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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Well, I think 246fsb is the max I can go. I've been playing lots of DoD:S and Crysis (its playable, but at medium settings it doesnt look as good as it could, but damn is it fun). Temps are a little on the high side, but so far no crashes or weird glitches that I've noticed. But 2.2ghz is my...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,683
- Aug 8, 2008
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Weird. So I gave OCing another try today. I set FSB to 246 and ram to 4-4-4-12. Still not terribly stable (XP wouldnt crash, but certain apps/games would act funny). I changed timings one by one, i.e. 5-4-4-12, 5-5-4-12, etc. No difference. One game that is pretty reliable in telling me whether...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,677
- Aug 7, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Hmm. So if I do the BSEL mod, the CPU will go to 2.4ghz without issue? I've read a little about it, and it doesn't seem that hard to do. I'm just worried that I'll screw it up and lose the CPU. I could give it a try if it'll give me stable 2.4ghz which I could definetly live with. But why the...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,671
- Aug 3, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

"Also keep the memory @ 1:1 with the CPU, this board takes a nice hit with a 4:5 ratio when using DDR2. I tested it with Sandra and it's true what people have said about that. " See thats another thing. How do I get 1:1? Is it possible my unstable OCing can be fixed if only I got it to 1:1?
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,669
- Aug 3, 2008
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Are my overclocking woes memory related though? If I got some better OCing Ram would I have an easier time? I mean I'd love to have 2.3 or even 2.4ghz if I could get it stable. 246fsb ok until I try to use my gamepad that freezes. Otherwise it seems ok. Does anyone know why the USB gamepad would...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,666
- Aug 3, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Well while 246fsb seems to be stable, the temps get too hot. I ran Orthos for 40 minutes and it was reaching almost 67c on the core. I have to reseat the HSF probly because that doesnt sound right. Also, I found out while playing GTR2 that my Xbox 360 gamepad would lock up after a few seconds of...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,664
- Aug 3, 2008
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Well I think I cant go any further with this overclock. 250fsb is too unstable. I tried setting Voltage to High, but I cant get past BIOS screen. FSB around 246 seems ok. I tried playing around with skew but no matter what nothing seems to change for the better. I guess my RAM just isnt up to...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,656
- Aug 2, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Ok, so I got 4-4-4-12 entered manually, and I changed tRRD etc to 2t. I bumped it up to 230fsb, and it seems stable for the time being. I ran my DoD:S benchmark, no crashes. Ran orthos for about 15 minutes and no crashes (I know not enough time, but usually if I enter an FSB higher than 229 it...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,653
- Aug 2, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

"Try 533 strap on the ram" So set it to DDR2533? Thats what its set to already. I tried 230fsb but the system will not post, nor will it go any higher than that. "Set the ram timings manually to 4-4-4-12" See, thats the thing that confuses me. There are so many damn options in the...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,651
- Aug 2, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Its AData DDR2800 ram. By default its set to 667, and I leave everything else in Auto. When I try 220mhz with 667, I get reboots/bsods. When I bump it down to 533, it seems to be stable. I just want to get to 2.3 or 2.4 as easily as possible. I cant even get close to 2.1 though, and I have...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,649
- Aug 1, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Well I installed an E4300, after cleaning the system throughly of dust etc. At default speed, everything runs normal. Virtually no difference in terms of performance in games like DoD:S. However, my Hackintosh did bootup almost twice as fast and ran even better than it did before. Note I'm using...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,646
- Aug 1, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

So after many months of waiting and watching on ebay, I scored an Intel C2D E4300 for $75 total. I've read that this is a particularly good CPU for OCing, kinda like the Celeron 300a was given the overclocks I'm seeing from others (3.0ghz+ from 1.80ghz stock). Also, its supposed to be easy to...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,634
- Jul 27, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

I tried searching but either no one has touched this subject or search isnt working. I'm thinking of putting OSX on my PC. My Specs: 4coreDual Sata2, P4 2.8ghz, 2gb DDR2800, BFGTech 7950gt OC (PCI-e, 256mb), Audigy2, 1 IDE drive, 1 IDE DVDRW, Zonet USB2/Firewire adapter card. I've read on...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,475
- Jun 4, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

"I definitely did not Load any SATA drivers during XP installation " If you didnt intall the drivers during install, and its not a custom XP cd with drivers slipstreamed in, then its not running in SATA mode. I didnt install any drivers during XP and my SATA drive worked fine but it was in...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,312
- Apr 5, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Yeah I hope I didnt speak too soon, I forgot to run Memtest last night (was downloading Steam and all my games). I'll do so tonight, but the system has been up for 2 days now and no errors at all so thats promising.
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,307
- Apr 4, 2008
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

I wanted to run Dariks Boot and Nuke to wipe my 500gb SATA2 HD before I return it to BB. However, it fails, probly because it cant see the drive. When I turn Raid on in BIOS, it still fails. I tried all the disk wipe utils and they dont detect the HD. I burned the beta version of DBAN and still...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,299
- Apr 4, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

