An announcement for the SL-K8TPro-939 review by Mr. Fink

[d3birth]

Finally. I tried lowering the voltage and now its stable at 1.65 lowered my temps quite a bit, still 40c idle but only about 55c on a full load

 

[X2C]

1.7v wow!
Im at 1.5v now 278FSB 2.5GHz stable... well its been Priming for awhile and its still priming now

One thing I had a problem with is last night everything was great was gamming for hours at 270fsb and I finnaly went to bed so I turned the computer off but when I turned it on thismorning the bios reset back to 200fsb and it wouldnt let me clock and to 270 if I go to 230 boot then go to 270 it works. Whats the deal with this? does the board not like being clokcked when its cold or something LOL

Screen Shots Oh the memory is also running T1

*edit* can you belive those pics are being hosted on an ISP server... says alot for them with that speed lol)

 

[d3birth]

I dunno how you do that at such a low voltage, I must look into the issue. I have it at 1.65v today though. Seems to run alright.

I dunno why your pc would restart at night, mine used to do that when I had a terrible psu and my room would get hot at night. Just hot enough to push it a degree over the edge. Occasionally my bios will reset itself if the pc locks up.

 

[X2C]

Well im stable but my video card thats not clocked keeps giving VPU errors when trying to do anything 3D
Do the locks on the board stop work when you get to high?

 

[morfinx]

Originally posted by: X2C
Well im stable but my video card thats not clocked keeps giving VPU errors when trying to do anything 3D
Do the locks on the board stop work when you get to high?

what kinda video card do u have? Try lowering AGP speed to 4X

 

[X2C]

Originally posted by: morfinx

Originally posted by: X2C
Well im stable but my video card thats not clocked keeps giving VPU errors when trying to do anything 3D
Do the locks on the board stop work when you get to high?

what kinda video card do u have? Try lowering AGP speed to 4X

Its a 9800XT unclocked with stock cooler.

 

[LydiAtSoltek]

Hi D3birth & X2C,
I just got a reply from OCZ support that they will forward my e-mail to their qualification team.
If there is any news, I will let you know.

Have a nice weekend!

 

[d3birth]

Awesome, thanks for the update.

 

[d3birth]

X2C:

I have a 9800 pro that i flashed to an XT and I used to have it crash all the time even when it was underclocked until I set my agp to 4x and set my LDT multiplier to 3x or 600mhz in the k8t bios.

I just set it back to 8x and 3dmark2k1 ran fine as did the ATi Tool artifact scan.

 

[X2C]

Thanks alot guys.
Im stable at 270 but anything higher its not so I will go and try it now

And thanks for the OCZ update

*Edit... I cant change the AGP in the bios, it has 8X but I cant highlight it to change it?

 

[deathwalker2]

Does anyone know how to install the Promise Raid driver under an existing Window XP system?

I'm able to get it to work if I install XP on the Raid using Windows Setup, F6, etc. so i know the Raid bios is set properly. I've tried booting up into my existing XP, and going into Device Manager. I then right click the generic "RAID controller" and update the driver using the XP driver on the floppy disk that shipped with the mb. After Windows installs it, i get an error message saying that windows could not start the Promise Raid controller. I rebooted, with no luck.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[dashiki]

lydi, can you please let me know what is going on with my mem timings? they change in the bios but when windows boots they are always the same. I can use a64 tweaker to change them but then it changes back after reboot.

 

[X2C]

Why cant I do a cold boot when I have it set to my clocked settings?
It runs there fine and can use it all day but once it is shutdown and I try to turn it on the next morning it sets itself back to 200FSB its a pain in the butt

 

[Daddyjaxx]

Why can't I use the Promise and VIA Raid controllers at the same time? If I try to use them simultaneously, I either get BSOD loading Windows or after the first boot if I wait until Windows is installed to load the drivers. Quite often I receive an error message that the Windows\system 32\config is corrupt or missing. If I disable the Promise controller, everything works fine.

I'm using the VIA controller to RAID my two Raptors now and am running my other three drives ( 2 SATA and 1 PATA) on the Promise Controller as 3 separate drives. I would prefer to have them as one.

This can't be a chipset thing because my Asus A8V runs them perfectly. I prefer the Soltek because it seems to run a little quicker.

I do notice that Soltek's drivers aren't XP certified whereas Asus's are.

 

[LydiAtSoltek]

Hi Dashiki,
Could you please inform me what timings your RAMs are supposed to run at?

X2C,
Do you have anohter PSU to test if the cold boot issue is gone?


Daddyjaxx,
According to our R&D engineer, you can use Promise and VIA Raid controllers seperately at the same time on the SL-K8TPro-939. But you can't build RAID by combining the Promise and VIA Raid controllers. It is the limit of Promise utility and BIOS.

Thanks and regards,

 

[Daddyjaxx]

Lydia,

I realize I can't build ONE raid using 4 drives with both controllers. I can't even run two seperate raid arrarys using the Promise and Via at the same time. If I load both controller drivers via the F6 key at setup, the system errors with a blue screen of death during the windows install. When I restart and setup finishes, it either boots to a blank screen or one that says my Windows\sys32\config is missing or corrupt. If I load the Via drivers at F6 and wait to load the Promise drivers until Windows is installed then it errors out the same way within a reboot or two.

