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

Rince said:
well, the board powers up, but nothing, no video. havent got a speaker plugged in so cant hear the POST beeps. cleared CMOS, pulled RAM, tried different VGA cards etc.
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does sound similar to the PSU problems the guys at ocw have been having :(

I'm getting a similar set up but with an opteron 146.

Looks like its new PSU time

[edit]: Just out of interest, is your PSU the 480w one Rince?
 
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markeh said:
Thats just freaky if you're on one of those BIOS's, and it wont go past 274 even if you drop the multi....
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That's what I thought, so I tried different ASRFLASH versions, i.e. the different dos versions off the Asrock site. The flashes would take but I still couldn't get over 274.

Unless I'm doing something wrong :o
 
I'm running an Opteron 146 with this board and can't seem to get my ram running up to spec. It's Mushkin DDR400 ram, but it seems to be only running at 100mhz on stock settings. CPU-Z reports a frequency of 100mhz and memory bandwith benchmarks show poor results. CPU-z says its running a CPU/20 FSB:Dram ratio.

The pc won't boot (no video output and it wont power off without switching off the psu)
if I set the memory to DDR400 in the bios. Auto seems to give me the 133mhz.
I have flexibility turned off in the bios (Bios version 1.50) and have tried all the other memory options I can think of, the various multipliers, loosening timings etc.

I am running in single channel mode ( 2 x 256 sticks in one coloured ram slots pair, and one 512 meg stick in one of the other slots)

If I pull the 512 stick, dual channel works and my memory speed hops up to the expected 200mhz and the memory benchmarks speed pretty much quadruple.

Can anyone tell me how I might be able to get the ram running at normal speeds using all 3 sticks of my ram?
 
I am planning on getting this mobo, to use with an opteron 144, 1gb 3200 RAM and my 6600gt (128mb AGP). I no nothing about motherboards however, so can someone tell me whether it would work with my IDE 120gb HDD? If not are there any dual or AGP mobo's that would run my current setup?
 
times_champion said:
I am planning on getting this mobo, to use with an opteron 144, 1gb 3200 RAM and my 6600gt (128mb AGP). I no nothing about motherboards however, so can someone tell me whether it would work with my IDE 120gb HDD? If not are there any dual or AGP mobo's that would run my current setup?
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I have not got this mobo (yet) but there sounds nothing wrong with the parts you are going to be using compatibility wise.

Maybe worth checking your ram is compatible with the mobo on the suppliers site though if you are real paranoid. (Like me) :D
 
Anyone else had problems with their AGP graphics card after updating to the 1.50 bios. I thought that my Leadtek 6800GT was borked, but i've stuck it into another machine tonight and its working fine. Both the hard drive and the power supply in the machine with the asrock are a little dodgy, but it had been working fine up till just recently. I really did think it was the card in its final days.
 
I have had no problems with my 9800pro on the board. 1.50 bios too. I am however, not using the AGP driver from the install cd, but the uli one from the OCW FAQ page. It looks like it's a slightly older version, but I have had no issues with it.
 
This board has to be the biggest POS ive ever had the misfortune of owning.

My first board smoked itself when i pluged my power connector in and powered on. I got a replacment, powered it on and nothing but trouble.

Firstly windows refused to install, it would get to the "press enter to install windows" part in the setup, i pressed it got the "please wait" dialogue, 15 minutes later its still sitting there. So try it a bunch more times and nothing. I then recall that amd's (for some retarded reason) are meant to have problems when all memory slots are full (great ad for a cpu there, please buy me but i'll only work with 2 ram slots so screw you). I end up taking 2 dimms out and im able to install windows.

Windows installs then i start to install sp2, it gets about 50% completed then some bs "stack error" bsod message appears on screen. I reboot the pc and it starts to autodetect everything all over again. The pc then powers off, i power it back on and im getting no video signal, so i take out my agp x800 and install my agp 6800gt. Still no video signal from either of them, i try my 6800gt in my shuttle its working fine, i try my x800 and keep getting the message telling me to make sure my card has a power connector attached to it.

Ive tried it on another pc and the same thing, so it appears this pos motherboard has done some kind of damage to it somehow or other as its been working flawlessly untill it was put in this board.


Nothing but trouble with this board and on monday im hitting up the etailor for a refund. never been so bloody frustrated in my life with BS errors and video cards which were working 5 mins before suddenly refusing to work. :mad:
 
Gerard said:
This board has to be the biggest POS ive ever had the misfortune of owning.

