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[charged3800z24]

Ok I think I fixed it I did a system restore and reinstalled the chipset drivers.

The only things installed were the chipset drivers and I did the windows updates. that was it! so it stopped.

ok I found it it was my cd/dvd-rom drive driver which updated itself..........right after, the problem started again, so I disabled it for now, problem solved.

Weird, glad it is fixed. I have never had that happen before.

[Daveburt714]

I'm trying to tweak my IMC/RAM timings but my board fails to post with an HTRef >250.... Anyone else tried this or had this problem?
Since the 1600 Mem divider fails too it's the only way I can get RAM clocks up.

I know the board is capable of higher HTRef clocks. I've had it up to ~275 on stock NB v's using ET6 and AOD...

BTW: VERY nice work with the IGP OldTimer & Wuttz!


EDIT: New Bios "F5" is available.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...ctID=3342&ver=

[Titan7171]

Weird, glad it is fixed. I have never had that happen before.

yea its a liteone IDE drive...........Windows 7 installed its version of the driver and I guess theres a problem with it. Drive would run full speed the disk refused to eject and it wouldnt read the disk that was inside anyway. Mind you its the same drive I installed windows with so it works fine. Just that dam driver messing up

[Titan7171]

I'm trying to tweak my IMC/RAM timings but my board fails to post with an HTRef >250.... Anyone else tried this or had this problem?
Since the 1600 Mem divider fails too it's the only way I can get RAM clocks up.

I know the board is capable of higher HTRef clocks. I've had it up to ~275 on stock NB v's using ET6 and AOD...

BTW: VERY nice work with the IGP OldTimer & Wuttz!


EDIT: New Bios "F5" is available.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...ctID=3342&ver=

I havent started messing with the bus but I can say that 1600 works for me I have it set at 1600 8,8,8,22,30.

On the bad side the onboard graphics wont finish 3dm06 and Im getting corruption in the bios and windows desktop. cpu is stock NB 2400/htt2400, memory 1600 IGP stock..........so I dont know what the deal is. Im gonna see if I put my graphics card in if it does the same.

[Daveburt714]

I havent started messing with the bus but I can say that 1600 works for me I have it set at 1600 8,8,8,22,30

Thanks for the heads up Titan7171..

I haven't tried booting at CL8, it may work with the divider @ 1600 but I'd really like to stay @ CL7 if I can!
Nothing is set in stone (of course) and I may play with CL8 down the road, if it will boot at 1600...

I did flash the F5 bios tonight, and managed to get my machine to boot @ 257 HTRef (which is an improvement)!

I'm still playing with this board, it feels different from the UD4P and the bios has alot of new options to play with... I just have to figure them out...

Overall, I've gotten better results on the new chipset (work in progress).

Here's a SS of what happened tonight:


I'm working with a new Board and Ram at the same time, so I'm not sure what is making things better....
I'm pushing 2.8 IMC though! I was lucky if I could get a complete CB10 @ 2600 on the UD4P...

Thanks again for the new board Simon!
I'm diggin the 890GX so far...

[Titan7171]

ok well its getting worse windows started one time with the 5970 on it I installed the drivers and then it never booted again. I tried both sticks of memory seperately and I tried my 4850x2 and the 5970.......both turn on fans spin but screen never turns on.pulled tha battery and unplugged it to no avail.
heres spme screens of the setup





and a video of what its doing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTlid9Am3nA

[chew*]

Looks like IGP os toast but.......try using 1 stick in white slot furthest from cpu.......Drop ram divider all the way down and reflash board.

[Titan7171]

Ill try again tomorrow.......its been 7 hours doing this windows installation drivers......downloading apps and semi testing then 4 hours of troubleshooting.......I hope it works!

[Daveburt714]

Not sure how much this will help Titan, but normally when I get screen couruption like that memory voltage is too low...

If you just get sparkles around the Windows logo on boot, it usually means the IMC voltage is too low...

I have to admit, I've never seen it quite that bad, but it looks like you may need a little more juice on the RAM...

Good Luck Bro!

[Titan7171]

Not sure how much this will help Titan, but normally when I get screen couruption like that memory voltage is too low...

If you just get sparkles around the Windows logo on boot, it usually means the IMC voltage is too low...

I have to admit, I've never seen it quite that bad, but it looks like you may need a little more juice on the RAM...

Good Luck Bro!

was running 1.605 into the ram.......thing is I cant see the bios anymore its all jibberish......and the system will start only if I clear the cmos before every restart. I also tried using the dual boot but both bios did the same.

[charged3800z24]

was running 1.605 into the ram.......thing is I cant see the bios anymore its all jibberish......and the system will start only if I clear the cmos before every restart. I also tried using the dual boot but both bios did the same.

