ASUS AMD Beta BIOS Releases

[Cactus Whine]

looks like 3706 might be on the horizon too yippee

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Found another not fixed bug on M4A89GTD PRO/USB3: with bios 1703, as with all other, Primary Video Controller option doesn't work at all, videocard in lower pci-e slot is always Primary...

[taz2]

Found another not fixed bug on M4A89GTD PRO/USB3: with bios 1703, as with all other, Primary Video Controller option doesn't work at all, videocard in lower pci-e slot is always Primary...

Was having the upper slot as the primary ever a design choice for this board? I thought the bottom slot was always supposed to be the primary...

I can confirm though that the mixed board arrangement (ATI & Nvidia) does not work with ATI in the primary and Nvidia in the secondary. The board ignores the Nvidia card as before.

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Was having the upper slot as the primary ever a design choice for this board? I thought the bottom slot was always supposed to be the primary...

Then for what reasons "Primary Video Controller" option was added to BIOS?

[AmdAtiTom420]

Found another not fixed bug on M4A89GTD PRO/USB3: with bios 1703, as with all other, Primary Video Controller option doesn't work at all, videocard in lower pci-e slot is always Primary...

I had the same happen when I had the HD5750/8800GT-physx combo. No matter what I tried, the bios/cpu-z and windows, read the 8800 as if it were my primary/gpu-0.

[NEOAethyr]

Has anyone tried upping cpu-vdda to compensate for the vcore increase that you'de need to go from 100% llc to 50% llc?

The idea, increase vdda so you don't have to increase vcore.
Then you can use 50% llc and prevent spikes (less fluctuation overall).

I just noticed that decreasing vdda to 2.2v, I failed prime and had some issues in opera that I attribute to a low vcore, even though it's the same level that just pased 14hrs of it.
So I increases to 2.3v, and all seems well.

I'm thinking, instead of running another 12hrs run at vdda 2.3v, I should be focusing on decreasing the vcore back to it's min (which isn't to far...) and increasing the vdda to compensate for the loss of 100% llc.
Gaining back my lower vcore advantage that I had with 100% llc.

Sound feasible?
I'm gonna try in 10mins...


Edit:
Tried, I'll mess with it more later, maybe with more vdda I can go down a step or 2 in vcore but it needs more testing.
So far notta, only diff is the cpu is slightly faster (after 2.675v the speed diff dropped).
Same goes for the nb 1.8v voltage, so far increasing it a notch hasn't allowed me to lower the nb voltage or keep the pcie bus stable (which upping the nb voltage one step is doing so far).

I know this probably isn't the right thread to ask but, what's the vddr voltage setting that's around 1.2v stock?
Where does it go to?

And am I right to "assume" :\ that the chipset nb 1.8v setting is a pll voltage setting thing ?, just like vdda is to the vcore...
Forgive me but I don't wanna take out my board and use a resistance meter with a 2nd pc running to map out stuff...

[zanzabar]

did any1 test 1102 for the m4a89td pro, any chance that it fixes the ram clocking with micron kits

[BeepBeep2]

did any1 test 1102 for the m4a89td pro, any chance that it fixes the ram clocking with micron kits

I've got a set of ballistix 1600 C8 here, would you like me to test them?
I've got the Pro/USB3 board, but I'm on bios 1101.
I really dont feel comfortable pushing 2.2-2.3v through my 1100T after what chew* has said about Thuban and memory voltage.

[zanzabar]

I've got a set of ballistix 1600 C8 here, would you like me to test them?
I've got the Pro/USB3 board, but I'm on bios 1101.
I really dont feel comfortable pushing 2.2-2.3v through my 1100T after what chew* has said about Thuban and memory voltage.

what did chew say, i run 1.8-1.9 but my kit dose nit like volts as much as the gtr as i have gts. i just knew that they did not clock well and i want to make sure i run a board that will clock them properly before i try and rma as i currently cannot go over about 1530mhz and be stable but back on 775 i could get over 2ghz with cas7 and i think it was also with pl7 or 8 (im not sure it was a few years ago now)

anyways is the bios stable.

[BeepBeep2]

what did chew say, i run 1.8-1.9 but my kit dose nit like volts as much as the gtr as i have gts. i just knew that they did not clock well and i want to make sure i run a board that will clock them properly before i try and rma as i currently cannot go over about 1530mhz and be stable but back on 775 i could get over 2ghz with cas7 and i think it was also with pl7 or 8 (im not sure it was a few years ago now)

anyways is the bios stable.

My sticks are GTS, I've also got a kit with a bad stick from chew that doesn't like to go over 1.8 or it errors in memtest (subsequently BSOD's). ...so I've got 4 GTS sticks here and that's why I offered to help. We run similar boards, and I'm running a bios dated from December.

GTS take 1.8-2.3 fine imo, GTR likes 2.0-2.4 to get results.

chew said Thuban IMC gets screwy close to 1.8 I believe, he didnt want to run sticks above 1.7. I'd be happy to throw in the 965 or 565 with the good set and attempt to overclock them, I know I had 1M at 7-6-6 the first day I played with DDR3 when him, simon, and chispy donated me some things.

