Phenom 9500 w/ MSI K9A2 Platinum

[Emperor]

Nope, oc instability.

I've no idea how you've manged to manipulate CPU VID. It should be locked and it was for mine. It controls core amps AFAIK, and high value is lower.

Stock 9500 is 28 = 1.25V/1.2V
Lower value is higher VID.

Don't have the exact mapping with me here since I can't access the HD they're on. 29 is something like 1.168.

The new BETA is very good.

Firstly, I highly doubt you need the highest volts for 2.5GHz. You need to drop NB multi to 5x (00) and then start oc'ing. Bootup at 225HT ref. It should get to ~2.6GHz through AOD with 1.4V stable.

Try 240 HT ref. through the latest AOD and if that doesn't work, then through the BIOS whilst having low NB and HT.

Secondly, your NB/CPU DID options are different to mine. Mine were 1 and 2, rather than 0 and 1.

Thirdly, you're running lower VIDs than stock on both NB and CPU. That will give you bad stability even if it boots. Put them back to stock or lower if you can, i.e. CPU 28 and NB 36, or lower because that's higher VID=better possible OC.

You'll have to expereiment why. I don't have it to try at all. Maybe it's because of the Mem speed.

I am not using the official msi bios. it;s closer to a custom 1.

so this what i will be trying.

cpud fid 4
cpu vid 28
cpu did 1

nb fid 01
nb vid 36
nb did 1

HT 5x
HTT = 225
cpu voltage is 1.537

[KTE]

I am not using the official msi bios. it;s closer to a custom 1.

Mind sharing it please? Where or who did this custom BIOS? Any bettter than MSI 113 Beta?

Try those. Your VIDs were too low and your NB too high for oc'ing before.

[Emperor]

Mind sharing it please? Where or who did this custom BIOS? Any bettter than MSI 113 Beta?

Try those. Your VIDs were too low and your NB too high for oc'ing before.

i only tried the original 1.0(iirc) the very first public version tht came with the board.

then i stuck to this bios. it's not really custom, more of..internal?? so i cant really tell u whether is it better than 113



anyway it works. but i am trying 240htt x11
HT x5
core FID 6
vid 25
did 1

nb fid 1
nb vid 36
did 1

POSTs but cant boot. raising nb vid to 30 now. i hope i can hit the big 3GHz


EDIT: boots but takes extremely long to complete the scrolling. rebooted then it hangs when the screen is black with a cursor.