Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 + ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA + ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

[Roosteyr]

Hey All

Would love some help on this. First here is what I'm running.

ASRock 775Dual-VSTA Bios 3.19a
Intel Pentium D 930
Radeon HD 4650 agp
1x2gb DD2 5300
OS Windows 7
Ok so my mobo doesn't seem to detect my card. I don't understand this because I flashed bios that should support it (http://www.pctreiber.net/forum/intel_mainboards/support_asrock_775dualvsta_bios_3.19a_11845.0.html). I did this from windows following directions found on the pctreiber site (directions were painless besides translating them from German). When I looked in device manager for my card all I found was "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter". It show the status of this adapter as "PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0". If I try to instal video drivers nothing happens because it cannot detect the card. I'm not sure what else to do at this point because it should be working. I'm going to update the mobo drivers again but I'm running out of ideas. Any help would be awesome.

-CC

 

[Roosteyr]

Updating All mobo drivers seems to have done nothing.

-CC

 

[Roosteyr]

BTW, thanks to everyone else that has been posting in this forum. What I have read has been really helpful. Unfortunately though I'm still stuck were started. This is everything that I have done so far. If I'm missing something please chime in.

*updated mobo bios to 3.19a (http://www.pctreiber.net/forum/intel_mainboards/support_asrock_775dualvsta_bios_3.19a_11845.0.html)

*in bios enabled agp as primary video slot

*updated latest mobo drivers (http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=775Dual-VSTA&o=All)

*installed latest ati hd 4650 drivers

Really not sure what else to do. I may try using an old gforce 9500GT I have but it is pcie and from what I've read they are even more iffy with this board.

Any suggestions?

 

[Roosteyr]

BTW, used winflasher 4.40 from pctreiber.net to flash bios in windows. My bios show up as 3.19a so I'm pretty sure I flashed them correctly.

 

[tcsenter]

Are you using the AGP Hotfix version of the ATI/AMD drivers?

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/CatalystAGPHotfix.aspx

 

[ozymandious]

Hi,
Nice Thread!

I'm looking at getting the Asrock 4coredual sata2 Rev 1
I'm thinking about getting to go with it this memory:
G.Skill PI Black F2-6400CL4D-4GBPI-B Dual Channel - Memory - 4 GB : 2 x 2 GB - DIMM 240-pin - DDR2 - 800 MHz / PC2-6400 - CL4 - 1.8 - 1.9 V - unbuffered - non-ECC

Anyone have this type of memory working properly on this board?

Also I currently have AGP card Gainward 7800gs+ and i wanted to check to see if anyone had the same working on this board?

The reason i'm thinking about getting the Rev1 is only because i cant find a rev2 anywhere for purchase at the moment and the difference seems fairly minimal.
BTW I'm looking at getting the Q6600 as well.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

=)

 

[tcsenter]

Also I currently have AGP card Gainward 7800gs+ and i wanted to check to see if anyone had the same working on this board?

As long as you're using Windows XP and not Vista or 7, it should be fine. NVIDIA display drivers for Vista and 7 have problems with AGP products on this VIA chipset:

http://www.asrock.com/support/qa/TSDQA-59.pdf

 

[ozymandious]

Thanks, I figured the GFX card would be okay and i will be using XP.

My main concern is getting working memory =)

 

[Roosteyr]

Thanks tcsenter. I tried this and now my computer can recognize my 4650. Problem is on startup I get this message from the catalyst control center.

"No AMD graphics driver is installed, or the AMD driver is not functioning properly. Please instal the AMD driver appropriate for your AMD hardware"


Any idea what this is about? I tried to instal latest drivers again "not the hot fix" and even the ones that came with the 4650 but still nothing. Device manager reports the status of my card as

"Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)".

Any bios setting that I should be aware of? I made sure my AGP slot was selected as my primary video adapter.

Thanks
-CC

 

[tcsenter]

Is this running Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit?

 

[Roosteyr]

Windows 7 32 bit.

 

[Roosteyr]

I also have a copy of 32 bit XP, but I would need to reinstall it.

 

[tcsenter]

I would try the GeForce 9500 GT. There shouldn't be any problems with it like the AGP boards.

 

[Roosteyr]

Well I suppose running an old card is better than running none at all. Thanks for the help. Hopefully you're right about the 9500.

