Recent content by bables

*cough-cough* The magic smoke! *kaff*

Hey cool, thanks for the info on that. So after all that work getting up passed 3ghz, when I switched the ram the board didn't post and I smelled something burning... sigh... Now the board beeps continuously 3 long beeps. Switch the old ram back but nothing fixes it. Fans and everything...

You're totally right, a diamond in the rough. It actually starts out of the box as a bit of a lump of coal, but after some polishing--tadaa. My mobo's starting to feel like a lump of coal again though. I put in some pc-6400 ddr2 ocz sticks and it won't post even after clearing the cmos. Is...

Here are my bios settings, I've got 2g OCZ pc4000 EB Platinum, Radeon x800 AGP Bios 1.60 CPU Configuration CPU Host Frequency -- Manual Actual Frequency -- 320 PCIE Clock ? 100 MHz AGP/PCI Clock ? 66/33 Spread Spectrum ? Auto Boot Failure Guard ? Enabled Ratio Actual Value ? 10 Max...

Woo hoo! Solved the 2.95ghz problem! It was a bad BSEL mod. When I wiped it off with acetone and redid it suddenly I can get passed 3Ghz. I totally covered the two pins in conductive ink this time and presto. Farfle was right, the BSEL mod makes this board relax and stop underclocking. I got...

Man, just resolved some disasters there. I cleared the cmos, rebooted at stock and then suddenly winxp wouldn't start, was getting "ntldr is missing" instead. So then I kept getting this error until I overclocked to 2.4ghz, and presto winxp starts. So then in winxp I reflashed the bios to 1.60...

enDings, are you running setfsb with all of its files unzipped in 1 directory? I have a SATA2 and when I try to use RTM866-485 it says pll error. :confused:

Hello All, new to the forum but have been messing around with this wacky mobo for a week and have some tidbits to share. E4400 Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 2G OCZ PC4000 EB Platinum Radeon x800 CoolerMaster 600W PSU I actually started out with a 4CoreDual-VSTA but a screw got stuck under...