ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

[aussieburger]

Originally posted by: Kruiser
Cool Jon i was thinking of getting the 7800gs is it all that its emant to be ?

I have the 7800GS too ... great card but overpriced I think (you can get a much better pci-e card for the same price) ... also with DirectX10 cards around the corner you will soon need to lay out similar cash for another card. They're the negatives but the good news is it seems to be holding it's price value well (for resale) and it's very overclockable

 

[Jon Shannow]

Originally posted by: aussieburger

Originally posted by: Kruiser
Cool Jon i was thinking of getting the 7800gs is it all that its emant to be ?

I have the 7800GS too ... great card but overpriced I think (you can get a much better pci-e card for the same price) ... also with DirectX10 cards around the corner you will soon need to lay out similar cash for another card. They're the negatives but the good news is it seems to be holding it's price value well (for resale) and it's very overclockable

Resale - yes... definately. I got mine when I had no choice but go with AGP.. after seeing that new review posted back a bit makes me think, Hmmm.... maybe I will get myself a 7900GTX sometime.... seeing as yes, the price difference is not huge but with much better performance!

Anyone using Dual View here? Any issues? Seems the desktop performance slows down considerably for me...

 

[aussieburger]

Originally posted by: Jon Shannow
Anyone using Dual View here? Any issues? Seems the desktop performance slows down considerably for me...

Dual View yes (19" BenQ TFT & 19" CRT) - no problems with all 91.xx drivers i've tried so far

 

[Jon Shannow]

Originally posted by: aussieburger

Originally posted by: Jon Shannow
Anyone using Dual View here? Any issues? Seems the desktop performance slows down considerably for me...

Dual View yes (19" BenQ TFT & 19" CRT) - no problems with all 91.xx drivers i've tried so far

Yeah, I am on 91.47 I think... Just resizing windows lags between the monitors unlike in Single View, or to some extent Span mode. Tried loads of things and I cant get it to improve any. Worked fine and dandy on my old M/B. If I could get this fixed I would be one very happy bunny with this mobo.....

Any overclocking advice?

 

[aussieburger]

actually now that you mention it resizing windows is 'laggy' for me too ... never really noticed before (guess I don't resize all that often) ... everything else is fine though so no biggy

as for overclocking seems to be a bit hit and miss with this board ... I'm lucky enough to get to 315fsb so far but many others not so lucky ... i'm not sure what it depends on, maybe ram ??

 

[Jon Shannow]

Originally posted by: aussieburger
actually now that you mention it resizing windows is 'laggy' for me too ... never really noticed before (guess I don't resize all that often) ... everything else is fine though so no biggy

as for overclocking seems to be a bit hit and miss with this board ... I'm lucky enough to get to 315fsb so far but many others not so lucky ... i'm not sure what it depends on, maybe ram ??

What processor and ram are you using? Did you just increase the FSB? I presume you need to run it in Async mode in the BIOS? Any help for my rig much appreciated... Havent overclocked Dual Core before and it all looks a bit different!

 

[aussieburger]

Originally posted by: Jon Shannow

What processor and ram are you using? Did you just increase the FSB? I presume you need to run it in Async mode in the BIOS? Any help for my rig much appreciated... Havent overclocked Dual Core before and it all looks a bit different!

For some reason I can't save anything in my sig on this forum ?!? ... been trying to add my specs ... anyway:

E6300 @ 2.22
MDT 2gig DDR PC3200 kit (2.5-3-3-7-1T)
7800GS @ 450/1300

the BIOS Settings I changed:


Overclock Mode: Async
CPU: 315
PCI-E: 117
Spread Spectrum: Disabled
DRAM Frequency: 200MHz
Flexibility Option: Enabled
DRAM Latencies: set known values to my RAM specs

DRAM Voltage: High
AGPVoltage: High
AGP Fastwrite: Enabled
AGP Aperture Size: 256Meg

V-Link Speed: Fast
IDE Drive Strength: High

Disabled Floppy, Game Port, MIDI port, etc. that I don't use

honestly though I think:

Flexibility Option: Enabled
&
Spread Spectrum: Disabled

are the most important for OC'ing ... then you just up the cpu (fsb) frequency. let us know how you go ! setting the PCI-E to 117 was just done cause it was said previously this board is quirky and it helps (?) however how it effects me with AGP I don't know

I've been running these settings for a month now and while a dual Prime 95 test doesn't last long I have had no problems doing my normal 'power user' activivities

 

[jmaltais]

I had posted this in the wrong forum (CPU forum) ... I am not sure this is a CPU problem, so here it is!

