ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: Raikku
Have anybody tried yet, if 8800Gts work with this board, and how much 4xPCI-E drops results?

8800 is not working on 775Dual-VSTA at this time, ASRock replying it is not compatible with 775Dual-VSTA. Confirmed by at least two users, one GTX and one GTS.

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: Haricot42

Originally posted by: Mr Vain

Originally posted by: Haricot42
Mr Vain.

Have decided to follow in your footsteps and go for a h/w volt mod. (Thought that by now, Asrock might have enabled a volt mod in the bios, but have given up waiting...)

I am using a D805, and checked the Intel site for the def voltage (shown as 1.25V-1.4V). Armed with this I popped over to your referenced site, but am unsure which pin mod you followed for you D805. Would you be so kind as to point me to the right one. My guess is, it's the one that starts at "1.25 defaulters", but don't wish to get it wrong!

Thanks in advance,

Haricot

Currently OC'ed to a paulty 156*20 (3120) D805 / GEIL 6400-800mhz / AGP / 1xsata/1xDIE/1xDVD.

Voltage (under Max. load) down < 1.20 - That can't be good

You first need to use the CPU rightmark program to find your default voltage before you can proceed.
Download it from here http://cpu.rightmark.org//download/rmclock_215_bin.exe

Let me know what it says in the STARTUP column, as that will be your default voltage.

Thanks for the reply Mr Vain.

I had spotted a reply of yours in a different forum answering this question, and downloaded CPU RIghtMark. It gave me a STARTUP Voltage of 1.337. Armed with this I am guessing I need The mod for 1.335v defaulters (http://sg.vr-zone.com/index.php?i=3931&s=8) Is that correct?

BTW: What was your initial STARTUP voltage setting? It seems that the successful overclocking of the D805 is partially linked to it's initial factory voltage (Lower is better ??? ) I doubt very much if I will be able to replicate your efforts as at stock I am unable to even get above an FSB of 156 (stable) and if I remember rightly you were easily hitting 166 with no mods to board or chip.

Thanks again for the reply,

Haricot

I am guessing I need the mod for 1.335v defaulters = Yes that's correct.

What was your initial STARTUP voltage setting? = 1.325 I think.

I could boot into windows up to around 172fsb no mods and stable at around 166fsb.

You could be correct about the lower voltage chips overclocking better, we will know for sure once you do your final 1.6 pin volt Mod.

Give VRM's good air flow.

Good Luck with it all.

 

[General Plot]

My current setup is with some generic Wintec PC3200 DDR RAM and an AGP GeForce6200. In x86 Windows XP, I get random pauses and stuttering in sound (with videos and games) and eventual lockups. If I run X64 Windows XP, there's no stuttering or pauses, it just locks up randomly. At the moment, I'm running BIOS version 2.40 and have the RAM setup to run at DDR333 speeds, and have upped the clock slightly (from CPU base bus 266 to 300, RAM running slightly underclock at 187.5). I've tried MANY suggestions posted in here to resolve this, but nothing seems to work. If anyone has any idea what might be the issue, I'd appreciate it.

 

[bigsnyder]

I apologize if this has already been answered, but I didn't see it posted:

How do you update the AGP drivers? Mine are from still 2001 according to the
device manager. When I run the 5.10a hyperion update, I am not given an option
to update the AGP drivers. Thanks!

C Snyder


*UPDATE* I went ahead and updated manually inside the device manager. I am still
curious why the Hyperion setup didn't offer the option.

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: General Plot
My current setup is with some generic Wintec PC3200 DDR RAM and an AGP GeForce6200. In x86 Windows XP, I get random pauses and stuttering in sound (with videos and games) and eventual lockups. If I run X64 Windows XP, there's no stuttering or pauses, it just locks up randomly. At the moment, I'm running BIOS version 2.40 and have the RAM setup to run at DDR333 speeds, and have upped the clock slightly (from CPU base bus 266 to 300, RAM running slightly underclock at 187.5). I've tried MANY suggestions posted in here to resolve this, but nothing seems to work. If anyone has any idea what might be the issue, I'd appreciate it.

How are your hard drives configured?
I realise that there are a lot of posts to read in this thread now, but some one had a similar problems to yours, it turned out that he was running Pata and Sata HD's at the same time causing conflicts.
Have you done a clean new windows installation?

