Originally posted by: blackangst1
Originally posted by: blackangst1
My board and C2D 6600 is now on the UPS truck to be delivered today. I've read the thread a couple time and downloaded all the appropriate drivers etc. I'm also going to do a clean install of 32 bit XP Pro, as its about time anyway I'll let you know how it goes.
Here's my setup:
C2D e6600
ASRock 775Dual-VSTA
OCZ PC2 5400 Gold 2gig
Nvidia AGP 6800 Ultra
Quantum Atlas 10k SCSI (for OS)
LSI Logic SCSI adapter PCI card
Western Digital Caviar 250 (for everything else) SATA
I went for this board because Im not really ready to spend 400 bucks on a new vid card So we'll see....
edit: Just as an FYI I noticed driver version 2.0 are out...gonna try em. If I have issues I'll probably fall back to 1.9 as most people seem to have luck with those
OK finally got everything installed and stable. Took a loooong time tho. Im not sure why my edit says 2.0 is out when 2.4 is actually what the newest BIOS is...guess it was a typo. Anyways. Board came with 1.8, and made a few tweaks per a few people's suggestions here. (As a side note, it booted right into my old Windows install lol I thought it was funny actually...but was as buggy as a night in a rain forest due to all the AMD crap in the file system). After a clean XP Pro install and driver update, my system would just...freeze. For no reason, and at different times. Sometimes it would be as windows was loading, sometimes 5 minutes into my session, somwtimes 20 minutes in. Mind you this is BEFORE I installed ANY 3rd party programs. I made tweaks here and there in BIOS, no change. Tried EVERY BIOS from 1.8 up to 2.4, same thing. Mind you I am now 13 hours into this and getting VERY VERY irritable lol. Im not really a newb at this, so I was getting really pissed lol. Time for a break...
took a 5 hour nap and had a meal lol.
I loaded BIOS 2.1, and pretty much set EVERYTHING to auto, with exception of AGP stuff, and set memory to DDRII 533. Everything else was AUTO. One by one I starting changing things to tweaks recommended here. When all was said and done I ended up with 289 FSB (2600mGhz), 1T memory timings, and stock memory latencies (4 4 4 12). Anything else I dont remember lol...I havent tried a higher FSB, as 2600 is perfectly fine for me, as I am a gamer and multimedia guy, and am not really a benchmark h0. Besides..anything more I *might* be able to get out of THIS board I really wont see a difference in everyday use
Ran Orthos stable for 13 hours...memtest stable 4 hours. 41 was highest temp with 40 average. No freezing. Loaded a few basic programs like antivirus, diskeeper defrag, anti spyware stuff, etc. I did have a little fun tho last night....ran 2 instances of Everquest, defragged two drives, and did a complete antivirus scan....at the same time...PERFECTLY! Man I love this processor! Anyway, thanks all for everyone's input as we muddle our way to stability with this board