Asus A8V

[Riptide]

Originally Posted by H2OGun

MSI K8N Neo2 really drives me nuts. I have been lowering the HTT by a MHz unit to see the max error free Prime95 run for Adata DDR566 and Corsair XL.

So far, I got 210 HTT 2-3-2-5 for Corsair but work-in-progress for Adata. I am now at 240 (down from 270) HTT 3-4-4-8 which still gave me errors. I think I am gonna give up soon. I have never seen a pickier board than this.

Funny you mention this. I am discovering that although I can now get a desktop with this kingston RAM the machine is very inconsistent. Prime can sometimes run for an hour at 240HTT 3-4-4-8. Sometimes if I reboot it and try again it runs for 5 minutes and dies. I tried a little extra vDIMM and that didn't help.

So although it appears to like this kingston memory better than the mushkin bh5 it is still not working properly.

Any suggestions guys? I'm tempted to put my Abit AV8 back in and try again except this time w/the kingston. If this MSI motherboard is just being picky I'm starting to get fed up with it.

[Blue078]

Originally Posted by Riptide

Funny you mention this. I am discovering that although I can now get a desktop with this kingston RAM the machine is very inconsistent. Prime can sometimes run for an hour at 240HTT 3-4-4-8. Sometimes if I reboot it and try again it runs for 5 minutes and dies. I tried a little extra vDIMM and that didn't help.

So although it appears to like this kingston memory better than the mushkin bh5 it is still not working properly.

Any suggestions guys? I'm tempted to put my Abit AV8 back in and try again except this time w/the kingston. If this MSI motherboard is just being picky I'm starting to get fed up with it.

Try this in the NEO2 Rip just for the heck of it.

In the BIOS under the Cell minue
set cmd rate to 1
set Aggressive timings to dissable
set vdimm to 2.8v

those kingstons use Hynix mem chips, and we all know Hynix loves the volties, and disslikes tight timings.

[Riptide]

Originally Posted by Blue078

Try this in the NEO2 Rip just for the heck of it.

In the BIOS under the Cell minue
set cmd rate to 1
set Aggressive timings to dissable
set vdimm to 2.8v

those kingstons use Hynix mem chips, and we all know Hynix loves the volties, and disslikes tight timings.

cmd rate was already at 1T, aggressive set to disable also set that way. I tried 2.7v but that didn't help. I'll try 2.8v when I get off of work today.

Thanks for your help guys, you've been (and continue to be) excellent resources and I appreciate it. Even if I have to give up on this o/c thing eventually at least we gave it the 'ole college try right?

Still thinking of putting that abit back in there and see how it handles this kingston and higher htt...

[xgman]

Originally Posted by Riptide

The only other RAM I have to test with is identical to mine (level 2 mushkin) except that it's pc3200. Is that not going to be a good test then? Or do you think it's my particular set of sticks that this board might dislike?

I'd hate to have to spend $300 on memory. This mushkin was over that much when I bought it. I think I'd rather dump this board then spend big bucks on more RAM when I shouldn't have to.

Run windiag.exe AND memtest86.exe one stick at a time and see which one errors at what speed first. It's the only way to be sure. They are both free programs. Do a google search and run them form a bootable floppy disk in dos.

[xgman]

Originally Posted by Riptide

1T.. I've been kinda reluctant to go over 2.8v just because it voids the RAM's warranty.

Does Mushkin have a Camera set up on your monitor? We promise we won't tell. Seriously, don't worry about that.

[xgman]

Originally Posted by Blue078

I decided to try the NEO2 for myself, wile I'm forever waiteing for Abit to beef up the AV8 with a new BIOS and get the second one out the door.
{yes the darn board is still only on the release BIOS, go abit}t.....

ther is a AV8 1.3 bios floating somewhere.

[xgman]

Originally Posted by Riptide

Sonofa.. Looks like the xman and the rest of ya were on to something there. I plugged that kingston hyperx pc4000 in there and boy, night and day difference.