 

[amir911]

Okay today i got my ASROCK 775 and a E6300 Batch B Also got the Silent 775 which has the pipeline cooling. damn it is so good

Bios is 1.9
E6300
ASROCK
ATIX800XL
Most recent VIA driver
Audigy plat


installed everything and now it is working great but i need some help.

I have DDR466 but in my cpuz it shows the following:

CPUZ


How can i improve this and also how can i do some overclocking? i am running at 30-35C.

Also is there anything else i need to do? like optimization apps for the 2 cores?
I see some bios options like spectrum and many more which i dono what they are.
i have sound disable in the bios hat is all :S

 

[General Plot]

How are your hard drives configured?
I realise that there are a lot of posts to read in this thread now, but some one had a similar problems to yours, it turned out that he was running Pata and Sata HD's at the same time causing conflicts.
Have you done a clean new windows installation?

[/quote]
Well, I've actually had the worst luck so far. My first order I received this board DOA, so I had to RMA it, then I got my replacement, which although isn't dead, has it's own issues. Namely, the primary IDE controller appears to be dead (and yes, I've set it as non-RAID in the BIOS which doesn't help that). So, I've got my hard drive (IDE) chained with my DVD burner on the secondary controller, which is the only one that works. Even with the DVD burner taken off the chain and just the hard drive by itself, the issue is still there. Both copes of Windows (x86 and x64) are clean installs with all the latest updates, drivers, etc..., but nothing seems to fix the problem.:disgust:

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: amir911
Okay today i got my ASROCK 775 and a E6300 Batch B Also got the Silent 775 which has the pipeline cooling. damn it is so good

Bios is 1.9
E6300
ASROCK
ATIX800XL
Most recent VIA driver
Audigy plat


installed everything and now it is working great but i need some help.

I have DDR466 but in my cpuz it shows the following:

CPUZ


How can i improve this and also how can i do some overclocking? i am running at 30-35C.

Also is there anything else i need to do? like optimization apps for the 2 cores?
I see some bios options like spectrum and many more which i dono what they are.
i have sound disable in the bios hat is all :S

This bios set up from Homonculus and others in page 36 of this thread is a good start to get some improvements.

homonculus
Member

Posts: 24
Joined: 11/20/2006
LasseB there is a new BIOS (2.40) at ASRock which purports to fix some USB issues...

Try it and tell us if it helps.

Heffty try this:

Overclock Mode [PCIe: Asynch] *
CPU Frequency (MHz) [295] *
PCIE Requency (MHz) [110] *
Spread Spectrum [Disabled] *
Boot Failure Guard [Enabled]
Max GPUID Value Limit [Disabled]
Intel(R)Virtualization tech [Disabled]
CPU Thermal Throttling [Disabled] *
Non-Execute Memory Protection [Disabled]
Intel(R)SpeedStep9tm0tech [Disabled]

Chipset Settings
Dram Frequency [DDR400] *
Flexibility Option [Disabled]
DRAM CASH Latency [3] *
DRAM Bank Interleave [Auto]
Precharge to Active(trp) [4] *
Active to Precharege9Tras) [8] *
Active to CMD (Tred) [4] *
REF to ACT/REF to REF(trfc) [Auto]
ACT(0) to ACT(1) (Trrd) [Auto]
Read to Precharge (Trtp) [Auto]
Write to Read CMD (Twtr) [Auto]
Write to Recovery Time (Twr) [Auto]
DRAM Command Rate [1T Command] *
Advanced Memory Configuration
DRAM Drv DQS [Auto]
DRAM Drv CS [Auto]
DRAM Drv DCLKA,B [Auto]
DCLK Output Duty Ctrl [Auto]
CLKBUF DDRA group delay [Auto]
CLKBUF DDRB group dealy [Auto]
CLKBUF FB.OUTA dealy [Auto]
CLKBUF FB.OUTB delay [Auto]
CLKBUF DDRA Drv [3x]
CLKBUF DDRB Drv [3x]
CLKBUF FB_OUTA Drv [4x]
CLKBUF FB_OUTA Drv [4x]
DRAM Voltage [High] *
AGP Voltage [Auto]
Primary Graphics Adapter [AGP] *
AGP Mode [Auto]
AGP Fast Write [Disabled]
AGP Aperature Size [256MB]
AGP Staggered Delay [Auto]
AGP GADSTB Output Delay [Auto]
AGP 3.0 Calibration [Auto]
AGP 3.0 DBI Function [Auto]
DBI Output for AGP Trans [Auto]
DBI Output for FRAME Trans [Auto]
V-Link Speed [Fast] *
PCI Delay Transaction [Enabled] *
IDE Drive Strength [Highest] *
PCIE Downstream Pipeline [Auto]
Onboard LAN [Enabled]
Onboard HD Audio [Enabled]
Front Panel Control [Enabled]

You missed Advanced Host Configuration:

Pipeline DRQCTL: Enabled

* Marks the changed values.

Try working your way up from 295 FSB to about 317 FSB (where mine craps out) Any joy? Remember that if you overdo it you have bootguard enabled so it will simply reload base settings automatically, no fiddling with CMOS jumpers required!

jdcon, I hear you, is it possible that your Palit 7600 card is DOA, have you tried it in another system?

-------------------------
E6400 @ 2.53 GHz on Stock Cooler
ASRock 775 Dual-VSTA @ 315 FSB (NB & SB Passive Sinks)
2 x 512 Kingston HyperX PC3200 @ 3-4-4-8
XFX 7800GS EE @ 500/1400 on Modded Aircooling
SATA RAID 0 2 x 80GB 7K2 Hitachi Deskstar
PC P&C 475W Modded PSU (Essential!)

Edited: 12/19/2006 at 07:06 AM by homonculus

 

[techwool]

Lo' all, first post to this forum and I'm afraid its asking for help...

Bought this board yesterday as a stepping stone to a major upgrade. I'm running an Core 2 Duo E6600, 2xDDR 400 RAM, an Asus X800XT AGP gfx card and an SB Audigy 2ZS.

I've installed Windows and the new Hyperion drivers. Everything was going great until I installed the Catalyst drivers, Windows then froze on booting but worked about every 5th or 6th time (deja vu from some of the other posts I've read on here).

However, when it did boot up it was fine, the CCC was complete and correct. TBH I could handle it booting after every 5 or 6 times but then I installed my Audigy and now it won't get past the XP loading screen at all.

I've tried messing about with the BIOS settings (AGP, memory, etc.) but to no avail. Please can anyone offer any other help before I have to ditch the X800XT and go and spend even more money.

Cheers all.

 

[homonculus]

Ditch the Audigy!

Nearly everyone has a NIGHTMARE with these cards, even older mobo's hate Audigys' They are SO finicky about which slot they're in, which IRQ, DMA, IO Address etc. that they're more trouble than they're worth.

Use the onboard sound, it's pretty good really. The X800XT is a great card and ideal for this mobo why dump it? It sounds to me like you have driver issues with the X800, did you clean out all the old drivers thoroughly (use DCPro here: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745 ) before installing the new?

 

[techwool]

Cheers for the quick reply...

I will give the onboard sound a go, suppose I just like to have the 'EAX' sound, not that I noticed much difference.

The X800XT card cost me the best part of £350 only two years ago so I would rather keep it. As far as cleaning out the old drivers go, this was a clean install so there were no old drivers present.

 

[simonnance]

ok, i have the boot error upon installing the Catalyst drivers (with X800XT PE AGP), i havent tried keeping on going to see if it eventualy boots, but i can get back in via the "use last stable boot settings" option that windows pops up with (but of course that means i cant use the Gfx)

there MUST be a setting that allows it to work, it's obviously the gfx card if so many people have had probs, when i get back to my PC at uni, ill have to fiddle with all the settings to see if i can get it to fricking work...... but thanks to the tips from you guys i have it running at 300mhz FSB, running my E6400 at 2.4Ghz... might try to push it up a tad bit, but i dont realy fancy voltmoding as i dont have a mulit-meter to check the voltages/resistances to avoid frying the board!

I'm just pissed that Asrock havent fixed the AGP issue.

 

[bigsnyder]

First thing I would do before installing any hardware is run the machine at stock speed.
I am running an Audigy2 card with no problems with the latest drivers from creative (skipped
the disc installation). I disabled all onboard hardware that is not in use (parallel, serial, sound,
MIDI, gameport, and modem?). I am running the Audigy in the third PCI slot which is using
IRQ19, the firewire is sharing IRQ16 with my graphics card. I hope this helps with ideas.

C Snyder

 

[bigsnyder]

I have been meaning to post about my experience with this board. I have only been running
this setup for two days, but system seems very solid. My board appears to be rev. 1.02 and
shipped with the 2.10 bios. I am NOT overclocking, computer is fast enough. Here is just a
quick run down of my system:

E6400 processor @stock
2x512MB Corsair Value Ram DDR400 PC3200 (from my old AthlonXP build)
BFG Geforce 6800NU OC
Audigy2 Platinum sound card
Antec Smartpower 350 PSU
No SATA devices at this point

A few BIOS 2.10 settings:
IDE strength: Normal
V-Link: Normal
DRAM: DDR400 (defaults to DDR333 if not set manually)
Flexibility: Disabled
Pipeline DRQCTL: Enabled
CPU Speed: 266 (defaults to 256 if not set manually)
Spread Spectrum: disabled

Everything else is pretty much left at default or Auto.

Stress tested with no errors:
Memtest 86+: 8 hours
Prime95 on each core: 7 hours
(custom test at default, each core allocated 400MB ram)

C Snyder

 

[techwool]

Wiped everything clean for a fresh install last night.

Installed XP, Hyperion drivers and then the latest Catalyst drivers. Everything was running sweet (no freezing, booting everytime), even had the on board sound running (left the Audigy out).

I then went to install my wireless card and things went wrong. The first PCI slot I installed it in was recognised by Windows but it wouldn't connect even after putting my wireless key in. The other 3 PCI slots I tried all caused some degree of freezing on boot up. I took it out completely and now it freezes on startup every time.

Very very strange... Could it be the power supply?

Edit: I flashed the BIOS from 1.9 to 2.4 yesterday, didn't make any difference.

 

[homonculus]

What PSU are you running?

 

[techwool]

It's a 300W Mercury (Pentium 4 ATX compatible) PSU.... basically the one that came with the case which is about 3/4 years old.

I have a beefier one in another machine, might swap them over to see if it makes any difference.

 

[MKD]

Fascinating thread - thanks everyone for your contributions.

Thought I'd add my configuration/experience in case it can help/re-assure anyone...

I bought one of these motherboards a couple of weeks ago and got around to making up a new PC based on it last week with NO SIGNIFICANT ISSUES WHATSOEVER.

My Configuration:
MB: ASRock 775DUAL-VSTA Motherboard BIOS 1.9 -> 2.2 -> 2.4 via ASRock Windows updater
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 with their standard cooler fan
RAM: 2GB - Corsair VS2GBKIT667D2 - ie 2 x VS1GB667D2
HD: SATA Hitachi 320GB HDT725032VLA360 (left at stock SATA 150)
DVD: LG GDA-H12L (ATA)
Case: Antec SLK3700-BQE with 12cm fan at rear & PSU Antec 350W Model SL350SP with PFC (variable fan)
Video: XFX GF 6600GT 128MB AGP
PCI: 1 x Hauppauge DVB-T 90002 card
Op Sys: Microsoft Windows XP [Pro] Media Centre Edition (+ Vista voucher)

BIOS Issues/observations:
1) BIOS updates both defaulted to RAID configuration (still boots just gives an error during startup until you turn RAID off)
2) RAM gets Auto'd by BIOS as 533 not 667 (works perfectly at both settings)
3) BIOS defaults to PCI rather than AGP primary graphics (works at that setting)
4) BIOS Quiet Fan Disabled by default is enable'able in all BIOSes I've used

Setup issues/observations
5) Case Power LED is a 3-pin connector whereas motherboard offers 2-pin, so used a HD LED as the power light
6) HD LED on motherboard doesn't seem to work - get no LED lit in either position
7) Windows installed/worked OK even before I did the ASRock CD installs (Got INTEL-VIA Series IVD12c version 12C disc with it)
8) Used downloaded HyperionPro 5.10A instead of the 5.07A on the CD
9) MCE disc wouldn't install until I'd been online and got MS NET Framework 1.1 downloaded and updated n'times [I hadn't done my homework to get this ready]
10) Using NVidia 93.71 drivers
11) MCE recognised Hauppauge DVB-T (with 2.5e drivers) straight away
12) Using RivaTuner to tone down the XFX card's noisy fan to 33-66-100% (the noisiest component in the system) - the nVidia utility always reports the card temp at 39C (though haven't stressed it at all)
13) Small amount of vibration drone from case when HD stressed - have yet to consider its acoustic management and maximise
14) The PSU has a fan cable than connected to the motherboard's case fan socket and it gives a sensible reading.

