Sapphire A9RD580 Bug/Issues/Fixed

[chefnr1]

good this thread is coming up will follow it and learn more about my new sapphire board...

[Marlowe]

Did you set HT Drive strength = 31 and save Bios , turn off PC , then turn on and go directly to HTT 290 ? I guess it will work

You were right

Currently 8+ hours primestable at 290 HTT

But 300 won't boot - reboots during windows startup. Anyone got settings for 300+ HTT?

[xs64]

You were right

Currently 8+ hours primestable at 290 HTT

But 300 won't boot - reboots during windows startup. Anyone got settings for 300+ HTT?

I'm at 300x10 now , cooled by Thermaltake BigWater 745
Have you tried HT Volt = 1.30v ?

[Tony]

Guys lets be patient, I have 2 Manta reference boards and 1 sapphire Manta and they are all stunning with the ATI reference bios, the only issue is its an 8mb file where the sapphire one is a 4mb file so you can't flash it without changing the bios chip.

ATI are pushing sapphire to get the issues resolved, im sure you will see a new bios real soon and you will all love the boards as i do.

Manta reference even with the slower 450SB is for me the best RD580 board i have for ease of overclocking and balls out grunt when overclocking my video card, sit tight, a new bios will sort this all out for you.

[xs64]

I have one question
Why Clockgen has no Memory Buffer in this board ? but my old Asus A8R32 has it

[Tony]

I have one question
Why Clockgen has no Memory Buffer in this board ? but my old Asus A8R32 has it

Asus has the skew chips on the motherboard, the sapphire manta does not have them...

Thats why you have no memory buffer

[xs64]

Asus has the skew chips on the motherboard, the sapphire manta does not have them...

Thats why you have no memory buffer

Thanks, i got it

[Marlowe]

What does it mean that the board is missing the skew chip? And why does it miss it btw?

I have to return my mobo anyways because the integrated audio is not working.

[Grayskull]

Some motherboards utilize a DDR clock buffer chip to skew the memory clock to the dimms. This can improve memory overclocking. To date only the DFI CFX3200, ASUS A8R32-MVP and ASUS A8R-MVP use it as far as I know.

Marlowe, as for your audio, you need to install the Microsoft UAA driver first. Then install the Realtek audio driver. If you have done this and it doesn't work, check if there are any yellow bangs in the device manager indicating something didn't install. If everything installs without issue and you still have no sound then the board could be faulty.

[situman]

Guys lets be patient, I have 2 Manta reference boards and 1 sapphire Manta and they are all stunning with the ATI reference bios, the only issue is its an 8mb file where the sapphire one is a 4mb file so you can't flash it without changing the bios chip.

ATI are pushing sapphire to get the issues resolved, im sure you will see a new bios real soon and you will all love the boards as i do.

Manta reference even with the slower 450SB is for me the best RD580 board i have for ease of overclocking and balls out grunt when overclocking my video card, sit tight, a new bios will sort this all out for you.

It would be nice if we can order those 8mb chips with the special bios. Sapphire sucks when it comes to bioses. They still can't write a good bios for the Grouper board.

[Tony]

Well all we need is a source for the bios chips and im sure i may get the go ahead to release a special bios like i did for grouper.

BTW if you have issues with grouper the bios i released did help with 99.9% of the issues everyone was seeing.

[situman]

Not much of an issue. I used the bios from November still. Overclocking the ram on that thing is a little tough. I will try your bios (if I can figure out how to flash it) when the new memory comes.

[Grayskull]

No need for bios chips...I'm sure we can arrange for a 4 MB version.

Well all we need is a source for the bios chips and im sure i may get the go ahead to release a special bios like i did for grouper.

BTW if you have issues with grouper the bios i released did help with 99.9% of the issues everyone was seeing.

[generics_user]

No need for bios chips...I'm sure we can arrange for a 4 MB version.

yesterday i got the sapphire-manta as a birthday--present and so far i don´t know anything about it except that the original bios isn´t that great, so i wanted to ask:

is it possible to use the ati-manta bios on an sapphire-board, and if it is where to get one from???

[Marlowe]

No need for bios chips...I'm sure we can arrange for a 4 MB version.

Seeing as these Sapphire mobos generally are more or less similar to the reference design, and depending on how deep your (ATI's) commitment to us (may I dear call us enthusiasts?) are, it would be fantastic to get our bioses and software directly from you

I don't want to ask about too much of course. I'm sure your cooperation with Sapphire will bring us some ok bioses and software in the end..

@generics_user: As Tony said, the Sapphire and reference bioses are of different formats so it's not possible atm. This is if ATI doesn't convert them of course..

[Tony]

ATI do actually have both AMI and Award reference files for the boards, so getting an Award 4mb file should not be an issue.

I have found the AMI to actually be a better bios though, so me personnally I would get the bigger bios IC and go that route, for an easy life though you may want to wait for the 4mb award version to be leaked.

[chefnr1]

I'm about to start my pure mb, any tips what bios i should use with my Geil One mem sticks, and please some settings, would be very thanksfull for any help, rig in sign and theres org bios in it and i dont know wich yet , be back soon wich bios it's on it

EDIT: my bios are AWARD workstation bios V 6.00 PG, bios-I-4M
made 02/22/06 RD580-SB450-6A 668PR9C-00

dont know if it helped should i flash in a new bios like the one earlier on the thread, and like i said before need help whit setting to mem if someone could help me i have Geil One BH5 that like 3,6-3.7v and do about 270+...

[generics_user]

ATI do actually have both AMI and Award reference files for the boards, so getting an Award 4mb file should not be an issue.

I have found the AMI to actually be a better bios though, so me personnally I would get the bigger bios IC and go that route, for an easy life though you may want to wait for the 4mb award version to be leaked.

where can i get an bios-ic?

and where to download the 4m-bios????

[chefnr1]

my sapphire pure was dead on arrival so i will change it today, no mather what i'll ever try just that stupit beeping and i hav checked everting on the board so there no loose cables or other stuff thats dont sit tight, will post hows it going with the new i will get today...

[xs64]

BTW has anyone run 4GB on this board ?
It shows only 3.25Gb in Windows abd Bios , but CPU-Z recognise all 4Gbs

And i cant set over 2.3Gb to test in blend and memtest ( in windows ) ? ( look at those red in pic )

[chefnr1]

get a new one no no beeb and in to bios works fine will test som more later hopes theres no trouble with this one crossing my fingers

[SIOUX]

BTW has anyone run 4GB on this board ?
It shows only 3.25Gb in Windows abd Bios , but CPU-Z recognise all 4Gbs

And i cant set over 2.3Gb to test in blend and memtest ( in windows ) ? ( look at those red in pic )

AFAIK windowsXP can only detect 3gb ram as max

[chefnr1]

tested to clock a little htt about 295, but not stable, any suggestons????? get my sandy a 3122mhz at air is'nt that good or at org vcore???
and SIOUX msn me if u can...

please if anyone have a bios setting to share have org bios in for now but i am to confused about to do anything in bios on my board, mostley mem setting will help me alot..

EDIT: is there any chance that there is a clockgen to this Sapphire Pure CF A9-RD580

[chefnr1]

ing board nothing works on it , bios is a djungel for me settings are very strange i set all in safe mode for bh-5 but when i reboot just beeping. please need some help here...

[Marlowe]

I got help from Fosco from ocshoot.no with setting the A64 Tweaker correct..
And I just thought I'd like to share how high I got the HTT
Don't know if it's any good but I'm happy I could do it