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Anyone tried nVidia System Utility or nTune on A7N8X-VM or VM/400?
Hi all:
I'd like very much to run mobile Athlons on the A7N8X-VM/400 board I have here. However, as many of you know, there are no clock/timing settings to speak of in the BIOS setup utility. Because a mobile Athlon has no lock on clock settings, if it is inserted into this board, it will default to something ridiculously low, like for example, 600 MHz. After researching various methods of adjusting clock/timing settings fo this board, I came up with only a couple which seemed safe. My first choice would be to try running NVSU-the nVidia System Utility or nTune (newer, renamed version) on the board. Has anyone tried running either of these on the A7N8X-VM or VM/400? Obviously it has some downsides. Alternatively, has anyone tried using an Upgradeware XP-TMC socket adapter to change the multiplier setting? Thanks in advance. Brad |
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wrote: Hi all: I'd like very much to run mobile Athlons on the A7N8X-VM/400 board I have here. However, as many of you know, there are no clock/timing settings to speak of in the BIOS setup utility. Because a mobile Athlon has no lock on clock settings, if it is inserted into this board, it will default to something ridiculously low, like for example, 600 MHz. After researching various methods of adjusting clock/timing settings fo this board, I came up with only a couple which seemed safe. My first choice would be to try running NVSU-the nVidia System Utility or nTune (newer, renamed version) on the board. Has anyone tried running either of these on the A7N8X-VM or VM/400? Obviously it has some downsides. Alternatively, has anyone tried using an Upgradeware XP-TMC socket adapter to change the multiplier setting? Thanks in advance. Brad Poking around this directory, I see the NVSU utility: ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/nf2/ When you unzip NvidiaSU_v09.zip , the nvsysvals.ini contains: "[A7N8X-E ] cpu_min = 1.750 cpu_max = 1.850 cpu_increment_step=0.025 agp_min = 1.5 agp_max = 1.7 agp_increment_step=0.1 core_min = 1.5 core_max = 1.7 core_increment_step=0.1 mem_min = 2.6 mem_max = 2.8 mem_increment_step=0.1 aux_min = 1.6 aux_max = 1.7 aux_increment_step=0.1" That, at least, suggests SU must have glue in the code for each kind of motherboard being used, and if the multiplier bits don't have GPIO pins tied to them, then it would not be possible to use a SU like utility to do the job. If you want this bad enough, consider modding the bottom of the socket. The FSB pins, VID pins, and the multiplier pins are documented on the net, and you could use defroster paint or a similar conductive paint, to make connections. I looked at soldering to the bottom of my motherboard, and the through-hole sockets now being used, have hardly any lead length on the pins. If the pins were full length, it would be a piece of cake to wind shorting wires onto the pins, and make the connections that way. Since a socket is sensitive to soldering heat (you can melt and deform the plastic), I decided not to take a chance with soldering to them. The conductive paint remains as an alternative. This page gives hints on how to adjust stuff: http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/ht...md_pinmod.html This tells you what some of the adjustments can do: http://fab51.com/cpu/barton/athlon-e23.html You can crosscheck the info with page 66 of a Barton datasheet: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...docs/26237.PDF How do you plan on handling the issues with memory ? Are you going to run the FSB at 166MHz or 200MHz. The memory is only supposed to run to PC2700 rates, due to some kind of limit with the memory clock and operation of the built-in video. If the BIOS has no useful adjustment for the memory clock, then maybe you'll need a hacked BIOS or something ? Check on nforcershq.com, to see if anyone has a hacked BIOS. Are you using a separate video card ? That is supposed to allow the hardware to use a DDR400 memory rate, if you can figure out a way of getting the memory clock set to 200MHz. I'd sooner pick up a A7N8X-E, a cheap video card, and do all of this from the BIOS. HTH, Paul |
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