I recently used DUET to boot Win10 from a PCIex4 card on an Intel 965 chipset LGA775 motherboard with a legacy BIOS and no EFI. It gets close to the rated 2 GB/s one would expect for PCI 2.0. Woot! Very nice for a motherboard whose SATA tops out at level II, and IDE at 130MB/s. Then, greedly, I...
Hello there,
Link to all my 4Core stuff. Cannot remember much, but I guess one of the flash tools in there ought to do the job (if you are still looking one year later). If not, hang on, because believe it or not....
* I just bought a 4CoreDual-SATA2 R2.0 for my Retro Gaming 2 rig for Win98SE...
After extensive testing, it is clear my dear 4CoreDual-VSTA is dead. The reason is that I swapped in an HIS HD 4670 IceQ AGP card that I bought off eBay and which was not giving me any signal on the board it was intended for, my ASRock 775i65G. Both boards were fried by the card! The HIS card...
I have my 4Core temporarily mothballed and am now on an X99 Extreme6. Of course there are some amazing differences, but I continue to be impressed by the performance and longevity of these boards. After all, this thread was started in 2009 to keep the boards 'alive,' as they were already long in...
If you need AGP, the Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 is the best among the boards in this thread. It is no longer listed by ASRock, but by searching you should be able to find one for sale. The only AGP board still actively sold by ASRock I could possibly suggest is the 775i65g v3.0, but that is a DDR1...
As for the advanced age of this thread, it speaks to the great results from this series of PT880 boards. Mine allowed me to transition to Core2 at a minimum investment, and then make small improvements. Made it to 2014 with a fantastic, smooth Win7 running fine, and with gaming still enjoyable...
The pics in the linked articles are all I have as reference. I'd try appealing directly on the VR-Zone forums if you can't find something.
The board is designed for 1066, not 1333, and officially does not support that. The best overclocks, however, have reached 340 FSB and above, but always...
I've heard of cards as late as the HD6850 working if you are on the latest pc-treiber BIOS (search this thread). Don't know about that particular NVidia card; the 8800GT was not PCIe 1.1 backward compatible and didn't work, but to my knowledge, later cards work.
I use a 460 GT...
See here for the right guide, which is actually for the 775dual-vsta. Follow the link. There are still links with pictures of solder points.
Good luck with that CPU. Pls report back any results, but note that achieving a high FSB on this board is notably difficult.
@Deleauvive,
Found this small thread seemingly reporting the same issue on one version of these boards, though which is not identified.
The responder providing support seems to think there is an issue with the PSU 5v output. Have you checked your voltage reads in the BIOS or from Windows with...
VIA IDE/SATA Driver, Win7x64 or x86
Forgot to mention. After testing for stability, the best drivers are those provided by MS. If you try the newer Hyperion (2.70a iirc), you also get the hot-plug feature that, at least for my 4Core, is big trouble. It did not pass verifier.exe driver...
Hope you enjoy, guys. Haven't used it for a while, too busy. On the Apollo Pro I used it to find a setting for flushing HD that was getting set wrong in the driver, and upped disk performance a lot. For this chipset, confess I've played around, but have been a bit busy, so no pointers unless I...
If anyone is interested in exploring BIOS settings post-boot, here is a handy tool. Works best if you have a copy of the PT880 datasheets, but those you'll need to request from VIA.
Been tweaking with tools like this since the Apollo Pro chipset. Handy.
PS - Allows you to tweak things not even...
denis747,
Some newer cards require support in the BIOS, others may not be PCIe 1.0 backwards compatible. Either may be the case here.
Make sure PCIe downstream pipelining, and similar settings just below are off in the BIOS, and try again. And vice-versa. Only option is to play around with...
flimsy,
Here is a link to some files in my GDrive, all related to the 2.39a and flashing tools. Follow instructions in WinFlash4.22Usage.txt. NEVER choose the option to flash the boot blocks.
Hlaf.
IIRC that would result in bad checksum errors at boot time if it were the case, so unless one sees that msg, and the system boots, the BIOS image is OK.
I use the Win7 default drivers. No need to install chipset drivers in either x86 or x64 Win7 setups.
Here is what I'd do:
-Clear CMOS
-Set BIOS to defaults, reboot
-Set BIOS to settings used in this thread and appropriate to your setup, reboot
-Full re-install of Windows 7
That ought to give...
I have the mission of setting up a simple web site, initially consisting of a few pages of information for customers, and a way to get in touch with the new company if the client is interested in our services. Eventually I wish to add programmed functionality, but I want to work in stages as I...
