RMA'd BenQ still hangs PC up -PC guru's pls help

[Chewy]

the northbridge chipset temp tells all, it's cooking at 200fsb

excellent cooling on those xenon's

you should be tearing up a transcode of a long movie with that setup,
shrink being multithreaded and 6GHZ of cpu power, lame L1 tho.

I'd probably turn off HTT in a bench, bet it's faster without!

BTW I would really expect that ram to do fine at 180 and cas 2

[lemonyx]

Chewy

Thank you for your help and your time, I appreciate it. I finally got the PC working the way it's suppose to. Now, just slow down the fsb under 200 and up the multiplier. I'll post another report after I slow it down.

I'd always thought that the faster the fsb, the better and faster for processing.

[Chewy]

I'd always thought that the faster the fsb, the better and faster for processing

true, but nothing works right without that agp/pci bus lock!

it's all about balance in the force(eliminating bottlenecks)
no matter how fast you get those xenon's going, the memory is going to bottleneck them at cas 2.5

[lemonyx]

I feel like I just traded in my Ferrari and got a VW bug Anyway here's the new report.

<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3>CPU Properties: <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPU Type <TD>2x Intel Xeon <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPU Alias <TD>Prestonia <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPU Stepping <TD>C1 <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>Engineering Sample <TD>No <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPUID CPU Name <TD>Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1.60GHz <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPUID Revision <TD>00000F27h <TR><TD><TR><TD><TD><TD colSpan=3>CPU Speed: <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPU Clock <TD>2478.62 MHz (original: 1600 MHz, overclock: 55%) <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPU Multiplier <TD>15.0x <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPU FSB <TD>165.24 MHz (original: 100 MHz, overclock: 65%) <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>Memory Bus <TD>206.55 MHz </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3>Sensor Properties: <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>Sensor Type <TD>Winbond W83627THF (ISA 290h) <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>Motherboard Name <TD>Asus PC-DL <TR><TD><TR><TD><TD><TD colSpan=3>Temperatures: <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>Motherboard <TD>45 °C (113 °F) <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPU1 <TD>34 °C (93 °F) <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPU2 <TD>32 °C (90 °F) <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>DW CDW08J0-D89UL0X <TD>31 °C (88 °F) <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>DW CDW2100BJ0-G0AV 0 <TD>27 °C (81 °F) <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>DW CDW2100BJ0-G0AV 0 <TD>25 °C (77 °F) <TR><TD><TR><TD><TD><TD colSpan=3>Cooling Fans: <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPU1 <TD>1205 RPM <TR><TD><TD><TD><TD>CPU2 <TD>1350 RPM </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD>


AthlonXP


2500+
<TD class=cr>1833 MHz <TD>Asus A7N8X-E <TD>nForce2-U400 <TD>PC2700 DDR SDRAM <TD>2.5-3-3-7 <TD class=cr>105.4 ns <TR><TD><TD><TD>Xeon <TD class=cr>2476 MHz <TD>Asus PC-DL Deluxe <TD>i875P + PAT <TD>Dual PC3300 DDR <TD>2-3-3-7 <TD class=cr>106.4 ns <TR><TD><TD><TD>P4 <TD class=cr>3066 MHz <TD>MSI 848P Neo-S <TD>i848P <TD>PC2700 DDR SDRAM <TD>2.5-3-3-7 <TD class=cr>115.1 ns <TR><TD><TD><TD>P4 <TD class=cr>2600 MHz <TD>Asus P4P800 <TD>i865PE <TD>Dual PC3200 DDR <TD>2.5-4-4-7 <TD class=cr>117.8 ns </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

[Chewy]

won't the multipler go past 15?

are you running the ram by spd?

[lemonyx]

won't the multipler go past 15?

Actually 16x is the max on these by default in bios


are you running the ram by spd?

I never really set it, didn't know what numbers to put in there so as not to screw up the memory.

[lemonyx]

The fsb is set to max @ 165 and the multiplier is 16x max in bios. The mobo has three settings and to get the settings, it's jumpered. Not much of a choice. Either, way slow 100 - 132 fsb, slow 133 - 165 fsb or 200 - 233 fsb, multiplier @ 16x max in bios 3.728ghz not by these chips.

So for the menory, cas is 2,

active precharge delay, choice is 8 7 6 5 ??

dram ras# to cas# delay, choice is 4 3 2 ??

dram ras precharge, choice is 4 3 2 ??

as I said before "I know just enough to be dangerous"

The BenQ is working at this setting, burned several dvd's so far with no stalls on the PC. go figure

[NightbladeXX]

hey Lemon, just as a side note, as I havent had much of a chance to read the whole post, is that my good friend has had tons of problems with his BenQ DVD-/+R bruner not sure on the model but he did give up on it and bought a Sony or Pioneer not sure which but one of the two

[lemonyx]

Thanks - but with Chewy's help, I have the BenQ burning. They are fidgity burners

[Chewy]

(2.0-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz)
cas 2
active precharge delay 7
3
3

when you take J1 and jumper pin 1&2
and jumper 3&4, what does bios show for fsb selections?

[lemonyx]

when you take J1 and jumper pin 1&2
and jumper 3&4, what does bios show for fsb selections?

J1...2..1
......4..3
......6..5


pins 1-2, 3-4 when these are jumped- cpu fail

pin's 1-2, 3-5, 4-6 jumped for 100 -132 mhz

pin's 3-5,4-6 jumped for 100 - 132 mhz

pin's 4-6 jumped for 133 -165 mhz

pin's 3-5 jumped for 200-233 mhz


not much of a choice - if I got different cpu's ???

[Chewy]

the problem is the age of the motherboard!

of course I would like dual dual core opterons myself!

[lemonyx]

yeah- it's an ancient mobo. But the chips for it are cheap - cost me $85 for the two.

thanks again - it running great and burning fine. I can still rip 2 at the same time but burn one at a time

[Chewy]

cost me $85 for the two.

I abdicate my claim to champion of "BANG FOR THE BUCK" of the forum!

[lemonyx]

Oh no mighty one - in good faith I can not accept this great honor, but I want to thank my wife who put me on a "budget" in putting this PC together and of course all those years in dumpster diving 101 has helped me to sharpen my senses in snooping out deal's

btw, most of the componets used in the building of this PC had a "MIR" - gotta love thoses rebates