Odd behavior for vnf3-250
Ok I began by setting up this system on my bench before I would put it in a case. I had not yet installed the sound
output card onto the mobo.
I was able to get to 2400 @ 400ddr 222-5, 1.9 chipset, 2.9 v memory. The chipset has a small cooling fan. The processor is colled by a Hyper 6. All seemed well. I saw that the processor would do 2400 for several hours with the latest memtest. I decided to load windows on a 200gb maxter sata drive and run super pi to see if it was truly stable and call it quits at 2400. I tried loading win xp in the middle of doing other things. I let the xp cd format the drive and then started loading the files for setup. At some point the puter restarted and when I came back to it there was a message on the screen saying that NTLDR was missing. I took this to mean that I didn't load the raid driver and the puter could not see the drive - mistake. I also decided to load the os at 1600 default.I installed the sound output card and I turned on the raid settings in the bios and loaded xp again with a quick format. XP loaded fine and I loaded drivers and super pi and clockgen to play around with.
I did some looking around on the net and found that the raid settings and driver were un necessary and so I disabled Raid.
Now comes the problem. The bios seems to be responding slower that it should.
I have reset it several times as I have tried to trace my way back to the settings I used to reach the 2400 oc.
At this point if I reset it it responds "normally" but at oc settings around 250 memory, Htt multi =3, memory freq = 100 so that proc speed = 2000 I must wait 20-40 seconds after striking del toi get into the bios or 20-60 seconds to see the boot options menu. I am wondering if I need to flash the bios or have done some sort of harm to the motherboard to have it behave this way.
I am beginning to think it may be related to using a sata HD, without the hard drive connected I can boot @ 2400 and run memtest.
Is there anything I should be aware of reguarding sata and nf3-250 chipset?
Any help is appreciated
jazzisjazz
Ok I began by setting up this system on my bench before I would put it in a case. I had not yet installed the sound
output card onto the mobo.
I was able to get to 2400 @ 400ddr 222-5, 1.9 chipset, 2.9 v memory. The chipset has a small cooling fan. The processor is colled by a Hyper 6. All seemed well. I saw that the processor would do 2400 for several hours with the latest memtest. I decided to load windows on a 200gb maxter sata drive and run super pi to see if it was truly stable and call it quits at 2400. I tried loading win xp in the middle of doing other things. I let the xp cd format the drive and then started loading the files for setup. At some point the puter restarted and when I came back to it there was a message on the screen saying that NTLDR was missing. I took this to mean that I didn't load the raid driver and the puter could not see the drive - mistake. I also decided to load the os at 1600 default.I installed the sound output card and I turned on the raid settings in the bios and loaded xp again with a quick format. XP loaded fine and I loaded drivers and super pi and clockgen to play around with.
I did some looking around on the net and found that the raid settings and driver were un necessary and so I disabled Raid.
Now comes the problem. The bios seems to be responding slower that it should.
I have reset it several times as I have tried to trace my way back to the settings I used to reach the 2400 oc.
At this point if I reset it it responds "normally" but at oc settings around 250 memory, Htt multi =3, memory freq = 100 so that proc speed = 2000 I must wait 20-40 seconds after striking del toi get into the bios or 20-60 seconds to see the boot options menu. I am wondering if I need to flash the bios or have done some sort of harm to the motherboard to have it behave this way.
I am beginning to think it may be related to using a sata HD, without the hard drive connected I can boot @ 2400 and run memtest.
Is there anything I should be aware of reguarding sata and nf3-250 chipset?
Any help is appreciated
jazzisjazz
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