Eric Adams

I most certinatly said that stability was increased. And I warned him not to use his floppy drive to flash his BIOS, especially as it was in fact his floppy drive that was acting up. So it seems I was correct on both counts and my comments therefore neither foolish nor unwarranted. your call sir...

The problems with memory stability - not only Crucial - were greatly reduced with the 3/10 and subsequent BIOSes. Don't use your floppy for updating BIOS, especially if it's acting up; that would increase the risk of a bad flash. Instead you should download one of the bootable CD Images from http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.p...045&postcount=3 Hope this helps.

:housecat You're absolutely right. I read that too fast, and probably didn't think that 510Mb/s sounded like much. Then the PCI lane should be sufficient, also on an nF3. If there's problems, maybe you should tweak your PCI latency settings. The AGP card can hog the 'timeslices' on the PCI bus, even though it's on a separate bus.

The only things on the 133MB/s shared PCI bus are: Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit PCI Ethernet (2nd ethernet port) VIA VT6307 Firewire Silicon Image Sil 3114 SATA RAID (only on LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR) and of course everything you'd care to stick in a PCI-slot So this is basicly just like nF3. For more than 510MB/s you'd need something like a 4-lane PCI-E or a PCI-X 100/133Mhz.

Apparently people have had mixed experiences with Corsair VS. I used my 2x512 pair with no problems, but only at stock or slightly overclocked settings. I don't know if all VS are based on the same mem chips though. Probably not.

I used 2x512 Corsair Value on and off with no problems whatsoever until the 310 bios. They were a good baseline in trying to coax the Balliastix into working. (RGone did most of the work for me with his recommended settings)

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Damned Straight!

@bjevers Thx for the input but: I was Flashing from 310 to 310 I'd read that the USB fixes were only implemented in a later version of that BIOS. I tried 4 different single stiks of RAM in slot 2, including a stick of Corsair Value that has allways worked in this board. I had for the first time tried the official update instructions - disconnect power remove battery etc. I usually just loads BIOS defaults. No matter what - the thing was dead. But lo and behold; this evening I - just for the heck of it - did a BIOS reset again (just moved the jumper a couple of seconds) and the damn thing booted afterwards :confused: Well ' I've already ordered the BIOS savior, and I'll keep it just in case. I do like to be the first one on the block to flash a new (beta) BIOS...

I'll have a BIOS Savior tomorrow or monday, then I'll be happy to fry some beta BIOSes for you :nod: Incidentally I apparently killed my BIOS by flashing the 310 bios with WinFlash :mad: No matter what I do, I'm stuck with 3 red leds.. So you see, I had to get a BIOS Savior anyway. -edited to add info.

Crucial Ballistix is smoking on the 310 official BIOS (didn't try the 310p) I'm running 250Mhz 2.5-2-2-7 on 2.8v, rest of ram settings on BIOS performance defaults. I haven't tried lowering the voltage, so I don't know if 2.8v is needed. At 255Mhz and beyond I need to loosen the timings eg. 2.5-3-3-7 So there's no need to give up, this RAM was a steal! :cool:

I've tried the 310 BIOS and it rules! There's something to be said about "If it ain't broken, don't fix it", but being an upgrade whore, I'd flash it the minute it was out anyway :shake: But as I've said elsewhere, this BIOS has solved all my troubles with memory, and has allowed me to clock beyond 10x220. I'm running at a conservative 10x250 2.5-2-2-7 now, though I seem to need 1.70v for 2.4Ghz and up :sad:

Yes! The 310 BIOS solved my problems with the Ballistix. Memtest all night at 2-8V, 200Mhz, 2-2-2-7 = NO ERRORS :cool: While this should be no big feat, I was unable to even boot at these timings on 2/17, 2/18 BIOS - not to mention 1/25. It seems this board has come out of public beta test, and entered production. Thx Mr. Wu

This'll mean another sleepless night fiddling with BIOS settings :shake: I wonder which one will whip my Ballistix into shape?

My system is somewhat more willing to boot at overclocked settings when PCI-E is set at 105MHz as suggested by RGone. This was one of the last things I would have tried myself, so I'm really happy for that hint.