UNOFFICIAL BIOSTAR TPower I45 M/B

[Nelly]

Looks like Biostar got an Overclocking competition going on at various locations in the world: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/event/occompetition/

i looked when mine was working and i did not see any removable bios chip...so...i use the external flashing program (afudos.exe) to flash..the latest afudos version does quality checks before flashing.

Aye not to worry, besides these features look interesting!

[barong]

do u have the download link for prime , thx

[Ace-a-Rue]

do u have the download link for prime , thx

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm

[Ace-a-Rue]

Looks like Biostar got an Overclocking competition going on at various locations in the world: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/event/occompetition/
Aye not to worry, besides these features look interesting!

not to slight Biostar but i do not put a whole load of confidence in that crap...gigabyte said they had two bioses and it didn't work when they posted a 'bad' official bios release for download...it hosed many boards.

[tapauly]

In response to the question of Crossfire functionality, I run two 4850's with zero problems on my I45. Love the setup!

[Mortis360]

My card is shipped now, only been registered in Stokke, lets hope it wont take the trip over to Oslo, and just right to Drammen! The stupid post services send many packages to the sentral in oslo before they go back to Drammen, they would save 140kms just sending it to my central instead of taking the way to Oslo! *prays* Gonna have answer about that tomorrow tho!

~ Mortis360

[Ace-a-Rue]

same kind of thing happens over here in the USA...inefficiency of the Post Office is significant!

[Mortis360]

same kind of thing happens over here in the USA...inefficiency of the Post Office is significant!

Inefficiency is not good, in our biggest northern city Tromsø, if a package get sent from one of the neighbour citys it have to take the trip within Oslo, that makes it more than 2000kms EACH way, that is insane! They could save many millions on not taking it to the main central and instead have county centrals, they do have county centralt, but they are only used after the post has come from Oslo and spread around to the postoffices or "Post in Stores".
Wasted if you ask me, just send the packages to the right county central and be done with it!

YAAY! It arrived at my local terminal today!
Can pick it up later today or sometime tomorrow!

~ Mortis360

[corso13]

hi all got mine 3 days ago and also a E8500, but i came from a nvidia chip7 and i can´t find any setings to OC my rig, also i don´t understand much how it works the voltages settings , can anyone give me a help on the settings to inpunt on the bios to get o good OC for a stable 24\7 rig

here´s the specs of my current rig

E8500
Biostar TPower 45
GSkill Pi 8800 4 Gigs
HD 4870
PSU Corsair HX 620
some Hard drives
CPU cooled under Water

thanks to all

[|ron]

i am not clear on the no-post issue...are you saying the board is already at default bios settings and it will not post with that particular memory??

i would stay with one stick of memory in the first slot until you get it pinned down

what bios file is installed on the mobo?

Hi Ace, the bios is the last posted on the official website, the one from the 10th July 08.
1 stick or 2 sticks in dual channel don't change the situation, It still continues to visualize "E1" in Dual Channel and "d4" in single slot configuration.
Oh I made another try: I used a stick of mine Mushkin in the first slot and a stick of Corsair PC6400 in the third slot... It posted right.
So I entered as usual into the bios, put the ram in 1:1 at 4-4-4-12, saved and everything gone ok.
After that, pulled out the corsair stick and put back the Mushkin in Dual Channel... everything ok.
It seems that the biostar sets something strange that my memories don't want to accept... or viceversa...
Same thing happened time ago with cellshocks and other mobos...

[_G_]

Still waiting on mine, ordered from newegg on Monday, shipped from Edison NJ
on Tuesday and if im lucky maybe here on Friday lol.

