Asrock 939Dual

[Reapsy01]

Hello,

Keep having problems with this board while gaming. Symptoms are the graphics freezing/corrupting or just a black screen. Sometimes restarting. My system specs are:

3200+ venice
Asrock 939Dual with 1.2 bios
2x512 Patriot XBLK in slot 3+4
MSi Geforce FX5900
2 80 gig PATA hdd
Enermax 460w psu with 33A on 12v rail

I've done a fresh install of xp with uli 2.1 drivers and 81.85 nvidia drivers. Asrock tech support advised me to try 77.72 which I did resulting in green corruption and freezing while playing. In an effort to get things stable I'm running at stock with relaxed timings 2.5-3-3-6 ram at 200mhz. Is anyone else having these problems or is it just me? Maybe my board is faulty? I'm thinking about sending it back and getting the msi nforce 3 board although it is almost twice the price. Anything else I can try?

Cheers.

 

[BlackPear1]

You should be ok with the agp driver from the ULi 2.1 integrated set and FW 81.85. I'm using those with a 6800 and not seeing problems. Does your RAM pass memtest on on that board? Do you have MA timing in bios set to 1T or 2T? Many (including me) have experienced problems with 1T operation on this board. You say that you've relaxed timings and are running at stock to try for stablility - does that work?

 

[Reapsy01]

I have to run at 2T same as most people with this board. The relaxed timings don't seem to affect the graphics problem. I've just tried an older nvidia driver 66.93 but the game froze with corrupted graphics after an hour. I haven't tried memtest yet, I've set the vdimm to high and vcore to 1.45. The game I'm trying to play is Freedom Force vs 3rd Riech so it's not even very graphics intensive. I'll give memtest a go now.

 

[Reapsy01]

Hmm when I try to run memtest86 the pc just restarted as soom as it loads, not a good sign! So I tried running the ram at ddr333 2.5-3-3-6-2T still does the same and also tried at ddr266 also with the same results.

 

[PingSpike]

Go into bios and find "USB legacy support" set it to disabled. Then try to run memtest.

 

[Reapsy01]

USB legacy support is set to disable by default. I think I might have it sorted I set the AGP rate to 4x instead of 8x and it seems to be working ok. I need to do more testing to be sure though. Still can't get memtest to work, but prime 95 torture test runs quite happily.

 

[PingSpike]

Hmmm, thats odd. I was having the exact same problem with memtest and after reading their website it was suggested I disable that and USB Legacy support worked fine. Although it wasn't disabled by default on mine. Are you running the latest version of memtest?

 

[SNiPeRX]

I got a few suggestions for you...

First off, I dont think that has anything to do with overclocking..

Kinda confused, are you using the Uli drivers for asrock site or uli site?

If so

uninstall Nvidia Drivers
uninstall Uli Drivers
Restart
Install ULi Integrated Drivers 2.1
Restart
Install Nvidia Driver (i like 78.01)
Restart

You could also try using some of the beta bios from OCWB... I am using OCWB beta 2

This also my sound strange, but try lowering your AGP ap size to 128...

Also how old is your v card.. some people cleaned the contacts on the video card and have fixed problems like that as well. It couldnt hurt.

If you have more questions just ask

 

[Reapsy01]

Thanks for your help. I got my 6800gt back from rma and put it in and it is working fine. Maybe it was dirty contacts like you suggested.

 

[Alkali]

Interesting stuff, I have the same problem. I've been hopping all over the internet trying to find a solution to this, so I will try disabling USB legacy Support which I actually enabled while I was setting my board up initially.

I may also play around with the gfx card and clean the agp slot just in case thats it too...

Going to AGP4x never helped me, but hopefully these little things might.

Thanks for the thread.

 

[DeMeo]

I'm having trouble with this board too. I have a PIC-E ATI x600 PRO all-in-wonder card, memory is kingston hyperx pc3200 (dual chan) and I also have a soundblaster xfi platinum card installed. Oh, the disk is a seagate sata 150 - running non-raid and I have a lite-on dvd burner - no floopy and I disabled floppy in the BIOS (as well as on board sound and ports I'm not using.

I keep getting "VPU reset" errors (pops up warning message stating it recovered, but you should reboot), or it just plain freezes or reboots spontaniously. I've also gotten the BSOD a few times - it flashes by so qickly though, that I can't read the message. I think it said somehting about a conflict, but i'm not sure.

In an attempt to resolve the problem, I've loaded the latest BIOS (1.4), the latest ULI drivers for SATA and AGP drivers for windows as well as the latest drivers for the sound blaster and ATI.

I keep seeing references to a 1t vs. 2t setting, but I don't know where that is. I'm running the "auto" features on the memory (haven't played with those ones yet). Is the 1t/2t setting in the manual memory setup?

Any other ideas?

 

[BlackPear1]

I assume that your video problems are limited to 3D operation in games. Is your card overclocked? Does the problem occur in more than one game? Have you run memtest to check for stable memory performance? Did you have the problem with onboard sound (driver conflict)? Does your PSU provide adequate power?

The board defaults to 2T command rate whcih most find best for stability. This setting is one of the last ones below the regular mem timings, but it doen't show up in earlier bios (like the 1.20 I'm using) for users w/X2 processors.

I hope you get the problem ironed out.

 

[DeMeo]

I'm not playing any games at all. This is wierd, but I find that if I pick a drop down menu (example : program manager, firefox, etc...) that's when it most often freezes up. Not exatcy what I'd consider intense graphics work.

I have an antec 450w ps - brand new. That should be plenty of juice.

 

[BlackPear1]

You could try removing and reinserting the card to make sure that the connections are sound. Have you tried operating with VPU Recover disabled in the ATI settings? As a last resort, you could try removing and reinstalling the graphics drivers, though I know that's a pain with the extra AIW stuff. Also, do you have access to another system where you could try the card to be sure there's no hardware problem?