A8N-SLI Premium

[amdnVuser]

I just built a machine for work (specs below), and nTune, which I only use for temp monitoring, gives me a warning that my PCI bus is set to track HTT. I manually set the PCI bus frequency in the BIOS to 33.33MHz. Is there something else I should be doing?

Also, PCIe is showing up as 2500MHz in nTune as well. WTF?

AMD Athlon64 4000+ (San Diego core)
Asus A8N-SLI Premium (BIOS 1005)
2xCorsair VS1GBKIT400 (2GB DDR400 @ CAS 2.5, 3, 3, 8)
Gigabyte GV-NX66128DP 128MB Geforce 6600 (fanless heatpipe)
single 36.7GB WD Raptor
3.5" Sony FDD
Sony CRX320EBK DVD/CDRW combo drive
Antec TX640B case and 400W SmartPower 2.0 PSU
Windows XP Pro (32-bit) SP2

 

[amdnVuser]

Anybody?

 

[Diagrafeas]

PCIe runs at 2500MHz by design.What is the speed for PCI bus that nTune gives?Probably 100MHz.If you set PCI bus frequency at 33.33MHz you should not have a problem anymore.

 

[chynn]

I don't have your version, I have a Deluxe, but I found the BIOS for my board locked the correct PCI numbers when I set the FSB to DDR201. Could just be the rev level on my mother board though ...

There is a large forum on the A8N-SLI motherboards (and their problems) on the www.hardwareanalysis.com website.

I suggest you check there for more info about your motherboard. The first page gives suggested BIOS settings and why they should be set.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

The locks are only enabled when you set HTT to 201 or higher in bios. If HTT is set at stock 200 the locks aren't functional regardless of the PCI or PCIe settings

 

[amdnVuser]

I'll try setting HTT to 201. Thanks everyone.

 

[amdnVuser]

Well, I didn't see an option to set HTT to 201 in the BIOS (I'm only given the option to set the HTT multiplier and the memory clock, which can only be set to 400, 433, etc., not in increments of 1). Thus, I tried setting HTT to 201 (effective 402) in nTune, but nTune states that this is only applicable for the current session. After I close nTune and relaunch it, HTT reverts back to the previous HTT setting (i.e. not 402). So what am I doing wrong here? Thanks again.

UPDATE: Okay, I used Asus' AI Booster utility to set HTT to 201 and restarted, and now I'm not getting the error message. Thanks again.

 

[BroadbandGamer]

I'm not using AI booster so here's what I did to get rid of that warning.

I went into the BIOS and set HTT to 201, PCI Express Clock to 100MHz, and PCI Clock Sync Mode to 33.33MHz.