Angry_Games Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 Hm I'm using the nF4 DAGF, will this BIOS also work on my machine :drool: NO IT WILL NOT DO NOT FLASH A BIOS THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOUR MACHINE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sai Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 come on then develope something for this lovely low-budget board :dog: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOnkeyyy Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 Thanks guys for all the helpful posts in this thread. tried the 510-1, after three days of tweaking, it's prime95 stable for >7hrs. once I hit the magic 24 hour mark on prime95, will jot down the mem settings I have (should I put it in this thread?) Then will try 510-2 (sounds like some people are having greater success with 510-2 and TCCD mem), and then 510-3 (I know I should have tried 510-3 first but I just like going in order). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moocow Posted May 19, 2005 Posted May 19, 2005 I hope someone can help me. I have just upgraded to the 510-3 bios. I've also just got a new 3200+ Venice cpu. The PC is 100% stable @ DDR600 1T 2.5-4-4-7. StressCPU Stable SuperPI 3DMark03 Memtest I was playing around with the inbuilt memtest, and found that my Geil Ultra-X was memtest stable at DDR612 @ 1T 2.5-4-4-8 !!!! I was thinking this is awesome. I then booted into XP and ran SuperPI 1MB to find that it failed pretty quickly. So is memtest worth using at all? I was under the impression that it found errors in your memory better than anything else. I'm beginning to think what is the point of using memtest. The Geil Ultra-X is TCCD memory. What's roughly the max overclock I should get with Cas2.5 and Cas3.0? How to test properly, as memtest is a bit dodgy. Or it just me? any one? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted May 19, 2005 Posted May 19, 2005 i always use this combination to test for stability: 1. memtest first. always. 2. installing windowsXP SP2 (if not stable enough to do this, install it at stock speeds anyway) 3. prime95 for minimum 8 hours 4. 3dmark 2001, 2003, 2005 5. Aquamark3 6. a real game or two (heavy duty ones like Doom3, Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 (sensitive to overclocks), and Chronicles of Riddick, CoD, HL2 etc. once you have it all stable, then go back and install Windows XP SP2 one more time from scratch. Installing windows is a system stress and will sometimes show up little nagging errors that you might not see in benches etc. real-world tests like games, ripping music/movies, burning cd's, installing Windows, etc are always better than synthetics...but I use synthetic tests to figure out if im where I am supposed to be enough to use real-world tests Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WizZard Posted May 19, 2005 Posted May 19, 2005 Thanks for your help Protostar & pershoot. But still no luck for me. My machine still gives me the "Drive A Error. System halted" error, after the "BIOS ROM Checksum Error". I can't even boot off a floppy to flash back to my old BIOS! I have tried 3 different floppy drives, that are working in other machines, and the same amount of floppy cables. I have removed my SLi setup, and all my hard drives, and have just one graphics card (slot 1), one stick of RAM and the floppy drive connected to my board! I have tried clearing the CMOS all the ways described here, to no avail. Pulling my hair out as I type !!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radical_53 Posted May 19, 2005 Posted May 19, 2005 Why do you use AM3? It's so "sensitive" that it'll run through even if SuperPi 1M fails... or at least close to that. I can bench it with at least 50MHz more on CPU and 20MHz more on GPU than what I'd call "stable". But you're right on HL2, it's quite picky. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOnkeyyy Posted May 19, 2005 Posted May 19, 2005 I've personally found 3dmark05 to be the most sensitive so far, I was able to go through HL2 completely on settings that didn't make it through 3dmark05.510-1 wasn't prime-95 stable for me for that magical 24 hour mark (I tried for 2 days to get it stable, no go). I'm going to see if 510-3 is more stable (510-2 wasn't even close, had to scale back real far in my oc to even try to run prime-95, and then it'd crap out on me before the first runs were even finished). I know I'm not giving the bios enough time to see if I could find a sweet spot, but I just want to see if the same settings that gave me close to stable in 510-1 will give me close to or more stable in 510-3. I won't know if I've found my go-to bios until 22 hours from now AG, I got a question, how many passes of memtest do you run before you go to superpi? I've been skipping the memtest (on mild overclock changes, on heavy ones/new bios I run it once) and going straight to 3dmark05 ( but it's the fastest way I've found of seeing if minor changes are good or not). Thanks for any advice :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimX Posted May 19, 2005 Posted May 19, 2005 I tend to use the SuperPI 1M test to see if the PC is faster than before. No sense in testing new settings for stability if the setup is slower than before. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radical_53 Posted May 19, 2005 Posted May 19, 2005 @monkey: 05 is quite sensitive, definitely true. Mostly on CPU/RAM, whereas 01 is very sensitive on GPU clocks for my machine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongoled Posted May 19, 2005 Posted May 19, 2005 The new bios's are not good for my setup, ive tried them all (the tccd relevant ones) and the settings in my sig which are 100% stable are NOT attainable. I loose about 5mhz on the HTT speed, aint got a clue whts changed in these bios's to cause tht. Im currently using the 414-1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrufdog Posted May 19, 2005 Posted May 19, 2005 I'm a little picky with my stable test. I use Prime95 for 24 hours. So far I havent found any setup with 510-3 that works. best I have gotten is 9 hours before an error. I passed memtest for a couple hours, but now I'm going back to that and see if I can run it for a day or more to see if the error I'm getting is RAM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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