F2-8500CL5D-4GBPI + M4A78-E + Phenom II X4 965. 1066Mhz Bios settings help?

[Kaleppo]

tried,no probs. upped the vcore,totally bad idea,wont even boot,did everything imaginable.

I'm thinking of giving this mobo and memories some hammer treatment. Or maybe not that'll be a waste of money. this is so frustrating,thats it.

i guess it would be wiser for everyone to leave those memories running 800 and forget every thought of 1066. what do you guys think?

[Tradesman]

It's booting and running Okay till you start gaming? then crashes and BSODs? Might look at GPU Driver...also did you up the CPU voltage?

[Kaleppo]

Tried the volts,adjusted every aspect. conclusion. this asus mobo is so full of ****. first and the last one of this brand.

guess i'll wait for bios upgrade or reply from the asus forum,hell,if these memories are compatible,then they had to test these,and to test and to get "passed" marking,maybe they have some kind magic wand what touches my mobo and makes everything pretty and shiny. over and out.

[GSKILL TECH]

What slots do you have them installed in? You may have an unstable processor since DDR2-800 works fine while DDR2-1066 does not.

Temporarily use these settings, they will provide the same speeds as DDR2-1066 CL5.

AI Overclock Tuner - Manual
DRAM Frequency - 800
DRAM Voltage - 2.0V
HT Voltage - 1.3V
NB Voltage - 1.2V

DRAM Controller Configuration (submenu)
DCT Unganged Mode - Enabled
Power Down Enabled - Disabled

DRAM Timing/Driving Config. (submenu)
DRAM Command Rate - 2
tCL - 4
tRCD - 4
tRP - 4
tRAS - 12
tRTP - AUTO
tRC - AUTO
tWR - 8
tRRD - AUTO

tRWTTO - AUTO
tWRRD - AUTO
tWTR - AUTO
tWRWR - AUTO
tRDRD - AUTO
tRFC0 - 127
tRFC1 - 127
tREF - AUTO

For DDR2-1066, try setting some timings to AUTO, the motherboard might not like the manual settings for whatever reason.

AI Overclock Tuner - Manual
DRAM Frequency - 1066
DRAM Voltage - 2.1V
HT Voltage - 1.4V
NB Voltage - 1.2V

DRAM Controller Configuration (submenu)
DCT Unganged Mode - Enabled
Power Down Enabled - Disabled

DRAM Timing/Driving Config. (submenu)
DRAM Command Rate - 2
tCL - 5
tRCD - 5
tRP - 5
tRAS - 15
tRTP - AUTO
tRC - AUTO
tWR - AUTO
tRRD - AUTO

tRWTTO - AUTO
tWRRD - AUTO
tWTR - AUTO
tWRWR - AUTO
tRDRD - AUTO
tRFC0 - 195
tRFC1 - 195
tREF - AUTO

Thank you
GSKILL SUPPORT

[Kaleppo]

Ok,will try them.

Short temper,unstable components,no good =)

[Kaleppo]

Have been running on 800 mhz a while now,seems to work.

I set twr to auto,bios gives only options "auto 3 4 5 6"

If it stays stable will settle for this. thanks again for everybody.

[butchconner]

Kaleppo,

For what it's worth -- I fought three ASUS motherboards -- an M4A78 Pro, a M3A76-CM and a M4785-M for two months and had problems the whole time -- maybe not as bad as you, but discouraging.

Two things happened:

1. I finally realized that my brand new AMD AII 4X 955 BE might be defective -- sent it in -- and it was!!! AMD did a great job of exchanging.

2. It is hard getting all the settings right. Each motherboard has just slightly different wording on the BIOS setup menus -- and some don't have the same setting options as
others. Took me a while to get far enough up the curve to make the right choices.

Bottom line is I got the hardware fixed, and finally with GSkill's help got a set of settings that work.

All three systems have been working without problems for a couple of months now.

Hang in there!!! ASUS nor GSkill are bad. Just takes more work than normal to get
the top performance.

RevBC

P. S. -- After getting the above done -- I find that the comment someone else made in one of these threads is right. The video drivers give a lot of problems when trying to
play games at high performance levels.

bc

[Kaleppo]

Just thinking,if theres a some problem in the processor,wouldnt it show up whenever you push it to the limit?

[NemesisChild]

Not necessarily, it could be a weak or faulty memory controller.
A good way to gauge this is by trying slight CPU overclocks, if unstable, then it's the chip.
We had this happen with a 955 when they were first released.
It was returned and another one purchased about three months later, this one was fine.
Keep in mind that these Black Edition CPU's are designed with decent overclocking headroom.