That reminds me of a thoughtful word from John Brunner :
"There are two kinds of fool. One says, This is old, and therefore good,
And the other says, This is new, and therefore better."
Yeah, I got mine stable (not somewhat stable, rock solid stable!) with similar FSB & DRAM values (even higher : 400DDR2), just PM me if you'd like all the details about my OC' (until I find a suitable place to post about it). Could be more realistic to aim for 333FSB with watercooling.
I am a happy P5Q Deluxe user since a few days, with a nicely overclocked e7300 (in the "mild overclocking" range, nothing stupendous). Obviousy, VIA's PT880 just can't beat Intel's P35 / P45! Also, I was able to re-use good ol' 320W Enermax power supply, plus the mundane PC2-5300 2x1 GB...
Well, USB connectivity has been hit that's for sure, and even if there was no further damage, I am not really inclined to keep using this board much longer. Average overclocking capabilities comes to mind, plus other small annoyances (e.q. various issues with my nVidia GPUs).
Of course, I'll...
I think I am stuck with what you just suggested.
Finding a suitable motherboard for the Core 2 Duo / Quad range of CPUs seems more and more difficult (I thought about rebuilding to benefit from the Intel chipset overclockability goodness). Strangely enough, microATX have become the standard.
From the thread you mentioned
Indeed, chances are a power surge is what caused the problem. So, as they say, don't try that at home (directly plugging a Y cable as a power source for external SATA HDDs). Or may be USB 3.0 ports are up the challenge, but not USB 2.0's.
Thanks. I've checked with SpeedFan, only the 12v seems on the low side : 11,2 instead of 12 (reads 11,8 in the BIOS).
Just to state things again : All 4 USB ports from the I/O panel totally unresponsive, won't even deal with a keyboard.
The strange thing is that the front ports seems to have...
Mmmh doesn't sound too good. Front USB ports cannot deal with my external HDD (not the defective one, an EIDE 2.5" drive that shouldn't need additional USB ports), even without the OC'. USB ports from the I/O panel still unresponsive.
Hi guys,
Last night, I've used two of my Asrock motherboard's self USB ports (from the I/O panel) as a power source for an external 2.5" hard drive. The (defective) drive was plugged in for a few hours.
Now, it seems all 4 USB ports are totally unusable. Nothing happens whether I plug my...
The following came to my attention
That's the reason it should be disabled "when possible" (with the Auto setting) (that's assuming the BIOS contains this workaround Mr Vain mentioned).
There is no hurry! Let's see, I must have had this mobo during the year 2009.
So it took me roughly 5 years to find the right settings (that includes the OC and providing it with the hardware to make it work properly with Vista) so to speak!
PCI Latency Timer [128]
This last one was...
What you should do IMHO is look for another 1GB stick of the same type, leaving that 2GB one for another computer, and maybe forget about a 2x2GB setup for now. 2x1GB in Dual Channel with optimized settings (tight timings) is good enough for many tasks.
I don't think what you're experiencing...
If you already tried to change the order by which the modules are inserted in the corresponding slots and proceeded to a BIOS reset and cold reboot, I think you should try with different ones. DRAM modules work best in pairs of the same density (2x1 or 2x2 GB sticks, similar type preferably).
I...
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