Very pleased indeed so far. Next I have to try some degree of overclocking. Still trying to work out what people say here for the E6300.

So if anyone wants to respond:
A) Are my Riva Tuner fan 33-66-100% settings appropriate for this card?
B) Is the perpetual NVidia 39C report likely to be true or a bug ?
C) Any specific Overclock settings for my CPU/RAM configuration ?

Enjoy guyz (and Happy Xmas of course)
MKD

 

[colche]

Originally posted by: techwool
Lo' all, first post to this forum and I'm afraid its asking for help...

Bought this board yesterday as a stepping stone to a major upgrade. I'm running an Core 2 Duo E6600, 2xDDR 400 RAM, an Asus X800XT AGP gfx card and an SB Audigy 2ZS.

I've installed Windows and the new Hyperion drivers. Everything was going great until I installed the Catalyst drivers, Windows then froze on booting but worked about every 5th or 6th time (deja vu from some of the other posts I've read on here).

However, when it did boot up it was fine, the CCC was complete and correct. TBH I could handle it booting after every 5 or 6 times but then I installed my Audigy and now it won't get past the XP loading screen at all.

I've tried messing about with the BIOS settings (AGP, memory, etc.) but to no avail. Please can anyone offer any other help before I have to ditch the X800XT and go and spend even more money.

Cheers all.

Sounds like exactly what happened to my (X800Pro - Modded to XT AGP) check my posts a while back in this thread.

I've been there and tried a lot. Save yourself the time and effort! You've got a couple options...Upgrade to Vista the Cataylst drivers work fine no issues there, or swap cards (I sold my X800 AGP and got a 7900GS PCI-E). In the end i did both!

 

[homonculus]

MKD, it doesn't matter which C2D you have; the only important difference is the locked multiplier, in your case this is x7, in my case (E6400) it is x8, E6600 = x9 etc. etc. etc. I believe that the X6800 has an unlocked multi, hence the absurd cost! Try my overclock settings posted earlier although you'll have to change to account for DDR2.

 

[dmnlucifer]

HAVE E6600 @ 312 FSB = 2.81 GHZ 2 STICKS DDR333 SET UP AS DDR 400 IN BIOS
SET TO ASYNC PCI-E SET PCI-E TO 117 SPREAD SPECTRUM TO DISABLE V-LINK NORMAL
DRAM V NORMAL FASTWRITES DISABLE AGP AUTO AGP APPITURE 64 PCI DELAY DISABLE USING X1950XTX PCI-E WORKING GREAT

 

[amir911]

I need some help from anyone here with ATI card:

Today as i was playing company of heros my system gave me the VPU error two times but with no clear msg. Thought it was over heating but i used ATI TOOL and temps looked fine, plus yesterday i played it for 10 hours no issue.

Now i played it again for 5 min no issue. what is up i dono?!!!!

should i remove the agp fast write from bios?
what else i should do? agp 8x is on.
what is speed spectrum and pipeline? and vlink? and ide speed???
they need to make a clear info about these things!!!

Also when i plug in my sony receiver to my sound card(audigy plat)system hangs but after a restart it work??? dono what is up there. Card is secure though.

settings

case is cool and cpu temp is 28 degrees.

btw i have bios 1.9 should i update that or stay with it as i have ddr not ddr2?

 

[Endlessshampoo]

get bios 2.10 and my agp goes crazy if i try to put on fast write. And i got the fastest agp card there is on the market atm.

 

[simonnance]

Anyone actualy have any info on what the board outputs as ram voltages for the low/normal/high settings for both DDR and DDR2?

be nice to know what i'm pumping into my Dimms, and what ram i can safely upgrade to.

 

[uly166]