 

[Roosteyr]

Well got the 9500 GT working. Still a little sad to have to down grade from the HD 4650. If anyone thinks I might be over looking something please chime in. Thanks again for the help and advice tcsenter.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Well got the 9500 GT working. Still a little sad to have to down grade from the HD 4650. If anyone thinks I might be over looking something please chime in. Thanks again for the help and advice tcsenter.

Perhaps try installing an older Omega driver?

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Or try AMD drivers earlier than Cat 10.x. Good luck.

http://www.&#37;3Cb>omegadrivers</b>

 

[tcbdz]

Hello all,

I recently acquired a 4coredual-vsta motherboard from ebay and I used it to upgrade my 9-year old desktop - unfortunately I hit a snag during the upgrade and now my computer seems to be unusable. I googled for any clues concerning my problem and while I do get a lot of information, I can't make sense of it all so I am coming to you guys here at AnandTech in the hopes that you guys who seem to be very knowledgeable about the board know more clearly what my problem is and help me see the light of it all as it were.

My problem is to put it simply my computer refuses to start. I had gotten the board and a new processor to accompany it and installed and plugged everything in it today. When I turn on the motherboard, the BIOS loads fine and POST does as well. After I set the system time and set the boot order to floppy, then cd, then hard disk, the windows 7 preinstalled in the hard disk does not start. I see a blank screen with bios code 00B1 on the left-hand lower corner then I see a blank screen with a cursor on top, blinking... and it stays there. After a few seconds there is a beep, but that is about it.

Knowing that windows does not like having it's motherboard swept under it, I tried to boot with the windows 7 disk, but the same thing happens.

So the BIOS works fine, all the hardware seems to be recognized, but windows refuses to start... and I can't figure out why.

Now I have to admit: there might be hardware issues - I made the foolish decision to purchase a CPU that is unsupported (Core 2 Quad Q8600) and I also have a video card that is apparently hard to work with (HIS Radeon HD 4670), but I do get video feed (there is no blank screen with nothing) and the BIOS does recognize that there is a CPU there. So I am left with this conundrum.

Here are the specs of the computer in full:

ASRock 4coredual-vsta Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8600 2.66ghz (the bios recognizes it as a 1.99ghz intel processor)
BIOS is v2.0
HIS Radeon HD 4670 AGP 8x
Matrox ATA 80gb HD
1 Ghz of Patriot DDR ram
Power supply is 550 watts

So please help. I have (seemingly) googled and read everything that I could find and I can't seem to find anything that approaches what I am facing. Any tidbit or advice or insight is greatly appreciated. Thanks again for reading and have a great day.

 

[Hlafordlaes]

@tcbdc,

You will need to get a compatible processor. These boards will not boot at the base clock for the E8600: 333Mhz. You will need to get one listed on the ASRock site for the board; after upgrading the BIOS (see earlier in this thread), you can also use a few more recent processors, altho never the E8600.

Don't have ATI; as I recall the drivers often need a hotfix for AGP. See earlier in this thread.

Hlaf

 

[odinodin]

I am running:

E5500(2.8 Ghz) at 3.50 Ghz 250 fsb - 1000 mhz
2 GB of DDR 2 - 4-5-5-15
Radeon 5750 HD
775Dual-VSTA
3.19a
450 Watt Psu
Windows XP 32 bit SP3

No problem whatsoever. The 5750 worked with the 3.10 asrock bios for whatever reason. Also the E5500 worked with the 3.10 bios from asrock - it would post in bios as 12.6 Ghz lol. I am using whatever the latest drivers off Asrock are, which may or may not be 5.7. What ever I have going though seems to be perfectly stable.

EDIT:

I checked the website and I am indeed running these via chipset drivers (5.07):

http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=775Dual-VSTA&o=XP

A few things I've picked up here:
-You cant use 333 fsb chips
-57xx and 48xx will work with 3.19a
-From what I've experienced 3.10 will boot with the E5500 and will run the 5750 HD
-I wont even bother with 4gbs of ram
-PCI E 4x (1000mb/s effective) only limits performance ~15&#37;,
-(less sure of this but) people with 57xx HD on these mobos dint get much more performance than the AGP 3850 HD(may be wrong model number)

Tutorial for flashing to 3.19a for the dual vista

Get the bios from: http://www.pctreiber.net/forum/intel_mainboards/support_asrock_775dualvsta_bios_3.19a_11845.0.html

Grab the flahser from:
http://www.pctreiber.net/forum/downloads/support_asrock_winflasher_4.40_277.0.html

Run the flasher and tick the options so its looks like whats indicated in these instructions: http://www.ecs.com.tw/extra/flashutl/afuwin.pdf

Just ignore all the stuff that doesnt apply if your using xp and just scroll down until you see the image of the options (the tab labeled setup). Copy what it looks like. Tick program all blocks. Tick destroy cmos checksum. Make sure restart after programming is unticked.

