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

ns400r said:
Where do you get the figure - 2.45v from ? Have you measured it somewhere?
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A good question, I was wondering

As I understand it, the board provides 2.5v on the normal VDIMM setting. That dates back to the original PC2100 standard. Most PC3200 and above RAM these days require 2.6v to run properly, hence it seems to me the VDIMM setting should always be set to HIGH
 
I've got one of these boards on order and I plan on o/c'ing my CPU(Opteron 144, also on order :) ).

In the BIOS, is it possible to lock the AGP and PCI-E frequencies? Also, is it possible to set the RAM speeds, i.e. 200,166 etc. to effectively run on a divider? I intend to raise the HTT/FSB settings to o/c but I don't want to o/c my RAM or graphics card.

Cheers, dagwoood.
 
dagwoood said:
I've got one of these boards on order and I plan on o/c'ing my CPU(Opteron 144, also on order :) ).

In the BIOS, is it possible to lock the AGP and PCI-E frequencies? Also, is it possible to set the RAM speeds, i.e. 200,166 etc. to effectively run on a divider? I intend to raise the HTT/FSB settings to o/c but I don't want to o/c my RAM or graphics card.

Cheers, dagwoood.
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My Opreon 144 arrived today, and I'm waiting on the board now :(

Yes AGP and PCI-E can be locked, RAM can run dividers
 
Tuvoc said:
My Opreon 144 arrived today, and I'm waiting on the board now :(

Yes AGP and PCI-E can be locked, RAM can run dividers
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Thanks for that Tuvoc.

I won't get my board until the end of next week :(
 
@ns400r

thanks for the hard work
can you tell me what bios you are using and which of the vcore mods you used to get 1.55v - i have a tube of conductive paint ordered :)

i seem to be hitting a wall at 268x10 1.45v using ocwb bios3 and corsair 3200 cas2.5 memory on a divider
 
encephalopathy said:
@ns400r

thanks for the hard work
can you tell me what bios you are using and which of the vcore mods you used to get 1.55v - i have a tube of conductive paint ordered :)

i seem to be hitting a wall at 268x10 1.45v using ocwb bios3 and corsair 3200 cas2.5 memory on a divider
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hi,

not sure if you've checked out the mods on ocwb forum, also fairly certain the bios3 has the fsb lock on at 274, i would have gone for bios 1 or 2 tbh.

drop the muliplyer down to 8 then see if it will take 274, make sure the HTT is down to 3 and put the memory divider down as low as it will go.
 
mp260767 said:
hi,

not sure if you've checked out the mods on ocwb forum, also fairly certain the bios3 has the fsb lock on at 274, i would have gone for bios 1 or 2 tbh.

drop the muliplyer down to 8 then see if it will take 274, make sure the HTT is down to 3 and put the memory divider down as low as it will go.
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I vary the bios that I use.
At the moment I'm using the latest Asrock v1.50 for no particular reason.
My voltage is 1.50v or 1.550v as the mood takes me. My Opteron 146 needs at least 1.50v to be stable above 2.4Ghz.

I used the silver paint trick on vid 4 to test and after it worked I placed a small dab of solder in it's place.

OCW3 & OCW4 beta's both have the 274Mhz limit.
 
encephalopathy said:
@ns400r

thanks for the hard work
can you tell me what bios you are using and which of the vcore mods you used to get 1.55v - i have a tube of conductive paint ordered :)

i seem to be hitting a wall at 268x10 1.45v using ocwb bios3 and corsair 3200 cas2.5 memory on a divider
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Maybe you need a little more than 1.45v to be stable, I know my Opterons all do.
 
@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.[/QUOTE]



How do you like the ocw beta 3? Was your v1.2 bios unstable? Also before i tried using the hardrive in the SATA2 pin i tried it in the SATA 1 pin but for some reason it would not recognize my hard drive. Also im not quite sure if my hard drive is SATA2 or not. Maybe you know its a 74g Western Digital Raptor.
 
Does it hurt to run a non SATA2 HDD in the SATA2 pin or does it not matter?

Also why cant my HDD be recognized in the SATA1 slot..is it because in the bios RAID is tuned on?
 
got my board and 146 yesterday just done a complete reinstall updated bios to 1.50 is there anything else I should update while I am at it. Think I will run at stock for a few days just to make sure everything is stable let you know how I get on thanks
 
jrwingate6 said:
Does it hurt to run a non SATA2 HDD in the SATA2 pin or does it not matter?

