I love my ASRock ULi M1695 board.

[EndGame]

Originally posted by: Ike0069

Originally posted by: EndGame
Um yeah, I said as much. Actually I think I've decided today I'm going to go ahead and buy this board too and set it up along side the other board I bought just to compare the two then get rid of the one I don't like/gives me more problems......😉

Oh, I see all the people coming to the defense of this board has had an effect on you. 🙂

No, curiosity has gotten to me......I want to see for myself....😉

 

[Miah]

I bought 2 combos for the Wife & I to upgrade to 64bit, both installed & worked flawlessly from day one. I'm completely happy with 'em.
Miah

 

[BrokenArrow]

Originally posted by: grooge
Not you, the one that sent it back to new egg.. Is the board working anyway?

I wasn't ready to risk the rest of my hardware to find out. RMA'd it as soon as I saw that burned trace. Got a new retail board (same model) and its working great! This is my second ASRock board and I must say for the price I don't think you can beat them.

 

[raell]

I have been using the Asrock board for over a month now with no problems. I don't OC, so I can't comment on that. I have most BIOS settings on default; only changed a few things. I have my SATA HDD on SATA1 controller and I did not install SATA drivers. The problem Carstea1 is having is sure puzzling. Wish I had an answer for it.

 

[BrokenArrow]

I got my system up and running, but had a pain in the butt trying to get the LAN and AGP drivers installed. The LAN driver kept saying the ULi Lan was missing. I finally had to extract the drivers from the exe and do it manually. Ok, that is working fine now. Next the AGP driver. When I tried to install it, I would get a message saying that windows XP 64bit edition already has an AGP driver and I just need a 'special patch'. Thats great and all, except I'm not running the 64bit edition! So as recommended, I downloaded (now that my LAN was working) the ULi 2.1 integrated drivers. When I installed them, the only box available to check was for the LAN driver! Nothing about an AGP driver. Once again, I extracted the drivers from the exe, and found a readme telling me how to install the driver manually. It said to go into the system devices, find the PCI to PCI bridge (something like that, I'll have to check again when I get home) and update driver manually with the WinXP AGP driver. I found 4 of these listed(pci to pci bridge), so I just picked the first one (was that a bad idea?) and it worked. Whew. I don't think my 3d05 score is as high as it was previously. I ran it and got 3200ish, and I believe before it was much closer to 4000. I'm running A64 3200+ winchester, 1gig (2x512) Corsair Value Ram, 6800le 128mb unlocked to 16/5 (stock 300/700 clock speeds). Nothing is currently overclocked. Any suggestions? What are the optimal bios settings without overclocking?

 

[ywytyr]

I have the same experience as you broken arrow. Those drivers are realy hard installing. I tried both the uli and asrock drivers after a clean windows install, however my performance is worse than with my p4 2.6 and the same graphics card. Went down from 1500 to 1200 in 3dmark06
my rig is

amd x24200
msi geforce 6800
2x512 mb ram

using the latest 8xx official nvidia dirvers

 

[Ike0069]

This is what I did. After installin Windows and everything was loaded up, I booted into safe mode and uninstalled all AGP drivers I could find. Rebooted and installed ULi 2.1 drivers from the CD. Rebooted and installed my VC drivers. Rebooted and immediately ran 3DMark. My score actaull increased slightly from my only Neo2 Platinum/3800+ setup (everything else is the same), so I was happy.

 

[BrokenArrow]

Originally posted by: Ike0069
This is what I did. After installin Windows and everything was loaded up, I booted into safe mode and uninstalled all AGP drivers I could find. Rebooted and installed ULi 2.1 drivers from the CD. Rebooted and installed my VC drivers. Rebooted and immediately ran 3DMark. My score actaull increased slightly from my only Neo2 Platinum/3800+ setup (everything else is the same), so I was happy.

Did you install SP2 durring your windows install? When did you install Direct X?

 

[Ike0069]

My XP CD has SP2 already, so it all installs at once.
If you CD doesn't have SP2, then you want to install that before you install any ULi drivers except for the ethernet driver.

 

[BrokenArrow]

Well I may try that if I ever get the urge to do a full reinstall. For now all of my games run fine so its not that big a deal. I did notice that the memory clock defaulted to 166 vs 200 in AUTO mode in bios and also HT defaulted to 800 vs 1000Mhz so setting these manually in the bios to the correct settings had some impact. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling video and AGP drivers, but still not hitting quite where I would expect. Got it up to 3500ish range though, so its all good.

 

[TungFree]

I have asus k8n-E delux and I have had problems with the mous, keybords memory graphics cards.
1. keybord stopped working ( tried 7 other keybords.
Bought a USB wireless. When I need to boot into Dos Wireless does not work
I fiddle with the port of the pld keyboards and occasionally it works for a while then dies

2. I get the blue screen of death I rock the CPU socket and memory card and it lete me reboot then often get the Blue screen again. I take out all the cards and redo it, for a week I am ok then back the the crash od blue screen.

I replaced my ATI AIW 9700 Pro with my old AIW Radion 32 DDR and bought an all inwander TV card. I RMAed the 9700 and received an 9800 Pro 128. while t5hat was in progress the Radion 32 I installed with only the display drivers and the tv card with its CD that came with it. I was still getting blue screens of death.

3. I uninstalled the 2 cards Radion and tv wonder and all the drivers and every registry and folder that had any traces of the driver instalations and Installed the 9800 Pro AIW and the newest drivers.

The sound in the TV is rushing noise hardely can hear the TV.
I tried to pull all the cards and uninstalled all the Video drivers and TV drivers, cannot be rid of tye noise

Now I go back and try to install Just the Radion 32 DDR aiw to see if the sound will work.
I am notified that my cable TV is not connected to the card. I put a small TV on that cable and the TV works fine.

Now it is a toss up of what is causeing all my problems:

A. the Motherboard's sockets have poor connection materials and intermitently disconnect the ports

B I have both video card failures and mother board ones as said in A
C The CPU needs to be taken off and contact paste redone and replaced to the mother bard. and the ATI cards have both become screwd and the moyherboard as in A

So I have had my board over a year is ther a chance to RMA it?
Do I ask ATI to exchange my 9800 Pro or can a mother board give decent video and audio to the rest of the system but not the TV sound? The sound is fine for music and for Yahoo chat and Skype.
Sice I cannot get TV into the Radion card I cannot test the sound in the card's TV. It is working fine elsewhere.

So many problems point to the Board and so many to the cards

Just letting you all know I have Asus EXPENSIVE $165 Board KN8-E Delux with all that horse doodoo happening begiining with 3 months after I installed it with the Keboard and mouse and 9 months into it the blue screen of death and video problems I RMAed the 9700 pro for, and now more and more frequently the crashes and the TV in the card either not workin at all or no clean sound.

Help me too if you can....

 

[thepcgeek]

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: carstea1
you must be a lucky owner, but as far as i'm concerned this is the first and last product i'll get from asrock

PEBKAC

ROFL

 

[mhahnheuser]

This one worked for me. Had slight freezing probs on 1st boot, and unable to get into bios with pc stopping at sata menu and refusing to boot further. Turned out to be cpu driver problem. Unistalled old drivers and the reloaded new drivers for cpu from AMD site. Haven't had the prob since. Hits bios every time i want. My proc is an X2 so may not apply to single cores. Had me baffelled for ages, and even tech at Asrock thought I was having them on.:beer: