I thought it was the NB?Originally Posted by AMDDeathstar
Do you think this may be why I can't seem to overclock? When I got the board I it had 1002, & I ran it with that & my X2 6000 at stock for a week or so until I got my 9950, & flashed it to 1203 before putting the 9950 in.holy sweet mother............................ was a bad bios install.
went back to 6030 or what ever and no more memory errors.
if your having trouble like me. tech asus support blows chunks.
when you reset cmos. move the jumper. then turn power on. hold for 5 seconds. it wont shut off after it turns on. but hold it in for 5 seconds.
then shut off power and move jumper back.go into bios dont set anything.load bios flash. go back to 6030. then let it boot up. just hit F2 to load defaults and let it boot to windows. then shut down.
when it comes back up go into bios. dont change anything. load bios defualts again. just to make sure. then flash back to 1002. no more mem errors @ 1066 gang or unganged.
wtf 2 weeek of wondering if i had bad mobo,ram,cpu, gpu. all becuase i set date and time, and ram timmings and voltage. well anyways im back up will have to format again. have new ram on the way lol even thoug i dont need it now. with the bad bios install. ram @ 1066 would error in memtest86 and in vista memory test. 800 would seem like it was ok but its not. now no errors but still have a bad install from last format so i will be formating again for the 5th time or so . ugggggggg. then i will get back to oc'ing again.
i did reach 2.9 in 0603 with just using standard. up the multi. not manual or ai nos. running full mem test now as i type. use to phail @ test 5 or 6. its on test 8 and 93% done. so its lookign good. i will be back @ 3-3.2 tomorrow after i format.
I know the RAM's good for at least 215 at stock voltage, as it managed that with the X2 on my old Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA, but I'm not really looking for a RAM overclock, I was hoping to be able to just up the CPU multiplier, but when I tried setting OC mode to standard & multi to 14 [all other settings left untouched] I got as far as getting into windows, but as soon as OCCT went from idle to load the whole thing rebooted.
I wish they'd mentioned that in the manual, scared the crap out of me the first time it did it!
Another thing I've seen mentioned in this thread is the issue of temps of chipset & possibly mosfets too. I'm not sure I'm willing to take the risk of water cooling just yet [still feeling rather paranoid about the idea of leaks], but I was thinking of replacing the stock heatpipe setup with 3 seperate coolers, but apparently none of the different versions of that Thermalright mosfet heatsink are compatible, nor are any others I've seen so far, except possibly for the small individual ones that you're supposed to stick on with thermal adhesive/tape. Why anyone would use that method when there are perfectly good mounting holes available is a mystery to me. <mutter... grumble... PowerColor... stupid ramsink. Grrrr!>
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