CharlieH

Been lurking a while first post. I'm a total newb. So please pardon my stupidity. It's been a while since I've built a pc from scratch.

Built my 16yo son a $450 gaming rig.

GA-MA770T-UD3P
Athlon II (shoulda got the BE duh)
Gskill 4gig
Sapphire HD4830
WinXPPro32

Got it running stable @ 3.6ghz on air. Woot.

But getting into the F2 BIOS is giving me fits.

I have to reset multiple times. Sometimes when I get in the keyboard doesn't work (USB).

Any trick to getting into the BIOS on the first try?

I gave up on Win 7 64 'cause I didn't think I could get in and overclock. I think I just gave up trying too soon. Whatever.

Pulled 13800 on 3dfurmark on the rig. Working on the HD4830 voltmod now.

I'll post pics of the $10 PVC pipe testbench soon Its gheto fabulous.

Thanks

Charlie and Son (Jimmy)

el gappo

if you can get 3.6 to stick on this board then i will be very impressed, im stuck at 3.4 with my phenom and it was hell getting that to stick. if you take it down a notch im sure you can get a stable boot with 3.5/4. btw what vcore are you using? anything over 1.5v may be causing the instabilty it does for me over 1.45 so watch out for that one

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CharlieH

My mistake it's 3.75ghz Maybe I got a hot chip? here's a screenshot

I set the:
CPU to 250
Mem to 6.66
CPUV +.05
DRAMV +1.66

Just lucky I guess. I have no clue what I'm doing.

Borongo

i have the same problem where usb keyboard dosnt work for some reason after some restarts....strange, wonder if this is a known problem. i can get into bios but like u said, keyboard is not working but it is not frozen up or anything like that. let me knwo if you find out anything

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Dockery

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but try putting the USB keyboard in the top port right under the ethernet port. It worked for me.

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