"Enter the timings manually, 4-4-4-12 to start at 533fsb and run memtest. If fine set to 3-3-3-9 and rerun memtest." Is 533 Stock/Standard? Why do I need to enter 3-3-3-9 again if 4-4-4-12 works?
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,273
- Mar 31, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Well I dont do any overclocking (P4 Precott here, I might be brave with OC when I replace it with a C2D later on). I just want something thats very stable and reliable. I'm reading good stuff about Adata, specifically this pair on Newegg. I sent my RMA ticket but its going to take at least a...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,269
- Mar 31, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Is it ok to get faster RAM for this mobo, or do I have to limit myself to DDR2667? I dont overclock, but after all my ram troubles I want the best ram I can get for under $50. What about voltages? Do I have to stick to 1.8v?
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,264
- Mar 31, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Well I think I found the issue, its either the RAM itself, or the memory controller on the mobo. I replaced the Kingston with 2 256mb sticks of Crucial DDR1. I booted into XP, and installed GTLegends without errors at all. Installed Farcry, another game that would fail, and that installed too. I...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,256
- Mar 30, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

I tried upping voltage to High as per suggestion from someone else on a forum. That made my system unbootable. I had to clear CMOS to get back in. I've been wondering why when I set BIOS to auto for ram settings, it doesnt select 667, instead it selects 533? I know it takes info from the SPD...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,253
- Mar 30, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Yeah. 2 different IDE cables, and Im using the SATA cables that the mobo comes with. My system boots so fast I didnt see that Ctrl-z option. I have be fast on the trigger just to get into BIOS. Well anyway I just rebooted from another BSOD. This time an 8x00000E. I was just surfing youtube...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,249
- Mar 30, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Its just frustrating as you all know. I've built all my computers since 97, and I've never had such problems. I want to exhaust every option because an RMA would be such a PITA. This Asrock has everything I need, 4 PCI slots, DDR2667, AGP and PCIe hence why I got it. There really isnt an another...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,247
- Mar 30, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

I had RAID distabled, installed XP Sp2 fine without errors without having to use the floppy. If I go into BIOS now and turn on RAID, my HD isnt detected in BIOS. If its not detected by BIOS when RAID is enabled, what am I doing wrong? On my old comp, I made an image of GTR2 from my CDs, and...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,244
- Mar 29, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Quick question: Do I need SATA drivers during XP install on a Sata drive? I've never used SATA before. I made a custom XP cd using nLite but I'm wondering since I dont have a floppy drive (I have old one I can gut from another system) if the mobo will recognize it during setup? It'll just be a...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,239
- Mar 28, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Well thats it, it killed my HD, or either my HD committed suicide. Thought I had things figured out. I formatted the remaining space on my HD in Computer Management via Logical Disk Manager. Left to take a break, a few hours later came back and LDM said it was unable to format cleanly or...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,226
- Mar 28, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

Yes, all drivers installed. The card is setup properly. There are no artifacts anywhere else, just during the boot screen. Sometimes its fine, other times its really stretched. Only seemed to happen after I installed SP2.
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,225
- Mar 27, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

I know, I just didnt install it to see if it was a problem with VIA drivers themselves. Anyway I put in my old HD that still had XP installed from the old system and put it in the new rig. Aside from the million "new hardware found" pop ups I got I was able to install GTLegends just fine. No...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,223
- Mar 27, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

I reformatted, reinstalled XP and SP2. I have not installed the VIA Hyperion drivers. I did disable Hyperthreading before installing XP. I downloaded SP2 previously and when I tried to install it gave me a file corrupt error. I had to redownload it and it worked on the second try. I tried...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,220
- Mar 27, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

The mobo came yesterday and I installed everything. It has a P4 Prescott 2.8ghz (non-oc'd), 2gb of Kingston Value Ram @ DDR2667 dual channel, 1 Maxtor 200gb ATA133 HD, NEC 3520AW DVD-RW. HD is on IDE1 Primary, DVDRW is on IDE2 Secondary, both masters. I did a fresh install of XP Pro with Sp2...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,210
- Mar 26, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2

I just ordered this mobo from Newegg a few days ago. I have an OEM P4 2.8ghz Prescott and a new Intel C2D HSF that I found for uber cheap on eBay. I also have 2x1gb sticks of DDR2 667 Kingston Value Ram. The video card I have is a PNY 6800gt AGP. I'm just wondering if I need to install the...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,175
- Mar 21, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

Hello all. I'm wondering if the issues with XP Service Pack 2 and Prescott P4 are resolved on this mobo? Apparently Sp2 would lock up systems on P4 Prescotts (mine is a 2.8ghz) due to some microcode and outdated BIOS. Since this problem appeared when SP2 was released (4 years ago or so), I'm...
- The Fedex Pope
- Post #1,646
- Mar 9, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards

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