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[mascaras]

A ver se desta vez nao matas essa DS3



Abraço

sai-te

[Reflex1]

i cant even OC 1mhz with my DS4 ...im thinking its an incompatibility issue with my videocard or ram. and i dont have any other video or ram to test it with, the F4a bios doesnt fix it

[cliffy]

Got to ask cause i have never seen it mentioned before (although i cant be bothered to go back over this thread). Has any one noticed the extra IRQ options when pressing Ctrl F1?

[BottomsUp]

Got to ask cause i have never seen it mentioned before (although i cant be bothered to go back over this thread). Has any one noticed the extra IRQ options when pressing Ctrl F1?

yes

[aldamon]

Here's a funny bug in BIOS F4a for ya. For the last two weeks or so I've had a "cold boot" bug where my system would not cold boot when overclocked. Every time I tried, the boot would stop and I would see "BOOT DISK FAILURE blah blah blah" and then I'd hit reset and everything would be fine. Well, I experimented a bit and here's what I found out. I have a 150GB Raptor and a 250GB WD 2500KS drive. When both are plugged into yellow SATA slots, the motherboard ALWAYS thinks my 2500KS drive is the boot drive on a cold boot. Changing the boot order does nothing. The 2500KS drive is always in position one after a cold boot. So I plugged the 2500KS into a purple slot and kept the Raptor in yellow slot 1 and now everything is fine.

Here's the real kicker. In any BIOS past F4a, the BIOS though the boot failure was caused by the overclocking and would reset my BIOS instead of stopping with the BOOT DISK ERROR message. So now that I have my drives on separate controllers, I'm going to try the official F4 and see if I'm OK now.

Has anybody else encountered this? It's almost like the motherboard is automatically making the largest HDD the boot drive.

EDIT: I'm fine with BIOS F4 now. I'm going to keep my HDDs on separate controllers from now on.

[Lestat]

Got to ask cause i have never seen it mentioned before (although i cant be bothered to go back over this thread). Has any one noticed the extra IRQ options when pressing Ctrl F1?

yes but dont mess with them
its only for pci slots anyways.
it would come in handy if you had a sharing issue, say a sound card and the video card or something else.
you could move it to a different irq.


aldamoin -

thats a wierd issue. but have you checked the jumpers on your hard drives they BOTH MUST be masters...
as long as your raptor is in the first sata slot (the one closest to the video card. it will always boot as master unless the bios see's it as something other than master.
dont use cable select either. make both master.

[GAM]

Here's a funny bug in BIOS F4a for ya. For the last two weeks or so I've had a "cold boot" bug where my system would not cold boot when overclocked. Every time I tried, the boot would stop and I would see "BOOT DISK FAILURE blah blah blah" and then I'd hit reset and everything would be fine. Well, I experimented a bit and here's what I found out. I have a 150GB Raptor and a 250GB WD 2500KS drive. When both are plugged into yellow SATA slots, the motherboard ALWAYS thinks my 2500KS drive is the boot drive on a cold boot. Changing the boot order does nothing. The 2500KS drive is always in position one after a cold boot. So I plugged the 2500KS into a purple slot and kept the Raptor in yellow slot 1 and now everything is fine.

Here's the real kicker. In any BIOS past F4a, the BIOS though the boot failure was caused by the overclocking and would reset my BIOS instead of stopping with the BOOT DISK ERROR message. So now that I have my drives on separate controllers, I'm going to try the official F4 and see if I'm OK now.

Has anybody else encountered this? It's almost like the motherboard is automatically making the largest HDD the boot drive.

EDIT: I'm fine with BIOS F4 now. I'm going to keep my HDDs on separate controllers from now on.

After failing to boot from OC settings, isn't it resetting to your backup BIOS which may not specify the correct boot order?
If so, try setting modified default settings with no overclock and save it to your backup bios. Reboot and then overclock away. When it fails it should revert to the backup bios you saved.

[kenofstephen]

A ver se desta vez nao matas essa DS3



Abraço

@#!@$#%$^%&^^&^%&^%& ??

[aldamon]

After failing to boot from OC settings, isn't it resetting to your backup BIOS which may not specify the correct boot order?
If so, try setting modified default settings with no overclock and save it to your backup bios. Reboot and then overclock away. When it fails it should revert to the backup bios you saved.

I don't think so. If I go into the BIOS setup after a cold boot, the rest of my settings are not reset. Only the boot order is messed up. The rest of my settings are fine. You see, with F4a, the backup BIOS is never accessed. The boot sequence just stops and it displays BOOT DISK ERROR.

On the other hand, if I use F4e, something different happens. The F4e BIOS interprets the boot disk error as a failed overclock and resets my BIOS to the backup BIOS automatically. It does this without displaying BOOT DISK ERROR, which gave me a chance to reset and preserve my overclocked settings. That's why I was sticking with F4a. I could work around the problem with it.

This whole situation shows why I hate this automated BIOS reset. IMO, F4a handles my error correctly. It shows BOOT DISK FAILURE, which gives me a chance to diagnose the problem. It shouldn't just reset everything on its own. That doesn't help me figure out what's wrong!

Now, I'm on the official F4 BIOS and everything works fine if I use one purple jack and one yellow jack instead of two yellow jacks. I don't know if there's a noticeable performance difference between the jacks/controllers, but I seriously doubt it. The 2500KS is my storage HDD anyway.

[mascarilha]

hi , i received m Ds3 from RMA today , and with this new DS3 (F4 bios) and new 2x 1Gb Teamgroup PC 5300 CL3-4-4-8 i cant boot more than 340FSB .

anyone with this config can give me the best settings???


regards

[Lestat]

mascarilha-

you need to list your system specs and what settings you are using in the bios.

