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

jojothemonkey69 · 2 Sep 2007 at 18:18

Ok i'm still having trouble. I thibk that i have got the jumpers wrong and the usb and ps/2 devices are not getting power and therefore not working. Its seems a lot easier just to post a picture of the motherboard and show where the jumpers are placed and hopefully some miracle worker could point out where I have noobishly gone wrong. Here's the pic:

ok in #24 I have plugged in the jumper called audio this seems to fit as it all matches up 9/10 pins are there one is missing but this is the same on the motherboard so i'm guessing thats all correct.

#2,5 and 29 - all in right - i'm not that bad

#14 speaker is plugged in here

#13 - power and reset are plugged in and they work so can't be wrong.

#20 - nothing is plugged in here

#18 - have got plenty plugged in here little picture may help explain

Ok so there are 9 slots here call them 1-9. 1-5 along the top and 6 - 9 along the bottom.

In slot 1 I have + vcc
In slot 2 I have -d
In slot 3 I have +d
In slot 4 I have gnd
slot 5 is empty
In slot 6 I have + vcc
In slot 7 I have -d
In slot 8 I have +d
In slot 9 I have gnd

I really think this is where the problem is.

Any help would really help me out this is doing my head in as well as my bro's.

Thanks guys (sorry for length

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Cairnsey · 2 Sep 2007 at 18:26

jazzy639 said:
Hello!!!!

I have just bought the Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA and the E4500.

I will be using my two 512MB sticks of Kingston Value DDR-400 RAM, nVIDIA 7600GT 256MB AGP card and SATA P120 Samsung 200GB HDD.

Will I be able to hit 3GHz, as thats only a FSB of 273MHz?

Will everything be compatible? Also got an Audigy Player sound card and Belkin 11Mbps Wi-Fi.

Thanks in advance!

Similar to my rig, please post your bench's so I can compare

Cairnsey · 2 Sep 2007 at 18:31

Also, AFAIK you have the potential to hit an absolute maximum of 3.6Ghz on this board using a volt mod (333x11)

Cairnsey · 2 Sep 2007 at 18:35

jojothemonkey69 said:
Ok i'm still having trouble. I thibk that i have got the jumpers wrong and the usb and ps/2 devices are not getting power and therefore not working. Its seems a lot easier just to post a picture of the motherboard and show where the jumpers are placed and hopefully some miracle worker could point out where I have noobishly gone wrong. Here's the pic:

ok in #24 I have plugged in the jumper called audio this seems to fit as it all matches up 9/10 pins are there one is missing but this is the same on the motherboard so i'm guessing thats all correct.

#2,5 and 29 - all in right - i'm not that bad

#14 speaker is plugged in here

#13 - power and reset are plugged in and they work so can't be wrong.

#20 - nothing is plugged in here

#18 - have got plenty plugged in here little picture may help explain

Ok so there are 9 slots here call them 1-9. 1-5 along the top and 6 - 9 along the bottom.

In slot 1 I have + vcc
In slot 2 I have -d
In slot 3 I have +d
In slot 4 I have gnd
slot 5 is empty
In slot 6 I have + vcc
In slot 7 I have -d
In slot 8 I have +d
In slot 9 I have gnd

I really think this is where the problem is.

Any help would really help me out this is doing my head in as well as my bro's.

Thanks guys (sorry for length )

Jumper #1 should be set to 2-3 (not 1-2)

jojothemonkey69 · 2 Sep 2007 at 19:04

Jumper #1 meaning PS2_USB_PWR1

Cairnsey · 2 Sep 2007 at 21:27

jojothemonkey69 · 2 Sep 2007 at 22:06

Cairnsey said:
yeah

With what jumper though?

Cairnsey · 2 Sep 2007 at 23:31

you need to short pins 2-3 with a jumper sleeve

jazzy639 · 2 Sep 2007 at 23:35

Cairnsey said:
Also, AFAIK you have the potential to hit an absolute maximum of 3.6Ghz on this board using a volt mod (333x11)

Hmm dont fancy a volt mod, using this mobo as a stepping stone to a DS3 probs. Youve got an extra GB of RAM and ill be using the slower Vista

However im expecting a clock speed of at least 3GHz with this board

Cairnsey · 2 Sep 2007 at 23:47

jazzy639 said:
Hmm dont fancy a volt mod, using this mobo as a stepping stone to a DS3 probs. Youve got an extra GB of RAM and ill be using the slower Vista However im expecting a clock speed of at least 3GHz with this board

You will get 3Ghz mate. Don't worry.

jazzy639 · 3 Sep 2007 at 17:38

Cairnsey said:
You will get 3Ghz mate. Don't worry.

