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

encephalopathy said:
basically the gold heatsink with 'asrock' it was under part of my agp 6800le
it was heating up til it was hot to touch and warming that area of the 6800 considerably. it is also close to the second sata connector that had been intermittantly not seen by the bios on boot up

the 6800 does not get hot now as the zalman draws the heat away better than before

when i change to pci-e the card hopefully will not impinge on the southbridge area and i will replace my hacksawed cooler with a normal one :)
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Mine was getting hot too. Not too hot to touch but certainly a lot hotter than I'd expected it to get. My video card is also sitting directly over the heatsink. I've since placed a small fan above that general area and the heatsink is now vey cool to the touch.
 
Very interesting guys. My board hasn't arrived yet (maybe tomorrow) so I'll take a look at that when it comes. I have a northbridge heatsink and fan that I removed from an MSI board just recently - would this fit do you think, and would there then be sufficient clearance for the AGP card ? Assuming there is a fan-header close which there probably isn't...

But why does the southbridge get hot ? Are you guys overclocking substantially ?
 
I overclock to 2740Mhz (memory 1:1) with my Opteron 146.

I'll see about connecting my digital probe to the heatsink tomorrow and measure the heatsink at default speeds with no extra cooling on it and then at my normal overclock speeds.
 
ns400r said:
I overclock to 2740Mhz (memory 1:1) with my Opteron 146.

I'll see about connecting my digital probe to the heatsink tomorrow and measure the heatsink at default speeds with no extra cooling on it and then at my normal overclock speeds.
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That would be fantastic if you could do that, thanks. :)
 
ns400r and encephalopathy ,
is the northbridge on your boards hot as well as the southbridge, and has that given you any problems ? I've seen many other motherboard reviews where they say the northbridge seems to run fairly hot, but doesn't cause any problems, so I suspect OK

My board is on order and han't arrived yet, I'm getting really excited to get this built
 
Hey guys, i am new to this forum and am also new to this MOB. I just installed it last night. My computer specs are AMD Athlon 3500+, 2x 512 of Corsair XMS, AGP x800pro, SB Audigy LS and a Western Digital Raptor. This is only the second system i have built and i want to make sure i did it right. I also changed some settings in my bios that i want to confirm with you overclocking pros. ok first, i want to make sure I hooked my HD up to the right SATA socket. I hooked it up to the SATA 2 red socket on the MOB. Second, as confirmed with you guys it was only recognizing my ram as DDR3 and i had to change that in the BIOS to DDR4. I also changed my memory to 1t. Well everything is running smooth exept for today i was installing some STEAM apps for counterstrike and then i inserted a World of warcraft install disk into my CDROM drive and the computer restarted it self. I dont know why it did that but maybe you guys have some ideas as to why it did. I also noticed another AGP setting besides the 4x and the 8x. It allows you to change it between 3 freaquencys. I belive they were 32, 64 and 128. What does that setting do and what should i put it on? The bios my board has is 1.4.


Please can someone just give me some tips abotu this board and if i did anything wrong.
 
Xeon said:
NB to use the 6800 the ULi integrated AGP driver must be used; the one on the drivers disk causes problems.
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Ok so i am the one that is having problems with outlook 2003 pro, whenever I reply to emails it crashes to bsod and comes up with the messages below.It's a really weird one, I have re-installed windows, I have put the new inetrgrated agp drivers on b4 the new nvidia drivers, I have changed bios to 1.2 and also to ocw. Just can't seem to solve problem. I have also swapped my memory around, ran mem tests etc.


Please someone help! I have error message

here

and here

gonna sleep on it now as spent whole eveing on it :(

thanks guys for any help you can provide.
 
@Tuvoc

there is a grey spiky heatsink on the northbridge - it seems to work very well and is also cooled by a 120mm fan i have as an intake on my case so it does not get hot for me at all

@jrwingate6 - i am very new to overclocking as well :) ihave not used the red sataII connector as i do not have a sataII hdd and didn't know if a standard sata drive would work in its place. the only other thing i have done is flashed to the ocw beta3 bios from the standard v1.2 asrock bios that came with it. i also have manually set the voltage to 1.45.
 
Opteron 146 @ default 2Ghz 1.40v, default heatsink & fan.
Memory @ 274Mhz(1:1) 2.7v

Ambient temp - 15.4ºC

Speedfan sensors after 30mins Prime95.

No extra cooling fan.
Temp 1 - 28ºc
Temp 2 - 39ºC (CPU)
Temp 3 - 22ºC

External sensor on 'Southbridge' - 36.6ºC


Speedfan sensors after 30mins idle.

