will boot fine with 3x2gb, but not 4.
3. The board now takes an unusually long time to boot. From what I can tell from the post codes from my debug card, the board does some sort of "cycle" when rebooting. I'll check the codes later....
4. Although there are options for voltage and overclocking the FSB in bios, I can safely say that the FSB option DOES NOT WORK. I can set a certain FSB in bios, but the board just ends up booting @ default (200mhz). If I go back into bios, my OC'd setting is STILL there, but doesn't actually do anything. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that there's a page in the bios which indicates that the cpu frequency is unchangeable - I'm figuring that there's some sort of lock on the bios still.
5. The quads seem to be running a bit slower clock-for-clock than in my Tyan s3993. So far, Spi and Cinebench scores are both worse on the L1N64.
That's about it for now. I'm just glad we've mad some progress. Now to unlocking those bios options ;) BTW, I thought you guys may get a kick outta this screeny. This is what the older version of CPUZ detected my cpu's as:
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3153/agenass4.jpg
lol...Octal Phenom :woot: