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

Thx Xeon. Might try different bioses to see if that makes any difference. I already have my opty at 2.9 rock stable, so I'm not too bothered, but it would be nice to get to a nice, round 3.0. I also tried the VID3 volt mod, but couldn't get that to work either.

Systool's great though.'

Ginga
 
GingaNinja said:
Thx Xeon. Might try different bioses to see if that makes any difference. I already have my opty at 2.9 rock stable, so I'm not too bothered, but it would be nice to get to a nice, round 3.0. I also tried the VID3 volt mod, but couldn't get that to work either.

Systool's great though.'

Ginga
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Ginga, i have found the reason why you are not seeing an improvement with the systool core voltage increase.

Asrock official bios1.4 has a bug whereby the manual voltage settings of 1.45v are only applied on the first boot after setting them. On subsequent boots the settings revert back to auto and a startup vid of 1.4 is applied.

i hadn't noticed this because cpu-z was showing 1.44v with the 1.4 vid startup and by simply setting the vid to 1.55v in systool was correcting the problem by upping my core 0.05 volts to 1.49.

I have now flashed to official Bios1.5 which has resolved this issue and now the manual startup vid of 1.45 (or 1.49 on my mobo) is applied on every boot.

My opty146 is now stable at 270mhz (NB & SB Link speeds 800mhz) which is near the 272.5 max the bios allows but as im using a stock cooler its running warm under load @54degC so ill stay at this until i see another bios that will convince me to upgrade my cooler to try it :)

Clocking to 3.0 means i will have to lower the Link speeds to 600Mhz so i cant see any benefit on overall system speed to what ive got now.
Personally i prefer high fsb link speeds and lowering them to obtain a higher htt on amd64 cpu's (robbing peter to pay paul) doesn't make any sence with the exception of some improvement to memory bandwidth. (but this can be altered with divider settings)

btw thats the reason why some ppl are seeing slower 3dmark after clocking the htt but lowering the link speeds!! - A64's work in a totally different way to intel or amd barton processors where upping the fsb makes a big difference.......owah its Xmas day loggin off have a good one!!
 
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Xeon said:
Ginga, i have found the reason why you are not seeing an improvement with the systool core voltage increase.

Asrock official bios1.4 has a bug whereby the manual voltage settings of 1.45v are only applied on the first boot after setting them. On subsequent boots the settings revert back to auto and a startup vid of 1.4 is applied.

i hadn't noticed this because cpu-z was showing 1.44v with the 1.4 vid startup and by simply setting the vid to 1.55v in systool was correcting the problem by upping my core 0.05 volts to 1.49.

I have now flashed to official Bios1.5 which has resolved this issue and now the manual startup vid of 1.45 (or 1.49 on my mobo) is applied on every boot.

My opty146 is now stable at 270mhz (NB & SB Link speeds 800mhz) which is near the 272.5 max the bios allows but as im using a stock cooler its running warm under load @54degC so ill stay at this until i see another bios that will convince me to upgrade my cooler to try it :)

Clocking to 3.0 means i will have to lower the Link speeds to 600Mhz so i cant see any benefit on overall system speed to what ive got now.
Personally i prefer high fsb link speeds and lowering them to obtain a higher htt on amd64 cpu's (robbing peter to pay paul) doesn't make any sence with the exception of some improvement to memory bandwidth. (but this can be altered with divider settings)

btw thats the reason why some ppl are seeing slower 3dmark after clocking the htt but lowering the link speeds!! - A64's work in a totally different way to intel or amd barton processors where upping the fsb makes a big difference.......owah its Xmas day loggin off have a good one!!
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Word. The source of many a reboot lockup issue when overclocking I think. I noticed something similar too after I installed that bios for the first time.
 
hi all, and merry xmas to you all.

im on bios version 1.20 and my pc keeps freezing, amongst the other bloody problems !!

any ideas??
 
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However, they don't list an AGP driver for XP 64 bit....
So what is the position there ?
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Seems the ULI Integrated drivers suppoer XP 64 bit and they include AGP. That is the way to go I think
 
can someone help me as im having a nightmare, and wish i hadnt bothered to upgrade now!!
my pc is either randomly rebooting or freezing. and i have to reboot to get it working again

my spec is as per signature

i installed the gfx drivers on drivers disc before my 6800 gfx card drivers. ive run prime95 for 3 hours all was well, and i havent overclocked it. my temps are cpu...35-40 and my case 25 ish degrees.
 
cocker92 said:
can someone help me as im having a nightmare, and wish i hadnt bothered to upgrade now!!
my pc is either randomly rebooting or freezing. and i have to reboot to get it working again

my spec is as per signature

i installed the gfx drivers on drivers disc before my 6800 gfx card drivers. ive run prime95 for 3 hours all was well, and i havent overclocked it. my temps are cpu...35-40 and my case 25 ish degrees.
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If it was me I'd investigate memory settings - although I'd expect freezes not re-boots if that was the problem. Can you see what the timings are, and are you running 1T or 2T ?

Also - are CPU temps OK ?
 
hi m8, within 5 mins or writing the above, whilst transfering a file from one partition to anaother, i got a
BSOD
stop 0x0000009c (0x00000004,0x8054d5fo,0xb2000000,0x00070f0f)

got to go to work now, so i will check out this thread throughout the day.

temps = cpu 32
case=26.

mem timings

mem clock-auto
flex option-dis
bank interlace-auto
burst length-4
cas3
trcd 4
tras 8
trp 4
ma auto
 
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