Also why cant my HDD be recognized in the SATA1 slot..is it because in the bios RAID is tuned on?
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you should be able to run it on that port ,but you will need to do the F6 when installing win XP , As for your Hdd not showing up it as said above you will need to turn off the raid and it will come up then

Regards Bios i have found that on my board ,if running under 275Htt bios 1.5 is the best and if i want to run over like this
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=60301
the ocw beta 2 bios is the best.
But it take a lot off work to get it right ,I have played around for the last 2 months with this board, Dif Hdd's to get them running on the sataII Port , Dif Ram as my first ram needed more than 2.85V to running ok.(3 Dif sets i have tested.)
But very happy now with this setup i whould not swap it for anything :D
 
what a noob

Hello all,

Don't post here very often (just a lurker) but I thought you might appreciate this.

I recently acquired an Althlon FX-55 and a 6800 Ultra AGP at very resonable prices (yes both legal...) and decided it was time to upgrade my PC to a more suitable gaming machine.

My Old PC was an Althlon XP 2500+ Barton with a Radeon 9800 Pro - lasted me well and still a good machine now to be honest.

Anyway, so I got my sweaty mitts on the two gems I mentioned and built a PC around them - Antec P180, Asrock Mobo as featured here, some nice new DVD drives etc - all courtesy of OCuk. Luvly Jubly. My fiancee had a few things to say about that but I managed to cope with the sulk - only about a week so well worth it.

Anyway I put it all together and pooped in my scythe ninja to keep my FX running at lovely low temps etc and started putting all my games onto my new 200gb samsung.

After a few days I realised something was up, as the fear demo seemed laggy, jerky and downright unplayable even on low detail settings. Call of Duty 2 struggled for quite a while but i got by. Increasing BF2 to high settings seemed pure suicide. The Quake 4 demo played like a dog.

Despite all this, the games seemed a lot better than my previous PC, so I blamed fear and quake 4 lagginess / low framerates on them being resource hogs.

Fast forward about 2 or 3 months and i just got christmas out the way, so back to gaming. I occasionally get bsod fairly randomly, so I update the bios to 1.50 today and set it to default, and install the AGP v3.0 driver. For some reason I have a sneaking feeling in me tummy, so I boot up the quake 4 demo.

WTF? Holy sheet! FPS jump from about single figures in fights to about 30 - 60- fps with max details on at 1280 by 1024. I can play lost coast demo in the church without it turning into a slideshow. I now actually want to buy fear. EVERYTHING IS SILKY SMOOTH even at HIGH goddam it!

My GFX card i guess was throttled to about 1/8th of its power pretending to be crappy PCI or something.

What a goddam noob thing to let happen. I feel so ashamed. forgive me.

PLEASE FORGIVE ME!
 
Don't think i've ever been this NO SWEARING!! of with a piece of hardware in my life. To cut a long story short, i purchased this Mb along with a CPU and RAM. Unfortunately the CPU i purchased turnt out to be the only one that didn't work with the bloddy board, AMD 64 3200 E4 or whatever. Sytem rendered useless, can't flash the bios and it won't even boot, simply unrecognised CPU message. Anyway, i opted to purchase a new bios chip which i had flashed to the latest version 1.50, hooked it up, and now the thing won't boot at all, no display, nothing. Can someone help me out with this p.o.s before i start stabbing it with a screwdriver? I've tried resetting the cmos, booting time and time again, but it still not ******* working, aaaaggggghhhhhhhh
 
If i got it right original bios posted with unrecognised cpu message, new bios wont post.
I think its the new bios chip or coding is faulty - try to re-seat it.
 
my board worked with all the cpu i have had 3000+ ,3200+ 3800x2 and now opteron 144. all the Rev. E4 Never had any problem regards your so i whould say it is not cpu related, Mabye something else. If you give off your spec we might be able to help you

any way welcome onboard here at ouck
 
Xeon said:
If i got it right original bios posted with unrecognised cpu message, new bios wont post.
I think its the new bios chip or coding is faulty - try to re-seat it.
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Have tried re-seating it,still no luck.

haven't got much of a spec at the moment, cause im troubleshooting, but its:

AsRock 939 dual-sata2 MB

1GB Corsair PC3200 CL2.5 Ram

AMD Athlon 64 with the following info on the chip:-
ADA3200DKA4CG
CDBHE 0543TPMW
1357247K50396

ATM nothing else is plugged into the PC, other than the keyboard and power.
 
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