New 9NDA3+ Owner Needs Help!!

[Judderman]

Hi All,

Hope you can all help and thanxs for your time. Well the postie has been and ive installed my new board as per my signature, everything went smoothly and at stock speeds everything is stable.

My problem comes when trying to up the HTT, and I cant get past 220HTT without the system hanging, I'll explain the steps taken:

I test using Prime95, 3Dmk01, 03, 05, PCMk04, SiSandra, I set the latest bios to Optimized Defaults, then used Clockgen(CG-NVNF3) to up the HTT in 5Mhz increments (all voltages at default). As soon as I set the HTT to 220 the system froze, I thought my CPU may have topped out (but hoped not), so lowered the multiplier to 10x, the same happened, I tried lowering my memory divider to the lowest, but still the same.

I know my memory tops out at around 268 (1:1).

I was wondering if any1 can make any suggestions as where I can go from here.

Thanks for your time!!

Judd

[danrok]

What HTT multiplier are you using?

[Judderman]

Ahh!!,

Thanks M8 I have left it defaulted at x5, will set it to x3 and hopefully have more luck!!

Think you may have hit the nail on the head!!

Thanks again

Judd

[danrok]

4x should work, as well.

Hopefully that's it, if not let us know...

[soner]

I think u have to disable SATA ports 3&4 cuz those 2 are not frequency locked.

[Judderman]

Many Thanks Guys,

I lowered the HT to x3 and tried and got upto around 260 x 10 (mem1:1), which I am well happy with, the tempretures on this board are brilliant as under load and on air I cant get it above 60c. I am not using SATA 3 & 4, so this shouldnt effect the AGP/PCI lock.

One problem I have found thou is I can run Prime95 for days at 260 x 10 but when I set the bios to 260 x 10 it keeps booting into the bios safe mode, only way to boot is to lower the HTT to around 240 then use clockgen from within windoze. I have tried many different benchmarks to test stability and they all run fine, Prime95 ran for 48hrs solid without a problem but the the bios for some reason doesnt like this high setting. Any suggestions as to a way I can set the bios up to maximum without this problem??

Thanks again Guys your help is appreciated

Judd

[danrok]

I think it may be that the BIOS program does this to avoid blue screens, etc.

I think a member here, Merlin, is working on a modified BIOS for this board. So, when that appears it may give you more flexibility with overclocking in the BIOS.

I can get my CPU running at 2.6 GHz, but I have to run my memory at a lower speed to do this. I only have PC3200 RAM which won't run at 260.

[Judderman]

Thanks Danrok,

I guess Ill have to wait for the moded bios to come out to hopefully cure this slight issue. Overall I cant fault this board, its solid as a rock and it overclocks like a monster, and was the easiest board I have ever set up.

I am now an official Epox convert and will hopefully become a useful forum member and I am at present looking into joining the AoA folding team.

Thanks for your help guys,

Judd

[Judderman]

Hi Danrok,

Was wondering if you could clear up another issue for me, it seems we have the same make and brand of memory (except mines pc3700 and yours is pc3200), how does your memory cope at 1t?, my memory on 2 different boards will not post past 220htt (1:1) @ 1t, but seems to run around 30 HTT better than default @ 2t.

On my previous mobo it seemed that the tccd chips used on the RAM were an issue, but with a modded bios some people gained better results from there memory @ 1t.

I thought this was an issue with the Abit bios on my previous mobo but wonder now whether it has more to do with the memory controller onboard the A64.

Fingers x, this may be another area a modded bios may help!!

Thanks for your time

Judd

[bradmax57]

Originally Posted by Judderman

Hi Danrok,

Was wondering if you could clear up another issue for me, it seems we have the same make and brand of memory (except mines pc3700 and yours is pc3200), how does your memory cope at 1t?, my memory on 2 different boards will not post past 220htt (1:1) @ 1t, but seems to run around 30 HTT better than default @ 2t.

On my previous mobo it seemed that the tccd chips used on the RAM were an issue, but with a modded bios some people gained better results from there memory @ 1t.

I thought this was an issue with the Abit bios on my previous mobo but wonder now whether it has more to do with the memory controller onboard the A64.

Fingers x, this may be another area a modded bios may help!!

Thanks for your time

Judd

not sure if its your mem or your board but maybe the limits of the NF3 chipset with 1t command, i can hit 275 1:1 2-2-2-5 with 1T on my NF4 chipset

[danrok]

Can't do 1T at all with mine!

[Finetobe]

i have run with 300 mhz 1T on my motherbord.
for now is only 272 mhz 2.5.4.4.8 1T .my memory controler is not better.