Ignore post#237 by me.
I've figured it out -> it's the friggin BIOS not the board, 13B2 is very buggy!
It gets stuck at bootup with 2F/2B code, then keeps recycling it really quickly.
It also takes around 25 seconds to reach C1, just before system starts.
It will not startup many times getting stuck at the above codes at stock.
It will not allow voltage adding to CPU, it'll reboot before startup if you do.
It will not boot anything but stock.
BUT, thanks to MSR Editor and Sam's MSR Tool, I've been running/benching 2700/2800/2700/2800 across all my cores stock voltage since my last post here without fail (no idle freezing, which is what I'm trying to avoid)
Look here, 26C ambients: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...5&postcount=80
I have even ran 2800/2900/2800/2800 stock voltage running the old and latest two x264 benchmarks for about 20 minutes full load, no problemo including the PWM being 45C max, which is excellent (now have a low speed fan over it) for any PWM as they're rated for 110-120C.
So it is not a PWM problem but a BIOS one - I'm reverting to BIOS 12 now unless someone has one after BIOS 12 but before 13B2?
This is what I'm testing for 19 hours now, going very strong.
Still sticking to stock voltage, I know I have at least two good cores which'll do 2900MHz stock voltage.
Just a note: Phenom cores are arranged like this by AMD and this is how they're picked up by AMD Power Monitor/CPUZ;
core 0 - core 1
|.................|
core 3 - core 2
So anything you use which thinks;
core 0 - core 1
|.................|
core 2 - core 3
will get it wrong (i.e. MSR Editor).
Thanks for the helpOriginally Posted by LIKMARK
@KTE: 1066 memclk mode runs, but with horribly loose timings (6 7 7 20 etc..). I have made choosing unganged mode once, and it involved multiple auto settings, so I have not been able to reproduce it.
I'll try to reproduce it then.. which BIOS are you running?
Yes ->Were you able to change cpu-nb fid with BAR EDIT?
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