ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

[jeffreydeng]

Originally posted by: abdefg
all those ones with occasional system freeze problems at the beginning of this thread did they solve their problem?

I was experiencing the same issue frequently. Tried every hardware/bios combination but nothing. Disabled mboard sound with no result (besides the fact that it's dead now even if turned on - great). I was sure it was a ram problem.. then I noticed that freezes happened mostly while my PCI wireless network card was on (NETGEAR WG311T with Atheros chipset). Made a search in google and found that there were compatibility problems between my wireless card and many past VIA chipsets which was causing the same kind of system freeze. Removed drivers and installed an usb adapter: 24h and any freeze..!
I have also installed an old PCI latency problem patch for VIA chipsets (again), don't know if this really helped.

VIA chipsets are terrible. I had an ASUS with the same chipset before this one: same freeze problem and after 2 days it KILLED my radeon x1600pro. Last time I buy a VIA chipset mboard.

Well I am using the same wireless PCI card and doesn't have any problem so far. My rig is described below.

Pentium D 840 @ 3.69GHz (230 MHz fsb)
2G Pqi Turbo DDR2 667 (running at 230MHz 1:1 ratio with timing 3-3-3-9 1T)
XFX 7600GT PCI-e

I did pin mod to get the voltage to 1.485vfrom 1.385v default. Before I did that the system was not stable at all even at 230 fsb. After I did the pin mode, I could get FSB as high as 245 but the memory only runs at 184Mhz and the bandwidth is about 3700MB/s. So I finally choosed 230 FSB with 1:1 to the memory. The memory bandwidth is about 5700MB/s now.

 

[hurlman]

Hey for everyone with a bad flash

http://www.badflash.com/

I have used them before and it is quick, cheap, and accurate. As long as your mobo has a webpage they can flash it for you. I even kept my old bad flash chip so save myself 10 bucks in the future. Try them out.

 

[jamesbk]

I am still having enormous difficulty installing windows on a SATA HDD. The SATA HDD is detected within the BIOS but the machine is not able to boot from that HDD. I have managed to successfully install WinXP onto an IDE HDD. Within WinXP the SATA HDD works perfectly.

I know others have been having similar problems. Has a solution been found?

 

[Inayat]

Can Speedfan control the fan speeds on this board, or just report them?

Thanks.

 

[Palms]

I have had no issues using my raptor 74 sata, have you made sure your boot priority is the sata drive by using the plus key on the keyboard ? Also make sure it is not set to raid, must say non raid in the bios.

palms

 

[jamesbk]

Thanks mate I'll verify this when I get home.

 

[Orbitr8]

I gave up trying to get it to boot to SATA also. No matter what I set in the bios did not help.

Another issue was after upgrading to 1.90 BIOS, the computer would not even boot to a BIOS until I hit reset a few times and got the default BIOS message saying the system hasn't booted in x times, enter setup.

Turns out, I had to set the IDE Strength to HIGHEST, and since then, no issues.

A side note... I have 2 IDE drives ~ one has XP on it, the other has Ubuntu on it.
To boot to either, I just select which drive to boot from in the BIOS, and off we go.

A bit of work to get this board to work correctly, but all in all, a great deal after you get it up and running for the price, esp.

I'm running 2 gigs of XMS 3200 @CAS 2.5-3-3-11-2 @286 CPU speed, with the Pipeline thing enabled. Wow. Enabling that gave me almost 1000 extra points in my mem bench. I'm duly impresssed. Not sure if that relates to any improvement in application speeds, after doing a quick Flash movie render time compared to the other way, doesn't seem any faster.

But, hey, if the numbers are higher, it must mean it's faster, no?
heh. whatever.

I'm about to recommend this board to a friend who's not going to overclock, and I think it's a good deal still.

 

[uly166]

Originally posted by: Inayat
Can Speedfan control the fan speeds on this board, or just report them?

Thanks.

Speedfan can control de fan speeds....I have artic cooling at 800rpm and 41º

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: Oz3050
So what's the highest settings you guys have been able to get with this board and a Pentium 805 D. The highest stable settings i can get is 150Mhz FSB and DDR2 667 timings of 5-5-5-12-2T with Flexibility disabled. Anyone with higher overclock what other changes did you make in the BIOS?

Around 3400 MHz without CPU pin volt mods.
With CPU pin volt mods up to 4 GHz.

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: Orbitr8
I gave up trying to get it to boot to SATA also. No matter what I set in the bios did not help.

Another issue was after upgrading to 1.90 BIOS, the computer would not even boot to a BIOS until I hit reset a few times and got the default BIOS message saying the system hasn't booted in x times, enter setup.

Turns out, I had to set the IDE Strength to HIGHEST, and since then, no issues.

A side note... I have 2 IDE drives ~ one has XP on it, the other has Ubuntu on it.
To boot to either, I just select which drive to boot from in the BIOS, and off we go.

A bit of work to get this board to work correctly, but all in all, a great deal after you get it up and running for the price, esp.

I'm running 2 gigs of XMS 3200 @CAS 2.5-3-3-11-2 @286 CPU speed, with the Pipeline thing enabled. Wow. Enabling that gave me almost 1000 extra points in my mem bench. I'm duly impresssed. Not sure if that relates to any improvement in application speeds, after doing a quick Flash movie render time compared to the other way, doesn't seem any faster.

But, hey, if the numbers are higher, it must mean it's faster, no?
heh. whatever.

I'm about to recommend this board to a friend who's not going to overclock, and I think it's a good deal still.

If you press the F11 Key during boot up you can select which drive you want to boot from without going into the bios every time.

 

[Kruiser]

This Motherboard is Tempermental isince buying my PC Express 7900gs ive had clear the cmos twice because it wouldnt post all because i changed some features in the bios but i cannot argue about the price and i get to keep my Ram

 

[Orbitr8]

"...If you press the F11 Key during boot up you can select which drive you want to boot from without going into the bios every time. "

Awesome tip... I'll definately give it a try next reboot.
Thanks !

~ o

 

[Arcana]

I keep getting blue screen crashes every 5 hours or so. If I play a CD in the drive this usually happens within 1 hour though.

I thought it could be a RAM problem or perhaps psu, but I really don't have much connected to or in the pc; dvd-writer, pci-e Geforce 6200, soundcard and external cablemodem. Although it's an old 350W psu I wouldn't have thought, that's to blame.

If it's the RAM's fault. What settings can I be SURE that will work? It's just generic 333 DDR RAM. I've gone from double channel to single channel, but that didn't help.

Any ideas?

 

[Conky]

Originally posted by: Arcana
I keep getting blue screen crashes every 5 hours or so. If I play a CD in the drive this usually happens within 1 hour though.

I thought it could be a RAM problem or perhaps psu, but I really don't have much connected to or in the pc; dvd-writer, pci-e Geforce 6200, soundcard and external cablemodem. Although it's an old 350W psu I wouldn't have thought, that's to blame.

If it's the RAM's fault. What settings can I be SURE that will work? It's just generic 333 DDR RAM. I've gone from double channel to single channel, but that didn't help.

Any ideas?

If it's the RAM's fault then I would try upping the RAM voltage in the bios. Even at the "high" setting it's really not that high.

Although my guess would be that your power supply is on it's last leg... you might want to look at a reasonable replacement.

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: Kruiser
This Motherboard is Tempermental isince buying my PC Express 7900gs ive had clear the cmos twice because it wouldnt post all because i changed some features in the bios but i cannot argue about the price and i get to keep my Ram

I have never had to clear the cmos yet! I just turned off the PSU and back on then rebooted the pc max 3 times, that?s holding the power button down for 4 seconds (I have it set for soft off in the bios) till the machine comes to a complete stop and rebooting.
That?s worked for me so far.

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: Beachboy

Originally posted by: Arcana
I keep getting blue screen crashes every 5 hours or so. If I play a CD in the drive this usually happens within 1 hour though.

I thought it could be a RAM problem or perhaps psu, but I really don't have much connected to or in the pc; dvd-writer, pci-e Geforce 6200, soundcard and external cablemodem. Although it's an old 350W psu I wouldn't have thought, that's to blame.

If it's the RAM's fault. What settings can I be SURE that will work? It's just generic 333 DDR RAM. I've gone from double channel to single channel, but that didn't help.

Any ideas?

If it's the RAM's fault then I would try upping the RAM voltage in the bios. Even at the "high" setting it's really not that high.

Although my guess would be that your power supply is on it's last leg... you might want to look at a reasonable replacement.

Hey Beach do you play TFC?

 

[Wildi]

Does this motherboard support SATA II Hard drives, like Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 If you set it to SATA 1 mode with jumpers or smth?

 

[Arcana]

Originally posted by: Beachboy

Originally posted by: Arcana
I keep getting blue screen crashes every 5 hours or so. If I play a CD in the drive this usually happens within 1 hour though.

I thought it could be a RAM problem or perhaps psu, but I really don't have much connected to or in the pc; dvd-writer, pci-e Geforce 6200, soundcard and external cablemodem. Although it's an old 350W psu I wouldn't have thought, that's to blame.

If it's the RAM's fault. What settings can I be SURE that will work? It's just generic 333 DDR RAM. I've gone from double channel to single channel, but that didn't help.

Any ideas?

If it's the RAM's fault then I would try upping the RAM voltage in the bios. Even at the "high" setting it's really not that high.