I have an Asrock 775Dual-VSTA, e6300, generic 3200 RAM (DDR400) and obtained poor CPU benchmarks!

I have run Sisoft Sandra 2007 CPU benchmark, as well as other CPU benchmarks to confirm, and I get less than a third of the expected performance (about the same thing of an Athlon 2800).

Using Windows XP SP2 with all updates (including optionals!), latest VIA 4in1 drivers and latest BIOS (i.e. version 1.90).

Has anyone experienced the same thing? Do you have any suggestions on what I could do? I have tried every possible BIOS setting without any success.

Your help would be appreciated,

Jocelyn

 

[jmaltais]

Someone (on another known hardware review site) also reported the exact same problem.

So it does not seem to be an isolated problem. I can provide the link if allowed by forum admin.

J.

 

[aussieburger]

post the link, I think it's ok here ?? ... I just ran Sandra2007 and it was fine (nearly at the E6600 with my overclock !)

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: jmaltais
I had posted this in the wrong forum (CPU forum) ... I am not sure this is a CPU problem, so here it is!

I have an Asrock 775Dual-VSTA, e6300, generic 3200 RAM (DDR400) and obtained poor CPU benchmarks!

I have run Sisoft Sandra 2007 CPU benchmark, as well as other CPU benchmarks to confirm, and I get less than a third of the expected performance (about the same thing of an Athlon 2800).

Using Windows XP SP2 with all updates (including optionals!), latest VIA 4in1 drivers and latest BIOS (i.e. version 1.90).

Has anyone experienced the same thing? Do you have any suggestions on what I could do? I have tried every possible BIOS setting without any success.

Your help would be appreciated,

Jocelyn

Set up your bios like assieburger's, above your first post then try overclocking it.

 

[imported_ANGELo]

Originally posted by: aussieburger

Originally posted by: ANGELo

512MB is very bottlenecking my system........ it seems playing BF2 got better FPS with Barton 2500@3200 with 768MB RAM than E6300 with 512mb RAM.

yupe, i think i will flash this bios to 1.90....
just worried a bit about flashing ..... it's safe flash from DOS or Windows? because i already download all of them.

ANGELo - BF2 is very RAM dependent !! with my E6300@2.22 and 2gig DDR pc3200 it flies ! however back when I only had 1gig of ram loading times were considerably longer and now I get over 100FPS on some maps (med settings - 7800GS@450/1300)

BF2142 demo is out today

I flashed my BOIS each time with windows no problems

i see..... i plan to upgrade to 2gb ram ......
wow, you are using 7800GS and i only 6600GT

i already flash to 1.90 last night in windows.
anyway, in msconfig got several program running:

*** is it ok to remove the checkbox like in the picture below (only check avg, and monitoring tools)? because im only have 512mb right now.... does it affect my system?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/sevendp/msconfig.jpg

*** what is your superpi score?
mine: 266Mhz vs 285mhz
1M= 33s vs 30s
2M= 1M 33s vs 1M 16s

*** last night i change the fsb to 285 @2ghz, but the other setting are in default, can u suggest me the best setting for
E6300
2x256mb Kingston value PC2700
6600GT AGP ?

thx pals

EDIT: what is different command rate 1T or 2T?

 

[Jon Shannow]

Originally posted by: aussieburger

Originally posted by: Jon Shannow

What processor and ram are you using? Did you just increase the FSB? I presume you need to run it in Async mode in the BIOS? Any help for my rig much appreciated... Havent overclocked Dual Core before and it all looks a bit different!