Make sure all applications are closed when you run the flasher. Then just click open - set to all files because the bios your going to load isnt in rom format it will say .19a just because it has no extension, it should be 75DVSTA3.19a

Then just click flash. Then manually restart and voila.

 

[ozymandious]

I took the plunge:

Asrock 4coredual sata rev1
Q6600
G.Skill PI 2x2gb 4/4/4/12@1.85v
Gainward 7800GS+
Audiophile 24/96 sound card
550w Corsair PSU

Okay, so updated BIOS to 2.20a. Memory shows up all good.
Set Memory Volatge to low and 333mhz 4/4/4/12

Disabled the two PCIe settings in BIOS bellow memory voltage

Had to make a fresh OS install because of either NIC or Chipset drivers from last install which would cause XP to crash even in safe mode. A little frustrating but not the end of the world...

So with fresh install XP with SP3
I installed most recent via drivers from asrock website (not bios done this already)

Installed .net 1.1 + updates and .net 2
Installed Soundcard drivers

At this point all is okay...

Then i tried to install the latest Nvidea gfx card drivers and I get BSOD at the end of the install, Uninstalled, cleaned and installed in Safemode, they install... rebooted
..but get 'no signal' just before the point of logon (or just before)

I also tried the older version of the drivers that I was using previously and still have the problem.

Any voltage or other setting in bios that i might need to fix?

Any ideas???


Thanks

 

[Hlafordlaes]

@ozymandius,

I'd update the VIA chipset drivers to version 5.17A (archive, not latest), as recommended by moderators (Chris) on VIA forums. Use Driver Sweeper to totally uninstall NVidia drivers and try again with a version known to be good with the 7800GS; wouldn't be surprised if the old 91.47's worked best.

-Hlaf.

 

[jayfontaine1]

Hi everyone!

I'm new here but been playing with the 775DUAL-VSTA a long time ( on and off ).

present ASRock build:

ASRock 775DUAL-VSTA, no board mods ( yet ).
3.19a BIOS
Windows XP Pro, SP3
E5800 cpu, pin mod @ 4.197GHz
H50 Corsair water cooling ( second best investment for this board! )
4GB PC5300 RAM ( using ram drive to max out ram usage )
HD4850, PCIe 512mb video card using SORB gpu cooler
X1950 Pro, AGP 512mb video card using Thermalright "Spitfire" gpu cooler
XPlosion 7.1 sound card through an old DDT-2500 sound system
generic 5 port usb pci card
Pinnacle "Callista 7.0" analog capture card
Dell (Hentek) 850W PS (1st best investment for this rig!) and, yes it was needed!

Before you say "to much on old board", most was of spare parts laying around my shop, also, 18,223 Mark5 and 11,501 Mark6 ain't to shabby!

Will be posting pics soon and, yes, it looks like "10lbs in a 5lb bag" and wiring looks like "an explosion in a spaghetti factory" , but, hey, this is an ever-evolving "toy" (wife made me sell my hot-rods so gotta get my speed fix some how!).

That's all for now, will post pics soon!

Regards,
Jay F.
Wisconsin

 

[Hlafordlaes]

Lookin' forward to more, Jay!

 

[schi0249]

I was refered to this post in my recent posting. I am looking to upgrade the processor and put this machine in my sons room as a whole new PC is not in the budget. I am not planning on OC it. One of the games he wants recommends (not requires) an Intel C2D 2.4 GHz. As long as I stick with an 800 or 1066 fsb chip, ehat is the best Wolfdale core processors that will run ok?

Current setup
Asrock 775dual VSTA w/ 3.19a beta bios
2 GB DDR II
P4 3.4 ghz
Windows XP
Radeon HD 4600

 

[alan1812]

http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-ASRock/775Dual-VSTA.html