Although my guess would be that your power supply is on it's last leg... you might want to look at a reasonable replacement.

Hmm.... didn't seem to do much good to set it on high. I even had 2 crashes when the pc was left alone and all it was doing was uploading some files to my server. Not exactly something that maxes out the cpu or eats a lot of memory.
Is there any tools that can test my RAM and check my PSU load?

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: Wildi
Does this motherboard support SATA II Hard drives, like Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 If you set it to SATA 1 mode with jumpers or smth?

Yes my SATA 2 HD work fine with the jumper to SATA 1.

 

[Wildi]

Originally posted by: Mr Vain

Originally posted by: Wildi
Does this motherboard support SATA II Hard drives, like Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 If you set it to SATA 1 mode with jumpers or smth?

Yes my SATA 2 HD work fine with the jumper to SATA 1.

Mmkay. I hope it works with every vendor

 

[Conky]

Originally posted by: Mr Vain

Originally posted by: Beachboy

Originally posted by: Arcana
I keep getting blue screen crashes every 5 hours or so. If I play a CD in the drive this usually happens within 1 hour though.

I thought it could be a RAM problem or perhaps psu, but I really don't have much connected to or in the pc; dvd-writer, pci-e Geforce 6200, soundcard and external cablemodem. Although it's an old 350W psu I wouldn't have thought, that's to blame.

If it's the RAM's fault. What settings can I be SURE that will work? It's just generic 333 DDR RAM. I've gone from double channel to single channel, but that didn't help.

Any ideas?

If it's the RAM's fault then I would try upping the RAM voltage in the bios. Even at the "high" setting it's really not that high.

Although my guess would be that your power supply is on it's last leg... you might want to look at a reasonable replacement.

Hey Beach do you play TFC?

Nope, I mostly play COD and COD2 but I'm always willing to try other shooters... just never got around to that one.

 

[Orbitr8]

Well.... another issue has arisen.
Yesterday, while trying to fly choppers in BF-VN, my C2Duo lasted for about 3 to 5 minutes before crashing to the desktop. It played fine, until I tried flying.
Grrrr...

So, after disabling every unneeded process, like Antivirus, Firewall, DSL, blah blah, blah, and still crashing.... I did some sleuthing on the AMD x2 boards and tried out one of their tips:

When the game opens, hit Cont/Alt/Del to bring up the Task Manager, click on Processes, find the game's exe process, right click on it, and choose:
Affinity
and disable one of the cores.
When I tried that out this morning, I could fly as long as I wanted without crashing, so, that *MAY* have been a fix.

It doesn't stay permanent, so every time you open the game, you have to reset the Affinity.

I'd be curious if anyone here has experienced random acts of crashness, and if this 'fix' works for them .

~kc

 

[flevio]

when i turn the pc off the power on usb ports remain..
all closed ,but the modem lights are still on(both of them green -on tornado 800 !lol) an it stays warm..
actualy i can even charge my mp3 player on usb ports..
bios version 1.9.(with an allendale 6300).
ps.no wakes on are enabled.
anyone knows anything?

btw even if this mobo 775vsta pas the memory bench`s ok
you are still needing 2 low down the settings or after sometime a game or even an application will crash..
best bench to c that is gothic 3(patched) ,the memory leaks on that game proves if a ----memory is stable or not. if you manage 2 start this game an play for 5min without crashes your memory its ok.


OMG mutch after posting here i send a message 2 asrock support (i filled the support form .)
they answer in about 15 min!!!!!!!!!!!!
----Dear xxxx,
Thanks for contacting ASRock.
Please try to adjust the PS2_USB PWR1 jumper to pin 1-2 (+5v).
Best Regards
ASRock---

great support team

 

[Mr Vain]

Beachboy

I came across someone with your username at TFC and I thought it might have been you.

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: Orbitr8
Well.... another issue has arisen.
Yesterday, while trying to fly choppers in BF-VN, my C2Duo lasted for about 3 to 5 minutes before crashing to the desktop. It played fine, until I tried flying.
Grrrr...

So, after disabling every unneeded process, like Antivirus, Firewall, DSL, blah blah, blah, and still crashing.... I did some sleuthing on the AMD x2 boards and tried out one of their tips:

When the game opens, hit Cont/Alt/Del to bring up the Task Manager, click on Processes, find the game's exe process, right click on it, and choose:
Affinity
and disable one of the cores.
When I tried that out this morning, I could fly as long as I wanted without crashing, so, that *MAY* have been a fix.

It doesn't stay permanent, so every time you open the game, you have to reset the Affinity.

I'd be curious if anyone here has experienced random acts of crashness, and if this 'fix' works for them .

~kc

Was this a clean windows install on the Hard Drive with this Mobo?