Hmmm. On the one hand, it sounds like a hardware issue, but on the other, perhaps you are not allowing the OS time to shut down?
For example, after Windows updates, which are commonly "happening" during the hours/days following an install, I sometimes have an extraordinarily long wait before...
For a review of standard BIOS settings, please see post #514 on p. 21. These are for the VSTA model, but are very similar to the other PT880 boards. Other major links for the PT880 boards are also in that post.
Note that in later settings, on the advice of other posters, I set CAS to 5...
Sorry to harp, but here is the best way to make a bootable USB Flash drive, adapted from the author's text in the link provided some posts above:
Step 0: Start with an empty USB Flash drive, or one that has files you don't need or have backed up.
Step 1: Plug the USB flash drive into your...
I find it best to set the machine to boot from the CD in the BIOS, let Win7 copy over the files on its first run, then when it reboots, go into the BIOS and set it to boot from the HD. This might help.
That is related to the ACPI vs Standard PC issue discussed earlier, and has to do with...
And here is the sure-fire method for setting up a thumb drive. Good for Win7x86 or x64.:cool:
If you can't get your optical drive working to copy your install DVD, you can download a legal copy of Win7 from MS and use your own key to install.
If you followed the instructions on the first site...
Not so much a bad move on MS's part as it is the reality of massively evolving memory devices and maintaining backward compatibility. At some point you move forward and sacrifice the latter. If you follow the link in my post above, it lays the issue out.
It sounds to me your disk might also...
There was an 8x.xx driver hack release that did allow SLI to run and be recognized, but did not give SLI benefits according to reports, on VR-Zone, I think it was (where all the volt mods are for these boards.) I think I have a copy somewhere. If I had a 7600GT PCIe I'd try it out, since I have...
Welcomest. We enthusiasts - especially those on tight budgets - are fond of our hardware.
FWIW, another ASRock (775i65G), which is somewhat similar to these boards, was giving me trouble on installing Win7.
Apparently, I had used some tools from WD (found on Hiren's BootCD) to not only zero...
Format a DOS floppy, checking the box to make it bootable and then immediately test to see if it can boot to DOS, with no tools on it. Repeat process until you have a fully working standard DOS boot floppy with nothing else on it.
Once OK, put the flash program, ASRflash.exe, and your target...
Install Win 7, See below.
Use ACPI for far better machine performance, forget Standard PC, trust me. So you need a re-install. So take advantage and go Win7.
I don't like flashing from Windows either, as there is other software "alive and kicking" when you flash; never a good idea. You...
Sounds like things are almost OK. Just go into Win using LKGC and see what happens. The HD is obviously now responding under Win, so now just need to make sure Windows is operating properly or would benefit from a re-install.
Use F2 to make your BIOS adjustments using this thread. There's a...
Don't have time to re-read latest posts, so may be repeating stuff.
After a BIOS flash, make sure you clear the CMOS by shorting out the two connectors found labeled CMOS on the mobo, with a little plastic bridge used for these things and which should have come with the mobo, or with a little...
@meanscotsman,
You may have varied the acpi/hard disk settings by changing the bios. If XP was set up in a different mode, you will have to re-install.
...
After my secondary hard disk died as reported earlier, I set about migrating the OS from the primary and older drive to the new...
Well, my old secondary drive (Maxtor IDE 160GB) just died, with lots of my gaming stuff on it. Thought it was my primary WD Black 640, since I couldn't boot, but just a scare.
However, the incident allowed my wife to give her blessing to a new toy, a WD Black 1TB. All my essentials, going back...
I don't recommend this. On first try, do not check boot block. See if it works first. You risk bricking the chip and having to replace it.
And if you do go this route, I'd do this from a bootable USB, and first make sure I can flash normally from there, while making a BIOS backup. Then flash as...
I'm in a rush, but I'd look at all the things adjusted in the past in the BIOS and ensure I am also requesting any improvement or update of these, such as vid card compatibility. IOW take full advantage of the last chance for fixes.
Just chiming in on Fast Write when using AGP: on the VSTA at least, I had no problems using that setting, with no effect on OCing. Earlier VIA chipsets, such as the Apollo Pro, were notorious for not supporting FW, but the PT880 seems OK.
Just saying that these boards are rather well known for the finicky 2nd DDR2 slot. With both brands of DDR2, unlike my initial DDR400, I had to go through all manner of re-seating the sticks and clearing the CMOS until I got them to work properly. Since your sticks are rated for 1.8v, there...
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