WPCREDIT tweaks for the A64

[Fa1con]

Sry to put all these questions on ya but i have a MSI K8T Neo board w/out the AGP/PCI lock and i dont have the money to buy another board with the lock in it. Is there any way what so ever that i can lock the agp/pci so i dont have to pay for a new board. Thank You

[overanxious]

Thanks, CodeRed. NOt only did you develop the prog, you're also the problem solver. Very cool.

Now to figure out what I'm doing wrong. But first, I've got to get my clocks working in Clockgen-they've grayed out, and they weren't at first.

[Fa1con]

Sry to put all these questions on ya but i have a MSI K8T Neo board w/out the AGP/PCI lock and i dont have the money to buy another board with the lock in it. Is there any way what so ever that i can lock the agp/pci so i dont have to pay for a new board. Thank You

[IvanAndreevich]

Falcon
No.

overanxious
And how are you planning out doing that?

[overanxious]

I haven't figured it out yet. Why I could at one time use the clocks and now I can't is beyond me. I'm sure I changed something in the bios that has bprevented me from doing so. I had changed the bios FSB back to 800 for stability, no clocks; so I knocked it back to 200 in bios, and still no clocks. Hmmm...

Are you having the same prob? If you figure it out, shoot me a message. We need to hope Asus gets off their A$$es and make a decent OCing bios, or at least a beta release. There is one beta version out in cyberspace somewhere, but it was in Dutch or something, and I didn't want my bios worded in Dutch.

[overanxious]

Got it! To ungray the clock mode on Clockgen for the K8VSE, choose "auto" for performance mode (not standard or turbo).

[GenTarkin]

Originally posted by IvanAndreevich
Falcon
No.

overanxious
And how are you planning out doing that?

In response to ur "no" Ive been thinking and brought the idea up with CodeRed that I noticed through the NF3 150's chipset release manufactures have been enabling the lock on some boards...simply by upgrading the "old" bioses and adjusting the FSB +1mhz in the bios engages the lock and other ways, I am since then wondering( I have a Shuttle XPC SN84G4V2 and it does not feature the lock, but has the 150 chipset)
I am actually beginning to believe it may be possible to lock the PCI simply by finding a register in one of the PCI Devices or somewhere with WPCREDIT.
It would be a heck of a find if this turned out to be the case. I just wish I knew where to start. CodeRed pointed out that the register may be different for every manufacture...makes it harder and would be nice if it wasnt =/
I think a way or place to start would be with people who have boards that have originally not had the lock engaged, then adjusted something or upgraded bios and had the lock engage, compare those 2 PCI dumps in WPCREDIT and see if there is any noticeblue helpfull difference.

[andL64]

hi folks!

thx to the great brain who uncovered this

amd64 tweaker is great!!!


i got the epox kda3+ and i only get 2,76-2,78 Vdimm...
and tested some with the tweaker since i got

Corsair 512MB DDR3200 CL2 /CMX512-3200C2 / XMS3202v1.1

this is bh-6 correct me if i m worng plz!

so this mem. only boots on 333 mhz but its not so bad its only worse because i can only set my multi to 8x (clockgen locks) in bios and i can only get 2250mhz so max what i can do is 225 like this i ve run the memory @ 2-2(3)-2-5 and it was quite stable in benches and win 24/7 but in games like d3 it cuts the game or i get bluescreens...

every time i set any other MEMCLK freq. it freezes i dont do any other refresh rate (tref) and only tested "ordinary" latency and Trc Trcf (10 12 ordinary and i tried 10/16 12/16)

i ll test some more but i cant set "bad" timings then the mem/board wont boot... (cause of mem. error...)

need more vdimm so i ll get 4 the dfi board!

on 200 i can run 2-2-2-5 with that vdimm and 245-248x9 @ 333

seEn andL

[cpuz]

Originally posted by overanxious
Got it! To ungray the clock mode on Clockgen for the K8VSE, choose "auto" for performance mode (not standard or turbo).

Nice find overanxious.
I was looking for this issue for a long time.
Thanks !:thumbsup:

[cpuz]

I've made some additional testing on a K8V.
Indeed, as long as the Performance Mode is set to "Turbo" or "standard" in the BIOS, there is no way to access the PLL anymore. Only the "Auto" setting allows the access.
I've some difficulties to find a workaround, so for the moment the only way to make clockgen work is to choose "Auto".

[Dekal]

Nice work!!! I haven't any A64 system, but anyway, i'm impressed of your development! And again, i love that forum.

[jess1313]

Originally posted by GenTarkin
In response to ur "no" Ive been thinking and brought the idea up with CodeRed that I noticed through the NF3 150's chipset release manufactures have been enabling the lock on some boards...simply by upgrading the "old" bioses and adjusting the FSB +1mhz in the bios engages the lock and other ways, I am since then wondering( I have a Shuttle XPC SN84G4V2 and it does not feature the lock, but has the 150 chipset)
I am actually beginning to believe it may be possible to lock the PCI simply by finding a register in one of the PCI Devices or somewhere with WPCREDIT.
It would be a heck of a find if this turned out to be the case. I just wish I knew where to start. CodeRed pointed out that the register may be different for every manufacture...makes it harder and would be nice if it wasnt =/
I think a way or place to start would be with people who have boards that have originally not had the lock engaged, then adjusted something or upgraded bios and had the lock engage, compare those 2 PCI dumps in WPCREDIT and see if there is any noticeblue helpfull difference.

