X2 Update

[Overlag]

Originally posted by Kev367th
Quote from a well known film - "Hate him back, it works for me".

this whole year sucks... its not just pcs going wrong... arrg

whats the command to test/recover bad sectors? that 160gig driver has the max allowed relocated sectors. but im guessing the a system crash from the bad memory has made windows "think" that drive is busted

[Kev367th]

Type scandisk /? at a command prompt for options.

aSUS released their 1014 final BIOS. One fix was for E6 CPU overclocking, maybe they fixed the memory dividers at last.

Oops -
For Win 2k/XP the command is chkdsk

CHKDSK [volume[[path]filename]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:size]]


  volume          Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
                  mount point, or volume name.
  filename        FAT only: Specifies the files to check for fragmentation.
  /F              Fixes errors on the disk.
  /V              On FAT/FAT32: Displays the full path and name of every file
                  on the disk.
                  On NTFS: Displays cleanup messages if any.
  /R              Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
                  (implies /F).
  /L:size         NTFS only:  Changes the log file size to the specified number
                  of kilobytes.  If size is not specified, displays current
                  size.
  /X              Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary.
                  All opened handles to the volume would then be invalid
                  (implies /F).
  /I              NTFS only: Performs a less vigorous check of index entries.
  /C              NTFS only: Skips checking of cycles within the folder
                  structure.

Look like you need the /F /R options.

[Overlag]

run that all night found 20mb of bad clusters

run a maxtor test suit and it gave me error code and said RMA it

new drive is in the post


Crucial (ballistix) have yet to get back to me about there 2nd failed mem chip ive had in less than a year

edit and the A8V is totaly stable right now with singlechannel and 256mb ram PC2700 (3:2 option chooses 166 divider)

[Kev367th]

Using the final 1014 BIOS?

[Overlag]

Originally posted by Kev367th
Using the final 1014 BIOS?

na i think its 1014-006. cant test anymore as the dead raid0 and the dead 160gig are both the bootable disks for that mb....

i have a 800mb harddrive with win98 on it that works with that board but for some reason i really cant be botherd to set it up right now

[Overlag]

well since i found it was memory related ive been able to get some very nice clocking results out of this. but i think watercooling is the only way to get anything great from these wattage monsters.

I seem to be overloading a vapochill micro already.... lol and thats rated to about 150watts

[Overlag]

recent testing shows a few things

some games like being forced to 1 core or some prefer letting windows choose.

AH doesnt seem to mind letting windows do the work.

however im encoding a DivX movie right now, which is defaulted to core0 only when installed. It can use multiproccessing but not much improvement nor is it supported.

So anyway i left it at default core 0 only, however MSFS 2004 (FS9) doesnt seem to be able to choose which core to use correctly (its setup to use either by default) and i get 9fps with almost no cpu useage on second core

so ive forced Divx to core0 and forced FS9 to core1 and its running fine...

odd that some (most) games dont seem to mind yet a MS game does?