Hi guys.
This thread is pretty informative (altho I won't be overclocking for a bit)
Umm since your so familiar with this board perhaps you can help me out. I've been having problems setting it up.
First off. My ram refuses to go to 400. It loads up in the bios. I set the options but it always stays at 333. Wont set itself higher for some reason even tho I am manually setting it. It's a Corsair XMS 512M 3200 stick rev 1.1 (bh6 chip) that I bought a few years ago.
What I did to try to correct it: changed ddr slots, and upped the voltage. Didnt work. Flashed to 1.05 bios
didnt work.
Ok the second problem I am having is I can't seem to get this network connection working with the onboard lan. It finds everything ok, and appears to set itself up properly but wont log onto the internet. I've got a dlink 10/100 card in there right now so I can log on.
Now the odd thing here is when I first set this up last night it worked. No problem. But I formatted due to another problem and after that I couldn't get it to work anymore. (not sure if this is relevant I note in the system properties computer description at the bottom physical address extention after sp2 is installed. didnt say that on the original install altho it didnt work then either)
third problem. This is really odd. When I originally set this up (i've done a few setups in the last ten hours heh) I got thru all the installs but when it went to load windowsXP up for the first time. For some reason My cdrw/dvd combo drive by samsung wouldn't work properly. It kept rebooting the system. It's odd because the same drive installed the OS not 20 minutes before.
At first I wasn't sure what the problem was but I narrowed it down to the cdrom (yeah I tried another cdrom in there to just to see if I'd damaged mine or not) When the drive bay was open I could load into windows fine or if I had it disabled it would load into windows fine. But once a cd went in I'd get a Machine check_exception.with this error message Stop: 0x0000009cC0X00000004,0X80545FF0,0XB20000000,0X00070F0F)
SO I double checked the cabling, checked the jumpers, and all was fine so I started moving it around on ide channels. Set to master/slave ect Finally I got it to run normally without the reboot or error messages on the main ide channel as a slave to the primary hard drive. It's the only thing that seemed to work. This cdrom drive has worked perfectly for me for six months in other setups so I don't believe its the drive...
But im sort of at a loss with these issues and not sure what to do. SOME help would be appreciaited. I was at amdmb.com and futuremark and no one's been able to help me out yet.
EDIT: As a sidenote perhaps this is relevant with the ram, At the time 166(333) was standard and no jedec specs for ddr 400 were defined so the ram doesn't default to 400 I have to manually set it or it's detected at 333 cas 2,2,2,6 would that be a reason why I can't manually set it to 400? On my nforce2 board I always ran it at 400 222-5 with no problems (unless i overclocked) and it was easy to set.
Second Edit: Well for some reason the Onboard lan has decided to work this morning.. god im begining to
hate this board and I haven't had it for 24hrs yet. Little slow going on line... since each time I start the browser it wants to detect network settings. Anyway for it to auto detect in the Nvidia network manager or does that have to do with the firewall settings?
Also ... I can't manually set the fsb it just stays locked at 200 .. (was curious for later overclocking)
SORRY MY POST IS LONG