UNOFFICIAL BIOSTAR TPower I45 M/B

[mattgmann]

At least now I have enough scrap i45 parts to fix almost anything that could go wrong.........knocking on wood

[Ace-a-Rue]

I'm handing this board off to my dad in a new build and I have a question.

I'm getting a checksum error after some reboots. It's retarded because the settings are 8 hours Blend Pr9 stable, OCCT stable and the mem is memtest86 stable for hours. If I do anything that requires medium or more processing and then reboot, I'll bet the checksum error F1 to enter or F2 to load defaults. If I enter and load the OC'd profile it will work again.

Any ideas? I want to use those settings, but I don't want anyone to have to deal with checksum errors. Is there some crap in the post routine that's causeing that, logo, oc retry etc?

EDIT - I've tried clearing cmos, rflashing via afudos etc. It's just something flaky in the boot up process. Is there a known issue? Another part of the symptom is that it's actually power cycling instead of a normal restart. And once it powers back up it either hangs or throws a checksum error. This thing is pissing me off. I have done a lot with this board, and now I just want to get rid of it. It's all in the bios this issue, I'm certain. I just need a solution if one exists, no matter how much of a kludge fest.

have you tried higher Vcore, Vmem and nortbridge voltages....it sounds like an insufficient voltage problem.

[GeorgeStorm]

I have the same problem, absolutely stable once it actually turns on, can be ecoding/gaiming for hours, but sometimes, crashes while loading vista, why Im at stock atm

[DonNiger]

Tried to boot the board that came back from RMA. And I could not
That is what I got from them (this one is not mine old dead one. That one is somebody's else dead one - the serial numbers do not mach). I feel like I have been

Some pictures about that new dead MB:

Biostar has a new type of a socket cover



I guess that is the reason why it is dead. Nice work as...les




Could anybody recognize it's old board, it is floated with vaseline:

[Indignity]

Holy crap DonNiger!

So far so good for me here.. I'm stable running at 3.0GHz until I can find time to play. I will report back once I get a decent stable OC on it.... Man, I love these G.Skill PI 1100's!!!!! Everything on auto right now & they're only 1.8v :o

[serious1]

hey everyone. I'm having a lot of trouble overclocking this board. I'm running 4x1GB of the new 2.0v ballistix and an E6400. I used to have a P5B-Deluxe and I had that figured out and I know my CPU can do 3.4GHZ at 1.375v with 2x1GB of D9's but I can't seem to get it to boot with this board besides at stock frequencies. I'm not familiar with P45's so I'm wondering what kind of voltages I need to pump through the board and what kind of subtimings I should be running on my ram to get the CPU back up to speed?

[mattgmann]

The i45 I got in the mail the other day had a piece of plastic covering the cpu socket as well. I wasn't lucky enough to get free vaseline, or custom soldered caps though. My last 2 boards suffered from exploding mosfet syndrome....hopefully this one has been vaccinated.

[DonNiger]

mattgmann, do not worry - mayby you will have more luck next time. No vaccination against explosions so far (exactly the same mosfets - 4 times 58A power mosfets- no chance to OC quad. Just have to figure out, how to keep them below 85c.

[Bail_w]

mattgmann, do not worry - mayby you will have more luck next time. No vaccination against explosions so far (exactly the same mosfets - 4 times 58A power mosfets- no chance to OC quad. Just have to figure out, how to keep them below 85c.

So were you able to RMA that f***ed up board they give you?

[DonNiger]

Not yet - and I am not going to spend my money and time again.
I have contacted Biostar RMA departement in Germany (where it was "fixed") but there has been no replays. I'll wait for few days and if still no replay, I will make it official.

[dro]

ive sent my board for rma too
its been a few weeks and no reply
i heard that a lot of plants over there are on shutdown/forced leave due to the recession

[DoObs]

Yea man....ive waited 4 weeks for stock down here in Johannesburg, South Africa... and im still waiting. I plan on buying the DFI DK PLUS P45.....coz i cant get the UT which is a ing bummer.

