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[XtremeTiramisu]

@X-Tiramisu
What keyboard & mouse combo do you have? My microsoft one doesn't work holding insert or home, but the logitech does. Both are wireless & both are hooke to a kvm switch.

You've drawed a very good question I've in mind as well. I use the logitech LX700 wireless mouse/keyboard combo and hooked them up to the PS/2 ports. I've USB mouse/keyboard options dissabled in BIOS at first but then tried enabled them again and the insert or home doesn't quite work for me either way. (I tried the INS and Delete keys on top of the up/down/left/right bottons and as well as the Ins and Home key on the Num key pads sections on our far right of the keyboard.

Maybe there are options I should enable/disable for the mobo to properly recognize my PS/2 connection keyboard upon booting up? (I followed FCG guide to setup my BIOS w/ a little minor diff but they aren't related to this area)

*EDIT: OK, this is VERY WEIRD, the home key actually works! but only when my OC hasn't failed yet. I'm at 480FSB now which is near the threshold of a possible failed OC, and I just pressed and hold the home key to see what happends and the mobo just reset the FSB value back to 266 * 7 multi I selected...The home key doesn't seems to work anymore once my OC fails and on a booting cycle.


Thanks for your help Nemesis.

[ziddey]

@ziddey,

Did you loop memtest 1.70 #5 @ 500FSB? I was successful with one kit, but unsuccessful with another. I normally run memtest for about 4-8 hours @ high FSB or memory speeds to isolate it or the memory controller. You may want to try running small or large FTT's and see if you get further. This will help isolate if the memory oc or cpu oc is failing. I got my board to pass 4 hours of orthos 515 X 7 when I first got it. Haven't been able to duplicate it since. Going to be trying my 2nd board over the weekend. It has newer serial numbers etc. Hopefully I can see some 535FSB Pi like others

yeah I ran memtest during the day today for 7 hours looping test 5 without issue.

It's strange that I need 1.6vsb to get even remote stability at 500fsb whereas people say that's never required.

[Jodiuh]

Me too, but I've got 3 arrays on it.

[XtremeTiramisu]

When I run memtest on my RAMS on DIMM1 & 3 or 2 & 4 I could hear noticeable clicking/squeaking sound comming from the rams...often the sound is in a loop of clicking/squeaking kind of sounds...sound preety scary and I feel like the rams are deteorating from the memtest test...I hardly notice these kind of sounds when I used the same pair of rams on other boards...or maybe becouse my side cover was closed and now it's off so I could hear the sounds whereas I didn't noticed b4??


I've everything at stock volt and speed.
oh and so far no mem errors...

[krampak]

Could someone with a Quad Core over 360 Mhz FSB post the BIOS settings here ? Many thanks.... I'm still on 320Mhz range

[XtremeTiramisu]

Hey guys, looks like my OCZ platinum rev2 PC6400 isn't willing to go over ~499 - 500+ FSB on 1:1 ratio no matter how I tried with the voltage, timings and sub-timings, Mode 1,2 and 3...and the system will just freeze after posting. That was on *7 multi by the way so it's still quite a bit away from reaching CPU max clock speed.

Any recommandation for the best cost-performance ratio 2GB PC-8500 ram kit?

[doom_st]

dfi rules...

[kiwi]

doom_st

Can you post your:
DDR Config Mode
GTL Drive Strength
Enhanced Data Transmitting
Enhanced Addressing
DQ Calibaration

I got the board yesterday but can do only 535 so far. My cpu/ram does 550+ on p5b dlx
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=196591

[Bootsy]

Could someone with a Quad Core over 360 Mhz FSB post the BIOS settings here ? Many thanks.... I'm still on 320Mhz range

I got mine to 405 FSB with Gtl and Dram both set to Mode 2 and 1.45 on the northbridge.

Boot run memtest write down the settings and manually change them in the bios. For me this bios doesnt like anything set to auto. Highest Prime stable I got was 382 fsb. I was using the 424 bios.

