Asus M3A79-T Deluxe

[wikiwiki1966]

I do not find 1102 Bios on asus site only 1001

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_I...ntent=download

Where is the link for the 1102?

Thanks

[ASharp]

Here's a direct link via the ASUS FTP:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...eluxe/1102.zip

[Trynity]

Flashed the Bios (1102) yesterday, after some tests, seems stable for me, but the old "Roll-A-Dice" Effect for Ram settings is back, if i set Timings 5-5-5-24-41 i get :



And i got a warning message every time when i put on the PC "Overclocking Failure ..... Press blablabla ......." - but it worked ok ......

everything else seems ok, Ram-Timings are broken again.

Bios is stable for me also @ higher overclocks, but it's hot outside so that i have to reduce the clock

regards

tryn

[EniGmA1987]

ill update my bios today and let you know. It has been super hot lately where I live so I had to back down my OC to only a 200MHz increase on my PII 940. Hopefully I will see a couple degrees improvement, although I find that unlikely.

I have been having some serious issues lately and dont want to risk a bios update ATM. So sorry I never got around to testing the new one.
I think my operating system hard drive is failing...

[wikiwiki1966]

Here's a direct link via the ASUS FTP:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...eluxe/1102.zip

THANKS

Any good comment on this BIOS?

[imamage]

Updated to 1001 and I don't like it
I have to push down the NB speed to 2.4GHz to keep my system stable
it works fine with 0905 NB @ 2.6GHz

The system boot slower too ,
I suggested skip 1001 and get newer BIOS

[wikiwiki1966]

Which Bios is currently the best option to have the best of both worlds OC and stable

[Tom128]

See I actually have had a positive experience with 1001. When I leave my CPUv on AUTO, it only applies 1.325v to my 955BE, and not upwards of 1.45v. This is not a big plus to me since I hard-set the voltage, but nice to see regardless. What I have noticed that that my RAM stays more stable now. I have 4x2GB Corsair Dominator 1066 DDR2 that would not run at 533Mhz (CAS 5) with my 955BE (it would with my 7750BE oddly enough). It would fail prime within a minute or two, regardless of voltage. Now though, I can run prime for over an hour, at which point it does again fail. I am trying to now figure out steps I can take to keep it stable at 533Mhz, I would be happy with that since I don't feel memory speeds matter much for games. Have not tried how how high the ram will now clock at 400Mhz CAS 4, but before it would stop about 420Mhz before.

Oh, also it seems that to keep prime stable for an hour at 533Mhz requires less voltage. I tried 533Mhz at 2.1v (stock) and it failed after an hour. Bumped it up to 2.2v, it failed after an hour. Figured I would try 2v as well, and it also failed after an hour. So 2v, 2.1v and 2.2v failed within minutes of the same amount of time. Tells me the RAM is not what is failing, and that it is either my CPU's IMC, the mobo, or some combination I am trying to pin down. Either way, 533Mhz was not an option with this hardware on any other BIOS.

[Mechromancer]

1001 was horrible for me. I couldn't get NB past 2.2 stable. 1102 is much better, but I don't think it's on par with 0905. 0905 was the best for stable OCs for me personally.

[wikiwiki1966]

I got better temps con 1001, my cpu is running 1.325v as Tom128 mentioned, and 0905 it was hotter as i remember it was 1.4X v, My processor in both works flawless doing 3.6 ghz easily, but i live in a 100's F city (we've been reaching 40 celsius for almost a month now and we still have more hot days in this place, i do not what the @#$%@# i'm doing living here i should live in Norway ;-) , so the temp in my room is not the coolest. I do not have A/C on that room only some fan, so i decide to go stock now, so now i'm 3.1 Ghz and my CPU temp is when is hot about 46 Celsius, i do not know how bad or good it is, but in the mornings that is a little bit fresh my CPU runs in about 37 Celcius.

I have not tested 1102, yesterday i found is available and today i downloaded, but need to try it.

[wikiwiki1966]

I flashed but not OC yet, i get about same or maybe 1-2 degrees more than 1001 reads on my CPU. Has been stable but is a stock 3.1 ghz. No luck unlocking for cores on my 550BE .

[ASharp]

New BIOS up. Good news for those with dual and tri-core Phenom II chips.

[ 1203 ]
----------------------
01. Support ACC "Unleashing Mode".
02. Support setting SATA-5 and SATA-6 to IDE mode when SATA 1-4 is set to AHCI or RAID mode.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...eluxe/1203.zip

[Sunfire]

New BIOS up. Good news for those with dual and tri-core Phenom II chips.

[ 1203 ]
----------------------
01. Support ACC "Unleashing Mode".
02. Support setting SATA-5 and SATA-6 to IDE mode when SATA 1-4 is set to AHCI or RAID mode.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...eluxe/1203.zip

Thanks! Time to buy a new CPU!

