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E2160 only 2.25Ghz?

I would recommend trying the BSEL mod for that board. I have a similar board (AsRock Conroe1333-667, 945 chipset), in which my L2 E2160 would only fire up at 233 or thereabouts. I knew it would go higher as it used to do 280+ stable from BIOS on my old Asrock Dual-VSTA board. Anyway...
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- Post #11
- Feb 11, 2008
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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what's a good overclock utility

Familiarity, small footprint (if you can bear leaving it running in the background, that is.. ;) ) , and it gives you some nice monitoring/reg tweak options too.
- Lozzo
- Post #15
- Feb 4, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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what's a good overclock utility

Rivatuner. Set clocks, then close program. Ok, means you have to fire up Rivatuner every time you wish to bump your clocks up, but that's how I do it here. Leave the card stock for when I'm just fiddling about, and then bump the clock up for gaming.
- Lozzo
- Post #9
- Feb 3, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Computer won't stay on long

Heh. Well, if you have any thermal paste left, I'd try cleaning and reseating the heatsink. Make sure the 4 pushpins are clicking into place comfortably. They can be a right pain in the neck to get right sometimes, especially when the board is mounted in the case, with the way the board...
- Lozzo
- Post #8
- Jan 21, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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Computer won't stay on long

I doubt anything is fried. If it is shutting down due to thermal over load, it's doing it's job by throwing it's hand in and switching off *before* anything starts to fry, so you should be OK. I see no reason why the CPU temp monitor should be out by any degree, so those high temps do suggest...
- Lozzo
- Post #6
- Jan 21, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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USB storage drive constantly reconnecting

Fair enough, that rules out power issues then! Can you not "rollback" the driver in device manager?
- Lozzo
- Post #12
- Jan 21, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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Computer won't stay on long

74C? Wow. First thing I would check is the CPU heatsink & fan assembly. Check it's sitting nice and flush, and that the thermal pad/paste is OK.
- Lozzo
- Post #4
- Jan 21, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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USB storage drive constantly reconnecting

I'd suggest the USB ports in your new computer have not got quite enough grunt, powerwise, to power your external drive. Have you got the option to plug an external PSU to your external drive? If so, try that and see if that clears it up. Not all USB ports are created equal, y'see. Some...
- Lozzo
- Post #9
- Jan 21, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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ide controller card not being recognized

I had this problem with my 0680. All devices shown at boot. I could F11 boot select my drives and start up with them if I liked... Weird thing was, it would show a single IDE drive in XP with the driver (quite an old one, 2003 or 2004 I seem to recall at the time) from Windows Update, but...
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- Post #2
- Jan 16, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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Showing " loading details" instead of the Windows XP loading screen

Add the switch "/SOS" to your Boot.ini file. Example. multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /SOS
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- Post #2
- Jan 16, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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My experience with Hackintosh

Mornin' all! Leopard 10.5.1 running happily on my system, dual-booting alongside my XP Pro HDD. First, system specs for my 'puter. (The Ubercheepniz Analytical Engine Mk.VII) CPU E2160 BSEL modded and OC'ed to 2.7Ghz (300FSB. Will go a fair bit higher, but not happy with the temps using...
- Lozzo
- Post #100
- Jan 16, 2008
- Forum: Apple
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Any motorcycle riders?

Pah! I'll take your K1 and raise you a 76' CB550F *and* a '79 CX500Z. :P
- Lozzo
- Post #33
- Jan 12, 2008
- Forum: The Garage
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Conroe 1333-D667 overclocking confirmed!

Another heads up for this board, combined with an E2160 L2 stepping. I used to have a VIA chipset Asrock 4CoreDual-VSTA. With the VSTA, I was able to get up to 290FSB from BIOS, although things did go a little shaky now and again. This, combined with an AGP 7600GS. I ended up settling on...
- Lozzo
- Post #10
- Nov 23, 2007
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Bables : Sounds like your BIOS/CMOS settings are a bit screwy. Reset the CMOS by the jumpers on board, keep everything standard, flash BIOS to latest version (maybe best to do it the good old fashioned DOS way, rather than the windows BIOS update, considering the random flakiness you're...
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- Post #171
- Oct 7, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Mr Vain : Previous best was just over 300FSB I think, that was with the 1.4 BIOS that came with the board. However, things were a bit flakey but to be fair that was before I discovered the joys of fine-tuning the BIOS settings (everything was on Auto, just FSB and CPU Async set) for stability...
- Lozzo
- Post #165
- Oct 7, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

The E6750 is a 1333Mhz FSB CPU, and this board is only certified for 1066FSB, so obviously it will not run a 1333Mhz CPU at its rated speed anyway. Regarding the setFSB utility. There is a thread on this board somewhere relating to this util and the Asrock boards elsewhere. Anyway...
- Lozzo
- Post #162
- Oct 7, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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AGP Mobo + CPU + Memory needed for £300