[Ace-a-Rue]

hi all got mine 3 days ago and also a E8500, but i came from a nvidia chip7 and i can´t find any setings to OC my rig, also i don´t understand much how it works the voltages settings , can anyone give me a help on the settings to inpunt on the bios to get o good OC for a stable 24\7 rig

here´s the specs of my current rig

E8500
Biostar TPower 45
GSkill Pi 8800 4 Gigs
HD 4870
PSU Corsair HX 620
some Hard drives
CPU cooled under Water

thanks to all

go to the 1st page of this thread to see some bios shots.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Hi Ace, the bios is the last posted on the official website, the one from the 10th July 08.
1 stick or 2 sticks in dual channel don't change the situation, It still continues to visualize "E1" in Dual Channel and "d4" in single slot configuration.
Oh I made another try: I used a stick of mine Mushkin in the first slot and a stick of Corsair PC6400 in the third slot... It posted right.
So I entered as usual into the bios, put the ram in 1:1 at 4-4-4-12, saved and everything gone ok.
After that, pulled out the corsair stick and put back the Mushkin in Dual Channel... everything ok.
It seems that the biostar sets something strange that my memories don't want to accept... or viceversa...
Same thing happened time ago with cellshocks and other mobos...

first of all...forget the 4-4-4-12 for now...those are tight even at default speeds...Intel chipset really like to work at loose timings like 5-5-5-15 and tRFC of 48, at least...just because your memory worked at those tight settings on another board doesn't mean it will work on this one the same way.

also, have you tried increasing your Vdimm to see if you can hold 4-4-4-12?

[ddogg]

Wanted to make my first post something useful (hopefully):

My BioStar TP-I45 will totally corrupt/wipe/destroy bios when any number FSB frequency 450 and up is entered. Code shown will be E9 on readout. Board is near dead at this stage, but can be restored by jumping through a few hoops:

1> Download the latest bios and rename to "AMIBOOT.ROM". Put on a floppy or FAT formatted USB stick.
2> Suggest pulling all juice, shorting bios and removing battery for 10 minutes (at least). 4 out of 5 times the restore would not complete without the battery being removed first.
3> Replace battery/CMos jumper and power on. Readout should show E9, then after a pause change to F something as the USB stick or floppy is read.
4> If you are lucky, your screen will come on during the last stages of the restore process and then it will reboot.
5> Again, if your are lucky, you will get into a fresh bios. If not, readout will hang on 03 or C0. If so, do all the above all over again, but make sure to pull the battery for a good while while shorting bios (15-30 minutes). Even pull the wiring harness from the MOBO. I had to do this 5 times before it "took" the last time, so don't give up.
6> Eventually you should get back up.

Anybody have any thoughts on why the hell this board will run fine at 449 with a 9450 Quad (3.58 Ghz), then totally hose the bios at 450? I do like the board, but this is frustrating. For the 9450 Quad I probably should have stayed with my beloved IP35 and IP35XL.

Btw, I have no problem when using setFSB to run up to 465, so it is not a corruption caused by pushing too far. Also, this occurs no matter the divider. So, 1-1 450 will do it as well 5/6 450/540

Present config: 9450 @ 3.58 @ 1.39 VCore/ 4g Gskill 8500 @ 448 5/6 @ 2.1 v. System is under water. I'll post other settings and voltages later when I get them stabilized.

Thoughts appreciated.

DD

[Ace-a-Rue]

it sounds like your boot block code is corrupted...the only way to correct that is to use this AFUDOS.exe program (compliments of Rebel Haven) and flash from external DOS...i would bet the internal flash does not flash the boot block unless the updated bios has it coded to write over those blocks, like an update is added to the newest bios...the afudos should automatically flash the boot block...just watch the flash and it should announce it is flashing that section...if it does not, do a "HELP" command to find the appropriate switch.

also The Rebels Haven has the latest bios for a quick download.

here is The Rebsls Haven Biostar TPower Bios/Beta page: http://www.lejabeach.com/Biostar/TPI45/

if all this fails to correct your problem, my best guess would be the bios chip itself is defective..return the board for replacement or RMA it to Biostar.

[|ron]

first of all...forget the 4-4-4-12 for now...those are tight even at default speeds...Intel chipset really like to work at loose timings like 5-5-5-15 and tRFC of 48, at least...just because your memory worked at those tight settings on another board doesn't mean it will work on this one the same way.

also, have you tried increasing your Vdimm to see if you can hold 4-4-4-12?

Mmmhhh, my mushkins are rated to go to 5-5-4-12@1066mhz with 2,2v so the problem isn't in the latencies but maybe I think that the problem could be the fact that they request a little higher voltage that the default for ddr2 of 1,8v.
So, unless I put it at 2v (1,8+0,200 in the bios), they don't start...
This should be correct but then why everything goes ok if I don't change any setting and simply put on a stick of corsair and a stick of mushkin?
It's not logical...

