Got ABIT K8V Pro Revision 1.0 @ AGP/PCI Full Locked

[Dagalidis]

Ok received my ABIT K8V Pro from K&M ELEKTRIK (Germany)....
Came with BIOS 14 installed and YEAH the AGP/PCI Locks working !!!!!
Right now i'm with BETA 15 BIOS and 280 X 7.5 just for START and ALL RUNNING STABLE AS a ROCK !!!!!

[Dagalidis]

uGuru showing a complete MESS but AGP/PCI remains locked for sure......

[s e t h]

great. but what happens to vtt when vdimm goes over 2.8v?

[Dagalidis]

If you mean stability ... when set VDDR over 2.9 have stability problems and seems strange to me....
Probably for the same reasson ABIT lowered VDDR from 3.2 down to 2.8 Volts.....

But the major problem off AGP/PCI gone for me......

Also BH-5 Chips is a big problem for this board......
But who is perfect ????

[Tedinde]

I tried one a little over a week ago. It didnt like my BH5's. And it wasnt locked. Nice cheap board, but until they get their act together, or a new revision or naming on it i wouldnt order another.

[I²K]

Sold my Mushkin Level II. Doesn't want do boot @ 200 MHz @ stock VDimm. Now I'm on EB @ 260 MHz 3-2-2-5 @ 3,1V without a problem. Maybe i've to check 1.5.

[spaceman]

Sweet. They must be doing the modding necessary before shipping now. I'm still runnin' mine at stock, gotta get my act together and RMA soon.

[xgman]

I'm assuming you still don't have multi's though. That was to come in rev. 1.1. My Asus A8V has the ddr volatge problems also. Maybe it's a via issue, or maybe it's a 939 cpu issue?

[=[PULSAR]=]

Just got this board today, with my first OC'in experience with a A64 got my 3000+ Clawhammer to 2350mhz stable @ 1.5V. Wish it was a little higher but all I have on there is a stock heatsink changing vcore doesnt help it at all and neither just changing the HTT speeds or any of the other voltages. I'm stuck @ 2350 with all the voltages set to lowest. I wonder if the bottleneck is just the chip? I can get into windows @ 2450, havent tried any higher.

[I²K]

Originally posted by =[PULSAR]=
Just got this board today, with my first OC'in experience with a A64 got my 3000+ Clawhammer to 2350mhz stable @ 1.5V. Wish it was a little higher but all I have on there is a stock heatsink changing vcore doesnt help it at all and neither just changing the HTT speeds or any of the other voltages. I'm stuck @ 2350 with all the voltages set to lowest. I wonder if the bottleneck is just the chip? I can get into windows @ 2450, havent tried any higher.

Try crystal CPU and check it...

[=[PULSAR]=]

Ugh oh I think I blew my PSU, anyone know what error code 9C, 9E, 9F error is, doesnt say anything about them in the manual.

[=[PULSAR]=]

Okay 500W PSU blown, and got a nice little scortch mark underneath the chip I guess feeding it 1.85V with stock air wasnt smart. Now I gotta wait till Monday till AMD is open to get a new one...hehehe. Hopefully they will send me a NewCastle.

[=[PULSAR]=]

No, the lock is definetly working, too bad I fried my chip and have no gaming machine till I can get a replacement from AMD =0)

[Arkangyl]

Hmm, reading on the Abit site they said BIOS 14 was the trick for rev. 1.0 and BIOS 15 was it for rev. 1.1 Using the wrong BIOS would lack locks...

[MoJji]

Hi~ I'm Korean ABIT Soppoter.
And KV8 Pro Beta Tester.
KV8 Pro Bios use 1.5 version and uGuru Porgram update 2.1??
1.5version is defalt AGP/PCI Locked
uGuru program 2.1~~version is fixed anymore bugs.
Have a nice day ..

[=[PULSAR]=]

Am I really hindering my overclocking potential that much by using a SATA HDD oppose to a IDE one. I thought these new boards were suppse to have a complete different controller for the SATA.

[I²K]

Originally posted by MoJji
Hi~ I'm Korean ABIT Soppoter.
And KV8 Pro Beta Tester.
KV8 Pro Bios use 1.5 version and uGuru Porgram update 2.1??
1.5version is defalt AGP/PCI Locked
uGuru program 2.1~~version is fixed anymore bugs.
Have a nice day ..

But no 3.2VDimm anymore

[Formann]

Originally posted by MoJji
Hi~ I'm Korean ABIT Soppoter.
And KV8 Pro Beta Tester.
KV8 Pro Bios use 1.5 version and uGuru Porgram update 2.1??
1.5version is defalt AGP/PCI Locked
uGuru program 2.1~~version is fixed anymore bugs.
Have a nice day ..

Fixed the bugs? You mean made them unavaileble

Its about time Abit scrap their vdimm/vtt circuts, and designed a new one. Like the one on AN50R. Its simple, and it works.

[the.m]

Originally posted by MoJji
Hi~ I'm Korean ABIT Soppoter.
And KV8 Pro Beta Tester.
KV8 Pro Bios use 1.5 version and uGuru Porgram update 2.1??
1.5version is defalt AGP/PCI Locked
uGuru program 2.1~~version is fixed anymore bugs.
Have a nice day ..

Nice to see you here

But what about us poor guys on revision 1.0 boards, this doesn't work for us so we get no more bios updates to improve our boards, nice one.

[Goldlocke]

dagalidis, could u plz post the serialnumber on the box of your KV8Pro?
looks like "KV8P-C4xxxxxxxx"

thx!

[=[PULSAR]=]

Am I really hindering my overclocking potential that much by using a SATA HDD oppose to a IDE one. I thought these new boards were suppse to have a complete different controller for the SATA.

[Goldlocke]

pulsar, with a working PCI lock your OC shouldn't be limited at all by your SATA HDD.

[=[PULSAR]=]

BTW My 1.1 Revision board's SN is KV8P-C4D002705

[Schitzo]

Originally posted by xgman
I'm assuming you still don't have multi's though. That was to come in rev. 1.1. My Asus A8V has the ddr volatge problems also. Maybe it's a via issue, or maybe it's a 939 cpu issue?

With the beta 15 bios, my rev 1.0 board has multiplier adjustment.

[Formann]

Originally posted by µnrealneo²


So frying A64's through jumpy VDIMM is GOOD?

The AN50R does not fry the A64 as long as you set vdimm to auto in bios.