[diddi35]

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...eluxe-3702.zip

M4A79 Deluxe - 3702

Any changelog?

Its too old to be anything important. The date of the bios was 08/2010 (wonder why it took so long to get it up)
Hope there will be something new soon, something with the fixes / tweaks that bingo13 promised us years... um I mean month ago

[BeepBeep2]

what did chew say, i run 1.8-1.9 but my kit dose nit like volts as much as the gtr as i have gts. i just knew that they did not clock well and i want to make sure i run a board that will clock them properly before i try and rma as i currently cannot go over about 1530mhz and be stable but back on 775 i could get over 2ghz with cas7 and i think it was also with pl7 or 8 (im not sure it was a few years ago now)

anyways is the bios stable.

I understand it's a different model but fundamentally the same. As far as I know from what chew stated in the "Best ram for AMD" thread, the 2x2 GB (dual sided) D9 sticks dont clock as well.

[zanzabar]

thats some rather good clocks compaired to what i can pull. and the td pro and td pro usb3 are the same boards the usb3 just has the extra chip plugged in, they also had the same bios checksums in the past and numbers so i assumed the same bios.

[zanzabar]

i updated and still get no clocks and crashes/no boot if i try so time to rma the ram (and not feel bad about it since i did not over volt it, and it was alot of money)

[BeepBeep2]

i updated and still get no clocks and crashes/no boot if i try so time to rma the ram (and not feel bad about it since i did not over volt it, and it was alot of money)

Well, let me hunt up chew*'s thoughts on dual sided D9 modules...it's gonna take a while.

[zanzabar]

with the new bios i can clock them in single channel (and surprisingly not raising the timings but uping the clocks from 1:3 to 1:4 gave the same aida results even though i changed to single channel mode.)

so right now im doing 1644 with 1.825V on the ram and 7-7-7-18-30 1T (what they are rated for +44mhz)

[NEOAethyr]

My personal reccomendations for 24/7 users is 50% core only LLC and leave the rest auto only on thuban, its not needed for deneb.

My personal reccomendation for ln2 users is 100% llc cpu, 50% llc CPU_NB and OCP disabled for NB and CPU, if you must for whatever reason feel the need for PWM run 500K while on ln2...............

1 ?
The cpu-nb llc, are there any oddities with using a 100% value for that?
Obviously there are issues with 100% on the cpu, but I'm wondering if it has a negative effect on the cpu-nb as well.

So far I haven't need any extra voltage on my cpu-nb at all going from 100% to 50%.
But I still haven't went back and checked to see if I can lower the voltage.
I'm curious to know if using a 100% llc setting for cpu-nb will help anything or just make things worse.

I should probably stick with 50% anyways since I don't seem to need the 100%.
I guess it depends on if it lowers the req's for the voltage a shiz load like the cpu llc setting does.
Rather not mess with it if it's gonna cause probs like the 100% llc on the cpu.

I have half a mind to think that the 100% llc cpu setting was killing my stability...
That and the bad ram didn't help either that's for sure.
It's nice to have a system that seems reliable .

Perhaps asus can add a 35% and 75% setting...
Something a bit better that still doesn't have the wider fluctuations/spikes.

[NEOAethyr]

double post, sorry...

I was priming the other day for a 24/7 safe config.
I got above 44hrs of prime, not exactly sure how close to 48hrs, I just know I was passed 44hrs.
The pc just hard locked out of the blue.

I have a suspicion that I got a cpu-nb voltage spike and I was wondering if anyone has noticed any voltage fluctuation/spiking issues on the cpu-nb.

The same hardlock happens if I go past 1.4v on the cpu-nb, noticed this when testing for 3250mhz.
I am able to get 3.1ghz stable on the cpu-nb but I can't get the mem to clock much past 2040mhz so it's pointless.
When I was testing the cpu-nb limits I was getting the exact same hardlocks.

I have this fealing that if I goto use my system as is from now on, non stop, that once every 2-3 days it'll hardlock out of the blue for no reason.

[Tonyb]

I suppose all the BIOS's will need updating now for the Phenom 975BE.

[ragejg]

Any recent M498TD EVO BIOS love? I sure would like to see some further adjustability to compensate for vdroop.

[CrimInalA]

So no EFI bios for CHIV ?
The Sound Blaster X-Fi Utility needs updating too , since it contains bugs . (last update 5/11/2009)

[Oliverda]

So no EFI bios for CHIV ?
The Sound Blaster X-Fi Utility needs updating too , since it contains bugs . (last update 5/11/2009)

IMHO we won't see any major (and minor?) update for CHIV. It was a fairly big disappointment for me. I'll drop this mobo as soon as any decent MSI AM3+ mobo become available.

[Lonzo]

Why do you think that we won't see any major and / or minor BIOS updates for our Crosshair IV Formula in future?

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Why do you think that we won't see any major and / or minor BIOS updates for our Crosshair IV Formula in future?

That pessimistic point of view (not only on CIVF) came from simple conclusions: two month after SB release we don't see any updates, this and next one or two month will be spend on upcoming Bulldozer mobos, and june/july/august is Ivy Bridge time. And very sarcastic pessimist also remembers about Llano in Q2...

[skill123]

Sad but true ...