Unofficial Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR thread

[Kaadg]

Thanks for the reply Gil554. I didn't realize how poorly done my table was on my last post....Geeez.

So here is what speedfan tells tells me in my configuration file. I show the temps on Idle and when running Prime 95 for a few minutes.



Sensor_____________________CHIP__________________BUS

________ Idle___Prime 95

Temp1____35____43_______Winbond W83627HF__________ISA
Temp2____-48___-48_______Winbond W83627HF__________ISA
Temp 3_____-0____-0_______ Winbond W83627HF__________ ISA
Remote____35____39_______LM90_____________________Nforce
Local______42____63_______LM90_____________________Nforce
Temp_______1_____1________LM90____________________ Nforce
HD0: ______30C___39

With Local moving to 63 C so quickly, that has to be my CPU temp. I'm only guessing that Temp 1 is my board temp; Remote also changes with P95 running. Temp2, Temp3 and Temp do not change so they are meaningless. And of course HD0 is my hard drive temp.

I would appreciate any input on this.

Thanks,

 

[Brule]

Originally posted by: Kaadg
Thanks for the reply Gil554. I didn't realize how poorly done my table was on my last post....Geeez.

So here is what speedfan tells tells me in my configuration file. I show the temps on Idle and when running Prime 95 for a few minutes.



Sensor_____________________CHIP__________________BUS

________ Idle___Prime 95

Temp1____35____43_______Winbond W83627HF__________ISA
Temp2____-48___-48_______Winbond W83627HF__________ISA
Temp 3_____-0____-0_______ Winbond W83627HF__________ ISA
Remote____35____39_______LM90_____________________Nforce
Local______42____63_______LM90_____________________Nforce
Temp_______1_____1________LM90____________________ Nforce
HD0: ______30C___39

With Local moving to 63 C so quickly, that has to be my CPU temp. I'm only guessing that Temp 1 is my board temp; Remote also changes with P95 running. Temp2, Temp3 and Temp do not change so they are meaningless. And of course HD0 is my hard drive temp.

I would appreciate any input on this.

Thanks,

Almost identical to what I have running. Since I have a VGA cooler (full power) on a stock 9800pro, I ruled out the local to CPU. Once I stick the Zalman on I'll know much better.

 

[Gil554]

Kaadg,

Well seeing that it looks like your assumptions about temp were correct and it seems that prime95 it a little scary at the moment! You mentioned you lifted the HSF. Is this the stock HSF? If so, did you use a 3rd party thermal grease such as artic silver? By partially lifting the HS you may have put a air bubble between the processor and the HS, limiting part of the heat transfer. Additionally, if you did use something like arctic silver...make sure yous didnt use too much, or applied the HSF to a dirty surface. You can check how to apply thermal grease here: AS5 application instructions. I don't want to talk down to you, just trying to cover bases!

If things are still staying high (I was staying at about 58C in Prime 95 with the stock HSF) you may want to upgrade the HSF and put your worries to bed. I ordered the Zalman USA CNPS7700-Cu for $41.99 shipped and will update my temp changes when I recieve the HSF. Good luck...G

 

[Kaadg]

Your not talking down to me, I'm here to learn.

I think you could be correct about the air bubbles. I only partially lifted the HSF on one end, but since I did not re-apply the thermal compound that could have been enough to introduce the air bubbles.

I think I'll take this one step at a time and just re-apply the compound first. Because of my schedule, it may be a few weeks before I get to that. I will keep you up to date on my progress.

Thanks for the advice.

Kaad_g

 

[Kaadg]

On the other hand.......

After doing some research on this forum and PC Perspective, it seems that these temps are similar to what many people are getting; and it's still under the AMD spec. Before I do anything I be interested in seeing what changes you guys get when you change the thermal compound and HSF.

Kaad_g

 

[Gil554]

Kaad_g,

I will be getting a new HSF in about a week and will let you know. From what I have seen and experienced, a high quality thermal grease will lower CPU temps 3-10C with most being between 3-6C. Currently, with the stock HSF and arctic silver 5 my load temps went from 61C to 58C. Not much of a difference, thus I am going to get a little more headroom for this summer and playing games in a hot unairconditioned apartment.

I will update temps when the new HSF comes...G

 

[Pnoy02]

Where is the plug and Play OS option in the bios in this board? I just installed an SATA drive and for some reason(plugged it in SATA port 1) it shows up as a removable device. Also before I installed the SATA my Nonad Muvo was always able to be plugged and it would automatically show, this time, it wouldn't let me(with the new HD), is there any thing I did wrong with installing the SATA drive? seems like everything is alright, cept with I installed SP2 there were some BSOD that happened, also my internet is acting up like slow as Fug lately, my GPU 6800 NU dropped a full 1500pts in 3dmark 05 when i installed the new HD. Can someone helP?