If you do want to go the Asrock way (As I did, upgrading from my old XP3200 system in nice, cheap bitesize steps), and don't mind a mild overclock, the AsRock 4CoreDual board does not seem to be too bad. Anyway, prices.. AsRock board, from OverclockersUK...
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- Post #4
- Oct 1, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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Front audio connector

Looks like you're stuck with AC97. No fear, the only difference that I notice is the lack of auto-sense. My BIOS allows me to enable/disable the front audio header, and all I have to do to then use the AC97 connections on my chassis to the HDAudio header on my m/b is tick "Disable front panel...
- Lozzo
- Post #3
- Sep 30, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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New FSB Tool for Asrock 775/4Core-Dual-VSTA and -SATA2

Another heads up. With my 4Core-Dual VSTA, I need to choose the RTM866-485 PLL in order for the FSB to be read correctly. Anyway, that got me up to a stable (well, only tested it for a few minutes for fear of corrupting my HDD, even though it shows PCI bus being kept at 33.3Mhz..) 320Mhz...
- Lozzo
- Post #2
- Sep 30, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

AFAIR, the Q6600 runs at a 266FSB, so sounds like he is just trying to get the CPU to run at its rated speed. Anyway, with the G0 stepping being a fairly new stepping, I can only suggest updating the BIOS to 1.80 at least (1.80 or above being what ASRock specify for that CPU). 2.00 being...
- Lozzo
- Post #736
- Sep 12, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

I've had no problems with the PCI/PCIE sync issue myself as yet, I was more curious about the apparent lack of lock reported by Sisoft Sandra. My main concern was that, if I move to a PCIE video card, I might run into some problems. My video card move. Friend 1 has a PCIE 7600GT factory...
- Lozzo
- Post #732
- Sep 9, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

They never told me which bios, although I did ask in an earlier email is it possible that the PCI/PCIE lock is borked in any particular bios versions. Currently using 1.80 here. Not had the time or inclination to flash to 2.00. My board did originally have 1.40 when I got it, and I can't...
- Lozzo
- Post #708
- Aug 17, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

As my previous post, I raised this query with Asrock TSD who assured me that, according to their trusty oscilloscope, the PCIE frequency is indeed fixed. To put their reply to me into context, I sent a pic of my CPU config screen in BIOS, showing the FSB at 290, and the PCIE at 100 and PCI...
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- Post #701
- Aug 16, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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Used motorcycles and mileage

Mileage and bikes. How long is a piece of string? :) I've seen well thrashed bikes give out at 20k, I've seen well maintained ones go well over 100k. Saying that, some engines are more fragile than others. Anyone from the older set will remember the ol' Honda camchain woes, or the...
- Lozzo
- Post #22
- Aug 15, 2007
- Forum: The Garage
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ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

Morning folks! Well, the PCI/PCIE bus locking problem has been solved. After swapping a couple of emails and screengrabs with Asrock TSD, it appears that Sisoft Sandra does not read the PCI/PCIE bus speed correctly. To quote their reply to my last email.. Dear Sir, I saw the...
- Lozzo
- Post #697
- Aug 15, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

Chuckerp. You might as well try a mild overclock, these boards, and those chips, seem quite happy with it so long as you're sensible. Try 266Mhz FSB, that'll keep everything in sync and be sure to force your memory to DDR2/533 so it runs 1:1 with the FSB. I've a feeling that keeping a 1:1...
- Lozzo
- Post #694
- Aug 12, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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What was your favorite overclocking "era" and why?

486 DX2/50 @ 66Mhz :) Pentium 1 75 at 100Mhz And so it goes on. Faves was the Celery 300A@450, Coppermine 600Mhz at 800Mhz, would fire up at 1Ghz but the DFI Intel 810 chipset board I had at the time wouldn't lock the PCI bus so it would scramble the HDD every time. Athlon 1Ghz at...
- Lozzo
- Post #24
- Aug 9, 2007
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

I did try forcing the Hyperion driver in place of the standard Microsoft SP2 AGP one. VIA driver is named AGP 2.0/3.0, if I recall correctly as opposed to the Microsoft Via AGP driver. I did try all 3 versions that device manager would let me try, the first being the standard UAGP.sys M$...
- Lozzo
- Post #687
- Aug 8, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

Hi all! First post and all that, be gentle with me... :) As part of an uber*cheap*, long overdue upgrade I got my hands upon one of these boards. A week later, my supplier popped up with the SATA2 version mind, oh well, not to worry as part of the attraction was the ability to run all my 4...
- Lozzo
- Post #685
- Aug 7, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards

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