Quote Originally Posted by Daveburt714 View Post
Thanks Raiderman, actually I don't have Auto Express enabled. It sets it at 124 and I did have some trouble with it in the past. It does seem to improve video performance to some extent so I manually set it to 117 and haven't had any problems with it since (with a slight bump on HT v's) ...

After alot of tweaking I actually did get things up to 19x207 (3933 core) and was pretty close to having it Wprime/IBT stable. That was at 1.575 Vcore and 1.35 Vimc.
Then I smelled something burning...

Scared the crap out me! Turns out the ceiling fan on my Antec 900 case died, so I just went back to my known good settings....

I'm sure there is more in this 940, and the fan dying had nothing to do with my OC, but I'm kinda buzzed so I'm done for the night...

I'd still like to know if anyone has a fix for the Sparkle and audio corrution though...
As for the Video corruption and the PCI-E bieng 124........


Try this ,,

Set HT to 1.28v

Go into te PCI bios menue where you set the Lanes and PCI-E slots.

Press f4 to access Lane #2 and Lane #11 these are the 16x slots..

Set both to 200 and 16x and Autonogotiation.

When overclocking i can run 3870x2 @950mhz /4850 @800+mhz and /9800+55nm 800mhz+ /260-216-55nm 750+mhz with zero problems @ 290+htt.. The windos load crap happens when the CPU isnt Stable. Youll barely se the dots (when they get spinning bigger in Win7) then wham(reboot). 64bit will do this sooner than 32bit with Catalyst Driver before 5-5-2009. Use the one dated 5-5-2009 for best stability. Ive ran so many other cards for friends but those four have been in an out at least 60times haaaha. So i know all about what the 124 pci does. Its most likely not the coulprit .

STOCK PCI @100 = (in AOD ,Why 124, AOD why) PCI in BIOS i Keep @100 24/7. As for the sound..It sounds like you own a Creative Audigy or X-Fi pci... You need the Most recent driver That out. I have had that pop and High sqeel with frozen looping sound while gamming . The newest driver fixes the Vista borking. If it crashes with On board Audio get the Nwest ACL Realtek codec for what ever Os.

Had both of your problems before on this MOBO.