My first board smoked itself when i pluged my power connector in and powered on. I got a replacment, powered it on and nothing but trouble.

Firstly windows refused to install, it would get to the "press enter to install windows" part in the setup, i pressed it got the "please wait" dialogue, 15 minutes later its still sitting there. So try it a bunch more times and nothing. I then recall that amd's (for some retarded reason) are meant to have problems when all memory slots are full (great ad for a cpu there, please buy me but i'll only work with 2 ram slots so screw you). I end up taking 2 dimms out and im able to install windows.

Windows installs then i start to install sp2, it gets about 50% completed then some bs "stack error" bsod message appears on screen. I reboot the pc and it starts to autodetect everything all over again. The pc then powers off, i power it back on and im getting no video signal, so i take out my agp x800 and install my agp 6800gt. Still no video signal from either of them, i try my 6800gt in my shuttle its working fine, i try my x800 and keep getting the message telling me to make sure my card has a power connector attached to it.

Ive tried it on another pc and the same thing, so it appears this pos motherboard has done some kind of damage to it somehow or other as its been working flawlessly untill it was put in this board.


Nothing but trouble with this board and on monday im hitting up the etailor for a refund. never been so bloody frustrated in my life with BS errors and video cards which were working 5 mins before suddenly refusing to work. :mad:
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I can understand why you are very angry mate.......I would be too. :(

I will still be purchasing this mobo in next few days though as it seems to generally be very reliable and well featured.

No help to you I know........

Good luck with refund mate. :)
 
I sympathise, that is everyone's nightmare come true. More bad luck than anything else though, you'd see similar stories from people who have bought very expensive name brand £100+ boards too
 
dagwoood said:
That's what I thought, so I tried different ASRFLASH versions, i.e. the different dos versions off the Asrock site. The flashes would take but I still couldn't get over 274.

Unless I'm doing something wrong :o
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Well I've managed to flash it so I can break the 274 mark. The only problem is that if I set it to run at 2.5GHz it's not stable :( I've tried changing memory voltages/timings and upped the VCore to 1.45 and it will run prime for a few minutes and then it'll stop because there's an error.

So I don't know whether it's the BIOS, as I can run at 2.466GHz stable on stock voltages the Asrock BIOS, or whether I've hit the wall with regards to it just wont clock any further unless I volt mod(which I'm not going to do).

Anyway, back to the official v1.5 BIOS and see about getting my RAM timings better. I might even see if I can get a stable o/c on my RAM.
 
The volt mod for those that have understood that there chip needs it,is essential for decent overrclocks above 1.45.A nine year old probably has the right dexterity to do this volt mod, as it must be the easiest mod in the history of volt mods.

Feel the fear,breath,breath again....then do it. ;)
 
i'll second that
the voltmod stabilises things at the upper end of your previous best clocks
before i could only get 2.6 stable at 1.45v
i now can get 2.75 working fine at 1.55v and have been up as far as 2.8 but it crashed 25min into superpi32
 
Mrchu_ said:
Feel the fear,breath,breath again....then do it. ;)
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It's not so much I'm fearful of actually performing the volt mod, it's I would rather not put the extra volts through my CPU and curtail it's life span.

To be honest, I'm more fearful of flashing the BIOS on this board, as you don't know how your systems going to react afterwards. The breathing exercises will come in handy then :)
 
Hey folks I just got this board, and have a question. There is 2 chipsets, a ULi1695 and Uli1567, one is Northbridge and the other other is Southbridge. I'm a total noob, what are these and whats the difference?
 
GlasgowTitan said:
Hey folks I just got this board, and have a question. There is 2 chipsets, a ULi1695 and Uli1567, one is Northbridge and the other other is Southbridge. I'm a total noob, what are these and whats the difference?
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the northbridge and southbridge deal with different functions of the system, sound, video etc as i understand it.
 
Barely Legal said:
does sound similar to the PSU problems the guys at ocw have been having :(

I'm getting a similar set up but with an opteron 146.

Looks like its new PSU time

[edit]: Just out of interest, is your PSU the 480w one Rince?
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sorry for the slow reply, its got the Antec Smartpower 450w PSU in it; i havent got around to trying another PSU with the ASRock yet but theres an enermax 350W kicking about here somewhere. i left my eprom programmer at home so was waiting for it to arrive, in case it was a bios compatibility issue... didnt look to see what stepping my 3700+ was but i imagine its the latest as Dabs are selling them like hotcakes...
 
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