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Posted:12/2/2008 9:04:00 PM |
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Hm...without a change Log I am not touching this.
I wonder if it has any of the stuff that Alien Grey asked for.
I will let someone that know his stuff try this out before I do anything, had to many glitches
with my board lately ;).
But cheers for the heads up Kensek.
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Posted:12/2/2008 10:36:00 PM |
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It's safe to flash your board with this BIOS. It's running stable with this BIOS for over 6 hours with Prime95 and UT2004 together at 8 X 450 MHz. Here's a picture.
Another day, another test. I could squeeze two steps from the NB Voltage without losing stability. It's not much, but with this i can see that something is changed in the BIOS and not just the version number and date.
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Q9450 3.72GHz 8 X 465MHz - 2 X 2 Giga OCZ Reaper HPC PC2-8500 1117MHz - Windows XP X64
I've found stability with Prime95 + UT2004. Here's a picture.
IntelBurnTest stable with higher FSB Termination Voltage. Here's a picture.
You might need to do a Clear CMOS after you flashed your board with BIOS 0701. I lost stability without changing any setting in the BIOS after a reboot. A Clear CMOS fixed that problem. Now i'm running fine at 8 X 465 MHz full stable.
Loadline Calibration still not working. Not that i really need it, if you see on what CPU Voltage it runs stable.
CHA_FAN3 speed is still to high at 50%.
Lower FAN speed settings for OPT_FAN
A solution for 3 pin CPU Fan speed control, if it's possible.
Without these annoying issues the board will finally be where it belongs, the top of the DDR2 X48 Motherboards.
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What do i like about this BIOS?
The sticky post.
What do i like to see changed in the next BIOS release?
Everything that we've been discussing about in the past.
It feels like i'm fighting a one man war against these Techies from ASUS. They think that these issues and problems are only reported by me and no one else. I don't want them to give the chance to think that it's me again that is asking to fix these issues and problems.
I could need some support from you guys.
Make a post with everything you like to see fixed in the next BIOS release. It doesn't matter if someone else already mentioned it, do it anyway.
Don't let them make a fool of me. Don't let them think that they can get away with this and that nothing needs to be fixed with the BIOS.
I'm counting on you guys.
Make your post and edit it like i do if you want to add, change or remove something.
Together we can make a difference.
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Posted:12/3/2008 8:34:00 PM |
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So I'm assuming since the BIOS isn't up on the ASUS downloads page that it's a "beta"? I won't bother updating from 0601 (to 0701) unless Alien Grey's fix requests are incorporated into a new BIOS release...
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Posted:12/3/2008 9:19:00 PM |
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Successfully flashed 0701 bios rom, but no difference with 0601. Please fix compatibility problem rampage formula and Q9550 cpu with Asus EAH4850/1GB graphic card.
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Posted:12/4/2008 6:58:00 AM |
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Can someone post this BIOS somewhere that doesn't have obnoxious 200MB bandwidth limitations??
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Posted:12/4/2008 7:51:00 AM |
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@UpperHand. Give me another free site to upload my 50 plus BIOS repository to.
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Posted:12/5/2008 5:57:00 AM |
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ASUS fixed the GTL Reference Voltages.
They didn't add the lower CPU GTL Reference settings but they adjusted the voltage for CPU GTL Reference and NB GTL Reference.
With this they have blown away the 450 MHz FSB wall.
I'm running IntelBurnTest now and my Q9450 is running stable at 3.72 GHz.
Tomorrow i'm going to test my system at 8 X 465 MHz with Prime95 + UT2004 to see if i can get it full stable.
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Posted:12/5/2008 11:36:00 AM |
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The 0701 BIOS installed without issues on my system (system posts reliably with my 3rd-party PCIe RocketRAID card) - I was hesitant to flash at first, but after Alien's findings with the GTL reference voltages corrected, I went ahead with it. Stable under Prime95 and Intel Burn Test.
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Posted:12/8/2008 12:41:00 AM |
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FYI...
Had to bump my CPU core voltage up 1 notch to pass Prime95 stability testing with BIOS 0701. I failed blend testing on BIOS 0701 within 15 minutes on an 8k length FFT, which meant the CPU was at fault.
Previously, I had 24-hour stable Prime95 blend test runs @ 1.29375V, 400Mhz FSB and 8.5x multiplier on BIOS 0601. Had to up the voltage to 1.30000V to get a stable run on BIOS 0701. Not sure if this was related to the GTL reference voltages being adjusted with this BIOS. I leave my GTL ref voltages at auto.
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Posted:12/8/2008 9:07:00 PM |
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I finally figured it out. It's amazing what this BIOS can do.
It does fix the 450 MHz FSB wall.
The problem, if you can call it a problem, is that i'm running with to high CPU Voltage.
I could squeeze 2 steps from the CPU voltage with raising the FSB Termination Voltage with 1 step. This was done with my 8 X 450 FSB overclock.
Now i'm going to find out what CPU Voltage i need for 8 X 465 MHz to get it IntelBurntest stable with the FSB Termination Voltage i need for FSB 465 MHz.
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