ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

[bigsnyder]

Just upgraded to a GA-EX38-DS4. My 775Dual served me well. This thread has been extremely helpful.
Thanks to those that have taken the time help. If anyone needs a spare 775Dual, let me know!
It will be going to the FS/FT forum soon.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Originally posted by: bigsnyder
Just upgraded to a GA-EX38-DS4. My 775Dual served me well. This thread has been extremely helpful.
Thanks to those that have taken the time help. If anyone needs a spare 775Dual, let me know!
It will be going to the FS/FT forum soon.

YGPM

 

[Mr Vain]

Originally posted by: bigsnyder
Just upgraded to a GA-EX38-DS4. My 775Dual served me well. This thread has been extremely helpful.
Thanks to those that have taken the time help. If anyone needs a spare 775Dual, let me know!
It will be going to the FS/FT forum soon.

Thanks Snyder for all your help in this thread.

 

[Engineer]

I've read enough to know that the 8800GT does not work with this board (that I know of) without a GEN 1 BIOS flash for the video card. Any other trick, short of trying to get a hacked BIOS for my 8800GT, to get one to work? Saddened by this...almost rather buy a new board than to use another brand BIOS on my card (since I have not found one yet for the GEN 1 modification for a MSI card)?!?!

On a side note, anyone tried the 3.10A BIOS for this board yet? Looks like it patches the board for HD38xx useage. Not sure what it fixes though unless it's the PCIe pipeline stuff.

 

[Dragenman]

I have the 775 Daul VSTA cpu is the P4 3.4g running 2 gig 5400 memory xp home and have the ati 1300 pcie vid and i will be upgrading the vid card to the 2600 pro 512 and want to know if this is supported i know i have to flash my bios and will do that before i do the install.Want to know if there are any tips and or help to make sure all runs?

 

[imported_stickboy]

Engineer, EVGA's recent BIOS for 8800GT and GTS 512 cards work on the PT880Pro/Ultra boards without flashing. This is the BIOS that has been shipping on all EVGA cards since January. This has been confirmed by multiple sources.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: stickboy
Engineer, EVGA's recent BIOS for 8800GT and GTS 512 cards work on the PT880Pro/Ultra boards without flashing. This is the BIOS that has been shipping on all EVGA cards since January. This has been confirmed by multiple sources.

Yes, they all use NVidia reference BIOS 62.92.24.xx.xx or higher. I have contacted MSI and they state that they will release a new version next month. I am attempting to contact MSI Taiwan since they usually receive BIOS updates earlier. If I don't receive one soon enough, I'll flash the card with EVGA's KO 8800GT bios with the clocks turned to the same speed as the default MSI 8800GT OC card!

 

[Hlafordlaes]

Originally posted by: stickboy
Engineer, EVGA's recent BIOS for 8800GT and GTS 512 cards work on the PT880Pro/Ultra boards without flashing. This is the BIOS that has been shipping on all EVGA cards since January. This has been confirmed by multiple sources.

That had slipped by me. What great news for my 4Core board (tho I do wonder if I'll be able to maintain a 300 FSB once I'm on PCI-e). In any case, an 8800GT would be a nice step up from my 7600GT.

Thanks for the tip.

 

[Mr Vain]

Excellent guide for these motherboards.

Originally posted by: cpmee
Asrock 4CoreDual-Vista overclocking article at Madshrimps.


http://www.madshrimps.be/?acti...tpage=3174&articID=670


:thumbsup:

 

[ZDarryl]

Hey guys,

I have the 775 Dual-VSTA board and can't get my new EVGA 8800GTS 512mb to work on it???? System won't post anything on my monitor?

I have been using an ATI AIW X800XT AGP card for about a year with no problems.

System:
ASRock 775Dual-VSTA, BIOS 3.10
Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 @ 260x10=2.6Ghz
2x1GB PC2-6400 HP RAM
ANTEC Smart Power 500W PSU
Windows XP Pro-SP2

EVGA 8800GTS 512mb PCI-E Video card
ATI AIW X800XT AGP video card.

 

[Budarow]

Originally posted by: ZDarryl
Hey guys,

I have the 775 Dual-VSTA board and can't get my new EVGA 8800GTS 512mb to work on it???? System won't post anything on my monitor?

I have been using an ATI AIW X800XT AGP card for about a year with no problems.

System:
ASRock 775Dual-VSTA, BIOS 3.10
Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 @ 260x10=2.6Ghz
2x1GB PC2-6400 HP RAM
ANTEC Smart Power 500W PSU
Windows XP Pro-SP2

EVGA 8800GTS 512mb PCI-E Video card
ATI AIW X800XT AGP video card.

Read a couple posts above yours...looks like you need a PCI-E version 1.0 BIOS for your 8800GTS card (by Engineer).

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: ZDarryl
Hey guys,

I have the 775 Dual-VSTA board and can't get my new EVGA 8800GTS 512mb to work on it???? System won't post anything on my monitor?

I have been using an ATI AIW X800XT AGP card for about a year with no problems.

