Here's a little teaser....

**Brother Esau** · 09-09-2007, 09:21 AM

LOL........Whats up Dave

**Movieman** · 09-09-2007, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Brother Esau

LOL........Whats up Dave

Just looking in and making sure the flames aren't waist high yet..

I'll grant you, boards are issues, now you know why I use server hardware.
My guess is you need 2 systems, one for that humongus raid deal and one for that Q6600..
I do have a DX3600 system with PCI-e X16 and X4 slots on a SM X6DA8-G2 board that might solve your problems..

http://www.supermicro.com/products/m...5/X6DA8-G2.cfm

**Brother Esau** · 09-09-2007, 09:32 AM

Well my intension's at this point Dave is 2 68w Barcelona's on Dual Socket F 4gb Ram permanent home for my storage and a dedicated work station server worthy of my needs and expectations. This system that I am on now will be strickly for blowing up

**Movieman** · 09-09-2007, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by Brother Esau

Well my intension's at this point Dave is 2 68w Barcelona's on Dual Socket F 4gb Ram permanent home for my storage and a dedicated work station server worthy of my needs and expectations. This system that I am on now will be strickly for blowing up

Ok, sounds like a good plan.
When the AMD system is up and running, bring the other to WCG and we'll help you blow it up the right way!

**Brother Esau** · 09-09-2007, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by Movieman

Just looking in and making sure the flames aren't waist high yet..

I'll grant you, boards are issues, now you know why I use server hardware.
My guess is you need 2 systems, one for that humongus raid deal and one for that Q6600..
I do have a DX3600 system with PCI-e X16 and X4 slots on a SM X6DA8-G2 board that might solve your problems..

http://www.supermicro.com/products/m...5/X6DA8-G2.cfm

Naaa.....not Me! I got this friend thats Teaching me how to be more Diplomatic & Tactful

**Movieman** · 09-09-2007, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by Brother Esau

Naaa.....not Me! I got this friend thats Teaching me how to be more Diplomatic & Tactful

"Trying" is a word that you should have included.

Now I have many times where I want to write " you stupid SOB" to some guy whose obviously trolling to get people's anger up but I don't.
It doesn't accomplish anything and just gives the troll what he wants..attention..
The key on trolls is to always ignore them, thats what frustrates them the most and on people with a different opinion, attack the argument, not the man.
ok, thats the lesson for today..

**Brother Esau** · 09-09-2007, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by Movieman

Ok, sounds like a good plan.
When the AMD system is up and running, bring the other to WCG and we'll help you blow it up the right way!

**i found nemo** · 09-09-2007, 11:09 AM

what up stephan? how you always get the cool ass chips ( fx 57, venice, and now this!!!! ) best of luck with ur benchies. i say 3.5 ghz 1.49 volts.

hope i'm right

**bingo13** · 09-09-2007, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by s7e9h3n

Well, I have no idea what he claimed but if he said that he used bios 0506 and was only able to get 1 cpu to recognize, he either was running a different bios or a different revision mobo than I am. I just spent the last couple of hours trying different configs with the 0506 bios only to end up it the exact same place I started - no boot, no beeps, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING...the cpu's STILL are not recognized by the mobo. As soon as I hit the power button, my debug card reads "FF" - which indicates either a dead cpu or it's not able to make out the registers for the proc. Wow, that was fun

...anybody got any other great ideas?

You will need a new BIOS for it to work properly, also, we found boards produced before March has some other "issues" with them regarding POST routines, stability, and the like. ASUS should have a new BIOS shortly but they are more concerned this weekend with getting their server boards up to speed.

The same holds true for several Tyan, ASUS, and Gigabyte server boards, latest revs and BIOSs work fine now, they all still need further tuning in my opinion. Overall, even on a server board, the latest silicon is shaping up nicely when compared on a clock to clock basis with Clovertown but Tigerton throws a wrench into the launch tomorrow.

**dave_graham** · 09-09-2007, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by s7e9h3n

I dropped in the forums here yesterday to see what the buzz was about quad AMD's....sadly, there isn't all that much

I guess it's time to try to make some waves

Mind you, this is only a pic of a pair of quads I've got here (with almost any identifying info photochopped out by me

). Note the pack date on the chips: ~ a little over one month ago. Trust me, these are the real deal....I'll post some screens when/if I ever get them to recognize correctly on my L1N64. They do, however, run fine on a few server-class boards but what fun is overclocking using registered ecc mem

?

By the way, if anybody out there has a bios which allows quads to run on the Asus L1N64, please feel free to PM me or post here...any help is appreciated

Also, if you've got access to the VIP section, drop in my thread there as we've been discussing the cpu's for a bit.....

s7,

those are B1s and are subject to errata #281. you're going to get really

astic results (i've got 6 of them).

