M3A overclocking

[justapost]

Some time ago a guy in the asus forum reported he got the nic working after an complete bios cleanup.
Unplug power, set the jumper remove the battery, press power/reset to clear the capacitors and leave it like that for ~10 minutes.
Other types of resetting the bios did not work for him.

[Mike_]

Some time ago a guy in the asus forum reported he got the nic working after an complete bios cleanup.
Unplug power, set the jumper remove the battery, press power/reset to clear the capacitors and leave it like that for ~10 minutes.

It might work for a couple of times but not on a regular basis. I tried that as well, to no avail though ....
Mind you, I haven't got any problems with the NIC stuff since I'm using a separate PCI ethernet card now.
The problem I'm facing is the occasional freezing on cold booting process.

[Jakalwarrior]

Some time ago a guy in the asus forum reported he got the nic working after an complete bios cleanup.
Unplug power, set the jumper remove the battery, press power/reset to clear the capacitors and leave it like that for ~10 minutes.
Other types of resetting the bios did not work for him.

I tried it too :/ left mine out for about 2 hours and no luck. BTW in the manual it says to remove the battery when you reset the bios so ive been doing that all along too.

[SSN585]

I've more or less given up on my Corsair DHX XMS2 Dominator 1066 sticks (3 x 1024MB), and instead installed 3 x 1024MB Crucial Ballistix Tracers 1066. I had been unable to get past 220:440 FSBRAM with the Corsairs.

So with the Crucial Ballistix's (BTW, the LED's are pretty cool - kinda like an old cheesy SciFi movie), I'm able to use the following settings:
FSB 200
CPU x11
DRAM Manual 1066
5-5-5-15, 20trc 2T

I haven't ran any benchmarks yet, or tried to lower the trc further. I do know that with these settings, FSB 220 and CPU x10 fails to post. Will probably start raising FSB slowly next.

[SocketMan]

Is like a love triangle-nothing but trouble
Try using 2 sticks and TRC @ 29 thats the "SPP" rating for DDR1066.

[SSN585]

SocketMan, thanx for the info. I have been having some stability problems. I'll try the settings and pull a stick.

It's a shame that the Enzotech H/S blocks the first memory slot. I *MIGHT* be able to get the first slot into action...the crucial's are much shorter than the corsairs I pulled. I'm currently using A2blk/B1yel/B2blk. I'll either pull B1yel or shift to A1yel/B1yel. Sound correct?

[SSN585]

Whoops, I said I'd pull B1yel.

What I did was pull A2blk.

[SSN585]

OK, I spent a little time fixing my rectal-cranium inversion.

I managed to get one mem stick in the first slot, A1yellow. It barely fits, and I was able to get it in without pulling the Enzotech Extreme-X; but the RAM heatsink is touching the outer two heatpipes. The second stick went into slot B1yellow. The black slots, A2 & B2 are empty (for now). With two sticks only, I get 533.5Mhz DRAM, 3 : 8 ratio, 5-5-5-15 2T, tRC 30 (EPP#2 - 1066). CPU-z is reporting Dual Channel ganged mode. I ran Prime95 Torture Test for 1hr44min, no errors.

I feel all warm and fuzzy now. If it stays stable I'll tweak on tRC and the FSB.

Thanks for the help and hints. I have to say that the Crucial's are an improvement over the Corsair. Or, I just didn't get the correct timings.