System:
ASRock 775Dual-VSTA, BIOS 3.10
Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 @ 260x10=2.6Ghz
2x1GB PC2-6400 HP RAM
ANTEC Smart Power 500W PSU
Windows XP Pro-SP2

EVGA 8800GTS 512mb PCI-E Video card
ATI AIW X800XT AGP video card.

You'll need another motherboard to use (borrow) to flash your card with a newer EVGA (NVidia reference) BIOS. You can download the 62.92.25.00.05 version of your BIOS here....and it should work with the VIA chipset of the 775Dual-VSTA board.

Bios (click me).

You will need the NVFlash program to pull your existing BIOS and save (recommended) and to flash your card with this version. You can download the latest NVFlash from this site also.

By the way, I tried to boot up using a PCI card (along with the 8800GT card) and it was a no-go on this board. I assume you won't be able to boot with the AGP and the 8800GT installed at the same time.

Good luck!

Originally posted by: Budarow
Read a couple posts above yours...looks like you need a PCI-E version 1.0 BIOS for your 8800GTS card (by Engineer).

The newer generation BIOS are a hybrid BIOS that works with either. Earlier BIOS versions could be edited with NiBiTor to be Gen 1 or Gen 2. Nvidia released version 62.92.24.xx.xx and higher that now act as either Gen 1 or Gen 2 depending on your board at bootup.

 

[ZDarryl]

Originally posted by: Engineer


You'll need another motherboard to use (borrow) to flash your card with a newer EVGA (NVidia reference) BIOS. You can download the 62.92.25.00.05 version of your BIOS here....and it should work with the VIA chipset of the 775Dual-VSTA board.

Bios (click me).

You will need the NVFlash program to pull your existing BIOS and save (recommended) and to flash your card with this version. You can download the latest NVFlash from this site also.

By the way, I tried to boot up using a PCI card (along with the 8800GT card) and it was a no-go on this board. I assume you won't be able to boot with the AGP and the 8800GT installed at the same time.

Good luck!

Originally posted by: Budarow
Read a couple posts above yours...looks like you need a PCI-E version 1.0 BIOS for your 8800GTS card (by Engineer).

The newer generation BIOS are a hybrid BIOS that works with either. Earlier BIOS versions could be edited with NiBiTor to be Gen 1 or Gen 2. Nvidia released version 62.92.24.xx.xx and higher that now act as either Gen 1 or Gen 2 depending on your board at bootup.

WOW, What a pain.....Unfortunately, I don't have anybody to borrow a board from, so I guess I am out of luck with this lame ASRock board and will need to buy a new non-ASRock board.

I bought this ASRock so that I could continue to use my AGP card and then could upgrade in the future to a PCI-E card easily. But unfortunately ASRock made the PCI-E slot worthless for any decent PCI-E cards. The 320mb 8800GTS is on the compatibility list, but not the 512mb?????

I contacted their tech support and got absolutely no help.

Here are their canned responses (nice English and spelling btw):

Dear aSRock Costumer,
Is your video card under the ASRock support list ? please make sure your video card is under the list ,if is not selct one .
Use this address below as reference of video cards .
http://www.asrock.com/mb/vga.asp?Model=775Dual-vsta&s=

ASRock Support

My response:

Hello,

The 320mb version of my video card is shown, but not my 512mb version.

The 320mb version is older then the 512mb version, so I didn't know if your compatibility list was up to date.

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to get this card to work.

Thanks!!

Their response:

Dear ASRock Costumer,
The version of video card you might have is a newer version ,very similar but might have some incompatibility with the board.

ASRock Support


How is this technical support??? These responses are so generic, they could be from their new minimum wage office boy............



OK, that is enough ranting.......



THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP ENGINEER!!!!!! I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!!!!!!!!


I think I will buy this Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L mobo for $90. Looks like a lot of good reviews on it!!!

 

[Engineer]

It's not so much Asrock's fault as it was NVidia's reference BIOS's inability to work with older PCIe slots. ATI's cards, while they do have issues with certain BIOS features of this board, work fine for posting and bootup. Also, EVGA has taken the lead with new BIOS deployments for the 8800GT (not GTS?) lines and most "newer" models manufactured latly have a BIOS that will work.

You don't have a friend or someone that can flash your card?

Even if you buy a new board, you could always flash the 8800GTS and check to see if it runs on the Asrock...or you could just give the Asrock to me and I'll take good care of it!

Good luck!

 

[ZDarryl]

Originally posted by: Engineer
It's not so much Asrock's fault as it was NVidia's reference BIOS's inability to work with older PCIe slots. ATI's cards, while they do have issues with certain BIOS features of this board, work fine for posting and bootup. Also, EVGA has taken the lead with new BIOS deployments for the 8800GT (not GTS?) lines and most "newer" models manufactured latly have a BIOS that will work.

You don't have a friend or someone that can flash your card?

Even if you buy a new board, you could always flash the 8800GTS and check to see if it runs on the Asrock...or you could just give the Asrock to me and I'll take good care of it!

Good luck!

Well, I will see if I can find someone with a PCI-E board to flash the bios on my 8800GTS.

I have never flashed the bios on a video card before, is it easy using nvFlash.v5.63.exe?

