**The ASrock 939dual-SATA2 (ULi M1695) thread**

dagwoood said:
O.k, some other anomalies I've noticed and wandered whether they were normal for this board.

If I use a utility that accesses the sensors, i.e.Speedfan or Everest, they will sometimes hang and I get the XP error message that the program isn't responding. This problem seems to go away if I set my memory to T2. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Also, when I was trying to cure my Aquamark problem, I changed my BIOS from v1.2 to the official v1.5. I've since changed it back to v1.2, but I wandered what BIOS version, official or otherwise, is classed as the most stable?

I obviously want my system stable before I start to o/c my CPU and sometimes, especially if I'm restarting my system after being in dos(to use Acronis TI), my system wont post(seem familiar :) ) and just hangs and I have to do a hard restart.

Cheers, dagwoood.
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T1 with my Ballistix memory causes all sorts of problems. T2 is stable all the way though and is only slightly slower considering that T1 crashes all the time ! ! !

My findings are that v1.50 is by far the most stable for my setup, sure I lose the ability to go over 274Mhz but when set to 274Mhz and the memory @ 1:1 it's rock solid.
 
Oh yeah, Speedfan doesn't fully spoort the board and sensors yet, it's being worked on though. Even on my stable system Speedfan sometimes gets a little confused and seems to keep trying to do something resulting in about 10% CPU usage at times.
 
A question before I setup this new kit. Should I use the SATA2 port or not? I only have a SATA1 drive (WD3000JD) but which port performs better?
 
hooneeawr said:
A question before I setup this new kit. Should I use the SATA2 port or not? I only have a SATA1 drive (WD3000JD) but which port performs better?
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Use the SATA1 port if you have a SATA1 drive - I don't think there is any advantage doing it the other way at all
 
need some help
how is the htl speed calculated and how do i change it in the asrock bios settings
currently it appears to 270x4=1080mhz (i.e. a x4 multiplier)- i have read it should not be over 1000mhz

what is the htt multiplier setting? because i think i need to lower it to stay stable - 275x10 is unstable for me and the htl speed is 1100mhz

currently 270x10=2700mhz memory 5/6 divider @ 225mhz vcore 1.55v
 
ns400r said:
T1 with my Ballistix memory causes all sorts of problems. T2 is stable all the way though and is only slightly slower considering that T1 crashes all the time ! ! !

My findings are that v1.50 is by far the most stable for my setup, sure I lose the ability to go over 274Mhz but when set to 274Mhz and the memory @ 1:1 it's rock solid.

Oh yeah, Speedfan doesn't fully spoort the board and sensors yet, it's being worked on though. Even on my stable system Speedfan sometimes gets a little confused and seems to keep trying to do something resulting in about 10% CPU usage at times.
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Thanks for the info ns400r, it's much appreciated.

Speedfan likes to crank my CPU usage upto the mid 80's :eek:
 
Mmmmm, now you mention it, I've seen it do that too. On and off it'll spike to a high figure. Since I've noticed it (about a week ago) it's only been going to about 10%.
 
encephalopathy said:
need some help
how is the htl speed calculated and how do i change it in the asrock bios settings
currently it appears to 270x4=1080mhz (i.e. a x4 multiplier)- i have read it should not be over 1000mhz

what is the htt multiplier setting? because i think i need to lower it to stay stable - 275x10 is unstable for me and the htl speed is 1100mhz

currently 270x10=2700mhz memory 5/6 divider @ 225mhz vcore 1.55v
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In the bios on the Chipset Configuration page,NB Link Speed & SB Link Speed, 1000 (x5), 800(x4), 600(x3), 400(x2), 200(x1)

And I'd set the memory voltage to high on the same page.

HTT speed is set on the advanced page, think of it as the FSB.
 
ns400r said:
Well done. See, ignore the doom merchants. I reckon that 2.2Ghz will be easy to obtain and 2.4Ghz shouldn't be too much of a problem either.

I'd be interested in the dual boot to XP64 as I'm toying with the idea myself.
Let me know how you get on.
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The success story continues. 1T timing is working perfectly. No crashes or blue screens.

Currently at 2.2gig, 245*9 with HTT 4x. RAM is also perfectly at spec at 200 with the 5/6 divider. Think I may just leave things at this speed. X64 installed now, but yet to install any applications.

