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

theres a slight chance the cards game/midi port was conflicting with the asrocks own midi/game ports. Id check bios to make sure the boards own game/midi port is dissabled and try again. Might be worth seeing in device manager if the game/midi ports are working after installing creative drivers.
I remember on my nForce2 system and Audigy2 that the original creative drivers didnt take to the board as they conflicted with the nforce chipset resource allocations. possible that the sblive drivers were not updated for this error.

regarding the asrock backplate, the retail board deffinatly comes with one if thats the board you were refuring too.
 
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The Onboard was disabled in the BIOS on the first ever boot (And checked numerous times during my Fault-Finding). The board itself just will not play with my particular setup. I went through every single BIOS setting (Literally, every single one, one at a time, then in groups. That's a awful lot (Would say something a lot stronger, but might get a holiday) of reset's to go through), to see if something there was the problem. I also tried Single core chips (both 130nm and 90nm), but still no joy.

Removing the mobo altogether worked... the MSI went straight in, no problems at all.

As for the backplate, mabye I should reword that... it doesn't have a backplate that a decent heatsink can screw into. I managed to bodge a Big Typhoon on there using 2 Thermaltake holddown's (One off the Sonic Tower), but that meant I couldn't use the Sonic Tower on the MSI. It's getting a crap Akasa Clip on thing, and going in the GF's rig, end of story.

I'm honestly damn glad to get it out of my rig after fighting with it for 2+ months. It's not a bad board for the price, but just not for what I want it to do.
 
Mmmmmm, strange as the board works perfectly with just a Soundblaster Live. Must be something wierd about the Live Drive.
 
Yep... Live on it's own was fine, but would not channel anything through the Live drive, therefore no MIDI (and Gameport MIDI is too laggy to use with Audio, they get out of Sync)

well, there we go, we live n learn.
Asrock DUAL SATA2+LiveDrive!=Not on your nelly matey...
 
InSanCen said:
As for the backplate, mabye I should reword that... it doesn't have a backplate that a decent heatsink can screw into. I managed to bodge a Big Typhoon on there using 2 Thermaltake holddown's (One off the Sonic Tower), but that meant I couldn't use the Sonic Tower on the MSI. It's getting a crap Akasa Clip on thing, and going in the GF's rig, end of story.
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Ah the processor backplate (was thinking rear panel). yes the pushpin mechanism is abit naff and caused me big issues fitting the zalman9550. Had to buy a backplate (advatised at zalman replacment/spare) and get rid of the plastic frame on the asrock.
 
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Hey guys, using a 144 @ 2.66GHz (HT295), 1GB (512x2 Dual Channel) and a 6800Ultra AGP.

I get 5144 in 3DMark05, does that sound reasonable or is it underpeforming?
 
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Just upgraded to one of these (allowed me to spread a full upgrade over a few months as I could upgrade AGP granphics and RAM on my old mboard afew months back and now do CPU/mboard with scope to move to PCIe graphics if/when I think that's needed).

Some general info in case anyone searching for tips

Upgrade went fairly smoothly. However PC wouldn't boot into windows at first. Had to do a repair install of XP (yes, I know some people will say that a clean install is only way to go but I've too much "legacy" in current XP set up to be ready to start from scratch again).

After repair install XP said it needed to re-authenticate the install as too much had changed (my XP is an OEM copy I bought when I did my last major overhaul) ... again despite many dire warnings on the web that OEM copies cannot have mboard upgrade a simple call to the 0800 authentication number a a couple of minutes pressing numbers into the phone and typing the authentication code back into PC did the trick (I think the problem is OEM copies that come with PCs from big companies like DELL where the copy is tied to the BIOS only as opposed the the OEM copies people like me buy)

Next minor snag-ette was XP said "you need to upgrade to SP2" while SP2 upgrade site said "no need to upgrade as you've already got it" (I assume due to stuff left in the registry). Soon solved by downloading the (200+MB) "install tool for professionals" thats intended for IT managers to deploy across PC's on a network ... this simply applied SP2 without any of the checking what was needed that windowspdate did.

I then left it running while windows update downloaded and installed the 45 post-SP2 "critical updates" (how can anyone without broadband survive nowadays?)

Final problem was it took me ages to work out why I couldn't mount my network drives ... eventually it dawned on me that since I was now using the ethernet port on the mboard instead of the card I used previously then ZoneAlarm was treating it as a different interface and using its default policy of treating anything on the other side as being non-trusted
 
Anyone had problems getting SAMSUNG Sata II HD's to run as sata on this board, recently did a re install and will only allow me to run it as IDE not SATA :confused:
 
mp260767 said:
Anyone had problems getting SAMSUNG Sata II HD's to run as sata on this board, recently did a re install and will only allow me to run it as IDE not SATA :confused:
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I have just bought a 250gb Samsung SATAII drive, and it works perfectly in SATA mode per the BIOS, attached to the jmicron SATAII controller
 
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I have just bought a 250gb Samsung SATAII drive, and it works perfectly in SATA mode per the BIOS, attached to the jmicron SATAII controller
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cheers :), have to double check that and maybe reload :(
 
couldnt see any indication of those drivers so reloaded and ive got me a sata drive, cheers Tuvoc :D

after some help with mem timings if possible please, checked cpu-z v 1.35 with bios settings on auto for gskill pc4000 and i have :

TRC 10
TRAS 7
RAS PRE CHARGE 3
RAS TO CAS 3
CAS LATENCY 2.5
DRAM IDLE TIMER 16 CLOCKS

In the bios (v2.20 from asrock) i also have settings for :

TRP, TRCD, TRRD, TRC, Flexibility option (currently set to disabled), Bank Interleaving (auto iirc) and memory hole (*disabled)

any ideas what settings i should be able to use safely ?


cheers.
 
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Just wanted to share with everyone how the board is going...

Running 133 divider

CPU = 2880
HTT = 320
RAM = 205 - 2-2-2-5-1T

Prime stable for 6 hours so far and doing pi 1mb in 29seconds

Really happy with this board coupled with the 3700 san diego this is an amazingly cheap combo...

Have also done the vcore mod... had to do it about 15 times before I could get it to work, but its working now
 
I'm going to do the volt mod this week I think, got an AMD 3800+ x 2 , running at 2.4 atm but hoping for more once mod applied :D

Whats you voltage set to within the BIOS out of interest?

And what solder pen did you use?

Cheers!! ;)
 
I'm back again :)

The board is working brilliantly. Only one problem though.

Does anyone else have trouble installing/running Flash oriented videos and games in any browser? Im on the 2.10 bios, if that makes any difference. Also, i had the problem on my old Maxtor HDD. Since then i'm using a Sata drive and a fresh install of windows and it still wont work.

I'm guessing this is something to do with the motherboard? As it never happened on my old one with the same components (minus the CPU)
 
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I'm back again :)

The board is working brilliantly. Only one problem though.

Does anyone else have trouble installing/running Flash oriented videos and games in any browser? Im on the 2.10 bios, if that makes any difference.
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A common problem with 1T - if you're running 1T, change to 2T
 
Anyone know what "the_dead_parrot" multiplier was set to when he had his HHT @ 320? Just trying to get an idea of what I may be able to push to? And I'm still learning the ropes as it were :)


Out of interest?

thanks!
 
I ran into a few random reboots recently so I dropped my bus speed from 300 to 288 and dropped the volts to 1.375. Running a 144 at 2.6GHz ram at 235MHz (Crucial 3200 running Cas3).

I just used SiSoft Sandra to check my bus speeds and I got a bit of a shock, my HT is running at 1152 (2x 2304MHz)!

Now its clear my settings aren't optimal as my CPU is over worked and therefore cutting it short of its highest clock figure, the question is what should I run? 133 divider, 600HT, 310-320 FSB? I think I left my HT on auto at the moment.
 
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I'm going to do the volt mod this week I think, got an AMD 3800+ x 2 , running at 2.4 atm but hoping for more once mod applied :D

Whats you voltage set to within the BIOS out of interest?

And what solder pen did you use?

Cheers!! ;)
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Hi there mate I did the VID3 voltage mod (1.350=1.55) as the vid4 (1.150=1.55) didnt work no matter how many times I tried it.

So mine is currently set at 1.350 in the bios. I didnt use a pen, I just got a bottle of it and used a paperclip to apply it.

Im using 9x multiplier, I cant get 325 stable... can get 322 which gives me 2900mhz... but think I need a chip I know is capable of more.
 
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