Previously w/my mushkin pc3500 I couldn't even get a desktop @ 216fsb, no matter what vDIMM I plugged in there.

Right now I'm doing some testing, but I have a windows desktop at 240fsb, multi 10, x4 HTT. 3-4-4-8-1T, 2.6v. I am trying to run prime just now, we'll see how it does. If it passes that would clearly prove that my mushkin is either a bad batch -OR- this board doesn't play nice with it.

If all goes well I may try for 250x10 eventually.

Now I need to test my mushkin in another system.

[xgman]

Originally Posted by sierra_bound

I did some tweaking with a fresh install.

[xgman]

Originally Posted by Riptide

My system runs stable in Windows but if I have my fsb @ 240 it won't cold boot. Fans spin up but I never get a signal to my monitor, stays off. If I reset CMOS I can get it to come out of that but once I up the fsb and then power cycle it goes into lala land again.

One problem fixed only to run into another. Weee...

needs morte voltage and a long burn in.

[xgman]

Originally Posted by Riptide

So although it appears to like this kingston memory better than the mushkin bh5 it is still not working properly.

Any suggestions guys?

I hate to see you spend more $, but either OCZ 3700EB or Crucial Balistic 4000's would probably serve you much better.

[Blue078]

Originally Posted by xgman

ther is a AV8 1.3 bios floating somewhere.

First thing I tried was the 1.3beta, and the 1.3c2 beta same thing unstable in 3D games at 240 htt and above

The AV8 is going back to Santa Fry's
The NEO2 is the shizzy 255x10 right out of the box....I didnt even have to cross my fingers, or pray to Alli Baba

[Blue078]

It pails in compairsom to SB's killer sPI....but all in all a good score for a chip that lost 512kb of L2 at birth

[duke2106]

I just got this board, with the 3500+ Athlon 64. I also got the corsair twinx 1024 -4000 memory, labeled:
1GB 2 x 512MB XMS4000, 500MHz, 64Mx64, non-ECC, 184 Pin DDR, unbuffered, SPD (3-4-4-8), 32Mx8 DRAMs

All the other equipment I will carry over from my other computer:

2 SATA Hard drives (seagate 120gig and 160gig, respectively, OS installed on the 120gig)

Pioneer DVD drive connected as primary master on the primary IDE port
Iomega Zip250 installed as primary master on the secondary IDE port.

Plextor 12/10/32S scsi CDRW hooked up to an adaptec 2940 controller card

ATI Radeon 9700pro
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum EX

Anyone see any problems with this config?

[Riptide]

I'll toy around with the kingston a little while longer, try a 2.8vdimm. If that doesn't take care of it though then what ought I do next guys?

Tell you what... I'm willing to try once more with a different set of RAM if this kingston won't do the trick. So OCZ PC3700EB or the Balistix PC4000 are the best options then? Which of those two should I try?

If another set of RAM doesn't work out then I guess I'll have to give up at that point. I've got a lot of patience but it's finally starting to wear a bit thin.

[Sierra_abx]

Originally Posted by duke2106

I just got this board, with the 3500+ Athlon 64. I also got the corsair twinx 1024 -4000 memory, labeled:
1GB 2 x 512MB XMS4000, 500MHz, 64Mx64, non-ECC, 184 Pin DDR, unbuffered, SPD (3-4-4-8), 32Mx8 DRAMs

All the other equipment I will carry over from my other computer:

2 SATA Hard drives (seagate 120gig and 160gig, respectively, OS installed on the 120gig)

Pioneer DVD drive connected as primary master on the primary IDE port
Iomega Zip250 installed as primary master on the secondary IDE port.

Plextor 12/10/32S scsi CDRW hooked up to an adaptec 2940 controller card

ATI Radeon 9700pro
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum EX

Anyone see any problems with this config?

Everything looks fine. The most important component, as you'll soon find out, is memory. The Corsair PC4000 should give you decent RAM speed.