Help!!!

The MAX FSB I can use to get into windows and use it is 250!! Giving me 2.75Ghz.

Any higher and either: nothing shows on the screen at POST, windows crashes with a BSOD when booting or crashes with a BSOD while using windows.

What ive noticed is... the Vcore is reported at 1.168v - that seems low!

Ive got a 420W PSU, with 18A on 12v, 42A on 5v and 26A on 3.3v.

Please help, I was expecting a FSB of at least 290, giving me 3.2GHz (nearly)

Cairnsey · 3 Sep 2007 at 23:14

jazzy639 said:
Help!!!

The MAX FSB I can use to get into windows and use it is 250!! Giving me 2.75Ghz.

Any higher and either: nothing shows on the screen at POST, windows crashes with a BSOD when booting or crashes with a BSOD while using windows.

What ive noticed is... the Vcore is reported at 1.168v - that seems low!

Ive got a 420W PSU, with 18A on 12v, 42A on 5v and 26A on 3.3v.

Please help, I was expecting a FSB of at least 290, giving me 3.2GHz (nearly)

Something's wrong here. The board natively supports all 266Mhz CPU's so you've set something wrong. Set your memory to it's correct frequency with flexibility enabled and set all you timings to Auto. Set your PCI-e to 100Mhz and report back.

jazzy639 · 3 Sep 2007 at 23:50

Memory was picked up as DDR33 (when its DDR400) and everything else was on auto.

Will try again tonight hopefully or tomorrow.

Is that Vcore right? Hope not lol because I have just ordered a new Antec PSU with dual 12v rails.

EDIT: What shall I try, memory on DDR333, everything on Auto, Async, PCIe 100Mhz, what shall I try the FSB?

Cairnsey · 4 Sep 2007 at 07:59

jazzy639 said:
Memory was picked up as DDR33 (when its DDR400) and everything else was on auto.

Will try again tonight hopefully or tomorrow.

Is that Vcore right? Hope not lol because I have just ordered a new Antec PSU with dual 12v rails.

EDIT: What shall I try, memory on DDR333, everything on Auto, Async, PCIe 100Mhz, what shall I try the FSB?

basically try everything the way its supposed to be. except run your fsb at 266. voltage should be 1.32 but you can't change it. What BIOS revision?

jazzy639 · 4 Sep 2007 at 08:16

BIOS is the latest 1.5, I have the SATA2 board.

I ran it at 266 last night and failed Orthos after 1 minute.

Would a new PSU sort the voltage, and the stability?

artaxerxes · 4 Sep 2007 at 16:38

The PSU; Potentially, if that was the problem!

Try with less components, i.e. less opticals, HDD, et cetera and see if that works better, that would suggest the PSU is struggling.

jazzy639 · 4 Sep 2007 at 17:27

Well can someone please tell me what the Vcore should be, Ive tried searching on Google but found nothing.

Ive got an E4500, presume its the same Vcore as the E4300 and E4400!

artaxerxes · 4 Sep 2007 at 18:03

default Vcore 1.325 apparently,

http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-2766-view-Core-2-Duo-e4500-M0-stepping-overclocking.html

and

http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLA95#

What board do you have?

jazzy639 · 4 Sep 2007 at 18:11

Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

artaxerxes · 4 Sep 2007 at 18:58

Yeah, it should have native support with all the BIOSes, and thus set the voltage accordingly. So the voltage problem is coming from somewhere else, hopefully the PSU as noted.

As to Orthos, it is failing when you leave everything at stock and auto? Set the memory to auto, and just try overclocking the chip. It will use dividers, but lets examine the chip.

When overcloking the CPU, are you running the PCI-E async? If the PCI-E goes above 100 by much as it will if you sync, then you will get errors.

What sort of temps are you seeing?