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

Anyone having problems running at 1T at stock?

I'm using v2.10 BIOS and it defaults to 2T and wandered whether this board has a problem with running at 1T as my Asrock Dual-SATA had issues with it.

Cheers, dagwoood.
 
I've just upgraded from a 9800XT to a 7600GT on one of these boards and had 3 hours of hassle & Windows freezing & blue screening none stop, even in safe mode.
I've finally got it bootable and usable by reinstalling all the chipset drivers from the Assrock website (5.07a's iirc, my initial install ones were 5.10's from viaarena) and doing a driver only install in device manager instead of the full on latest nvidia 93.71's I had downloaded.
I don't know what made the difference but Windows was freezing and unusable and now it isn't, touch wood :p
 
Ice Tea said:
@JayMax If your old card was AGP and the new card PCI-E you need to go into
bios chipset and set GFX boot PCI-E.
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It was one of the first things I altered, and that setting is only primary boot, if nothing is in the AGP it will go to pci-e?
I didn't have both cards in at the same time.
 
can anyone post screenshots of the bios of this board?

I would like to see the different settings as I want to make sure I can use my old ddr333 in this board and overclock with it. i.e what are the different ratio and strap settings?

:confused:
 
Cairnsey said:
can anyone post screenshots of the bios of this board?

I would like to see the different settings as I want to make sure I can use my old ddr333 in this board and overclock with it. i.e what are the different ratio and strap settings?

:confused:
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DDR333 will work fine.

Bios has options for 200,333, and 400 DDR1 ram.

The ratios alter though depending on the FSB.

You will have no problems overclocking.
 
so If I was using a e4300 @ 300fsb - 2.7Ghz I could have the RAM at what? 300mhz - 1:1?
Or is there a divider for 3:4 so I could run it the RAM at DDR400(which it will run at btw)
Or would the ratio be based on half the fsb because of the fact its DDR we're talking about here.
Hence would I need a 3:2 divider? 300fsb/200Mhz RAM = 1200Mhz fsb(quad pumped) /DDR400?

Or simply can you lock the DDR rate?

Or.......... :confused:
 
is this upgrade worth it

Hi guys currently got a p4 northy 3ig with 1 gig of ddr and a 7800gs agp card in me media centre , thinking of getting this board with a 6300 or 6400 to stick in media centre would i see uch improvement over the northwood at video ecoding any help thanks look a nice cheap upgrade for moment as main rig is 4400x2 and sli also how do the 600 ,6400 compare to a 4400x2 .
 
hank said:
Hi guys currently got a p4 northy 3ig with 1 gig of ddr and a 7800gs agp card in me media centre , thinking of getting this board with a 6300 or 6400 to stick in media centre would i see uch improvement over the northwood at video ecoding any help thanks look a nice cheap upgrade for moment as main rig is 4400x2 and sli also how do the 600 ,6400 compare to a 4400x2 .
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If you go to http://tomshardware.co.uk/cpu/charts.html, you can compare AMD and Intel CPUs for a wide variety of benchmarks.
 
Cairnsey said:
so If I was using a e4300 @ 300fsb - 2.7Ghz I could have the RAM at what? 300mhz - 1:1?
Or is there a divider for 3:4 so I could run it the RAM at DDR400(which it will run at btw)
Or would the ratio be based on half the fsb because of the fact its DDR we're talking about here.
Hence would I need a 3:2 divider? 300fsb/200Mhz RAM = 1200Mhz fsb(quad pumped) /DDR400?

Or simply can you lock the DDR rate?

Or.......... :confused:
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I think I understand what you're getting at :)

The ratio between FSB and your memory is about 8/5, so if you up the FSB to 300 and manually set your memory in the BIOS to 333 in the memory options, then your memory would be running at 375MHz.

The calculation is 300(FSB) divided by 8, then multiply by 5, then double that figure because of DDR; this gives you the figure of 375MHz.

If you set your memory to 400 in the BIOS(ration 4:3) and increased the FSB to 300, then your memory would be trying to run at 450MHz; (300/4)x3=225 , then double because of DDR to get 450.

Hope you follow that :o
 
Ratios cannot be changed directly. They can only be affected by setting the DDR rate of your RAM. For example, even though I have DDR400 RAM I, while I was overclocking this board was running it on the DDR333 setting to use the 8:5 divider. My FSB was 300 and so the ram was running at roughly DDR375. It wouldn't have booted at DDR450 which it would have been at if I chose the DDR400 setting.

I'm not sure if the dividers remain the same for each setting or if they change to get closest to the stated memory speed. One of the most annoying things about this board are these really stupid BIOS settings. I don't know why they decided to do it this way and not the long approved way of just letting the user set the ratio themselves. It's obviously capable of operating on several different ratios so just give us the list and let us pick ourselves. The same goes for the ridiculous low, medium and high voltage options. Not a freakin clue what they are exactly until you read up from obscure technical data references that somebody found on the net.

This board would be so much better if only they reorganised the BIOS slightly. It wouldn't need any change to the hardware, just give us an advanced options setting that would show us what we're picking. God I'm sick of this board. I can't wait til I have enough money to fully upgrade to a DS3 or that new Abit board.
 
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