fatal1ty fp-in9 sli

[BUFF]

Don't have 1 to play with - Gilgamesh may still have his or of course Sean should.
Mixing RAM is always hit & miss though.

[ABIT Sean]

Buff anychance you could check out the query above? 4x 1GB Sticks compatible and error free?

There shouldn't be any issues running 4gb. I just had a look through the technical support emails and there is no mentioned of any issues. But as mentioned by others I wouldn't recommend running mixed brands of memory.

[Nickg]

ah well whats done is done now! fortunately crucial will be shipping me a 6400 kit back instead of the pc5300 kit i had originally, so at least both Geil and Crucial will be @ 800mhz natively without either one having to be oc'ed.

prob ging to be next week by the time i get the crucials back though so i will comment then!

thanks for looking into guys.

[payj94]

Ok, I need a bit of help. I flashed my bios to the german 15 mod bios. I played around with some settings last night and got it to post @3.6ghz. However, it kept crashing windows. No big deal, I just cleared the cmos and restarted. Well, the last time I tried that, it wouldn't boot into windows (safe mode or normal). So, I was going to flash it to Abit's bios ver 15. Now for some reason, my floppy drive is not being detected in bios. It's like it's not getting any power. I tried two different drives and cables and different power connectors from my PSU.

I am unsure why my floppy drive all of a sudden stopped working last night. I am planning on going and picking up a USB floppy drive and try to flash the bios that way to see if it clears things up. If not, well, then this is were I need the help

[bove027]

Buff anychance you could check out the query above? 4x 1GB Sticks compatible and error free?

Got 4x 1Gb of GEIL memory running like sunshine

Anyone who can give me some info about what "LDT frequenty" is and does? And what are good settings?

[BUFF]

LDT is Lightning Data Transfer - the old name for HyperTransport.
It's used to link the northbridge & southbridge.

[payj94]

Ok, I need a bit of help. I flashed my bios to the german 15 mod bios. I played around with some settings last night and got it to post @3.6ghz. However, it kept crashing windows. No big deal, I just cleared the cmos and restarted. Well, the last time I tried that, it wouldn't boot into windows (safe mode or normal). So, I was going to flash it to Abit's bios ver 15. Now for some reason, my floppy drive is not being detected in bios. It's like it's not getting any power. I tried two different drives and cables and different power connectors from my PSU.

I am unsure why my floppy drive all of a sudden stopped working last night. I am planning on going and picking up a USB floppy drive and try to flash the bios that way to see if it clears things up. If not, well, then this is were I need the help

Well, I got the above issue fixed. I used a USB floppy drive and put bios 14 back on. I had to boot to my XP CD and repair my installation of XP (used fixmbr and fixboot). I just got back into my PC and got my folding started up again. Not sure when I will play around with OC'ing this box again, if I ever do. Maybe next year I will build one that is meant for OCing.

[The3]

Hi guys,

I've got a problem i was hoping someone might be able to throw some light on.
I'm currently running an FP-IN9 MoBo (hence the forum... ) with an E4300.

When I first built the this system 6 months ago I whacked it straight up to FSB1333 on first attempt to get 3.0ghz. No other adjustments to any voltages needed needed at all. Kept is like that for a few weeks, then it decided to not boot up anymore (cannot remember whether it was related to BIOS update) No hardware changes otherwise. Just couldnt boot at 1333 I left it at FSB 1066 for the next 3 months as had no time to try OC again. Despite updating the BIOS at the time i could not get it above ~ FSB1120 anymore.. just wont boot. need to reset PC ..then it will autolaunch the failsafe and restore to stock speeds.

I have since upgraded PSU to OCX XStream 600W and a freezer PRO 7. upped voltages to 1.425 just to see if it was that. slacked RAM timings right down to slowest possible (Geil DDR2-800 ) still no avail.. only get up to FSB1120 @ 2.5ghz now...

