Quote Originally Posted by Daveburt714 View Post
I have a SERIOUS problem!

I flashed my machine to the P0H bios, using AFUD412.
Everything seemed to go OK, cleared/flashed/verified/completed successfully.

Now my machine won't even post....
Any suggestions, or am I just screwed...
You would get that if you didn't flash with parameters /p /b /n /c

ALWAYS do this.

I had the same problem about 2 weeks ago by this mistake. Wait a while, clear CMOS for over 30 minutes by removing the battery, leave only one DIMM in and try booting. Your best bet is to get into the BIOS, set bootup to FDD or CD-ROM drive and use something like UBCD4Win/UBCD/Linux LiveCD (etc) to load another BIOS on whatever media you flash on OR just flash this BIOS again but using the above switches. Should work fine.

Let me know if you get no POST after an hour attempting this.

Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
Looks like it can be used to disable specific cores. Nice find, thank you.

Yepp, just had to find a good starting point to go for 2.6GHz. A direct jump via multi with just upped voltages vcore 1.4 vnbcore 1.3V did not work.
Making my way with 12x212+ now by increasing the ref HT in small steps.
2.5GHz worked fine with 1.22V vcore 1.07V vnbcore. Seems 1.275V/1.2V was not enough for 2.505GHz going on with 1.3V vcore 1.2275V vnbcore atm. Will look at this point closer once I reached the cpu limit looks like a big step must be done to get over this point with my cpu.
You're welcome.

I've tried nearly all the ways to clock Phenom and found the best, quickest and most accurate understanding giver is by working your way up slowly moving from one perfectly stable setting to another.
I usually try max valid and max benchable before this though, but after this too.
I thought about better stability due to lesser difference between nb and cpu speed.
AFAIK the multipliers and PLLs are separate, hence the no effect. Otherwise, there certainly would be.


Check out these articles.

1. The following AMD CPU's compared for power efficiency: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/proces...iew-30178.html
Phenom 9600 (Agena B2) 2.3GHz 65nm
Athlon X2 BE-2400 (Brisbane G2) 2.3GHz 65nm
Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (Windsor F2) 2.4GHz 90nm
Sempron 3600+ (Manila F2) 2.0GHz 90nm
Unfortunately, they made a crucial mistake. They used BIOS P0F which disables the TLB Fix only on the first core and not on the other three (unless done manually). Pity, it would've been useful.

2. X2 K8 and X4 K10h compared throughout the clock ranges: http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl...-phenom-22756/
Phenom 9900 (Agena B2) 65nm @ 2.2GHz/2.4GHz/2.6GHz/2.8GHz
Vs.
Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (Windsor F3) 90nm @ 2.2GHz/2.4GHz/2.6GHz/2.8GHz
Very useful IMO as they tried to show the max possible for Phenom by 2008 compared to what we can already have with X2 (and more really). I'm not sure about the NB though as I'm pretty sure unless they manually clocked it down, it would be 2000MHz which is 200MHz more than retail Phenoms so far. Not a large difference generally if any at all, but in memory sensitive applications, it can very well be.

Happy reading.