No extra cooling fan.
Temp 1 - 28ºc
Temp 2 - 29ºC (CPU)
Temp 3 - 16ºC

External sensor on 'Southbridge' - 36.6ºC

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Opteron 146 @ overclocked 2.74Ghz 1.550v, default heatsink & fan.
Memory @ 274Mhz(1:1) 2.7v

Ambient temp - 16.4ºC

Speedfan sensors after 30mins Prime95.

No extra cooling fan.
Temp 1 - 31ºc
Temp 2 - 64ºC (CPU)
Temp 3 - 57ºC

External sensor on 'Southbridge' - 39.9ºC


Speedfan sensors after 30mins idle.

No extra cooling fan.
Temp 1 - 28ºc
Temp 2 - 30ºC (CPU)
Temp 3 - 28ºC

External sensor on 'Southbridge' - 34.1ºC

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Opteron 146 @ overclocked 2.74Ghz 1.550v, default heatsink & fan.
Memory @ 274Mhz(1:1) 2.7v

Ambient temp - 16.4ºC

Speedfan sensors after 30mins Prime95.

**With extra cooling fan.**
Temp 1 - 23ºc
Temp 2 - 59ºC (CPU)
Temp 3 - 54ºC

External sensor on 'Southbridge' - 23.9ºC


Speedfan sensors after 30mins idle.

**With extra cooling fan.**
Temp 1 - 21ºc
Temp 2 - 29ºC (CPU)
Temp 3 - 28ºC

External sensor on 'Southbridge' - 22.1ºC

Make what you will of these readings. Bear in mind that the sensor was
only resting against the heatsink and not in actual contact with the chip
below it. Expect the actual chip temp to be some what higher. Also
note how poor the standard heatsink is when the CPU is pushed a little.
I usually use a different heatsink that screws into a metal base plate
under the motherboard. This arrangement allows me to tighten the heatsink in
such a way as to compress the IHS and allow better contact with the CPU core. As a result I usually only see temps around 40-41ºC
under load at 2.74Ghz.
 
how do you update the drivers for all my PCI to PCI Bridge system devices in device manager and force them to use the ULi AGP Controller Driver?
 
cocker92 said:
how do you update the drivers for all my PCI to PCI Bridge system devices in device manager and force them to use the ULi AGP Controller Driver?
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You don't. There should be only one instance of the ULi AGP 3.0 Controller listed. Achieve this by simply installing the driver.

asrock_device_manager.jpg
 
well im still getting bsods and im well pi**ed off with it. its like finding a needle in a haystack.
some thoughts ive had are voltage requirements?
i have 2 sticks of 1gb geil memory. there voltage range according to ocuk is 2.55v to 2.95v, in the bios i think it was 2.45 so ive upped that. im on 2t and havent altered anything!
im gonna put in 1gb of twin moss memory and see what happens for the next few days.
 
ns400r

Very interesting indeed. Thanks for taking the time to do that. I'll definitely investigate alternative cooling options when my board arrives

And to see if my Antec Truepower 430w PSU powers the board. I've seen a couple of people say that even though you use standard 20 pin + 4 pin 12v PSU connectors, the PSU still has to be ATX 2.0 spec. I'm somewhat surprised by that, but fingers crossed.
 
well im still getting bsods and im well pi**ed off with it. its like finding a needle in a haystack.
some thoughts ive had are voltage requirements?
i have 2 sticks of 1gb geil memory. there voltage range according to ocuk is 2.55v to 2.95v, in the bios i think it was 2.45 so ive upped that. im on 2t and havent altered anything!
im gonna put in 1gb of twin moss memory and see what happens for the next few days.
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2.45 would definitely be a problem. have you tried setting VDIMM to high ? That provides 2.7v as a minimum
 
Your PSU will power the board with no problems. The connectors that supply has are also perfectly suited for it. Do you think these other people have actually read the specifications for ATX 2.0 ? ? ? Having 'this and that' connector doesn't qualify any power supply for any particular standard.

http://www.formfactors.org/
 
ns400r said:
Your PSU will power the board with no problems. The connectors that supply has are also perfectly suited for it. Do you think these other people have actually read the specifications for ATX 2.0 ? ? ? Having 'this and that' connector doesn't qualify any power supply for any particular standard.

http://www.formfactors.org/
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Yeah I know :)

I hope my board arrives tomorrow, I'm really looking forward to getting it up and running. Very happy with the decision to purchase it :)
 
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