[doom_st]

mode3
mode2
fast
fast
5
auto
auto

4
4
4
9
4
22
3
10
10
3
8
6
5
5
4
4

[hausner]

instaled new offical bios and after restart , my mobo is booting, i hear hard drive and fans workings but there is no video signal, cleared cmos , took of battery,1 memory stick but didnt help. Can anybody help me ? Thanks!

ps. I have mouse and keybord - both usb

[OldGuy]

instaled new offical bios and after restart , my mobo is booting, i hear hard drive and fans workings but there is no video signal, cleared cmos , took of battery,1 memory stick but didnt help. Can anybody help me ? Thanks!

ps. I have mouse and keybord - both usb

The last two times I've had those symptoms (with other boards) it has been a PSU issue. Sounds like yours was working before the flash though...

[hausner]

The last two times I've had those symptoms (with other boards) it has been a PSU issue. Sounds like yours was working before the flash though...

My psu is fine testing it in another system with gigabyte DS3 right now so i dont think this is a problem. Also Home + reset button configuration didnt work

[luihed]

Wow, this board is hard to tweak lol..... Mine did 507fsb at stock volts out of the box, 3days later im still at 507fsb lol...... Highest Ive done is 540fsb but with slow settings , from what Ive seen this board is hell on rams.......

Hey guys, looks like my OCZ platinum rev2 PC6400 isn't willing to go over ~499 - 500+ FSB on 1:1 ratio no matter how I tried with the voltage, timings and sub-timings, Mode 1,2 and 3...and the system will just freeze after posting. That was on *7 multi by the way so it's still quite a bit away from reaching CPU max clock speed.

Any recommandation for the best cost-performance ratio 2GB PC-8500 ram kit?

NCIX has some killer deals right now for D9s..... $149 for Ballistix pc8000 and I heard $126 for Firestix...

[megatron]

instaled new offical bios and after restart , my mobo is booting, i hear hard drive and fans workings but there is no video signal, cleared cmos , took of battery,1 memory stick but didnt help. Can anybody help me ? Thanks!

ps. I have mouse and keybord - both usb

I got this and a 2nd blind flash solved it, was on a nf4 epox; but same symptoms.

[yenclas]

Hello !

I have recently bought this board and I have a big problem. Please Can you help me ?

I have configured all values in BIOS (voltages, cpu clock, ...) but when I start Windows sometimes my PC restarts. If Irun orthos, in two or three seconds my system stops. I thought this is the PSU (Tagan 480W) but today I put a Antec 550W and the problem are the same.

I have 2x1Gb GSKILL DDR2 800 HZ's and this problem is when I put two sticks for Dual Channel. If I put only one stick this problem doesn't exist. It's very curious but with one stick the systems runs perfectly, and I put other pair of sticks differents and have the same problem.

Is the memory controller ?

Will I RMA the motheboard ?

Sorry by my bad english.

Thank you

[ziddey]

what happens if you change dq calibration. i had similar issues, but changing dq to 5 or 6 (auto is 4), and setting vsb to 1.6v bought me about 6 hours of stability. still trying to figure out why it won't last all the way through


edit: anyone know what's up with the alarm that goes off sometimes when you power on, right before it beeps for the post

[megatron]

Hello !

I have recently bought this board and I have a big problem. Please Can you help me ?

I have configured all values in BIOS (voltages, cpu clock, ...) but when I start Windows sometimes my PC restarts. If Irun orthos, in two or three seconds my system stops. I thought this is the PSU (Tagan 480W) but today I put a Antec 550W and the problem are the same.

I have 2x1Gb GSKILL DDR2 800 HZ's and this problem is when I put two sticks for Dual Channel. If I put only one stick this problem doesn't exist. It's very curious but with one stick the systems runs perfectly, and I put other pair of sticks differents and have the same problem.

Is the memory controller ?

Will I RMA the motheboard ?

Sorry by my bad english.

Thank you

Have u tried putting both sticks of ram in the other coloured slots / setting rated Vdimm & timings?

[ziddey]

wow! this is just absurd. seems like this board doesn't like firestix with gkx. I had two extra sticks that I've never used and gave them a try. Won't even pass post at 500fsb. Tinkering with dq calibration now. Already have generous voltage bumps and weak timings

edit: hmm, either the dfi doesn't like the xfinity600 or this ram is bad. it won't even work with stock settings


edit: wow this sucks. looks like at least one of the firestix i haven't tested is bad. threw in both old sticks and it's passing memtest now

[dylus]

Hey guys,

I just received all my parts for a new computer. I bought this mobo and here comes the problem(s).

