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

Fireblade2K4 said:
What are people currently finding is the best bios to use on this board? Im still currently using OCW1 Bios.

I tried the official 2.10 yesterday and I couldn't even get into Windows with everything stock....I was amazed....any others to try from 1.60 and onwards?

Stu
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I'm using a modified 1.20 BIOS, the P1.20 from OCW. My board shipped with 1.00, which was a bit iffy and IIRC didn't allow any overclocking, and P1.20 was the lastest version at the time. It works, so I'm still using it. I'm limited to 250HTT base speed, which might be the BIOS and might be the board itself (since it's exactly 250, completely stable at 250 and won't POST with 251, I think it's the BIOS), but I'm happy with that. It won't detect my Samsung SP2004 HDD on a reboot, though, which is a minor bother. I might try a later BIOS.
 
ShiWarrior said:
"My god your ram is clocked low?? are you running a devider?"

how do i check this ?
thanks
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Enter the BIOS and look at the speed the memory is set to. It's crappy labelling in there, because the dividers aren't labelled as dividers.

If your memory speed is set to 200MHz (DDR400), the actual speed of the memory is the same as the HTT base speed, whatever it is.

If your memory speed is set to 166MHz (DDR333), the actual speed of the memory is 5/6ths of the HTT base speed, whatever it is.

If your memory speed is set to 133MHz (DDR266), the actual speed of the memory is 2/3rds of the HTT base speed, whatever it is.

To use my own machine as an example:

I have the HTT base speed set to 250MHz, giving me a 25% o/c on the CPU.

If I set the memory speed to 200MHz/DDR400, the memory will actually be running at 250MHz/DDR500.

If I set the memory speed to 166MHz/DDR333, the memory will actually be running at 208MHz/DDR416 (this is what I have it set at).

If I set the memory speed to 133MHz/DDR266, the memory will actually be running at 166MHz/DDR333.
 
Thanks mate


f your memory speed is set to 200MHz (DDR400), the actual speed of the memory is the same as the HTT base speed, whatever it is.

thats what im running at HTT @ 200 as well

so why does my CPU-Z say otherwise :

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right, I did what was suggested about the flexibility option and my scores have gone up !

3DMark2001 is now = 21,233
05 and 06 currently testing

turning that off, does make a difference ! :D
 
My machine still refuses to boot if I try run the ram at DDR 333mhz speeds :(

I had that problem on my PC32000 ram and have since stuck in a 2700 gig. It was free and I wasnt losing much performance seeing as my ram was running at a whopping 100mhz :cool:
 
This might have been asked, but if I use the headphone socket on my front panel the sound does come through the headset but also continues to come through the main speakers, which aint great, is this just my setup or the mobo in general?
 
Mr Men said:
This might have been asked, but if I use the headphone socket on my front panel the sound does come through the headset but also continues to come through the main speakers, which aint great, is this just my setup or the mobo in general?
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let me get this straight (arrh Tom Paris from Voyager!)

You have wired yout front panel on your case to the speaker out , so that u can use the front panel for headphones/speakers.

if u have done that, then your soundcard's outputs on the back panel will still be connected.

The only think I can think of is try MUTE or lower the voloume for your rears, asee what that does, apart from that, I don't think theres anything you can do
 
ShiWarrior said:
let me get this straight (arrh Tom Paris from Voyager!)

You have wired yout front panel on your case to the speaker out , so that u can use the front panel for headphones/speakers.

if u have done that, then your soundcard's outputs on the back panel will still be connected.

The only think I can think of is try MUTE or lower the voloume for your rears, asee what that does, apart from that, I don't think theres anything you can do
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yes its an Antec Sonata II, wired the front panel to the mobo, Iam using the onboard sound, the cable can only go on one way so its not wrong wiring, the speakers are still connected on the rear of the PC yeah.

Just on my previous system a Dell, when I used the front panel to plug in earphones it cut the sound to the main speakers, I see if the rear thing does the trick as the volume of the main speakers does go down a little when the headset goes in
 
good luck mate :)


Any one got 2 * 1Gb Geil PC3200 in their machine ? or if u havent got "Geil" what memory timmings do u use ?
I want to do it manually, bring it down some what and then i want to start trying to overclock it :D
 
Sadly it never worked :mad: guess I will get used to it, just seems weird to me that it outputs the sound to the speakers even when the front panel is used.
 
There is a set of jumpers just above the front audio header on the motherboard. if both jumpers are on you can use both at same time as i gather that both off would mean anything connected to front ports would overide the rear ports. I havent tested , but may be worth looking at
 
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