 

[dougtran]

Anybody having Windows XP SP2 shutdown problem if they installed the IDE drivers from the Force_5.10 package? The Force_4.27 seems to work fine but I rather use the latest certified drivers.

This problems has been driving me crazy. I had to rebuild my brother-in-law PC and everytime I load the Nvidia IDE drivers, XP hangs on shutdown. Funny thing is that I didn't have this problem the first time I built this rig. I'm pretty sure I used the same drivers, etc. Now, if I don't use the IDE drivers, I get disk write failure when transferring large amount of data and very poor disk performance. Another thing I notice is that the Raid Monitor status indicates rebuilding but is shows 100% completed. My config is as follows:

SL-K8aN2-E-GR BIOS T1.2
512 MB Crucial RAM
2-Seagate 200GB SATA in RAID 1 using Nvidia RAID
1-WD 250GB PATA drive on IDE0-Master
1-Pioneer DVD-RW on IDE1-Master
1-CD-ROM on IDE0-Slave
Maddog GeForce FX 5200+

Promise Controller RAID disabled via jumber and in BIOS. System set to boot RAID first.

Can you guys tell me what HAL XP identifies your BIOS to support?

Thanks,
Doug

 

[dougtran]

I was able to fix my shutdown problem by performing:

1) Deleted and Recreated MIRROR RAID.

2) Extracted the RAID/IDE drivers from the nForce 5.1 package to a floppy when installing XP using the F6 option. I noticed that the floppy disk that came with the motherobard version is 5.1.2600.0415_a while the version on the 5.1 package is 5.1.2600.0446.

Don't know if which step fixed the problem, I'm assuming step (2). I should have done this sooner but didn't realize the revision difference since I saw 5.1.xxx.

Another interesting thing I notice is that if you have a RAID mirror in your system, the Nvidia IDE drivers are installed by default even before installing the nForce 5.1 package because XP has already used it when doing the pre-installation of the XP via the F6 option. So, when the nForce 5.1 installation ask if you want to install the IDE package, isn't it irrevelant?

-Doug

 

[Uggerit]

New to this forum but, I need a general purpose test rig (not games, I have a dual 250 for that) and was looking at the following, this board, 1Gb ram (2x512,) IDE Raid 1 via the Promise, all look OK going through the posts but, unless I have missed it, is this board AGP 8x (i.e. 1.5v only) only or will an older AGP 4x work too?
Thanks.
Uggerit.

 

[Brule]

Originally posted by: Kaadg
On the other hand.......

After doing some research on this forum and PC Perspective, it seems that these temps are similar to what many people are getting; and it's still under the AMD spec. Before I do anything I be interested in seeing what changes you guys get when you change the thermal compound and HSF.

Kaad_g

Just put on a Zalman 7000BAlCu to replace the stock HSF with a 3200+ clawhammer. According to Speedfan (and bios) the temp is about the same, maybe a few degrees cooler at load. (always use artic silver 5 so that won't account for a change) A few odd things so far though. First, my case temp is higher by a noticable amount. I can only assume the chunk of metal is blocking heat somehow around the diode. The other thing is a qualitative look at a temp/time graph. The stock HSF showed a definate plateau shape where the Zalman climbs much slower and has a gentle slope. (both drop down the same @ idle)

I'll wait and see how the temps hold up after a week or so and if the case temp is a problem. The Zalman was easy to install (had to take the board out for the backplate) and the price was very good compared to a Thermalright HS + seperate fan, which I love on XP machines.

more to follow... 🙂

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Uggerit
New to this forum but, I need a general purpose test rig (not games, I have a dual 250 for that) and was looking at the following, this board, 1Gb ram (2x512,) IDE Raid 1 via the Promise, all look OK going through the posts but, unless I have missed it, is this board AGP 8x (i.e. 1.5v only) only or will an older AGP 4x work too?
Thanks.
Uggerit.

Hello and Welcome to AnandTech forums ! 🙂
do believe its 1.5v only .. http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html
http://www.ertyu.org/~steven_n.../agpcompatibility.html

 

[Kaadg]

That's interesting Brule. That makes me think our temp readings are either wrong or perhaps perfectly normal; maybe it should be reading those temps.

Perhaps some of cool temp readings other other people are getting are not correct. There's just too many people getting similar readings to ours.

Keep us posted.

Kaad_g

 

[cyberknight]

From the history of reading the posts on this thread, (and other places) this board for sure has issues with unreliable CPU reported temps.

I mean, my temps RISE when I enable CnQ (when my CPU voltage is low).

 

[imported_shakes]

Hello all new to the forum here. I am having some trouble OC'ing with this board. I am running an A64 3000+ and some crucial ballistix pc3200. When I first got the mobo and proc i was still using my PC2700 crucial ram(regular non ballistix) I was able to OC. I only had it set to 2.2ghz but I am not even able to achieve that since i put the new ram in. Is the ballistix ram just not OCable? If anyone can help it would be most appreciated.