I believe the problem may be the way that the BIOS detects the boot drives. There is some weird things going on with my settings. If I load Windows on my VIA RAID and delete and rebuild the Promise array, Windows won't even boot to Windows unless I choose the Promise Array as the first hard drive. Mind you, there is nothing at all on the drives attached to the Promise controller. All the data and boot sectors are cleared when you delete and recreate an array.

I'm able to use the Via array with the drives setup just as SATA on the Promise controller, but the system won't boot to Windows unless the Promise drive 0 is set as the first hard drive even though there is nothing on this drive and the Via array is actually my C drive that contains Windows.

 

[X2C]

Lydia,

The PSU in the new ThermalTake 680w so I dont think it would be that.
I dont have another to test it with either
Here

 

[LydiAtSoltek]

Hi Daddyjaxx,
Would you kindly provide us with the following details? Then we can check if it's possible for you to use the Promise and VIA RAID at the same time?
1) How many SATA/IDE HDDs you plan to install on the M/B?
2) Which connectors do you connect these HDDs?
3) What kind of RAID do you intend to build by these HDDs?

X2C,
Have you raised the "DIMM Voltage"?

Thanks and regards,

 

[Daddyjaxx]

Lydia,

1. A total of five drives.
2. I have two Raptor SATA drives as my boot drives connected to the Via controller. I have two Sata and one PATA drives connected to the Promise controller.
3. RAID 0 for each.

I received an email from tech support saying that both controllers can't be used at the same time. If this is true, that is a shame and the manual needs to inform users of this. The Asus model has the same chipsets and it works just fine.

I have it working right now as a RAID on the Via, the PATA drive on the IDE master, and the two SATA drives connected to the Promise controller only as SATA and it works fine. I would prefer two RAIDS as I would only physically see TWO drives in Windows and not FOUR.

 

[Macro2]

Lydi..
http://www.soltek.com.tw/soltek/product/products_all.php?isbn_st=SL-NF4Pro-939
Are you shipping these yet? I want one. Congrats on putting the parallel port back on.

 

[X2C]

Originally posted by: LydiAtSoltek

X2C,
Have you raised the "DIMM Voltage"?

Thanks and regards,

Yes it have to have it at 2.8v because that is default for my memory.
I just tried another X800XT video card in my system and the same thing happens when I get into high FSB. I get errors to do with the Video Card. I DO NOT think the AGP lock is working at this high FSB can you please check this out. I have the KC version of the board.
The vcore was set to 1.55, VDIMM set to 2.8, LTD at 600MHz, FSB 278 (2.5GHz) and everything is fine to a point. I can Prime95 my system for as many hours as I like and its fine but if I do ANYTHING 3D is kicks in VPU Recovery or I get a BSOD saying ATI2DVGA error.

Thanks

 

[LydiAtSoltek]

Hi Daddyjaxx,
Thank you very much for the detailed information.
Now I understand what you meant and I am sorry that I didn't make it clear.
Although you can set up 2 RAID separately on the M/B, you can only choose one of them to use. So it's impossible to work these 2 RAID at the same time. I am sorry for the misleading in the previous post.

Macro2,
Are you living in US now? If so, you probably can see the SL-NF4Pro-939 in NewEgg after 2 weeks.

X2C,
As you know, there are many factors involved in overclocking. So when you can't go any higher after reaching certain limit in overclocking, the M/B may not be the only one to blame. RAMs, graphics card, HDD are also possible to cause such a barrier.
Since we had verified that the "AGP/PCI clock lock" does work on the mainboard no matter what PCB the M/B is, that's why I started this thread in this forum.
Maybe you can take a look in the following forum to check if that fixes the ATI2DVGA error:
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/31775/

Thanks and regards,

 

[X2C]

Originally posted by: LydiAtSoltek
X2C,
As you know, there are many factors involved in overclocking. So when you can't go any higher after reaching certain limit in overclocking, the M/B may not be the only one to blame. RAMs, graphics card, HDD are also possible to cause such a barrier.
Since we had verified that the "AGP/PCI clock lock" does work on the mainboard no matter what PCB the M/B is, that's why I started this thread in this forum.
Maybe you can take a look in the following forum to check if that fixes the ATI2DVGA error:
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/31775/

Thanks and regards,

Thanks for the reply.
I know the CPU can go higher. The other Video card I tested is in good working oder and clocks very well even though I only had it at stock for testing in here. My memory has been knocked down Im not running it 1:1 to get that out of the way.

So all that leaves is my SATA HDD's that are raided. Could that be the cause of this?

 

[X2C]

Is anybody here running SATA drives that are raided as there main drive and getting a very high overclock?

dashiki,
Your at 275FSB... what hard drives are you using? or how are you using them?

 

[LydiAtSoltek]

Hi X2C,
How about slow down the memory clock to "166MHz" and overclock again?

Thanks and regards,