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Slink · 01-29-09

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Originally Posted by thewebmaster179

I´m actually very intrigued about this unnoficial phenom II compatibility. It could very well mean sticking with this mobo for quite a while more than I planned, which I´d really like.
I doubt Asus will take the effort to upgrade the BIOS for further compatibility since this board means no profit for them anymore.
In the official Asus forums, it seems a few people have managed to run a PII 940 by upgrading the BIOS to the most current version and resetting the CMOS, though it can´t seem to recognize the CPU brand on its own.

As am I.

This board is pretty solid. I'd like to keep it for long as well.

I'm a gamer, so even if I can add a much faster CPU, I might hit the PCIe 1.0 16x bandwidth limit, but then all I have to do is go SLI to use the additional 16 lanes of PCIe. Therefore, this board has great headroom for years to come. (8 gigs of RAM? Well sure, you can fit that much in the board, but not me, not yet--maybe some day.

)

Maximum RAM speed of DDR2-800 on this board have you feeling down? No prob!

Just increase the clock speed of the FSB, and the RAM will follow suit. If increasing the clock makes the CPU unstable, you can decrease the CPU multiplier (though that slows the CPU). (Remember to backup or write down BIOS settings in case you have to restore defaults.) Etc, etc, blah blah, this stuff is all over the OCN. I <3 this site. And I <3 this mobo.

I'm excited and hopeful to see what it can do in the future...

-Slink

N2Gaming · 01-29-09

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Originally Posted by Slink

As am I.

This board is pretty solid. I'd like to keep it for long as well.

I'm a gamer, so even if I can add a much faster CPU, I might hit the PCIe 1.0 16x bandwidth limit, but then all I have to do is go SLI to use the additional 16 lanes of PCIe. Therefore, this board has great headroom for years to come. (8 gigs of RAM? Well sure, you can fit that much in the board, but not me, not yet--maybe some day.

)

Maximum RAM speed of DDR2-800 on this board have you feeling down? No prob!

Just increase the clock speed of the FSB, and the RAM will follow suit. If increasing the clock makes the CPU unstable, you can decrease the CPU multiplier (though that slows the CPU). (Remember to backup or write down BIOS settings in case you have to restore defaults.) Etc, etc, blah blah, this stuff is all over the OCN. I <3 this site. And I <3 this mobo.

I'm excited and hopeful to see what it can do in the future...

-Slink

You know there is two banks you can save your bios setting to with in the bios itself. This way you don't have to wright any thing down just save to bank 1 or bank 2. Then if you need those settings load from either bank 1 or bank 2.

Slink · 01-29-09

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Originally Posted by N2Gaming

You know there is two banks you can save your bios setting to with in the bios itself. This way you don't have to wright any thing down just save to bank 1 or bank to. then if you need those settings load from either bank 1 or bank 2.

Haha I know. IME, those are useless, because when you clear the BIOS via jumper, you also clear those banks. (AFAIK!) Also, if you export the BIOS config to a .CMO file on your HDD or floppy drive, the "memory banks" are also exported, and thusly, when you restore your settings from a saved .CMO file, you overwrite the configs stored on-chip. Stupid, eh?

Whatever the case, the banks are still useful if you don't run the risk of having to reset your BIOS via jumper.

I just export the settings to a floppy or flash drive. (The BIOS can't see/access NTFS partitions, so unless you have a FAT32 partition on your HDD, any USB flash drive will appear as "C:" )

I have spent many hours in this mobo's BIOS...

N2Gaming · 01-29-09

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Originally Posted by Slink

Haha I know. IME, those are useless, because when you clear the BIOS via jumper, you also clear those banks. (AFAIK!) Also, if you export the BIOS config to a .CMO file on your HDD or floppy drive, the "memory banks" are also exported, and thusly, when you restore your settings from a saved .CMO file, you overwrite the configs stored on-chip. Stupid, eh?

Whatever the case, the banks are still useful if you don't run the risk of having to reset your BIOS via jumper.

I just export the settings to a floppy or flash drive. (The BIOS can't see/access NTFS partitions, so unless you have a FAT32 partition on your HDD, any USB flash drive will appear as "C:" )

I have spent many hours in this mobo's BIOS...

Sounds to me like a couple of things are not working in your favor the way they should be. I on the other hand, have had to reset my cmos by turning the power off unplugging power supply waiting for mobo power to fade and then move clear cmos jumpers from pins 1&2 to pins 2&3 and vise versa after a few seconds. Why do I explain all of this you may be asking your self. Very simple becuase after reseting the bios from doing all of the steps mentioned above I simply go to the load from either saved bank option and the settings are still saved and reloaded back to my bios just as they were before I fubar'd the bios settings to a point where the system will not post. So I would have to say either you have a defective mobo or your technique may be to blame. After all that is why that option is there in the first place. Hope this helps.

N2Gaming · 01-29-09

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Originally Posted by N2Gaming

Sounds to me like a couple of things are not working in your favor the way they should be. I on the other hand, have had to reset my cmos by turning the power off unplugging power supply waiting for mobo power to fade and then move clear cmos jumpers from pins 1&2 to pins 2&3 and vise versa after a few seconds. Why do I explain all of this you may be asking your self. Very simple becuase after reseting the bios from doing all of the steps mentioned above I simply go to the load from either saved bank option and the settings are still saved and reloaded back to my bios just as they were before I fubar'd the bios settings to a point where the system will not post. So I would have to say either you have a defective mobo or your technique may be to blame. After all that is why that option is there in the first place. Hope this helps.

The only time I can think of that the settings would not remain in either bank 1 or 2 is if you do a bios flash. I have not flashed my bios yet so I can not give a definitive answer on that just my theory...

Azm0deous · 01-29-09

Proud Owner of this board and wondering if anyone knows what a "safe" HT Voltage is on it?

N2Gaming · 01-30-09

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Originally Posted by Azm0deous

Proud Owner of this board and wondering if anyone knows what a "safe" HT Voltage is on it?

stock is always a safe bet...

what are you trying to accomplish. higher fsb???

Slink · 01-30-09

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Originally Posted by N2Gaming

Sounds to me like a couple of things are not working in your favor the way they should be. I on the other hand, have had to reset my cmos by turning the power off unplugging power supply waiting for mobo power to fade and then move clear cmos jumpers from pins 1&2 to pins 2&3 and vise versa after a few seconds. Why do I explain all of this you may be asking your self. Very simple becuase after reseting the bios from doing all of the steps mentioned above I simply go to the load from either saved bank option and the settings are still saved and reloaded back to my bios just as they were before I fubar'd the bios settings to a point where the system will not post. So I would have to say either you have a defective mobo or your technique may be to blame. After all that is why that option is there in the first place. Hope this helps.

OY!

been doing it by simply turning off the PSU and waiting for mobo capacitors to "bleed off" (discharge). Maybe I just haven't tried it in awhile. I think that the banks get overwritten if I load a .CMO file... *shrug* TY. I gotta say that my method of OC testing is rather aggressive, so I have "fubar'd" it many times.

Especially with this $#!tty RAM.

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Originally Posted by Azm0deous

Proud Owner of this board and wondering if anyone knows what a "safe" HT Voltage is on it?

Yeah, I wouldn't think you'd need to adjust it. What is the FSB speed you are attempting? I got mine all the way up to VERY APPROXIMATELY 300 MHz without changing any other mobo settings. Then I tried to downstep the HT mult, and OV the HT, but it didn't seem worth it. 300 MHz is plenty fast FSB speed.
-Slink

Azm0deous · 01-30-09

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Originally Posted by Slink

OY!

been doing it by simply turning off the PSU and waiting for mobo capacitors to "bleed off" (discharge). Maybe I just haven't tried it in awhile. I think that the banks get overwritten if I load a .CMO file... *shrug* TY. I gotta say that my method of OC testing is rather aggressive, so I have "fubar'd" it many times.

Especially with this $#!tty RAM.

Yeah, I wouldn't think you'd need to adjust it. What is the FSB speed you are attempting? I got mine all the way up to VERY APPROXIMATELY 300 MHz without changing any other mobo settings. Then I tried to downstep the HT mult, and OV the HT, but it didn't seem worth it. 300 MHz is plenty fast FSB speed.
-Slink

Well the only reason I am looking to adjust is I am having stability issues with my 4 gigs or ram. Works find with 2 gigs but not with the full 4 keep on crashing so I was thinking maybe I need more voltage. Also I am running my FSB at 220

Slink · 01-30-09

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Originally Posted by Azm0deous

Well the only reason I am looking to adjust is I am having stability issues with my 4 gigs or ram. Works find with 2 gigs but not with the full 4 keep on crashing so I was thinking maybe I need more voltage. Also I am running my FSB at 220

I don't mean to dub you as NEWB, but have you tried changing RAM timing setting from 1T to 2T? That bridges the divide between 2GB and 4GB. I had to do it.

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