ABit AX78 Overclocking/Stability

[pcnazz]

very enjoyable thread from a fellow AX78 owner , this MB board love's the AMD 6400+ chips , I'm glad to see your having a good time with this sleeper board Venom- , the AMD 5000+ black edition does real well with the AX78 also , nice work Venom-Crusher !!!!

[XRogerX]

Hello all i just got AX78 Motherboard and X2 5400+ Brisbane Black

Was wondering if anyone can help me overclocking this Pig lol

System Specs

Abit AX78 - AMD 770
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+
OCZ 4GB DDR2 800MHz
GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
Seagate 250 GB SATA
Seagate 320 GB SATA
DVD Writer 18x Dual Layer SATA
XP Pro Service Pack 3
Antec NeoPower 650 Blue
Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer
COSMOS 1000

thanks in advance

[Venom-Crusher]

That's not possible! 31C on Core0 and 20C on Core1, using plain watercooling, at 3600Mhz, at 1.6xxVcore, you must live in Alaska !

haha no, I live in Thailand, I bench in air condition room, room temp at 20-22 c.

[XRogerX]

Ty all i guess no one knows

[Heidfirst]

it shouldn't be hard.
what have you tried & what have you achieved?

[XRogerX]

it shouldn't be hard.
what have you tried & what have you achieved?

i got the muti @ 16x200 = 3.2 and i have to put CPU volts to 1.37 from 1.32
thats all i have touched cause i dont know nothing about the Blackies as this is my 1st one , i know i can go higher cause i did get this to a 3.3 but wasnt stable and that when i had the CPU Volts up to 1.45

Thanks
Roger

[Heidfirst]

what are you using for CPU cooling & which exact OCZ DDR2 800?

[XRogerX]

what are you using for CPU cooling & which exact OCZ DDR2 800?

i will post the links to each item

ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835185125

OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227269

[XRogerX]

ok instead of starting a new thread i was wondering something i was trying to flash the bios on my ax78 board and the flash went wrong and this looks like an onboard chip how can i get this board running again

Thanks Roger

[ah_khoo]

ok instead of starting a new thread i was wondering something i was trying to flash the bios on my ax78 board and the flash went wrong and this looks like an onboard chip how can i get this board running again

Thanks Roger

u flashed it under windows environment? if that's the case i think your board is as good as dead. either a hot flash needed or order a new bios chip.

[XRogerX]

u flashed it under windows environment? if that's the case i think your board is as good as dead. either a hot flash needed or order a new bios chip.

Yes i flashed it underwindows and i think the bios is Solderd on the board itself

[soundood]

Yes i flashed it underwindows and i think the bios is Solderd on the board itself

no it isnt matey so all is cool, you just have to put up with a dead board for a couple of days/weeks.

you will need to head over and get yourself another bios chip from abit, it will come with bios v13 allready on there, heres the link,

http://www.uabit.com/WebStore/produc...5ff83343e273b1

once you get it, be careful when removing the other chip, stick this one in/boot/load optimized defaults and save, then go back into bios and set ram voltage (if needed)

the good thing here is that once you put the new chip in and boot, you could remove the new chip and stick the old one in while in windows and try and 'hotflash' it to make it good again.

just dont try it under windows vista, seems to work in XP ok though, i have tried it and its fine

hope this helps,

that reminds me i need to head over and see the wolves

[soundood]

Yes i flashed it underwindows and i think the bios is Solderd on the board itself

no it isnt matey so all is cool, you just have to put up with a dead board for a couple of days/weeks.

you will need to head over and get yourself another bios chip from abit, it will come with bios v13 allready on there, heres the link,

http://www.uabit.com/WebStore/produc...5ff83343e273b1

once you get it, be careful when removing the other chip, stick this one in/boot/load optimized defaults and save, then go back into bios and set ram voltage (if needed)

the good thing here is that once you put the new chip in and boot, you could remove the new chip and stick the old one in while in windows and try and 'hotflahs' it to make it good again.

just dont try it under windows vista, seems to work in XP ok though, i have tried it and its fine

hope this helps,

that reminds me i need to head over and see the wolves

[XRogerX]

the good thing here is that once you put the new chip in and boot, you could remove the new chip and stick the old one in while in windows and try and 'hotflahs' it to make it good again.

just dont try it under windows vista, seems to work in XP ok though, i have tried it and its fine

ok i dont want to mess this up even more then what it is , so you telling me i can remove the chip while the pc is on and but the old on back ?