When i try to turn it on, it goes on, turns off and then turns on again. Well, it worked for first couple times, now it turns on and turns off. I need to try few times before it actually boots.

And this is not the end. When it finally turns on, the first screen goes very slowly, the HDDs, CDroms, everything. After about 2 minutes it finally launches. Even in BIOS it is very slow, when i hit down on the keyboard it takes couple seconds before it actually goes down in the menu. Same thing happens when i try to install Windows. It just takes ages so I turn it off.

Anyone knows whats going on? Any help would be appreciated.

Computer specs:

Intel C2D E6600
DFI Infinity P965-S
G.Skill 2x1gb pc6400
Evga 8800gtx
Raptor 150gb
CDrom Lite-On on IDE
Corsair 620HX W

Cheers

[hausner]

Hey guys,

I just received all my parts for a new computer. I bought this mobo and here comes the problem(s).

When i try to turn it on, it goes on, turns off and then turns on again. Well, it worked for first couple times, now it turns on and turns off. I need to try few times before it actually boots.

And this is not the end. When it finally turns on, the first screen goes very slowly, the HDDs, CDroms, everything. After about 2 minutes it finally launches. Even in BIOS it is very slow, when i hit down on the keyboard it takes couple seconds before it actually goes down in the menu. Same thing happens when i try to install Windows. It just takes ages so I turn it off.

Anyone knows whats going on? Any help would be appreciated.

Computer specs:

Intel C2D E6600
DFI Infinity P965-S
G.Skill 2x1gb pc6400
Evga 8800gtx
Raptor 150gb
CDrom Lite-On on IDE
Corsair 620HX W

Cheers

did you have USB keybord and mouse?

[dylus]

Yes.

Small addition: I noticed that when i disconnect mouse and ethernet cable it works fine.

Another update: POST and BIOS works fine now. Still I have problems with booting up the computer. It turns on, then off, then on again ( rarely ), usually just turns off.

Anyone?

[ziddey]

bleh. set it to loop test5 and it locked up after 13 passes. the + in memtest86+ is still blinking but it's pretty frozen. grrrrrrr

edit: whoops. i forgot to set dq again. put it to 5 and it's going longer again. although i've already proven that 5 still eventually crashes. but i did already do a memtest where it passed, so who knows

[XtremeTiramisu]

After a few days OC with this mobo, I'm not super impressed nor dissapointed.
Actually my past DS3 could just do the same...and same goes for P5B-Dx....This board doesn't like my OCZ rams too much either unlike the DS3 that I could take it up to 500mhz 1:1 4-5-4-15 at 2.2v. Even with some tweaking in the subtiming and various combinations of auto, normal, fast, mode 1 2 3..etc..and relatively ample volts, it's hard to get the rams stable near 500mhz...

Besides that, the CPU isn't doing so great on this board as well, I was able to reach near 3800mhz and Orthos stable for a few hours only but with this mobo , I could only do a touch higher than 3700 w/ 225mv(0.225v from stock) = 1.475v and already reach temp like 66 degrees.....

I'm glad I didn't get in the HYPE and paid for like $250+ or something for this so called to be the best OC board...It may have high potential with CERTAIN hardwares but not all....the board is def picking for your WHOLE configuration.
I was hoping that this mobo could take my Overclocking-ability to the next level but I guess the result doesn't turn out to be too optimistically...

I'll wait and see if the new P35 chipset board will do better and I've my heart leaning towards gigabyte for now as it's still the most exciting OC board i've tested up to this point...DFI may be only on par with it or maybe worse in terms of the configuration I've setup...

Crap...now Orthos failed after a little more than 1 hour at 3707mhz...!!! looks like this board does even worse than on my P5B deluxe...ARRRGGG!!!!

[xTr33m sammich!]

I got this board about a week ago, been playing around with it...
Not very impressed either, not dissapointed too...

E6400 629b will run 8x500 on 680i mobo, 2x1gb Ballistix 1000 5-5-5-15, will not run 1000 on this board, slow settings, fast, doesnt matter, will not pass post..

@900 the rams will run 4-4-4-12 wtf..

is a nice board, but I was expecting more out of it, currently @ 8X450

Trying for 7x500 or better, but no, the rams wont go 1000...... tied geil and kingston cause i have them.. both ddr800 and will run 1100 on other boards..

Just don't know if its me or the board.