ASRock 775Dual-VSTA for Conroe (Core2) with both AGP/PCI-E and DDR1/DDR2 support

Ice Tea said:
If you read my post at no point did i imply that all ASRock 775Dual-VSTA
problems are down to people expecting the board to overclock when i infact said that all threads about Motherboards have people with hardware and driver problems which has no reflection on a boards stabilty.I ponted out most peoples
problems with this board being stable tend to be when it is overclocked when everything else seems to be working so i fail to see what that has to do with your software / driver conflicts as that type of problem has been a part of computing sinse day one regardless of the board.
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Sorry if i took the hump a little, but when ive been spending a good few weeks trying to fix this thing, "overclocking is to fault" was like a red rag before a bulls eyes.......

Bit of an arse when this is the 3rd Mobo that the GFx card has been in, and the only one that has given problems. Also, with both components being fairly mature, one would expect driver issues between the board and the card to have been sorted out.
 
Ice Tea said:
Fully understand me old mate :D

You might want to check your new card is on the Supported PCI list.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/vga.asp?Model=775Dual-VSTA&s=n
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i emailed them and all of the chip sets listed will work irrespective of make. They said if your still unsure contact the card manufacturer. I think my card is dead as it wont boot its bios or anything now but old t n t 2 card posts it fine. I have no luck at the moment
 
I just tried some DDR2 ram in my motherboard. It says it's DDR2 but PC3200 at the same time. It is DDR2 shape and fits into the slots fine but when I go to boot the computer it just starts the fans and sits there running away with nothing coming onto the screen.

The 1GB of RAM came out of a server machine. Does anyone know what the problem might be? I'm thinking that the RAM is an odd make of 400mhz DDR2 which the mobo can't support. It does say that it only supports 557 and 666mhz DDR2 speeds.
 
Not sure what you've got but it sounds like Parity Ram, or ECC ram, which is a special type of ram mainly for servers which some/most desktop boards won't support.

Definately sounds like DDR EEC 3200 ram.

//edit, didn't see the above reply -sorry..
 
Yea I think it was EEC or ECC or whatever that is. I don't have them now but I remember something like that being on them.

Damn.. ah well. Guess I'll just have to get a job and make €250 for some Geil ram.
 
Ice Tea said:
Fully understand me old mate :D

You might want to check your new card is on the Supported PCI list.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/vga.asp?Model=775Dual-VSTA&s=n
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Supported PCI Express VGA Card List for PCI Express Graphics Slot said:
ATI Radeon X1950PRO
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Yeah, there is nothing like banging your head against the wall of hardware probs....... my ram is playing up too, going from running a nice 40-50mhz overclock on 250Mhz 2.5-3-4-8 @ 1T to having memtest probs on 188Mhz 2.5-3-3-6 @ 2T (underclocked, stock timings)..... good thing i have some Crucial 10th Aniv coming with the X1950pro (call it a delayed self-christmas prezzie!).

Now what this board really WOULD be good with is one of the new E4300s... 100Mhz overclock on the original 200x9 gives an extra 900mhz..... or 2.7Ghz, and an E4400 would give that magic 3Ghz at 300mhz FSB. Assuming they clock like E6xxxx's.... prob run out of juice before you ran out of FSB!
 
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i have this board, and i think its great, My E6300 is idleing at 40c clocked at 2.11 with stock cooling in a warm room

Is it possible to change the multiplier on this mobo? the option is grayed out in the bios but i see others have changed it... could someone tell me how, or point me in the direction of info?

thanks
 
no, the multi is locked as you are running a non-extreme edition chip, so the dividers are set to:
E6300 - 7x
E6400 - 8x
E6600 - 9x
E6700 - 10x

apparantly some boards can unlock them downwards, but your is the lowest it gets anyway.

Update on my board problem, apparently my problem will be solved by updating my VGA BIOS.... according to Asrock Tech Support:

Dear Sir,

We found similar issue on some X800 AGP card.

It can be solved by updating VGA card BIOS. Please contact the VGA card vendor to get the BIOS update.

Thanks for the email.

Yours truly,

ASRock

Now where the flip do i find one of these..... can find one on either ATI, or Asus (who make my card) websites, just drivers! And im pretty sure "ASUS ATI VGA card driver version 8.282" ISNT a BIOS update.

Anyone?
 
will this board support the new e4300 chips, the ones with 800fsb? If the max fsb is around 300mhz then maybe 2.7Ghz (or higher) is possible on this chip/board, it would be a good combo for just over £150.
 
my x800 AGP problem is fixed!

Looks like it is a prob specifically with the Asus AX800 series.... the BIOS doesnt like running in this board, so you need to flash with the Generic ATI bios for the card.

Working fine now, just had a marathon 7hr session of MTW2, and benched X3 Reunion at 42.8 fps average running 1280 x 1024 x 32, with max AA, AF, and texture/shader quality.

3D Mark 06- 1849
3D Mark 05- 6601

not bad, and ill post some more when my X950pro and Crucial 10th come through!
 
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