I'm delighted with this purchase !!
 
cheers
i am running now on ocwbeta2 bios (it was a dodgy floppy disc causing all my bios updating grief before)

280x10 1.55v
memory on ddr266 divider settings on auto for the moment
nb/sb link speeds set at 600 (x3) with gives me a htl speed of 840mhz

thanks for the help (once again)
 
Anyone used this with a TT Sonic Tower? Got my board here, trying to fit the Sonic Tower, but it has no backplate? WTF??? I can't biuld my rig, as the screws have nothing to screw into. It has a "Retention Module" but the screws go down the holes, and into thin air...


unless I'm missing something totlly obvious, is the board missing a part???
 
InSanCen said:
Anyone used this with a TT Sonic Tower? Got my board here, trying to fit the Sonic Tower, but it has no backplate? WTF??? I can't biuld my rig, as the screws have nothing to screw into. It has a "Retention Module" but the screws go down the holes, and into thin air...


unless I'm missing something totlly obvious, is the board missing a part???
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The board isn't missing the back plate, the cooler is. Boards don't come with back plates the coolers usually do.

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Cheers mate... *knew* i shouldn't have bought a Thermaltake product, something *always* manages to go worng for me with them...:(

sigh... anything I can do about this??? or am I stuck with a Useless cooler:mad:
 
Get in touch with the people you purchased it from. How much of that stuff in the picture is missing?
 
Okay, everything's running and ok, now can someone please explain to me what ANY of the bios settings do (aside from regurgitating the manual). I've tried looking through this thread, ocw forums, google but everything's just a bit too complicated for me. Last time all i had to do was up the fsb and presto, great o/c (xp2500@3200). Now there's HTT, Dividers, cpu speed, cpu multiplier... and I'm not even sure which bios option affects which one!

Anyway, I have an Opteron 144 CAB2E (max 9x multi) would hope for 2.4GHz to start with. The Ram is OcUK budget elixer sticks. Would want that at 200MHz at least, oh and 1T if that makes much sense.

Oh, and bios is at 1.20, but I think I'll go slap on 1.50 to see what's different there.

Can someone please put me out of my misery or point me at some useful pages somewhere?
 
ns400r said:
How much of that stuff in the picture is missing?
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None of it.

The manual says that you should put the screws into the retention moule, and they will screw into the backplate. I'm using the alternative method, as Asrock is ASUS. When you torn the board over, the screws are poking out, but nothing to screw them into...

am I missing something... can't see the wood for the trees? Has anyone managed to get the Sonic Tower and this board to play nice?
 
InSanCen said:
None of it.

The manual says that you should put the screws into the retention moule, and they will screw into the backplate. I'm using the alternative method, as Asrock is ASUS. When you torn the board over, the screws are poking out, but nothing to screw them into...

am I missing something... can't see the wood for the trees? Has anyone managed to get the Sonic Tower and this board to play nice?
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I was only going by this review. http://www.rbmods.com/Articles/Thermaltake/Sonic_tower/1.php

http://www.thermaltake.com/product/cooler/retail/cl-p0071/installationGuide.htm
 
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InSanCen said:
None of it.

The manual says that you should put the screws into the retention moule, and they will screw into the backplate. I'm using the alternative method, as Asrock is ASUS. When you torn the board over, the screws are poking out, but nothing to screw them into...

am I missing something... can't see the wood for the trees? Has anyone managed to get the Sonic Tower and this board to play nice?
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have you not got one of thew two backplates you see in this pic?.

http://www.thermaltake.com/product/cooler/retail/cl-p0071/installationGuide.htm
 
ns400r said:
The board isn't missing the back plate, the cooler is. Boards don't come with back plates the coolers usually do.
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That is not the case with Socket939. S939 boards should come with a standard K8 backplate. I'm assuming that S754 boards should too.

Very few coolers come with a backplate for S939. The picture of cooler and accessories that you provided shows this - it has a backplate for S478 and a backplate for S775, but not one for S939.

EDIT: Not sure about 478, but there definitely isn't a K8 backplate there for S939 boards. They are definitely supposed to ship with the motherboard.
 
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