This is what My board did also. Bios was weird etc. Mine was fine with the 5850, then nothing worked at all. Fans spin and that is all.

[massman]

...lots of igp ln2...

[wuttz]

HD4290 3D Performance Evaluation

Test Platform

AMD Phenom II 965BE 3.4GHz, CPU-NB@2.0GHz
Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H/HD4290 IGP
G.Skill DDR3-1600 CL9
Silverstone ST-1000
Seagate 7200.12 500GB/16MB

Screenshots : http://s664.photobucket.com/albums/vv4/wuttzi/HD4290/



HOC DEMO ONE










HOC DEMO TWO











HD4290 is very capable of mid-range gaming!

[chew*]

Looks like my son might get an upgrade from his 790 GX.

[theoldtimer]

MSI 890GXM-G65 MB all tests @4.3GHz. on Windows 7 RC 64-bit.
965-C3 @4.3GHz
Corsair GT 2000 CL8 except 8GB see Performance Test 7 below
Test drive =4xOCZ 30GB Vortex SSD drives in Raid0 Partitioned as 20/100GB, boot drive=80GB-IDE
GFX=IGP 4290 @940/667MHz air cooled
CPU cooling =chilled water (windshield washer fluid) fluid temp=-10/-15C

I improved some of the test results as I worked the HTT up a bit more. I ran the HTT up to 279 today but that’s when the system refused to boot backed it down and it booted right up. It will boot and test at 270 though. I didn’t keep trying different settings maybe tomorrow lowering the memory divider may allow higher HTT as it did earlier?

This MB running the original bios doesn’t like any IGP changes in the bios setting when the HTT is clocked up as it usually won’t boot. I need to drop the HTT down 10/20 clicks then make the IGP changes, reboot and then raise the HTT to previous over clocked setting.

3DMark01



3DMark03



3DMark05



3DMark06



CrystalMark



Performance Test 7
I knew this test liked more ram but I didn’t have four matching sticks so I set the bios memory setting to auto then removed the two sticks of Corsair GT 2000 CL8’s . I then installed two sticks of OCZ 1600 CL6 in the first two slots and two sticks of Corsair 1600 CL8’s in the other two for a total of 8GB. She booted up and ran the test.

[wuttz]

ok well its getting worse windows started one time with the 5970 on it I installed the drivers and then it never booted again. I tried both sticks of memory seperately and I tried my 4850x2 and the 5970.......both turn on fans spin but screen never turns on.pulled tha battery and unplugged it to no avail.
heres spme screens of the setup

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and a video of what its doing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTlid9Am3nA

titan, if you can bring down the memory clocks lower.
i experienced this type of "corruption" during reboot with 1600MHz sideport memory clocks & 895MHz GPU. after a reset/reboot it just went away. probably insufficient voltages. but bring it down if you can.

very nice benches oldtimer! thanks for the kudos dave!
i'm signing off now on the gaming benches, chew*. gonna wait for that sp|ntel hsf to come around so i can play with DICE again. on second thought, i may spend the whole weekend twiddling with gpu-memory sizes to find that sweet spot you tipped us about!

[Titan7171]

titan, if you can bring down the memory clocks lower.
i experienced this type of "corruption" during reboot with 1600MHz sideport memory clocks & 895MHz GPU. after a reset/reboot it just went away. probably insufficient voltages. but bring it down if you can.

I cant unless someone guides me into the bios I, I cant see anything except green lines on the screen looks like the Matrix has me.

Also why would the mobo not work even with an external GC in the pci-e slot??

Is there a way to shut down the IGP?

[chew*]

Clear cmos/pull battery and install vidcard then boot should change device priority.

[Titan7171]

Clear cmos/pull battery and install vidcard then boot should change device priority.

ok will try now and report back

[Titan7171]

no go, tried both cards cleared cmos pulled battery and installed card......nothing onscreen. also tried VGA of the IGP and it also showed same results on screen radom colors and green screen lines. IGP is still getting warm like its doing something.....just not the right thing.

[chew*]

no go, tried both cards cleared cmos pulled battery and installed card......nothing onscreen. also tried VGA of the IGP and it also showed same results on screen radom colors and green screen lines. IGP is still getting warm like its doing something.....just not the right thing.

Yep ok board is likely toast.

[crazydiamond]

have you tried reseating the nb heatsink? maybe its making poor contact?

[Titan7171]

have you tried reseating the nb heatsink? maybe its making poor contact?

yup even put some arctic silver on it, it doesnt move if I push down or pull up on it its making contact ok as far as I can see.

[wuttz]

as5 is conductive, you sure you didnt get some of it on the resistors?

[BeepBeep2]

Yeah, as soon as I read that I thought..."Isn't AS5 conductive?"