K8V SE Deluxe bios guide, pointers tweaks....

Just got the board, man the bios sucks compared to what im used to, and
the asus manual is no help with alot of the funky settings Ive never
heard of for A64.
Not to mention I cant really see anywhere what bios version I have, the
chip has a sticker mentioning 1001, but I see nothing in the bios itself
or during post.

I thought this board might run in dual channel mode?? guess it was just
the 939 boards?

Anyway, any good guides for this bios out there?

thx
Gordon

Gordon Scott wrote:
Just got the board, man the bios sucks compared to what im used to,
and the asus manual is no help with alot of the funky settings Ive
never heard of for A64.
Not to mention I cant really see anywhere what bios version I have,
the chip has a sticker mentioning 1001, but I see nothing in the bios
itself or during post.

I thought this board might run in dual channel mode?? guess it was
just the 939 boards?

Anyway, any good guides for this bios out there?

thx
Gordon

For starters, download the latest beta bios from Asus. Before you flash it,
though, make sure you have good/stable memory. The original bios on these
boards was (in my experience - I own this board) very bad with recognizing
the correct memory settings. I had an older pc3200 (generic Samsung) 256 mb
chip I could put back in (which turned out to be a very good thing), since
it failed/corrupted the bios several times. If all else fails, pop the
battery, clear the cmos. As far as the A64, they are good at recognition
for this chip. I'll let some of the more experienced guys in here (& gals),
fill you in on more of the detailed tech. info.


DonM

A64 3000+
Asus K8v SE Deluxe
Geil Pc3500 ULD 2x512kb
Wd 100 gb sata
BFC Nvidia 6800 OC

Guitarcrazy wrote:

Gordon Scott wrote:
Just got the board, man the bios sucks compared to what im used to,
and the asus manual is no help with alot of the funky settings Ive
never heard of for A64.
Not to mention I cant really see anywhere what bios version I have,
the chip has a sticker mentioning 1001, but I see nothing in the bios
itself or during post.

I thought this board might run in dual channel mode?? guess it was
just the 939 boards?

Anyway, any good guides for this bios out there?

thx
Gordon

For starters, download the latest beta bios from Asus. Before you flash it,
though, make sure you have good/stable memory. The original bios on these
boards was (in my experience - I own this board) very bad with recognizing
the correct memory settings. I had an older pc3200 (generic Samsung) 256 mb
chip I could put back in (which turned out to be a very good thing), since
it failed/corrupted the bios several times. If all else fails, pop the
battery, clear the cmos. As far as the A64, they are good at recognition
for this chip. I'll let some of the more experienced guys in here (& gals),
fill you in on more of the detailed tech. info.

DonM

A64 3000+
Asus K8v SE Deluxe
Geil Pc3500 ULD 2x512kb
Wd 100 gb sata
BFC Nvidia 6800 OC

I did flash the bios already, but i cant tell either before or after
where the version can be seen.

I have 2 x 512 ocz platinum EL pc3200 2 3 2 5 dual channel.

Gordon

Gordon Scott wrote:
Guitarcrazy wrote:

Gordon Scott wrote:
Just got the board, man the bios sucks compared to what im used to,
and the asus manual is no help with alot of the funky settings Ive
never heard of for A64.
Not to mention I cant really see anywhere what bios version I have,
the chip has a sticker mentioning 1001, but I see nothing in the
bios itself or during post.

I thought this board might run in dual channel mode?? guess it was
just the 939 boards?

Anyway, any good guides for this bios out there?

thx
Gordon

For starters, download the latest beta bios from Asus. Before you
flash it, though, make sure you have good/stable memory. The
original bios on these boards was (in my experience - I own this
board) very bad with recognizing the correct memory settings. I had
an older pc3200 (generic Samsung) 256 mb chip I could put back in
(which turned out to be a very good thing), since it
failed/corrupted the bios several times. If all else fails, pop the
battery, clear the cmos. As far as the A64, they are good at
recognition for this chip. I'll let some of the more experienced
guys in here (& gals), fill you in on more of the detailed tech.
info.

DonM

A64 3000+
Asus K8v SE Deluxe
Geil Pc3500 ULD 2x512kb
Wd 100 gb sata
BFC Nvidia 6800 OC

I did flash the bios already, but i cant tell either before or after
where the version can be seen.

I have 2 x 512 ocz platinum EL pc3200 2 3 2 5 dual channel.

Gordon

Gordon,

I wish I could tell you more detailed info., but I'm no expert myself. Just
from my experience, this motherboard just doesn't have that many options to
modify. Switching it to manual (under the Jumper Free section / Cpu speed),
really only gives you the vcore & Mhz rating. As others have suggested, you
can try to reduce the htt to 600, relax your memory settings, and increase
the fsb. It hasn't worked for me on this board. YMMV.

DonM

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:15:22 GMT, Gordon Scott
wrote:

Just got the board, man the bios sucks compared to what im used to, and
the asus manual is no help with alot of the funky settings Ive never
heard of for A64.
Not to mention I cant really see anywhere what bios version I have, the
chip has a sticker mentioning 1001, but I see nothing in the bios itself
or during post.

I thought this board might run in dual channel mode?? guess it was just
the 939 boards?

Anyway, any good guides for this bios out there?

thx
Gordon
If you have ASUS PC probe installed run it then go to information tag
and click on DMI explorer it will tell you the version of bios. I
have a K8V delux board but I am sure that would work for yours

David Wells wrote:

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:15:22 GMT, Gordon Scott
wrote:

Just got the board, man the bios sucks compared to what im used to, and
the asus manual is no help with alot of the funky settings Ive never
heard of for A64.
Not to mention I cant really see anywhere what bios version I have, the
chip has a sticker mentioning 1001, but I see nothing in the bios itself
or during post.

I thought this board might run in dual channel mode?? guess it was just
the 939 boards?

Anyway, any good guides for this bios out there?

thx
Gordon
If you have ASUS PC probe installed run it then go to information tag
and click on DMI explorer it will tell you the version of bios. I
have a K8V delux board but I am sure that would work for yours

Your the man David!!David Wells wrote:

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:15:22 GMT, Gordon Scott
wrote:

Just got the board, man the bios sucks compared to what im used to, and
the asus manual is no help with alot of the funky settings Ive never
heard of for A64.
Not to mention I cant really see anywhere what bios version I have, the
chip has a sticker mentioning 1001, but I see nothing in the bios itself
or during post.

I thought this board might run in dual channel mode?? guess it was just
the 939 boards?

Anyway, any good guides for this bios out there?

thx
Gordon
If you have ASUS PC probe installed run it then go to information tag
and click on DMI explorer it will tell you the version of bios. I
have a K8V delux board but I am sure that would work for yours


never thought of that.

thx
Merry Christmas
Gordon