Biostar M7MIA-r

[clay82]

Hey, I just got this mobo from the tcwo combo, and my temp is running about 57 degrees at idle......i have a different(i think better but dont know the name offhane) fan and heatsink on it and w/ a diff. mobo and the same cpu and heatsink and fan it ran in the low to mid 40's anyone else have this problem? or is it just that the temp is probably off

 

[jonnyGURU]

Biostar boards are calibrated high to begin with. Even with a copper base Swiftech heatsink, I'm running at 58 with the same motherboard and a 1 GHz CPU running at 1.33. It runs 24/7 and I never have a problem.

 

[clay82]

ok...thats what i was thinking....thanks for the info jonny

did you try to oc it? or just leave it as is b/c of the temp reading....?

and did you plug your ide's into the raid or normal, b/c at bootup i get a message that the "primary master : none primary slave : none" and the same for secondary

everything works, so im assuming that its checking the raid ide and not the regular ones where i have everything pluged in.....

 

[jonnyGURU]

As I said.... I'm running a 1 GHz at 1.33. I would say that's overclocked.

The reason why it says Pri Master, Pri Slave as none on the POST screen is because that IDE scan is ONLY for the Native controllers. It's not for the HPT370 Controller.

I am running two IBM 60GB drives striped RAID1 on the controller. I'm too lazy to burn back up CDs of my data so I take the performance hit of writing a mirror drive.

 

[smartsam]

A friend of mine just got this board and an XP 1700+ (from tcwo also), temp about 57C, but windows xp reports the proc. speed as 1.1 ghz. Can this be fixed by a BIOS update? It has an Award bios. I looked on the Biostar website, which said the board only supported up to 1.4 ghz, which is just below the 1700's speed, but I don't know what speed the CPU is actually running at now. Any suggestions?

 

[mechBgon]

Welcome to the Forums, smartsam. If you have DirectX 8 installed, you should be able to see your CPU speed by running DXDIAG.EXE. It may be in your C:\Windows\System folder or your C:\Program Files\DirectX\Setup folder. edit: I should pay more attention... you said WinXP, so the location is probably going to be much different, oops!

I got the same board/CPU combo but gave the board and my 1.4GHz Thunderbird to my sister. It does indeed report temperatures that sound high (about 53C with an Alpha PEP66 and a 22cfm fan) but it works like a charm. I didn't overclock it. You might want to go into the BIOS and make sure the CPU/RAM are set to 133/133.

The board I got had a surface-mount resistor that was soldered down on only one end, I think it was C100, in the row parallel to the DIMM slots. It stood out visually because it was at an angle, or I probably wouldn't have noticed. Being both bold and impatient, I got out the soldering iron, solder, flux and a bit of copper wire, and I soldered it back down, using the wire as an extra-fine soldering tip. All's well that ends well, I guess...