For some reason I can't save anything in my sig on this forum ?!? ... been trying to add my specs ... anyway:

E6300 @ 2.22
MDT 2gig DDR PC3200 kit (2.5-3-3-7-1T)
7800GS @ 450/1300

the BIOS Settings I changed:


Overclock Mode: Async
CPU: 315
PCI-E: 117
Spread Spectrum: Disabled
DRAM Frequency: 200MHz
Flexibility Option: Enabled
DRAM Latencies: set known values to my RAM specs

DRAM Voltage: High
AGPVoltage: High
AGP Fastwrite: Enabled
AGP Aperture Size: 256Meg

V-Link Speed: Fast
IDE Drive Strength: High

Disabled Floppy, Game Port, MIDI port, etc. that I don't use

honestly though I think:

Flexibility Option: Enabled
&
Spread Spectrum: Disabled

are the most important for OC'ing ... then you just up the cpu (fsb) frequency. let us know how you go ! setting the PCI-E to 117 was just done cause it was said previously this board is quirky and it helps (?) however how it effects me with AGP I don't know

I've been running these settings for a month now and while a dual Prime 95 test doesn't last long I have had no problems doing my normal 'power user' activivities

Any reason for the DRAM and AGP voltage being set to high? Thanks for all the info.... will let you know how I get on... probably be at the weekend when I get chance to play....

 

[jmaltais]

Windows XP is the source of the problem. Once you have installed it for the first time, the ACPI (hal.dll) is ?locked? to the type of processor configuration you have (i.e. single or multiprocessor). You may see what ACPI is enabled in the device manager.


So if you change your CPU for a Core Duo (or other multi processor CPU), you have to re-install windows. There are some workarounds to this, but I tried one yesterday and I could not even boot anymore ...

Thank you Microsoft, that's great!

J.

p.s. I found out with task manager that I was unabled to show both CPU. I then used CPU-Z and I could not select the CPU. I then remembered that a collegue of mine at work had a similar problem. His device manager showed an ACPI for a single processor only, and he had a dual processor hardware installation.

 

[aussieburger]

hmmm strange when I went from my AMD 3000+ I just popped in the new mobo and cpu and windows booted fine ... detected the new dual core cpu and I could see and use both ... reinstalled winxp after a few weeks anyway for further optimising but i thought it was pretty cool that i could go from single core amd to dual intel and windows switch like that. Which old cpu mobo did u have ? another reason mine might have worked was because my old mobo was a VIA chipset also (MSI Neo2 socket 939)

Originally posted by: Jon Shannow
Any reason for the DRAM and AGP voltage being set to high? Thanks for all the info.... will let you know how I get on... probably be at the weekend when I get chance to play....

no idea just thought i'd try it ... I thought i read somewhere that setting agp to high was good for overclocking your gpu ... can anyone tell me exactly what these 2 do ?

 

[Orbitr8]

I'm having issues with 12volt readouts. The last psu was a year old, it read 11.84 in the BIOS. and only 11.19 in any monitoring program I've tried. So, I bought a new Kamariki II 450 watt that reads 12.04 in the BIOS, and 11.31 in any monitoring program.

Everything seems to run fine, no lockups anymore, but is this an isolated occurrence, or is it just a few of us ?

Also. CentOS 4.4 Linux will not run on this board. No audio, won't recognize SATA drives, couldn't get anything on the web except http (probably a linux issue on that one, tho).

Ah, well. still, for a $400 investment for a cpu, board and another drive, still worth it if you're using Windows and your old ddr ram and agp card. BLazing fast, just quirky and hardware/os picky.

~k

 

[anandus]

Originally posted by: aussieburger

Originally posted by: Jon Shannow

What processor and ram are you using? Did you just increase the FSB? I presume you need to run it in Async mode in the BIOS? Any help for my rig much appreciated... Havent overclocked Dual Core before and it all looks a bit different!

