SEALTeamSix
2[H]4U
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Hi guys, this is a continuation of this thread started in the [H]ot|Deals section... we have moved from the deal to the issues surrounding the board at this point, and it was time for a change of venue.
Some fixes for issues with this mobo have already been addressed, so here they are again - "If you're running the onboard video: Before installation remove the northbridge heatsink and add a tiny bit more thermal paste....shuttle hardly puts any on. Adding a heatsink to the southbridge might help but "usually" isn't necessary if its under 50c. Disable the firewire via bios if you're not going to use it... you're system will boot faster. Disable "DRAM Auto-Precharge" via BIOS if you're system is unstable for whatever reason." Just FYI, the chipset is NF2 w/ the MCP-T southbridge.
A new issue we are having is trying to squeeze every bit of juice out of these boards as we can. This board has FSB adjustments in BIOS up to 200MHz, but so far the BIOS lacks VCore, VMem, and VChipset adjustments. Furthermore, the BIOS lacks options to edit the CPU's multiplier or lock the PCI bus (though it might be locked by default - this hasn't been investigated yet.) So far, we have found pin modding to be an inconvenient yet effective method of altering these values. I am trying to modify the BIOS to include these features, and I have also contacted Shuttle and am waiting to hear back from them - maybe they'll be nice, pony up a modded BIOS and save us the work.
Any of you with experience modifying BIOSes, particularly Award 6.0 BIOSes, please feel free to give us any help you can. So far, this modified BIOS has the default settings tuned for performance and the DRM-Precharge turned off for stability reasons.
-SEAL
Some fixes for issues with this mobo have already been addressed, so here they are again - "If you're running the onboard video: Before installation remove the northbridge heatsink and add a tiny bit more thermal paste....shuttle hardly puts any on. Adding a heatsink to the southbridge might help but "usually" isn't necessary if its under 50c. Disable the firewire via bios if you're not going to use it... you're system will boot faster. Disable "DRAM Auto-Precharge" via BIOS if you're system is unstable for whatever reason." Just FYI, the chipset is NF2 w/ the MCP-T southbridge.
A new issue we are having is trying to squeeze every bit of juice out of these boards as we can. This board has FSB adjustments in BIOS up to 200MHz, but so far the BIOS lacks VCore, VMem, and VChipset adjustments. Furthermore, the BIOS lacks options to edit the CPU's multiplier or lock the PCI bus (though it might be locked by default - this hasn't been investigated yet.) So far, we have found pin modding to be an inconvenient yet effective method of altering these values. I am trying to modify the BIOS to include these features, and I have also contacted Shuttle and am waiting to hear back from them - maybe they'll be nice, pony up a modded BIOS and save us the work.
Any of you with experience modifying BIOSes, particularly Award 6.0 BIOSes, please feel free to give us any help you can. So far, this modified BIOS has the default settings tuned for performance and the DRM-Precharge turned off for stability reasons.
-SEAL