that sound messed up but then again i dont know anything about hotflashes and to answer your question yes i do have XP

[soundood]

ok i dont want to mess this up even more then what it is , so you telling me i can remove the chip while the pc is on and but the old on back ?

that sound messed up but then again i dont know anything about hotflashes and to answer your question yes i do have XP

exactly, the process is known as 'hot flashing' , you would use the new chip to boot the board into windows, once in windows, swap the good chip for the bad chip, then flash the old chip from windows, if there is no pysical damage to the chip then it should flash ok,

or you could judt order two bios chips at the same tim, keeps one safe incase of bios flash again.

the easiest way i have found to flash bios is to use USB drive that emulates a floppy, info to do this is on the abit site, under beta bios, found here

http://forum.uabit.com/showthread.php?t=121953

[XRogerX]

exactly, the process is known as 'hot flashing' , you would use the new chip to boot the board into windows, once in windows, swap the good chip for the bad chip, then flash the old chip from windows, if there is no pysical damage to the chip then it should flash ok,

or you could judt order two bios chips at the same tim, keeps one safe incase of bios flash again.

the easiest way i have found to flash bios is to use USB drive that emulates a floppy, info to do this is on the abit site, under beta bios, found here

http://forum.uabit.com/showthread.php?t=121953

Ok i will order two of them to be safe and i will let you know how it goes, again tyvm for the info , like i said b4 this is one hell of a learning error and almost cost me a good board , also i do have a USB DataTraveler

http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/562

Is this good, i will never touch another bios again lol

[soundood]

Ok i will order two of them to be safe and i will let you know how it goes, again tyvm for the info , like i said b4 this is one hell of a learning error and almost cost me a good board , also i do have a USB DataTraveler

http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/562

Is this good, i will never touch another bios again lol

you just were unlucky roger, thats all.

what i would say is that whenever you think of flashing a bios go to the board makers website to see tips for flashing, and check the forums there as well, cause this problem has happened before and is well documented with a warning not to do it from windows.

as for the flash drive, its fine, just follow the instructions on the abit website, it will be fine, i have flashed this board around 20 times now, not a problem.

you will have to upgrade the bios at some point, so please dont be put off with your current situation, what is important is that you learn the lesson (we all do) and think yourself lucky that your board ahs a socketed bios, more reason to make sure that all boards you buy have this, or dual bios options

let me now how it goes, and any probs give me a PM, im in here most nights

[XRogerX]

ok so all i have to do is just take out the old chip and put the new chip in and boot the PC?

[soundood]

ok so all i have to do is just take out the old chip and put the new chip in and boot the PC?

pretty much yeah, getting the old chip out can be a bit of hassle, they are seated very tightly in the AX78, you can buy a tool for it, or use some needle nose pliers (small)

but yeah you pull it out, stick the other one in and away you go, what i do as a mater of habit is get a permanent marker, and mark one corner of chip, to the same corner of chip socket, then you are sure of the correct orientation of the chip when putting it back in.

[XRogerX]

ohhh so it can go in more then oneway , would that be a bad thing?

[man_bear_pig]

I just got a brand new one of these for an RMA replacement for another board. I have a x2 6400 be I can throw in it, what ram do you guys see as being the best for getting the most out of the board? Excited to have an AMD board that will clock well again, and look forward to seeing what I can get out of it.

I am also gonna get a 4870 to put in it as well. This thread has me looking forward to it.

[valdi]

Hi to all ! Please help my with ocing my Penom 9850BE ? I have problems with NB on this board? and don't know ho to fix it! Please tell if someone knew ho to putt it down? I need to make it no more 2000 , but in bios thare is no option for it like on another boards. Please HELP MY????

[ah_khoo]

most of abit ax78 users don;t have that option in bios. in order to lower down d nb frequency, u need BAR edit, which can only work under windows environment...

u got a b.e chip there, why not just play with the cpu multi?

[valdi]

ah_khoo - please maybe you can say would it work , I mean BAR edit under WINDIOWS VISTA 64???? If so ? how or where i can find information to do that??? Please help me if you can???

[ah_khoo]

ah_khoo - please maybe you can say would it work , I mean BAR edit under WINDIOWS VISTA 64???? If so ? how or where i can find information to do that??? Please help me if you can???

here u go mate:

http://www.tweakers.fr/baredit.html

it works for vista 64-bit as well...