For some reason I can't save anything in my sig on this forum ?!? ... been trying to add my specs ... anyway:

E6300 @ 2.22
MDT 2gig DDR PC3200 kit (2.5-3-3-7-1T)
7800GS @ 450/1300

the BIOS Settings I changed:


Overclock Mode: Async
CPU: 315
PCI-E: 117
Spread Spectrum: Disabled
DRAM Frequency: 200MHz
Flexibility Option: Enabled
DRAM Latencies: set known values to my RAM specs

DRAM Voltage: High
AGPVoltage: High
AGP Fastwrite: Enabled
AGP Aperture Size: 256Meg

V-Link Speed: Fast
IDE Drive Strength: High

Disabled Floppy, Game Port, MIDI port, etc. that I don't use

honestly though I think:

Flexibility Option: Enabled
&
Spread Spectrum: Disabled

are the most important for OC'ing ... then you just up the cpu (fsb) frequency. let us know how you go ! setting the PCI-E to 117 was just done cause it was said previously this board is quirky and it helps (?) however how it effects me with AGP I don't know

I've been running these settings for a month now and while a dual Prime 95 test doesn't last long I have had no problems doing my normal 'power user' activivities

Thanks

With these settings I've got it running stable on 310Mhz FSB. It boots quite stable into Vista on 315Mhz, but fails in Prime95 after a while. On 310Mhz Everything is rocksolid, including Prime95 (running 2 of them, one for eacht core).

Before I couldn't even get past 295Mhz, so I'm a happy man

Oh, i'm running E6300 and 1Gb DDR2-667 and a Geforce6800LE

 

[Mr Vain]

D 805 CPU With a Pin Volt Mod (1.6Volt)=4000Mhz

I have done the highest cpu pin volt mod for the D 805 and got it to
4000Mhz.

I can boot into Windows at 4080Mhz but its not stable.

Thats 50% Overclock with this Asrock 775Dual-VSTA motherboard happy happy!

http://img138.imageshack.us/my.php?image=overclockui5.png]

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[pdawg1717]

What kind of cpu temps are people getting? With stock fan at idle I am around 40C...I just set mine up last night so I haven't pushed it yet to see what max is...and for me it is not o/c'd yet...I am using some old Ceramique stuff though so I might need some AS5...

 

[Wildi]

Originally posted by: anandus

Originally posted by: aussieburger

Originally posted by: Jon Shannow

What processor and ram are you using? Did you just increase the FSB? I presume you need to run it in Async mode in the BIOS? Any help for my rig much appreciated... Havent overclocked Dual Core before and it all looks a bit different!

For some reason I can't save anything in my sig on this forum ?!? ... been trying to add my specs ... anyway:

E6300 @ 2.22
MDT 2gig DDR PC3200 kit (2.5-3-3-7-1T)
7800GS @ 450/1300

the BIOS Settings I changed:


Overclock Mode: Async
CPU: 315
PCI-E: 117
Spread Spectrum: Disabled
DRAM Frequency: 200MHz
Flexibility Option: Enabled
DRAM Latencies: set known values to my RAM specs

DRAM Voltage: High
AGPVoltage: High
AGP Fastwrite: Enabled
AGP Aperture Size: 256Meg

V-Link Speed: Fast
IDE Drive Strength: High

Disabled Floppy, Game Port, MIDI port, etc. that I don't use

honestly though I think:

Flexibility Option: Enabled
&
Spread Spectrum: Disabled

are the most important for OC'ing ... then you just up the cpu (fsb) frequency. let us know how you go ! setting the PCI-E to 117 was just done cause it was said previously this board is quirky and it helps (?) however how it effects me with AGP I don't know

I've been running these settings for a month now and while a dual Prime 95 test doesn't last long I have had no problems doing my normal 'power user' activivities

Thanks

With these settings I've got it running stable on 310Mhz FSB. It boots quite stable into Vista on 315Mhz, but fails in Prime95 after a while. On 310Mhz Everything is rocksolid, including Prime95 (running 2 of them, one for eacht core).