To make matters worse.. I just updated BIOS to the latest 15 and cannot even get past FSB1066 ...

from a first attempt at a stable FSB1333 to barely able to remain stable at 1066 now.. have I cooked a chip ? or the MoBo is faulty...? which is the best BIOS to attemp OC again?

OH.. vid cards are 7900GT SLi ( i did initially started with 1 card, but i have removed the 2nd card again just to see if that contributed to the problem, although i cannot imagine how.) still doesnt help..

Help/ Advice/ Suggestions/ Insight appreciated

Yours truly-slow-processor-right-now,
Paul Y

[s_noopy]

@The3

Hi!

I've got similiar problem. Firstly, after buying this mobo (and going bios 13 beta) and E4300 I could boot at stock voltages up to 1333+FSB (max 1610). Only thing that was not perfect then was CPC timing which couldn't have been changed. I've decided to update the bios, as I thought it couldn't be worse, cause some people are working on it to make it better. Flashed Official 14 and to get stable 1333FSB I had to set VTT voltage to 1.65V. And even then it wasn't 100% stable. I've gone back to stock settings. Two weeks ago I've decided to try again with O/C. Tried 14 German mod - no go - same as 14 Off. Tried 15 Off - same as above. Flashed back to 13 Official and voila! Again 1333FSB with 1.2V VTT - 100% stable. Maybe it would help you too.

Need to mention that I have FSB hole beetween 801 and 1332FSB.
edit: on every bios. It simply don't boot.

Darius

[redddraggon]

Got 4x 1Gb of GEIL memory running like sunshine

Same here, 4x1GB Geil, works fine.

[The3]

@ S_noopy

Thanks for your reply,

@The3


Need to mention that I have FSB hole beetween 801 and 1332FSB.
edit: on every bios. It simply don't boot.

Darius

That statement basically hits the nail on the head for me. Any FSB between stock and 1333 are either unstable or unbootable for me now. Currently on 1333. even then its questionable how stable it is.

Thanks for the heads up about Bios 13 again. I also noticed its the only one not on the ABIT website. DOH!!! why ?? Will locate one and try it out. If i dont reply means the PC is in the bottom of the ocean

BTW, whats the VTT do anyway? never could figure it out.

Also, for anyone thinkning of using a freezer pro 7 on this Mobo needs to modify the coolers heat sink slightly as it clashes with the stock southbridge

Regards
Paul

[LT1UltraZ]

@ S_noopy

Thanks for your reply,



That statement basically hits the nail on the head for me. Any FSB between stock and 1333 are either unstable or unbootable for me now. Currently on 1333. even then its questionable how stable it is.

Thanks for the heads up about Bios 13 again. I also noticed its the only one not on the ABIT website. DOH!!! why ?? Will locate one and try it out. If i dont reply means the PC is in the bottom of the ocean

BTW, whats the VTT do anyway? never could figure it out.

Also, for anyone thinkning of using a freezer pro 7 on this Mobo needs to modify the coolers heat sink slightly as it clashes with the stock southbridge

Regards
Paul

can someone post a link to bios 13?
thanks!

[s_noopy]

VTT = FSB. For adjusting FSB over specific level it needs to be rised for staying stable.
edit: for me it is about 1500FSB with 1.28V. for 1600 - 1.58V. for 1333 - stock. All on 13 official bios.

13 Official from ABIT ftp

cheers!

[bove027]

LDT is Lightning Data Transfer - the old name for HyperTransport.
It's used to link the northbridge & southbridge.

Ok....

The default value is 5x. Lower is better? What exactly happens when setting it to e.g. 4 ??

[Icevid]

Hi... I'm new here.

So I couldn't be bothered to read all the posts but read a bit from the last pages. Managed to get a stable overlock of 3.6Ghz on my E6600 with 1600Mhz fsb, 1.6 vcore, 1.58 NB voltage and 1.42 (i think) CPU VTT. I can't get any better results than that so if anyone knows how to beat that it would be greatly appreciated

[s_noopy]

IMO there's no need to rise MCH so much. I can get 1600MHz FSB with only 1.43V MCH.