I am stuck on this one..

I have a friend that is running a 3500+ on a Av8 Deluxe and is having boot problems...

He was running the vcore at 1.586v   the standard is 1.500. 

He then did something with the cpu power frequency.. the original value was 2.5 and he changed it to 2.25... now it will not boot..

any ideas?

I'm not sure if I get it either. Was it a setting you changed in BIOS? If so, take out the BIOS battery, then restart the computer to reset the BIOS to the default setting. Then shut down the computer and put the battery back in.

Exactly what was the name of the option he changed in the BIOS (Assuming that's where it was...)? I'm looking though the manual to see what it is and don't even see an option with that name.....


Also, does it give any post codes or anything when he attempts to boot? Or is it just dead in the water?

Strange, I'll look again at the manual....

Of course, I don't know how much help I will be as I am an Intel guy, but if I find anything out I'll gladly relay it to you....

Also, you may wanna ask around in the AMD forums at www.extremeoverclocking.com ... I've found a lot of the regs there to be some pretty knowledgable people....

2.5 is american power, and 2.25 is european. Are you in europe?

Crash-Free BIOS 2, pages 4-5
C.P.R (CPU Parameter Recall), pages 2-18

here in short is what i have done with my 3200+ and abit mobo please feel free to tell if i have gone to far or what i might be able to change...



Field   Value
CPU Properties   
CPU Type   AMD Athlon 64
CPU Alias   Winchester S939
CPU Stepping   DH7-D0
CPUID CPU Name   AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
CPUID Revision   00010FF0h
   
CPU Speed   
CPU Clock   2510.96 MHz
CPU Multiplier   10.0x
CPU FSB   251.10 MHz  (original: 200 MHz, overclock: 26%)
Memory Bus   209.25 MHz
   
CPU Cache   
L1 Code Cache   64 KB  (Parity)
L1 Data Cache   64 KB  (ECC)
L2 Cache   512 KB  (On-Die, ECC, Full-Speed)
   
Motherboard Properties   
Motherboard ID   11/12/2004-K8T800P-8237-6A7L1A19C-17
Motherboard Name   Abit AV8/AV8-3rd Eye  (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
   
Chipset Properties   
Motherboard Chipset   VIA K8T800Pro, AMD Hammer
Memory Timings   2.5-3-3-8  (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
Command Rate (CR)   2T
   
SPD Memory Modules   
DIMM1: Corsair CMX512-3200C2   512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM  (2.5-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz)  (2.0-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz)
DIMM2: Corsair CMX512-3200C2   512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM  (2.5-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz)  (2.0-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz)
DIMM3: Corsair CMX512-3200C2   512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM  (2.5-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz)  (2.0-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz)
DIMM4: Corsair CMX512-3200C2   512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM  (2.5-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz)  (2.0-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz)
   
BIOS Properties   
System BIOS Date   11/12/04
Video BIOS Date   06/13/03
Award BIOS Type   Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Award BIOS Message   
DMI BIOS Version   6.00 PG
   
Graphics Processor Properties   
DirectX   4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Video Adapter   nVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
GPU Code Name   NV35  (AGP 8x 10DE / 0331, Rev A1)
GPU Clock   301 MHz
Memory Clock   425 MHz
   
Sensor Properties   
Tsystem   35 °C  (95 °F)
Tcpu   49 °C  (120 °F)
Tpwm   35 °C  (95 °F)
Fcpu   3132 RPM
Fnb   2529 RPM
Vcore   1.59 V
Vio   3.30 V
Vdimm   2.69 V
Vdimmvtt   1.36 V
Vagpddq   1.53 V


the only prom i have come across is playing doom 3 ..so i might need to back off of something

Doom 3 problems might be coming from the FX 5900.  I had one and it couldnt handle Doom 3 unless I was on medium and 1024 X 768.