BIOSTAR YOU GUYS SUCK A$$$$$$

[dro]

same thing here in malaysia for DFI p45 dk T2RS +
no stock too
thats why im gonna buy rampage formula soon :P
***there are no P45 UT here...it saddens me cuz i see great review with it ***


sorry for my poor english

[DonNiger]

It is alive

[hersounds]

guys someone has tested the last bios beta ? ====> P45AAB03

the info about that version is =

BIOS for TPower I45
Release Date 2008/11/03
Update Description:
1. Unknown changes.

i need know what mean UNKNOWN CHANGES and of course if anyone has tested your experience with this bios.

if someone have curious here the link ===> http://www.lejabeach.com/Biostar/TPI45/P45AAB03.rar

[mattkosem]

Well, my board seems to have randomly died. It rebooted to a blank screen in the middle of a q3a run on the longest yard and now only displays "d2" on the double 7-segment display. I'm a little surprised, since I've not touched any settings and it has been running the same settings for quite a while. Any ideas? I tried the recovery procedure, but it never attempts to read the bios from the drive. This code apparently means that there are issues reading the boot block of the bios :-/

--Matt

[mattkosem]

Well, my board seems to have randomly died. It rebooted to a blank screen in the middle of a q3a run on the longest yard and now only displays "d2" on the double 7-segment display. I'm a little surprised, since I've not touched any settings and it has been running the same settings for quite a while. Any ideas? I tried the recovery procedure, but it never attempts to read the bios from the drive. This code apparently means that there are issues reading the boot block of the bios :-/

--Matt

I'm not sure wth happened, but my CPU and the mobo both ended up being toast. The e8600 won't boot on my other system, and the TPower won't boot with my spare e6750. I even picked up another board from microcenter and tried the bios from it on my board, no go. Something tragic happened, not sure what. It couldn't have been power related, since the system is powered via a UPS. I guess these things will happen from time to time when components are under so much stress so far beyond their design specs. I picked up a phenom II yesterday. We'll see how much luck I have with that.

-Matt

[serious1]

I ended up getting my overclock back in place. I used the setting I found on this page and it turns out I was missing some basic settings. I'm just curious what you guys think is a safe 24/7 voltage on air for the NB and FSB?

[Eagle_Watch]

Im having a bad time trying to get some crucial memories to work right on the tpower i45.
The memories: 4GB kit (2GBx2), 240-pin DIMM, DDR2 PC2-8500 memory module

With a gigabyte ep35 ds3r i was able to do this:
-1066mhz 6-6-6-18 1.8v

-1125mhz 6-6-6-18 1.9v

On the tpower i45, i cant manage them to run even at 950mhz 6-6-6-18 stable, no matter the vdimm. Neither at 1066mhz 7-7-7-24 i tried with two different bios
any ideas?

P.D.: flashed to the newest beta bios, and raised tWTR, tRRD, tRTP, and now it works really well

[Dryadsoul]

Thanks Ace! Following your settings I managed to get an EO Q9550 to 4275.8Mhz @ 503 x8.5 w/1.512 Vcore.....

CPU-Z Validation .....If I get the hang of this AMI Bios, might push her higher.

Bought some 9 layer OCZ Flex DDR2 1150, but had to switch to Mushkin 996580 to get it to boot...

[DonNiger]

Just dicovered the possibility to have the exact voltage needed. It is poosible to chanege the core vid manualy And +/- 0,25 or 0,75v can make the difference
Btw, that MB has a huge vdrop if quad used - just testing QX6700@3,5Ghz. Idle 1,326, load (100% load) 1,296

[Ace-a-Rue]

Thanks Ace! Following your settings I managed to get an EO Q9550 to 4275.8Mhz @ 503 x8.5 w/1.512 Vcore.....

CPU-Z Validation .....If I get the hang of this AMI Bios, might push her higher.

Bought some 9 layer OCZ Flex DDR2 1150, but had to switch to Mushkin 996580 to get it to boot...

very good!

i am glad i could help some

ace

[sokre]

Do you people have problems with IO shield of this Biostar Tpower I45?
I couldnt put it into Antec three hundred case!

Holes on IO shield are 2mm too low! (And my mb standoffs are 6mm, think these are smallest)

[freaksavior]

got my DFI x48 back and i was testing it to see if it posted 8.8. like this guy claimed and it did but i also found it had a pent pin socket.

Anyway i took the E6400 out of my dads machine wich has the biostar board and then i put the processor in the DFI borard. Now the biostar post FF, thats it. No beeps, nothing. I checked all plugs and then remounted cpu and ram still nothing. I Did not even touch the graphics or anything else besides proc.

what the heck is this boards problem? i have had SO many issues with it.

This board really can not be dead i can not afford to have this machine down, it is VERY important it works right now.

[Wallbanger]

Did you clear the cmos after you switched parts?