TIA

~Mike

 

[mgsvr]

Hey guys, is the SATA 3 & 4 are the locked port? I just want to know before I do OCing. I want to make sure to put on the locked port for no data lost in HDD.

 

[Megatomic]

Did you all see that Soltek released a new Hardware Monitor this month? New revision = 1.26K.

LINKAGE

No release notes, I'll download the package here at work to see if there are any inside the archive.

Update: No release notes.

BUT!!!

Did any of you all try out the recently released nForce drivers, ver. 6.39? They were supposed to be for NF4 boards but the driver packages all work great on my system. All I had to do was a GART package to the rest of the package. I recommend you all give it a try if you are itching for new drivers to use.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: mgsvr
Hey guys, is the SATA 3 & 4 are the locked port? I just want to know before I do OCing. I want to make sure to put on the locked port for no data lost in HDD.

3&4 are the promise controller, AFAIK you should use the nV controller (ports are on the upper half of the board) for OCing, but it might be the other way around, I can't recall.

either way this info should help you 😛

 

[CraigRT]

Hey Megatomic, have you tried the HW monitor yet? any differences?

was curious, the packaged version from when I got my mobo never gave me proper readouts .... wonder if this fixes it...

 

[Megatomic]

I'm showing 44C CPU and 31C on RT1 which I interpret as System temp. This seems to be about right, it agrees with EVEREST Beta 220. I say go for it.

 

[Kaadg]

I don't think it's accurate. I ran Prime95 and my CPU Die temp barely moved.

Kaad_G

 

[WPFossil]

For the Soltek HW Monitor, CPU is the core temp and RT1 is the CPU "environment" temp

Here's a letter from a Soltek rep found on ianag.com

The letter refers to a different mobo, but the HW monitor works the same with the K8's

"Dear Sir:
I am Rex from Taipei Soltek.Regarding to this problem as below was my
suggestion.

(1) " Temperature problem "
1. In bios,
ABSII temperature represents processor core temperature (They may be
have 30C diversity between
ABSII temperature and Temperature1).
Temp1 represents environment temperature around cpu.
Temp2 represents the thermal sensor temperature (you need to plug your
thermal sensor into RT2).
2.On Smartguardian, "temp1" represents the thermal sensor and "temp2"
represents the
cpu. If you don't plug the thermal sensor into RT2 it will be show
unrealistic degrees
Celsius. (If your Smartguardian is newest version the temp1 is
represents the cpu,
temp2 is represents the thermal sensor)
3.If you want to use newest Smartguardian software, you need to
reinstall newest VIA 4 in 1 drivers
(4.38) and Smartguardian at the same time on my website .

(2) I think your cpu temperature readings are good.
(According to AMD CPU core temperature standard is 95C (Max.) .

SOLTEK / Rex Chen (FAE)
TEL:886-2-26429060
FAX:886-2-26429065
Email: rex@soltek.com.tw
Web Site: http://www.soltek.com.tw"

 

[Massive Overkill]

This isn't applicable to the K8 as there is no plug-in external temperature probe.

If my CPU reached 95C, I would be calling the fire department 😀

BTW, I just installed HW version 1.26k and die temps are as innacurate as they were with the first version of HW monitor.

 

[WPFossil]

I don't use Soltek's monitor either - I use SpeedFan

Good point about the max temp - it's definitely not the case with the A64's

According to AMD, max temp for all A64's is 70 C

Highest I've ever seen mine is 26 C. It idles at 21C

That was with SpeedFan - The Soltek monitor reads 13 C which doesn't sound right to me.

 

[Brule]

Originally posted by: WPFossil
I don't use Soltek's monitor either - I use SpeedFan

Good point about the max temp - it's definitely not the case with the A64's

According to AMD, max temp for all A64's is 70 C

Highest I've ever seen mine is 26 C. It idles at 21C

That was with SpeedFan - The Soltek monitor reads 13 C which doesn't sound right to me.

What cooling are you getting those temps with? Since my room temp is usually above 70F, there's no way the CPU would hit 21C. (just under 70F) Either you're using some serious cooling equipment, the sensor's not identified right, or the software's off.

EDIT: Current temps @ near idle (via speedfan/case probe and tested against BIOS)

CPU 46C
Case higher 20's C (when checked, varies with season)
Room temp 72 F
Probe near memory 30C
"System" board temp 33C

Under load CPU hits near 60, minimal improvement with more extreme air movement.
All of this is with a Zalman 7000B AlCu @ 2500 RPM, Cool N Quiet ON.
Stock HSF was good but had more noise and added a couple degrees.