Ledge68

They light up in a certain order and will give you code based on the order or which colors light up. Basically the poor mans LCD read out. I think it's explained better in the owners manual but, I am not sure if they list any codes?

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kimosabi

Well, learned new things when installing this board. The CPU-area is a fairly tight space on this compared to my late P5N-D.
I had to modify the bracket for my Silent Knight 2 to be able to fasten it with the screws. The MOSFET and NB heatsinks were too close and too high. And ive also seen that the bracket for the Tunique Tower is also too big and needs modifying.

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error10

My TRUE just dropped right in. I had no problems with space.

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kimosabi

Forgot to mention that the Silent Knight and the Tunique tower are the only two HSF`s ive seen being troublesome on this mobo.
And another new thing compared to the P5N-D. Now my pc "clicks" every once in a while. Is there something i forgot when setting up BIOS before installing Vista??

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Harobi

Hello Everyone,

I just used this board in a budget build and I am really liking it. The only thing that I don't love is the bios options. There are so many choices it is a little overwhelming. So I thought I would try and dumb it down for people like me with a step by step approach. I will be using pics already posted for a reference so the credit goes to them(mostly Robilar).

First go into your Advance Bios features and set everything that is circled exactly the same.


Then go into the M.I.T. and change the Performance Enhance option to Standard, set DRAM Timing Selectable to manual and enter your timings, and scroll down to manually set your DRAM voltage.




This should be a good starting point for stock clocks.

If you want to OC then go into the M.I.T. and change the CPU Host Clock Control to Enabled. This should allow you to change the CPU Host Freq. and CPU Clock Ratio(Multiplier).


Set the CPU Host Freq and Multiplier to get your desired clockspeed.

Also don't forget to set your Vcore.




Now the part that really confused me is how to set your RAM ratios. All you have to do is look at your CPU Host Freq and multiply it by 2. That gives us our FSB.
If you are like me and like to run a 1:1 ratio all the time all you have to do is leave the freq Latch on Auto and access the system memory multiplier. There will be a lot of options to choose from, but don't fret.
Select them one by one and look at the Memory Freqency after you select it each time. When it matches twice your CPU Host Freq, or FSB, then you are running 1:1. You can always do this to find a different ratio too.


I did this exactly and have great results on an E7300. It is stable at 3.8 GHz.

If anyone has anything to add or modify please let me know, this is my first guide.

Thanks, and I hope this helps.



Harobi

stn0092

Nice guide; I have a few questions though.

I was told Virtualization Technology was only of use to XP. What's it do anyway? I've kept it disabled without issue.

Do you really keep everything other than vcore at auto? I haven't found a lot of software-based methods to monitor the voltages for this motherboard; even the BIOS hardware monitor has only a few readings. ET6 doesn't seem all that accurate either. It seems a bit risky if an automatic setting sets the volts too high.

Also, what BIOS are those of you with quads using? I had trouble with F5 and F7a, but F4 is working great for me.

Lastly, is there a vmod for this board? Vdroop is crazy without LLC on. Under load with P95, it droops 0.100V, going from 1.31V to 1.21V.

error10

Virtualization lets you run 64-bit virtual machines on your computer with software like VirtualBox or VMware. See the link in my sig for more info. (Never dual-boot again!)

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vigilante

Ya almost complete 3d mark 06 @ 3.4 ghz but crashed on the last test. This board is awesome I just need to get my quad higher! Does anyone get bad overclocks and then the system right out of bios kinda pupetually turns itself on/off a couple times? Im not used to this board so i don't know whats normal.

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The multi reboots seems to be normal when recovering from a bad OC. Mine does the same thing when I push to far.

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stn0092

Yep. If you use settings it doesn't like, it'll reboot itself three times and then the next time you go into the M.I.T. you'll get a message saying something about unstable overclocks.