BIOS 0506 for the L1N64 should work (and i can send it to you) but you might only be able to use a single processor slot.

a little ahead of you here.

dave

**s7e9h3n** · 09-09-2007, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by dave_graham

s7,

those are B1s and are subject to errata #281. you're going to get really

astic results (i've got 6 of them).

BIOS 0506 for the L1N64 should work (and i can send it to you) but you might only be able to use a single processor slot.

a little ahead of you here.

dave

Thx dave, but 0506 doesn't work...not even with one. How did you get it to work?

**FlawleZ** · 09-09-2007, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by s7e9h3n

The board's a bit finicky. I've had such things happen before as well. Try pulling out a couple sticks of memory if all the slots are populated or unplug all the power connectors to the board, pull the bios battery and discharge the mobo. Wait ~30min before trying to boot again. Also, make sure that all your pci/pcie cards are being correctly recognized if you're running the board outside of a case. I've noticed that recent Asus boards have somewhat "loose" card slots and a card tilted @ the wrong angle causes weird problems.....I feel your pain

We had plenty of experience with cards not being seated 100% and POST problems. The board particularly does not like the PCI-E physX card. We eventually got it to comply but now board is in line to RMA again after what seems to be a failed flash. We've already spent an hour pullnig everything and resetting the CMOS a thousand times to no avail.

is it just me or does it seem feature rich, fully loaded enthusiasts boards similar to this one tend to be a bit finicky to setup and picky on how they're configured?

**dave_graham** · 09-09-2007, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by s7e9h3n

Thx dave, but 0506 doesn't work...not even with one. How did you get it to work?

doesn't work with both CPUs populated....haven't tried with 1...been too busy.

the Tyan 3992 is the closest to actually running right now and i've yet to try the latest bios.

two new boards from Tyan (respins of existing ones) look to be promising.

cheer,s

dave

**s7e9h3n** · 09-09-2007, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by FlawleZ

is it just me or does it seem feature rich, fully loaded enthusiasts boards similar to this one tend to be a bit finicky to setup and picky on how they're configured?

That tends to be the case since more features = more bios/hw config possibilities = large headaches in the end

A large reason why no other mobo maker decided to take on the task of producing an enthusiast 2p board such as the L1n64 has to do with support. Asus just avoids this problem by just not offering any

**s7e9h3n** · 09-09-2007, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by dave_graham

doesn't work with both CPUs populated....haven't tried with 1...been too busy.

the Tyan 3992 is the closest to actually running right now and i've yet to try the latest bios.

two new boards from Tyan (respins of existing ones) look to be promising.

cheer,s

dave

Well don't bother trying with one cpu since that won't work either. I have a feeling I know where you got that info though

As I said before, the 3992 DOES work and it should work fine with the most recent bios.

**dave_graham** · 09-09-2007, 01:35 PM

if you want to swap bios revs, s7, let me know.

if Mr. C***g provided that bios to you, then good luck. you're right, it doesn't work.

all my tyan bioses have come from AMD, not Tyan.

dave

**celerity** · 09-09-2007, 02:05 PM

It's 00.00 CET 10th September. Results?

**Motiv** · 09-09-2007, 02:12 PM

well a little teaser I found to while away the hours (at least here in Europe we'll be in bed for the next 6 hours

)

**FlawleZ** · 09-09-2007, 02:24 PM

Thanks Motiv for the screenies! I suspect you haven't toyed much with overclocking it yet?

**Motiv** · 09-09-2007, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by FlawleZ

Thanks Motiv for the screenies! I suspect you haven't toyed much with overclocking it yet?

not my screenies, just random ones found over the net.

**ZeroX** · 09-09-2007, 02:34 PM

Here in Spain is sleeping time, but i prefer to wait. I NEED results

**doompc** · 09-09-2007, 02:38 PM

Another useless B0 bench...

**EvlUndrWareNome** · 09-09-2007, 03:39 PM

I do hope the Asus gets it's BIOS worked out.. I was planning on using it with some dual barcelona's as my engineering rig for a year or two.

**dave_graham** · 09-09-2007, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by EvlUndrWareNome

I do hope the Asus gets it's BIOS worked out.. I was planning on using it with some dual barcelona's as my engineering rig for a year or two.

wouldn't count on official support regarding that.

remember, opteron is strictly the AMD workstation, etc. board....I'd HIGHLY recommend the upcoming S2915E and S3992E revisions as they support dual HT links and split-plane power management (core & mc discrete)

dave

**JohannesRS** · 09-09-2007, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by dave_graham

wouldn't count on official support regarding that.

remember, opteron is strictly the AMD workstation, etc. board....I'd HIGHLY recommend the upcoming S2915E and S3992E revisions as they support dual HT links and split-plane power management (core & mc discrete)

dave

What? Are you saying that those boards are already *fully* ready to F+???

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