[ASharp]

Yeah...if only they had released this BIOS a month ago. Just sold mine recently and got a Gigabyte so I could play with the unlocking.

Unfortunate since I actually rather liked the board. Oh well. Hope this BIOS works well for you guys.

[imamage]

New BIOS up. Good news for those with dual and tri-core Phenom II chips.

[ 1203 ]
----------------------
01. Support ACC "Unleashing Mode".
02. Support setting SATA-5 and SATA-6 to IDE mode when SATA 1-4 is set to AHCI or RAID mode.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...eluxe/1203.zip

FINALLY Unleashing Mode for M3A user
At least ASUS notice the "angry" M3A owner and add this to new BIOS
Anyone have tried it ?

[brane01]

Updated the bios, unlocked the 4th core, but cannot get past win7 boot screen, it always freezes and I need to shutdown the PC. So far no luck.
I guess the 4th core on 720BE is faulty.

[wikiwiki1966]

Updated Bios and my 3rd and 4th cores are unlocked, so far so good 3.1 stable but will work on it to see if is ok...

[Trynity]

hmm.... flashed the Bios today, after Flashing it looses Bios settings when i hit Save & Exit ....... the only thing that was saved was the Date o.O

EDIT: Ok, downgrade to 905 and Flashing the 1203 again solved my problem ....

[pcnazz]

Its the only thing I hate about my M3A79-T mb . Mine is brown also . When I bought it from NewEgg I honestly thought it was black . I hope when the new asus AMD boards come out in early 2010 they make sure there high end boards are black . Thank goodness the brown board color does not stand out , being easily noticed !!! Other than that it is a great board !!!

[wikiwiki1966]

Getting some problems when i decide to install ARCTIC COOLING ACCELS1 Rev 2 VGA Cooler on my HD4850, i removed 2 dimms of memory i did not notice there it was Yellow-Black-Yellow-Black slots, so i just pull of a pair of memory modules and i left installed one on a yellow and one on a black slot, then i tried to boot and only BEEPS no image, then i realize my mistake and i move the one on the black to the other yellow empty slot as the manual suggest install them in yellow for better overclockability. But still no BOOT, i decide to try other video card which i just bought for my son's pc and the same, i try that one again on my son's pc and is working but i can not install mine as the PSU did not have that power connector. I do not know what i'm doing wrong, i just got BEEPS only no image on screen.

Let me know your thoughts

Sincerely

[Titan7171]

clear the cmos see if that helps.

[xman01]

if clear cmos doesn't work

try one stick at a time

[wikiwiki1966]

Is a weird one, i need your help. My system was working properly, i removed 2 sticks of memory to build my son's new rig, as i wrote before, i did not look that i left a yellow-black combination, i used those 2 sticks con my son's pc and is working properly too. I bouth that cooler so i remove my video card to installed, after i finish, i just placed it back and turn it on, but i did not see the yellow-black combination, my PC only does BEEPS , like is booting but i do not have video. So i try with my son's video card and the same no booting no video. So i decided to do more test, i used the clear RTC Ram Jumper and no results, also i removed the battery and the same. I decide to try the video card on each of the PCI-e this mobo has
i started with the BLUE closer to CPU which is where i currently use the video card, then i moved to the other blue slot, NOTHING :-( , moved to the first Black Slot and same, then to the other, NOTHING. Then i went to my Son's PC and removed the video card, and try each of the PCI-e slots and NOTHING. I removed the two memory modules and try on the black ones and NOTHING, I exchange those memory modules with the first 2 i original moved to my Son's PC and NOTHING, on my Son's PC it boots with any of those 4 modules. So the memory is not wrong, i had it installed before. Also the video card from my son is working on his rig but NOT on mine. What else could it be? I disconnect every SATA port, i had 2 HD on those ports also 2 CD/DVD DVDRW combos on SATA. I do not know what i'm missing, I checked again every cable from my PSU and where they shold be connected. I only had one doubdt, on my video card, there is a connector to the fan than came with it, but as i removed the heatsink, i installed the new one and a 120mm FAN, that fan is not connected to the video card, is connected to the MOBO.

I hope to hear from you soon

THANKS

and Sorry for my english.

Sincerely

Wiki

[wikiwiki1966]

Well Now is working, how? i do not know, but is working. I found unlocking my 3rd and 4th cores in windows XP 32b i got some freeze moments that make me reboot. I had win7 installed on my HD and with that OS i do not have those freeze issues, so as i usually use XP as my main OS i decided to no unleash the beast, that way i had not freezing problems. My CPU temp is fine as the latest Bios the Vcore is 1.32 so is a little bit colder than using 904. I plan to use as my main OS win7 64 to unleash all cores...Keep in touch

[ciborg.ca]

The M4A79 DELUXE is better than the M3A79-T DELUXE?