How do i find the revision of my 4200+ chip, it says on the ASRock site that its revision E only, grrr,hope i have the right revision
I thought all the dual core chips were revision E
I might be wrong, but you wont have any problems with the chip and board. Pop the latest bios on if you want.As long as they don't supply power to the S939 port - nothing at all. Maybe it would be unstable if it drew power for both CPUs, but the S939 would not be connected to your northbridge at all - it would essentially be hanging out on its own acting as a heater.
Those 4 rows of jumpers you switch are physically disconnecting the data(hypertransport) connections to the S939 port, and re-routing them to the expansion port.
Well, it looks like the OCZ DDR2 RAM was bad, as the Patriot RAM works fine (and I can finally load a map in BF2 without it crashing!). I'm sending it in for an RMA. I'm glad it wasn't the AM2CPU board, because I'd really be discouraged after the good luck I've had with ASRock.
I just wanted to thank Synthdude for updating the info on page 1 of this thread. This looks like the mobo that can free me from my blasted RDRAM motherboard.
For me to get two sticks of 512mb RDRAM, it would cost $444. I can get this AsRock mobo, Athlon 64 X2 4000, and 2g of Corsair ram for $441 (pre-tax).
That's what I call a "no brainer".
For me to get two sticks of 512mb RDRAM, it would cost $444. I can get this AsRock mobo, Athlon 64 X2 4000, and 2g of Corsair ram for $441 (pre-tax).
That's what I call a "no brainer".
StrangerGuy
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I was running my 3500+ with two Kingston DDR400 512MB sticks (non-identical) at 1T command rate for a week with no issues but yesterday the PC crapped out when using Microsoft word. :disgust: Ran memtest86 and it crashed at the Modulo 20 test.
Thus, I thought it a RAM problem so I tested my sticks individually on every DIMM slot with memtest and no errors were found. Then I ran my 2 sticks at single-channel mode and also found no errors. However, once I put them into DC mode it will always crash in the modulo 20 test.
I lowered the command rate to 2T and memtest reported no errors at DC. I can see how non-identical sticks can be a factor but does this also happens for those people who have identical sticks running in 1T DC mode?
Thus, I thought it a RAM problem so I tested my sticks individually on every DIMM slot with memtest and no errors were found. Then I ran my 2 sticks at single-channel mode and also found no errors. However, once I put them into DC mode it will always crash in the modulo 20 test.
I lowered the command rate to 2T and memtest reported no errors at DC. I can see how non-identical sticks can be a factor but does this also happens for those people who have identical sticks running in 1T DC mode?
Bear with me guys...I have a question you may think is basic...But it has been a while since I upgraded and I haven't been keeping up. Will the following parts work with this board: Ram PC 2700 and Maxtor 120gig 7200rpm IDE hard drive. I plan on getting a new CPU but till I do I have the Athlon 2400+ and will it work? I know the Graphic card ATI 9800 will work till I upgrade. Thanks for the suggestions.
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StrangerGuy...Thanks a lot for the speedy reply...With the price cuts on AMD I guess I could get one quick. Looking at the Athlon 64 3800+.
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I think you meant X2 3800+? Great chip after the massive price cuts. No one should be buying any netburst chips by now.
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Hey I have this board (asrock duel sata) I was just wondering, is anyone with a high end gpu (like x1900/7900gtx) happy with the performance of this mobo?
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Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
I think you meant X2 3800+? Great chip after the massive price cuts. No one should be buying any netburst chips by now.
You may want to consider new ram too, but your current ram will work until you can afford an upgrade.
I just upgraded to this board but I'm experiencing very long POST and bootup times. The POST screen takes 30 seconds and then a completely black screen comes up with a blinking cursor for another 30 sec before the OS starts loading. Any info on this?
EDIT: Did a clean install of XP Home SP2. All drivers working according to Device Manager. Also running 1.9 bios, will flash soon
EDIT: Did a clean install of XP Home SP2. All drivers working according to Device Manager. Also running 1.9 bios, will flash soon
Try just one stick of ram in various slots, see if that helps, then when it does come up, get your bios updated, I'm sure I have read some bios issues have long and wierd cold boot issues. I will say though, my board sometimes sits at the black screen for ages, well 20 seconds then fires up like normal, I use 2.10 bios, and yes I'll goto to 2.20 when I can be bothered.
I've got an X1900XT in mine now (upgraded from a 6800GT AGP). Performance is great, right where it should be. No complaints.
(Except that I've been so busy lately I haven't had any time to play games, lol...)
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have you tweaked the bios much? I remember when I was finding a good overclock, sometimes it didn't seem to like the settings I put, and in those cases it would sorta hang before booting up.
Have you verified that the order of your boot devices is correct in the BIOS? I have a problem with one of my hard drives getting disconnected from time to time, and then on the next boot after I reconnect it, it sets that drive as the one to first look at for OS information...and of course there's nothing on there, so it takes a long time to go through the drives until it finally finds my actual boot drive. Just an idea...
Yeah, the boot order is set to first load the primary hard drive. I have played with the bios and have tried default settings
okay, I fixed the slow bootup problem by changing the jumper from master to single drive on the primary hard drive.
Do you mean from Master to CS (Cable Select)? Or was there a specific jumper for Single Drive on channel (or something like that)? I know that some drives have a setting for single drive by taking off the jumper completely.
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Running this board with Vista beta 2 and have several devices showing as unknown in the Device Mangler. It appears to be SMBUS stuff, probably for the AMD chipset and whatnot. Vista runs better on the PC than I expected, but at the added expense of somehow hosing my Win XP install. I can boot back into XP, but soon after that it dumps on me and then restarts, going back into Vista. I'll just use Vista until January, then remove it (separate HD for Vista install) and clean up Vista's boot loader with VistabootPro, then go back to XP.
So this weekend I'll be building my PC around this mobo - reusing everything but my old mobo (obviously) and CPU - I just got my X2 4200+ in today.
In any case, can someone tell me what the best order is for driver install after windows is installed? I was going to put everything essential on the mobo (which basically just means not putting the sound card in right away) and on first boot (assuming it POSTS of course) go into the BIOS and disable all the mobo peripherals I won't be using (serial, parallel, sound, ide, etc.). Then I tend to run memtest86 for a while just to make sure my memory is playing nice with whatever mobo I've just installed.
However, once WinXP is installed what's next? I know the ULI unified driver needs to be installed (from the website, not the ASROCK CD) before I do the video card drivers, but should I install the unified driver before getting the AMD dual processor driver?
In any case, can someone tell me what the best order is for driver install after windows is installed? I was going to put everything essential on the mobo (which basically just means not putting the sound card in right away) and on first boot (assuming it POSTS of course) go into the BIOS and disable all the mobo peripherals I won't be using (serial, parallel, sound, ide, etc.). Then I tend to run memtest86 for a while just to make sure my memory is playing nice with whatever mobo I've just installed.
However, once WinXP is installed what's next? I know the ULI unified driver needs to be installed (from the website, not the ASROCK CD) before I do the video card drivers, but should I install the unified driver before getting the AMD dual processor driver?
Thanks for all the info provided in this thread! Sounds like a pretty universal little board.
Just purchased OEM refurb from egg @ $43 shipped Open Box: ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 Socket 939 ULi M1695 ATX AMD Motherboard - OEM
Just purchased OEM refurb from egg @ $43 shipped Open Box: ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 Socket 939 ULi M1695 ATX AMD Motherboard - OEM
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