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

No beeps. But the speaker is only a tiny one on end of two wires that came with mobo, so dont know if it actually works! No reason to think it doesnt.

Fan on graphic card spinning so i guess connected ok.

Have tried booting with just power supply, mobo, chip & fan but still no beeps.

Have tried with just one stick of ram, still the same. Also tried ram in different sockets but still the same.
 
Check that you only have the riser screw holes in your case that you are using. If there are any that you're not using remove them as they may have been causing a short in the board. Alternatively you can cover the tops of them with masking tape.
 
Mobo seems to be ok now.

Installed XP & graphics are a bit corrupted. I've installed new Nvidia drivers & changed Primary graphics adaptor to agp in bios. Anything else i need to change?

Oh and XP reports 128Mb hard disk but its 250Gb !

Other than that all ok......so far!
 
Right I've decided to jump on the bandwagon & get myself a Core 2 Duo :D
I'm gonna upgrade in stages so until I can afford a decent board & new ram I'm getting this board along with an E6400 or E6300 -not quite decided which yet...

Anyone know if there are any issues pairing this board with G.Skill ZX 3200 ram?
 
Shouldn't be mate, Check that the default RAM voltage is the same as the boards default voltage. The voltages on this board are:

DDR "high" 2.73v
DDR "norm"2.63v
DDR "low 2.53v

DDR2 "high" 2.0v
DDR2 "norm" 1.9v
DDR2 "low" 1.8v

So long as the RAM can boot at 2.63V then it should work fine. I can't see there being a problem with that though. It seems to be more of a problem when it comes to DDR2 RAM needing 2V or higher to boot.
 
np, good luck with the board. You should be able to get your 6300 up to 2.1. Not much of a leap but it's the same as the £40 more 6400 ;)

I'd definitely go for the 6300 as in the future when you have a decent overclocking board like the DS3 then there wont be any difference between the two.
 
Well i've just upgraded from a AMD XP3200 and MSI Nvidia based chipset motherboard to the 4 core version of this motherboard and a E6300 - The all round speed difference as expected is amazing! and this board is rock solid with no issues whatsoever. I upgraded to the latest 1.50 BIOS.

I have it overclocked from 1.86 to 2.14, My 1 GIG of OCZ PC3200 memory is running happily at 228.9 MHz at CAS 2.5

Having run a few Sandra Lite benchmarks i am very pleased with the performance against some of the high end dual core AMD chips.

DHRYSTONE ALU:
Core 2 score: 19165 MIPS
Amd X2 4800: 17335 MIPS

WHETSTONE iSSE3:
Core 2 score: 13565 MFLOPS
Amd X2 4800: 14644 MFLOPS

INTEGER iSSSE
Core 2 score: X8 iSSSE3 116714
Amd X2 4800: X4 iSSE 4513

FLOATING POINT:
Core 2 score: X4 iSSE2 63257
Amd X2 4800: X4 iSSE2 48840

All in all an excellent budget upgrade for me. Total cost of new board and chip was £157.00, Minus the revenue generated for my old XP 3200 chip & Gigabyte cooler and M/board on a popular auction site! £102.00. Total cost for me £55.00...:)

So if anyone is considering a cheap upgrade to Core 2 without renewing your RAM, G Card etc then you simply can't go wrong using this board!

As soon as funds allow i'll be upgrading the Memory and PCI graphics...Then eventually i'll upgrade to a better overclocking motherboard at a later date.
 
Great choice baggingmachine. You're going down the same route as me. I have my memory and am about to get a PCI-E 7900GS off the members market for £70 =)

Selling off my old 7600GT AGP for £60 so only £10 + p&p to and from ireland which brings it to around £20. Not bad for a 20%~ upgrade in performance!

Pretty soon I'll be leaving this old board behind and moving on to a DS3 or DS3P :)

All I need now are some IDE -> SATA converters or a SATA drive. Almost as cheap to get the SATA 250GB instead of the converters for my 2x80GB drives.

Wonder why OCUK doesn't stock the converters though, would be mighty useful.
 
Why do you want higher vcore voltages? Chances are you can't get the CPU FSB high enough to warrant the increase with the limited FSB capacity of this motherboard.

Please elaborate on your situation.
 
Does anyone know if I would be able to upgrade to this ddr2 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-072-OC in a Asrock 4core dual vista as the only options for memory voltage is low normal and high I know the mobo is only rated to take upto 667 ram but I'm thinking about future upgrading.

At the moment I'm just using some unbranded ddr400 at stock speeds with a e6400 but I'm sure the ram is holding the system back.
 
Althulas said:
Does anyone know if I would be able to upgrade to this ddr2 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-072-OC in a Asrock 4core dual vista as the only options for memory voltage is low normal and high I know the mobo is only rated to take upto 667 ram but I'm thinking about future upgrading.

At the moment I'm just using some unbranded ddr400 at stock speeds with a e6400 but I'm sure the ram is holding the system back.
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I had this in my 2core vsta, just set the memory votage to high and it worked fine.
 
My 2.1V Geil 2GB set runs fine in the the 2core version as well. Set your RAM volts to high before you swap out from one set to the other.
 
Althulas please read the rules on sig sizes. Has to be 4 lines at normal font or less.

2GB would make a lot of difference over 1GB. Difference in speed between 400mhz and 800mhz not so much. Obviously you get a bit better performance but not the 2x jump some would expect.

That said though I noticed loading times drop to about a quarter of what they were when going from 1GB DDR400 to 2GB DDR800. Most of that boost comes from the 2GB over 1GB though.
 
Can anyone tell me if I can get just this mobo and a Core 2 Duo CPU, will everything else (PSU, DDR memory, X1950 gfx card etc) work (setup in my sig.)??

My main concern is my PSU - its an Akasa Paxpower 460w - is this the same connections for this ASRock board? (I think its 24 pin) (and is this power OK to run a Core 2 Duo CPU??)

Thanks in advance....
 
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