[mascarilha]

i think the problem its the teamgroup , with CL5 i can boot 350 FSB and with CL3 or CL4 i cant boot


this teamgroup 2x 1GB PC5300 should be CL3-4-4-8 but CPU-Z and everest read :

333mhz CL5-5-5-15 :





its the board that reads wrong????



regards

[Lestat]

manually set the timings in the bios to 4-4-4-12 and start overclocking set the ram voltage to +4 that equals 2.2v and will allow the ram to go 900+mhz @ 4-4-4-12.

as long as the northbridge is strong enough to allow it.

[mascarilha]

manually set the timings in the bios to 4-4-4-12 and start overclocking set the ram voltage to +4 that equals 2.2v and will allow the ram to go 900+mhz @ 4-4-4-12.

as long as the northbridge is strong enough to allow it.

but the ram are rated CL3-4-4-8 why CPU-z and everest reads 333mhz CL5-5-5-15???


i already tried 350x8 CL4-4-4-12@2.2v and dont boot only boot if i set 350x8 CL5-5-5-


regards

edit : flash back with F3 bios and clear cmos and boot with 390x8 CL4-4-4-12@2.0v and run SPI 1M


E6400@3120mhz@Vcore Default||2x1GB Teamgroup PC 5300 @390Mhz CL4-4-4-12@2.0v



regards

[PFOUR]

I have two Raptors in Raid0 on my DS3 on the Gigabyte controller.
If I try to boot over 460 Mhz Fsb My raid array fails.
If I increase PCIE Voltage .1V The problem goes away, Might be worth a try for you also.

Here's a funny bug in BIOS F4a for ya. For the last two weeks or so I've had a "cold boot" bug where my system would not cold boot when overclocked. Every time I tried, the boot would stop and I would see "BOOT DISK FAILURE blah blah blah" and then I'd hit reset and everything would be fine. Well, I experimented a bit and here's what I found out. I have a 150GB Raptor and a 250GB WD 2500KS drive. When both are plugged into yellow SATA slots, the motherboard ALWAYS thinks my 2500KS drive is the boot drive on a cold boot. Changing the boot order does nothing. The 2500KS drive is always in position one after a cold boot. So I plugged the 2500KS into a purple slot and kept the Raptor in yellow slot 1 and now everything is fine.

Here's the real kicker. In any BIOS past F4a, the BIOS though the boot failure was caused by the overclocking and would reset my BIOS instead of stopping with the BOOT DISK ERROR message. So now that I have my drives on separate controllers, I'm going to try the official F4 and see if I'm OK now.

Has anybody else encountered this? It's almost like the motherboard is automatically making the largest HDD the boot drive.

EDIT: I'm fine with BIOS F4 now. I'm going to keep my HDDs on separate controllers from now on.

[mascarilha]

E6400@3200mhz@1.36v||2x1GB Teamgroup PC 5300 @400Mhz CL4-4-4-12@2.0v






UPDATE:


E6400@3300mhz@1.42v||2x1GB Teamgroup PC 5300 @413Mhz CL4-4-4-12@2.0v




regards

[aldamon]

I have two Raptors in Raid0 on my DS3 on the Gigabyte controller.
If I try to boot over 460 Mhz Fsb My raid array fails.
If I increase PCIE Voltage .1V The problem goes away, Might be worth a try for you also.

Yeah, I've tried that. Nothing works but using one yellow jack and one purple jack. I'm just happy I can cold boot now I'm not one of those people who harps on a bug indefinitely. My solution works for me.

regards

Very interesting mascarilha. I get in the high 17s range @ 3150 and our memory timings are identical. Perhaps having such a low multiplier on the E6300 isn't so bad?

[mascarilha]

your RAM are the PC 5300 CL3-4-4-8 or CL3-3-3-8 (D9)????

what voltage you got to run 450mhz cl4-4-4-12???

my settings are:


vMCH - AUTO
Vcore - 3100Mhz@NORMAL // 3200Mhz@ 1.37v
Vdim - 2.0v(+0.2)
PCI - 100

regards

[aldamon]

your RAM are the PC 5300 CL3-4-4-8 or CL3-3-3-8 (D9)????

My sticks have D9GMH chips inside. Just like every other stick with D9, their speed rating is irrelevant. My CPU craps out long before my RAM.

[mascarilha]

My sticks have D9GMH chips inside. Just like every other stick with D9, their speed rating is irrelevant. My CPU craps out long before my RAM.

i know speed rating is irrelevant if the RAM have same chips but teamgroup PC 5300 CL3-3-3-8 have D9 chips and Teamgroup PC5300 CL3-4-4-4-8 have Elpidia chips.


regards

[mach82]

i know speed rating is irrelevant if the RAM have same chips but teamgroup PC 5300 CL3-3-3-8 have D9 chips and Teamgroup PC5300 CL3-4-4-4-8 have Elpidia chips.
regards

Teamgroup 3-4-4-x is D9GMH, not elpida

[mascarilha]

Teamgroup 3-4-4-x is D9GMH, not elpida

where i bought my 2x 1GB Teamgroup they say that PC 5300 CL3-4-4-8 (217$) have Elpidia chips and the CL3-3-3-8 (270$) have Micron D9

regards

[LordShadow]

For any users with a DS4.
I have just tried the F4a BIOS and cannot get as high a stable OC as with the F3 so I wouldnt bother trying it.

[TheMeatFrog]

My team DDRII




Results on DS3


These booted no problem for me at 1.8v

[aldamon]

where i bought my 2x 1GB Teamgroup they say that PC 5300 CL3-4-4-8 (217$) have Elpidia chips and the CL3-3-3-8 (270$) have Micron D9

regards

They're wrong. All of the Team Group is D9. My PC2-5300 3-4-4-8 set came with no heatspreaders and it's D9.