Are there any negative effect from Flashing? Will I possibly need to flash back to the original bios?

Thanks!

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: ZDarryl

Originally posted by: Engineer
It's not so much Asrock's fault as it was NVidia's reference BIOS's inability to work with older PCIe slots. ATI's cards, while they do have issues with certain BIOS features of this board, work fine for posting and bootup. Also, EVGA has taken the lead with new BIOS deployments for the 8800GT (not GTS?) lines and most "newer" models manufactured latly have a BIOS that will work.

You don't have a friend or someone that can flash your card?

Even if you buy a new board, you could always flash the 8800GTS and check to see if it runs on the Asrock...or you could just give the Asrock to me and I'll take good care of it!

Good luck!

Well, I will see if I can find someone with a PCI-E board to flash the bios on my 8800GTS.

I have never flashed the bios on a video card before, is it easy using nvFlash.v5.63.exe?

Are there any negative effect from Flashing? Will I possibly need to flash back to the original bios?

Thanks!

There should be no negative side effects. I would make sure that the PC that you're flashing on is connected to a UPS so that a sudden power outage would not possibly kill your BIOS completely. I have never used NVFlash before that last few weeks and it was actually very simple. I used it to pull the old BIOS and save it and then used it to flash the new one. It's DOS based (so you'll need a Win98 or WinXP command prompt boot disk (floppy or USB bootable flash drive with a PC that will boot USB) and is command line driven (with lots of options). I'm sure a tutorial is around by Yahoo-ing/Googleing it.

That site that I posted the BIOS link from has many copies of BIOS for NVidia cards and probably has yours also, but I would back it up just in case.

Also, I have heard that if the BIOS flash crashes, there is a possibility to boot from a PCI video card (or onboard video) and then run the flash utility again.

Good luck.

 

[ZDarryl]

Dang, every time I talk to you Engineer, I get more and more nervous......lol

The PC I was going to try to use doesn't have a floppy drive, and I don't know if it can boot from USB and I don't think I have a UPS. I guess I will look into that and if it doesn't seem plausible, I will just buy a new board.

I used to be more aggressive in the past and would work on a problem for a long time to get it fixed. Now I try for a little while and if it doesn't work, I buy a replacement..........lol

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: ZDarryl
Dang, every time I talk to you Engineer, I get more and more nervous......lol

The PC I was going to try to use doesn't have a floppy drive, and I don't know if it can boot from USB and I don't think I have a UPS. I guess I will look into that and if it doesn't seem plausible, I will just buy a new board.

I used to be more aggressive in the past and would work on a problem for a long time to get it fixed. Now I try for a little while and if it doesn't work, I buy a replacement..........lol

You should be able to make a bootable CD then.

 

[jives11]

Hi,

My son has a PC with a 775Dual-VSTA board, 2Gb of Ballistic DDRII memory and until recently a P4 3.06Ghz, BIOS is 2.90, XP SP2. Machine was very stable. We just upgraded to an E6600 Core 2 and we are getting random hangs/reboots. Not very often and not when the CPU is under great stress. Symptoms are high pitch squeal through the sound card, then a blank screen. green light on the front still on but needs a reset to get any response from the PC. Nothing in the system event log.

I pretty much just swapped in the new CPU, didn't change anything in the BIOS settings, which are probably all defaulted. Any suggestions of possible places to look ?

I was very careful seating the new CPU, heatsink etc. I hate installing these things as you never know how much pressure is too much, but I think it was fine. CPU Core temperatures doesn't seem to get much higher than 42 degrees (speedfan). PC has an Akasa 500W green power, 3 IDE disks and a 7600 PCI-E card. Maybe it's a PSU issue ?

 

[mikospy]

I has problem with soundcard too. send me more info and try 2.9A bios. all bioses has problems (2.0up) with S3STR. I will send U bios and alternative soundcard drivers. contact me at mikospy(at)gmail.com

 

[mikospy]

This was caused by incompatibility with PCIExpres 2.0 with nvidia chipset and NV9x cause yourly listed cards are PCI-E 2.0 and not supported by this mobo. If you want more info contact me at mikospy(AT)mail.com

 

[mikospy]

This was caused by incompatibility with PCIExpres 2.0 with nvidia chipset and NV9x cause yourly listed cards are PCI-E 2.0 and not supported by this mobo. If you want more info contact me at mikospy(AT)mail.com

 

[vgrigor5]

I need 4GB on such mainboard

Please advice,
how it is possible to download bios 3.10A ?
About that bios version was noted that it keep 4GB DDR2...

some question:
Does this bios is reliable and suitable for overclocking as other good versions ?

thanks

 

[jimmor]

Originally posted by: vgrigor5
I need 4GB on such mainboard

Please advice,
how it is possible to download bios 3.10A ?
About that bios version was noted that it keep 4GB DDR2...


thanks

Just click on link below for bios 3.10A,

http://www.pctreiber.net/filebase_redirect.php?fid=6545

 

[vgrigor5]

jimmor, really thanks.

now I need to understand - does this version of Bios will not crash my computer
or disable overclocking ?

Have you some based opinion about that?
somebody tested this Bios ?

what was in a result?