[Ace-a-Rue]

i presume your 2nd stick of mushkin is not working correctly or requires higher voltage than the other mushkin stick....stick with the corsair.

[ddogg]

it sounds like your boot block code is corrupted ...

Thanks. You got me thinking. I reflashed, and while I don't think it was the bootblock, I do think it was some residual corruption. Upshot is my 450 wall went away and I'm sitting at 3.755 ghz on the Q9450 with ram 469/fsb1877/mem 563 (5,5,5,15).

Not shabby on the 9450 and the GSkill 8500 is happy at 2.14 v.
Temps are decent via the water. Core 0 < 60 on RealTemp, but VCore is pumped higher than I'm happy with on a 45 core. Sitting at 1.44 vcore, NB 1.42, FSB 1.42.

All and all not a bad place to be in the early stages. Hopefully I can suck the NB and FSB back down.

[mrcape]

No idea, I have beat on the board really hard and never experienced boot block corruption. I thought I had at one point, but it was a faulty cpu. I re-flash every so often, try diff bios etc., but it's been pretty sturdy.

One thing I have not done is test with a quad. Maybe there's something with that chip and this bios.

[ddogg]

I'm thinking back to 3am a couple of days ago ... This started when I pushed way too hard and the system would not return from a bad OC. So now that I am thinking about it, I guess Ace was right, it must have been a corrupted bootblock. Odd thing was, before that this board always wiped all settings when returning from a bad oc, now the settings are still intact. I wonder if it was a bad flash from the factory?

Anyway I am happy as hell now. The new flash turned it all around and I don't think my I35P-XL could accomplish the same thing. 3.6 on this voltage was all I could do with it, though it was a quick and casual oc try.

I'm seeing 100 FPS+ from an h264 encode. This really shows off the quad as the 8400 turns about 50 FPS at the same clock. I suppose that makes sense as it is pretty much a half 9450.

I wish we had a SuperPi that used all cores available so we could actually gage and compare the work potential of these setups with each other. A single core benchmark doesn't really make any sense anymore. Is there such a thing that I've missed? Been away from the OC scene quite a while. Circa AW8D with a 930D@4.6 Ghz.

[corso13]

go to the 1st page of this thread to see some bios shots.

thanks a lot Ace now im running 3619 MHz (9.5 x 381) on stock volts and playing for a couple of hours and looks solid let me try some more fsb to see wen will be needed to add the volts

[Ace-a-Rue]

I wish we had a SuperPi that used all cores available so we could actually gage and compare the work potential

you ask, thy will receive!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=176904

[Ace-a-Rue]

thanks a lot Ace now im running 3619 MHz (9.5 x 381) on stock volts and playing for a couple of hours and looks solid let me try some more fsb to see wen will be needed to add the volts

glad it all worked out...i like success!

[charmedmeat]

Hey all, gonna be getting this board in the next month or so, along with an E85/86 and I'm planning on going water. Are there any Mosfet WB's available for this board?

[mrcape]

I'm thinking back to 3am a couple of days ago ... This started when I pushed way too hard and the system would not return from a bad OC. So now that I am thinking about it, I guess Ace was right, it must have been a corrupted bootblock. Odd thing was, before that this board always wiped all settings when returning from a bad oc, now the settings are still intact. I wonder if it was a bad flash from the factory?

Anyway I am happy as hell now. The new flash turned it all around and I don't think my I35P-XL could accomplish the same thing. 3.6 on this voltage was all I could do with it, though it was a quick and casual oc try.

I'm seeing 100 FPS+ from an h264 encode. This really shows off the quad as the 8400 turns about 50 FPS at the same clock. I suppose that makes sense as it is pretty much a half 9450.

I wish we had a SuperPi that used all cores available so we could actually gage and compare the work potential of these setups with each other. A single core benchmark doesn't really make any sense anymore. Is there such a thing that I've missed? Been away from the OC scene quite a while. Circa AW8D with a 930D@4.6 Ghz.

Are you benching for points or just for the heck of it? I'd say try 3d06 and Vantage.

Many are using duals because or the crazy fsb possible on the recent boards. That obviously allows the super high freq in the benching zone, which can't be beat in SuperPi etc..