Asus M4a79 deluxe up close and personal

[chew*]

Man they can't stop pumping out BIOSes for this thing...

Anyone ever have their CPU fan STOP? The other day I BSOD'd (at stock speeds) and rebooted to see FAN ERROR PRESS F1 or whatever it says. Got back into windows and by the time I opened hw monitor my CPU was still at 79C. Apparently the fan decided to stop spinning... I have it set as a DC fan in the BIOS control setup.

No clue AFI, I thought you'd run a cpu fan off molex tbh......I never use headers for CPU.

[afireinside]

I wanted to try the whole fan control via AOD thing, apparently it was a bad idea.

[chew*]

I wanted to try the whole fan control via AOD thing, apparently it was a bad idea.

Ahh that explains it.

[soundood]

I wanted to try the whole fan control via AOD thing, apparently it was a bad idea.

AOD, the failings of this software, totaly outweigh any benifits it might have, personaly never have any fans running of the mobo, after a abd experiance a few years back, where a fan took out my mobo.

all fans running through a fused fan controler is my answer to that

EEEEEH EEEEH, SHAMON, WHOS BAD?

[wesleys_dad]

The new bios on the ftp site 1702 seems as stable as 1602 to me...ive run into no problems with it under load or running benches...still has the cpu overvolt at least on my 7750be...
I guess chew will have to beat it up in the coming weeks to really find out...in all my years i believe he is the most crazy o/clocker ive ever run across and i really believe what he has forgotten is more than ill ever know about computers....
in my mind he is an engineer with balls of steel to beat on hardware like he does...i do so enjoy reading his posts....

[soundood]

i will be sticking with 1602 for a while,

[Asmola]

Hi everyone. I bought 955BE to my M4A79 Deluxe, but i'm unable to get this work over 3600 without rising voltage over 1.4v, most get 3800 with same or less voltage.. Is this mobo just so poor overclocker? I had 720BE before and it oc'd very poorly also, even my old MSI overclock's better (DKA790GX)..
Is there anything to do with vdroop? My mobo drops vcore 0,02v or more under stress, is this with every bios or is it just mobo's "feature"? Anyway, every other part of this mobo looks to be fine, it's just poor overclocker.

[leeuk]

1704 bios is out

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so.../M4A79_Deluxe/

[leeuk]

1704 seems ok so far getting 3.5ghz at 3.3v could not get that before at them volts

[wez]

1704 bios is out

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so.../M4A79_Deluxe/

[1704]
1. Revise the brand string of AM3 Sempron 1-series.
2. Fix the CPU Core #2 is in P3 state when C'n'Q is enabled and Athlon II X2 CPU is used.

Might give it a go later

[artemm]

Warning about 1704 /w 965 and DDR2. Not sure if it was a hardware issue, but I'm almost 100% sure it was this BIOS causing extremely bad memory errors. It corrupted my Vista partition. The OS is FUBAR. Can't even install catalyst drivers..

It would only happen with a stick in the first slot (yellow one closest to CPU.) Running just one stick in the 3rd slot would pass memtest multiple times. But running a single stick (either one) in the "bad" slot or in both yellow slots would cause countless errors in memtest.



I updated to 2101 and the issues were instantly resolved.

[soundood]

im still running 1602 herer, cracking bios, and i have been on holiday for a while so have missed a couple of updates, although i did see the 2101v on the ftp site.

have you got any increase with clocks with it?

[afireinside]

Jeez they pump out BIOSes for this thing like crazy... Good find soundood.

M4A79 Deluxe BIOS 2101
1. Fix the maximum available ratios in setup is decreased by 3.0x when using certain CPU.
2. Fix the current ratio of CPU is decreased by 3.0x when TurboKey is pressed and the car/jet/rocket mode is applied.

WTF is "car/jet/rocket mode"

[soundood]

Jeez they pump out BIOSes for this thing like crazy... Good find soundood.