I have this same rig, I dont know if it locks but I can set bios to 201 & use clockgen. It will run stable up to 315 HTT, I always thought that maybe it was locking. I have know way of verifing this but it is know prob to run my OCZ PC4400 at 1:1 ratio on a 270 HTT bus.

If you would like some screen shots just let me know.

[mikead_99]

So I've run into a problem that's hopefully easy to resolve. I installed the .031 version and installed by just extracting it to the desktop and executing. The first time I ran it, I was able to view my config perfectly. I wanted to reboot for a 3dm01 run, and after I did, I re-launched the tweaker and got all of those reserved fields, bad values, etc. Haven't seen anything different since. I have not had a previous version installed so I'm just wondering what my conflict might be. Maybe CPU-Z (1.23)? If this helps, this is on an Epox 8kda3j, 3700+, and a Win2k Pro install. It looks like a damn powerful utility, I'm hoping someone can help me resolve this.

Thanks,
Mike

[CodeRed]

Originally posted by mikead_99
So I've run into a problem that's hopefully easy to resolve. I installed the .031 version and installed by just extracting it to the desktop and executing. The first time I ran it, I was able to view my config perfectly. I wanted to reboot for a 3dm01 run, and after I did, I re-launched the tweaker and got all of those reserved fields, bad values, etc. Haven't seen anything different since. I have not had a previous version installed so I'm just wondering what my conflict might be. Maybe CPU-Z (1.23)? If this helps, this is on an Epox 8kda3j, 3700+, and a Win2k Pro install. It looks like a damn powerful utility, I'm hoping someone can help me resolve this.

Thanks,
Mike

Try deleteing the following registry key, and reboot:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\cpuz

Then run the tweaker from your install directory. Make sure you have admin priveleages and write permissions to the install dir.

[mikead_99]

Originally posted by CodeRed
Try deleteing the following registry key, and reboot:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\cpuz

Then run the tweaker from your install directory. Make sure you have admin priveleages and write permissions to the install dir.

Thanks! I saw that tip for correcting previous install issues and planned on trying it. I'll post back in a few hours after I get a chance to try it and let you know how it goes.

[IvanAndreevich]

GenTarkin
He was talking about K8T800 chipset I don't think it's possible for that chipset. However, for NF150 - maybe

[mikead_99]

Just wanted to follow up. The next time I booted up, the tweaker read the registers fine again, just like the first time I ran it. I didn't have to edit the registry at all. Doesn't make sense to me since it wasn't reading correctly with several previous reboots, but I'm happy now.

[GenTarkin]

Originally posted by jess1313
I have this same rig, I dont know if it locks but I can set bios to 201 & use clockgen. It will run stable up to 315 HTT, I always thought that maybe it was locking. I have know way of verifing this but it is know prob to run my OCZ PC4400 at 1:1 ratio on a 270 HTT bus.

If you would like some screen shots just let me know.

damn urs runs stable that high?!?!?!
I notice in clockgen my PCI bus raises when I OC does urs?
I think it actually is because my Western Digital 160JB will start corrupting around 38mhz PCI bus...and its been that far and has corrupted =(
AND ur using SATA too which supposedly hates PCI overclocks more then PATA....
HRM....

[HKPolice]

Is there any way to adjust Interleaving settings?

Seems like most BIOSes disables it with 2 or more modules: http://www.digit-life.com/news.html?108190#108190

[CodeRed]

Originally posted by HKPolice
Is there any way to adjust Interleaving settings?

Seems like most BIOSes disables it with 2 or more modules: http://www.digit-life.com/news.html?108190#108190

Not from within Windoze.

If you change the intyerleave then you change the order of physical memory addresses which would totally screw the current memory map.

[HKPolice]

Originally posted by CodeRed
Not from within Windoze.

If you change the intyerleave then you change the order of physical memory addresses which would totally screw the current memory map.

Is there any way to at least detect if interleaving is enabled? CPU-Z's bank interleave is greyed out

Any way to mod the interleave via modded BIOS?

[IvanAndreevich]

There is an Interleave driver for old VIA chipsets (PIII, K6) which enables memory interleave. So I guess there IS a way. It requires a restart, though.

[HKPolice]

I think my K8NS turns off interleave by default, memtest86's benchmark is about 300MB/s lower than the same settings on an AN50R

[CodeRed]

I think my K8NS turns off interleave by default, memtest86's benchmark is about 300MB/s lower than the same settings on an AN50R

Can you post a screenie using WPCREDIT of bus 0, device 24, function 2. From these settings I can tell you what type of interleaving, if any, is being used.

I may add an interleave info page in the next version of A64 Tweaker ... or just send the info the Franck so he can incorporate it into CPU-Z.

[HKPolice]

No probs: