The ASrock 939dual-SATA2 (ULi M1695) thread

disco Stu · 8 Dec 2006 at 11:15

Has the memory on this board got to be matched or can you run it with a stick of 512 and a stick of 256? (my mates having this board off me and thats all the memory that he's got)

MeddlE · 8 Dec 2006 at 11:27

The voltage regulation to the CPU is dire on this board, mine fluctuates between 1.47 and 1.66 when it's set to 1.55. This can't be good for stability. The vreg on my radeon is totally rock solid stable by comparison.

I've had a look around and haven't been able to find any mods to increase the quality of the voltage regulation. Is it time for a different motherboard or are they all like this?

Disco Stu, I can't see anything in the manual that says that memory wont work, but obviously it wont run in dual channel. At the worst it will only have 512mb though.

Hesky82 · 10 Dec 2006 at 13:12

MeddlE said:
The voltage regulation to the CPU is dire on this board, mine fluctuates between 1.47 and 1.66 when it's set to 1.55. This can't be good for stability. The vreg on my radeon is totally rock solid stable by comparison.

I've had a look around and haven't been able to find any mods to increase the quality of the voltage regulation. Is it time for a different motherboard or are they all like this?

Disco Stu, I can't see anything in the manual that says that memory wont work, but obviously it wont run in dual channel. At the worst it will only have 512mb though.

med, are you getting that reading off a dmm or off software? dont trust the latter.

MeddlE · 10 Dec 2006 at 13:15

Motherboard Monitor. It's quite a range though. And there was me on a hunt for an Abit AT8-32X already.

Hesky82 · 10 Dec 2006 at 16:22

MeddlE said:
Motherboard Monitor. It's quite a range though. And there was me on a hunt for an Abit AT8-32X already.

mbm5 is like that with most boards tbh, like i said you cant take anything voltage or temp wise as fact with these monitoring progs

Tosk · 11 Dec 2006 at 00:49

any 1 know if ocuk will be restocking this board any time soon?

thanks for any help

hp7909 · 11 Dec 2006 at 03:51

Tosk said:
any 1 know if ocuk will be restocking this board any time soon?

thanks for any help

Doubt it...

Wikipedia said:
...(Socket 939) replaced by AM2 in May 2006, although production will continue until at least the end of 2006.

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Tosk · 11 Dec 2006 at 21:58

thanks hp7909

barnsta · 15 Dec 2006 at 16:07

vista

are there drivers for windows vista for this board yet please, also need sata 2 drivers for vista.

thanks

hp7909 · 15 Dec 2006 at 16:13

barnsta said:
are there drivers for windows vista for this board yet please, also need sata 2 drivers for vista.

thanks

RC1 worked fine for me with no need for drivers, unless you are running RAID?

barnsta · 15 Dec 2006 at 16:18

yeh was thinking of running raid. thanks

barnsta · 15 Dec 2006 at 16:18

ps , what's vista like

hp7909 · 15 Dec 2006 at 16:24

barnsta said:
ps , what's vista like

So far, I don't like it. Will need to do a complete overhaul of my PC, felt very sluggish

But will give it a year for all the issues that might pop-up/etc to be sorted, maybe even a service pack or 2

barnsta · 15 Dec 2006 at 16:27

ok cheers! have you reverted back to good ole xp?

hp7909 · 15 Dec 2006 at 16:34

barnsta said:
ok cheers! have you reverted back to good ole xp?

Running them both. Created a 16GB partition to try out Vista (RC1)

To remove it, used VistaBootPRO 3.1 (here), then simply formatted/deleted the partition :cool:

barnsta · 15 Dec 2006 at 16:52

that bad huh!

barnsta · 15 Dec 2006 at 20:55

pci card problem

Hi there
I haev just installed a pci desktop wireless card and xp isn't picking it up, none of the "found new hardware "wizard is appearing. i have made sure that pci power is ebavled in bios....... please help.

thanks

fixed now thanks

hp7909 · 18 Jan 2007 at 04:30

Just wanted to confirm if the following coolers fit & work well with this mobo:

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro - also can the mobo control the speed or does it always run at full speed?
Scythe Miné Quiet
Zalman CNPS9500-AM2
Zalman CNPS7000B-CU

Thanks

ns400r · 18 Jan 2007 at 06:13

hp7909 said:
Just wanted to confirm if the following coolers fit & work well with this mobo:

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro - also can the mobo control the speed or does it always run at full speed?

Scythe Miné Quiet

Zalman CNPS9500-AM2

Zalman CNPS7000B-CU

Thanks

The board can't control any fans. It's a 'feature'.

T0Ka · 19 Jan 2007 at 21:00

ns400r said:
The board can't control any fans. It's a 'feature'.

The dual-vsta can control 4 pin pwm fans through the bios, according to Artic cooling website the silencer 64 pro has a 4 pin fan now, my one didn't

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