Before I couldn't even get past 295Mhz, so I'm a happy man

Oh, i'm running E6300 and 1Gb DDR2-667 and a Geforce6800LE

Okay my stuff just arrived... I have been wondering why cpuz indicates my mem freq 148?... should i set mem speed DDR400 or auto? I got mushkin blueline DDR400.
Is there any prog to increase fsb in windows? its so frustating to boot always when you want to change it!
What kind of Superpi 1M result you guys got with e6400 default speeds?
Where and how to set Dram Frequency to 200?

again. Sorry for newbie questions

 

[aussieburger]

Superpi 1M = 28 secs with E6300 @ 2.22

Set your RAM mem ... the mobo always selects lower if left to auto

cpu temp is around 43C when pushed and 41C idle ... overclocking made hardly any difference at all !

 

[china]

Uh-oh, I was thinking of getting this mobo as a cheap upgrade (along with a E6400), the rest coming off of my old system. After reading all these horror-stories I'm somewhat starting to reconsider... It's not that I haven't had to fight with my stuff before when putting a computer together but all these problems with getting the system to run stable after installing Windows seems more or less unnerving.

What's your opinion, is it still worth it?-)

 

[pdawg1717]

Most of the time, it's the people with problems that chime in so it sounds worse than it is...I got my stuff yesterday and had zero problems getting everything going...

E6400
1gb pc3200 OCZ Value
Nvidia 6800 AGP

Mine did come with the 1.70 bios however, which may have made it easier to get things going...

Btw, should I get rid of my Santa Cruz sound card and just use the onboard?

 

[uly166]

Originally posted by: aussieburger
Superpi 1M = 28 secs with E6300 @ 2.22

This is my first post in this forum,sorry for my bad english...I have the Asrock dual-vsta 775,and i´m very happy!!!

I think that Superpi 1M in 28 secs is...i make 28 secs whit my 6300@2.0Ghz,and 1´10 secs in 2M.

 

[nuke868]

Originally posted by: CKTurbo128
I, too, have been suffering freezing issues with my 775Dual-VSTA board. I cannot determine the exact cause of the problem, but I believe it may have something to do with the IDE & PCI buses. I have the following specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
ASRock 775DUAL-VSTA (BIOS v1.70) - VIA Hyperion Pro Driver v5.09A
2 x G.Skill PC4000 1 GB DDR RAM
nVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS, AGP 8X
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Wireless G PCI Card
2 x Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300 GB SATA HDD (On onboard SATA connectors)
2 x Maxtor DiamondMax 11 300 GB SATA2 HDD (On Promise Tech. SATA 300 TX4 PCI SATA card)

I can repeat this problem quite easily. While installing a game or doing any heavy disk activity (i.e. copying files from CD/DVDs to HDD) and listening/watching music or movie files, the system will lock up with no chance of it getting to even the BSOD. However, the system never locks up when you install a game (or heavy disk activity) seperately by itself. Also, just listening/watching music or movies by itself will not lock up the system either.

I have tried multiple solutions suggested here, to disabling all onboard devices, testing minimal configurations, drive strength on normal-high, different RAM timings, different driver versions for devices, lower clock speeds, etc. I have even tried a re-format and re-installation of Windows XP, but I continue to run into the same problems. I have tested each device on another computer to verify integrity, and they all pass. I have run multiple tests of Memtest86+ and they have passed all tests successfully with multiple runs (never locks up, no errors).

Of course, all of these tests were done with no overclocking; I won't even consider overclocking until I can get the base system stable. Does anyone have any other ideas or solutions to this random freezing problem?

I have exactly the same problems, E6300 Dual Vsta a Single Mushkin 1GB 667 Module,and when I have got an high HD activity eg when unaring something i have got a BSOD usually 0x00000077 kernel_stack_inpage_error,bios 1.90 Now If i can solve this I d be pretty happy since with Flatout2 hours of gaming its works fine...
Damn would like to sort it out,btw I did try even 304fsb @ 2134mhz and it works fine but always the same heavy hard disk activity bug ? Still have to figure out tho how the fsb ratio works here... It was a lot easier with the old p4c800...
Thanks to everybody

775DUAL VSTA
E6300
1GB MUSHKIN 1GB 667
6800LE@6800GT
AUDIGY4
WIFI PCI
ETHERNET PCI
SAT DVB PCI
400W PSU
3 IDE HDS
1 IDE DVDRW
1SATA HD