WTF is "car/jet/rocket mode"

yeah seems they have released one every other week, as for car jet rocket mode who knows, might have something to do with the turbo feature

im holding of flashing to 2101 until next week, i got the kids back at school this week, and i want to run a few tests with the new bios, without distraction, if you know what i mean

roll on next week, i got so much time off coming up (about a month) before i start another contract

[xman01]

2101 is unstable for me
setting up bios, changing random settings locks system on reboot

noticed that any change in bios results in shutdown and reboot, this occured only when i changed the nb speed

back to 1704

[izallica]

How about bios 2206 on 940be proc, it good or bad for overclock ?

[afireinside]

Just updated to 2206 and so far so good. I was fine on 2101 as well though.

[artemm]

M4A79 Deluxe BIOS 2206
1. Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
2. Hide ACC function when AM2 processor is used.

And of course there is no processor there that requires this BIOS.

ASUS.. 'nuff said.

EDIT: Seems like they took it down from the downloads site.

[Kurik]

Hey there,

I desperately hoping that anyone can help me out with my asus board.

Currently running:

Asus m4a79 deluxe
4gb corsair twin2x 8500c5d
amd 720 x3 be

As soon as I start doing something that puts pressure on my memory i get bluescreens/freeze/reboot. Prior to the latest bios 2206 i was getting reboots followed by this msg when posting "Hypertransport sync flood error".

I've been all over the web looking for solutions but nothing is really solid.
I RMAd my memory and got a new sticks which worked fine for like 1month, now the problem is back.

Am I running any settings wrong?

Voltages:

CPU: 1.337V
SB volt: 1.2V
Ht volt: 1.28V
ht 1.8: 1.8V
NB V: 1.2V
Dram : 2.1V

Memory settings:
DDR 1066
cas 5
trcd 5
trp 5
tras 15
trc 22
commandrate: 2T
rest on auto


If I could get any hints where to start looking and juggling around would be awesome and thank you in advance for any help.

//Sebastian

[Jethro]

Board has some vdroop issues Kurik so you may want to bump cpu volts a tad over stock. Try using cool and quiet maybe as well.

Anyone running a x2 545 on this board yet? I accidently bought one instead of the 550... MAX fsb limit looms...

[Kurik]

Thx for the reply Jethro.

Im actually on my third pair of memory sticks now, the first two pairs broke on me and thats me running things on stock volts and no crazy stuff. 2.1V on ram as specified, and im just worried the problem is coming back to me in a month or two.

Running my cpu on slightly higher voltage and I did 15+ hrs of memtest without errors, altho one core failed in wprime after 5hrs whatever that tells you i dont know.

[izallica]

Hey there,

I desperately hoping that anyone can help me out with my asus board.

Currently running:

Asus m4a79 deluxe
4gb corsair twin2x 8500c5d
amd 720 x3 be

As soon as I start doing something that puts pressure on my memory i get bluescreens/freeze/reboot. Prior to the latest bios 2206 i was getting reboots followed by this msg when posting "Hypertransport sync flood error".

I've been all over the web looking for solutions but nothing is really solid.
I RMAd my memory and got a new sticks which worked fine for like 1month, now the problem is back.

Am I running any settings wrong?

Voltages:

CPU: 1.337V
SB volt: 1.2V
Ht volt: 1.28V
ht 1.8: 1.8V
NB V: 1.2V
Dram : 2.1V

Memory settings:
DDR 1066
cas 5
trcd 5
trp 5
tras 15
trc 22
commandrate: 2T
rest on auto


If I could get any hints where to start looking and juggling around would be awesome and thank you in advance for any help.

//Sebastian

I think you got bad mobo, rma it
My mobo run nice @3.7ghz 1.5v (droop to 1.475 fullload) with 2206 bios

[Jethro]

WOOT 2206 is dandy! Unlocks my 545 to Quad!! Mmmmm time to overclock!

[Eternalightwith]

WOOT 2206 is dandy! Unlocks my 545 to Quad!! Mmmmm time to overclock!

I'm still on ver. 1402. Does it behoove me to update to 2206?

Sincerely,

David

[Jethro]

Seems as good as any of them. Recovers from a bad overclock setting best of all.