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  • #16
    please update your motherboard bios...the 1 youre using is an old version.
    good luck
    Reza Bahari
    visual3d@streamyx.com
    013-3428162

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    • #17
      ok, thats a promising solution thanks...

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      • #18
        make sure your ram is registered too, without registered ram, your xeon will crash.
        Many 3dsmax prepasses are done with only 1 thread. By disabling the HT, you'll have 1 processor working on it instead of 50% of one only (with a dual system). Sorry for the quick&dirty example, but that's almost the case.
        This is not true, what you see is'nt what you get. The taskmanager is showing 25% cpu usage with one thread and HT enabled, but this does'nt mean that the thread is using only 50% from a physical cpu. The performance will drop only about 10% (max) compared to disabled HT. CPU 0 & 1 are physical cpu's, cpu 2 & 3 are logical (HT). So disabling HT is no solution, because the system performance will suffer, winXP is optimized for HT. A better way is to disable the HT sometimes for the application only (by setting the cpu affinity in your taskmanager). Just disable CPU 2 & 3 for max to find the best performance.
        http://www.eldaco.net

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        • #19
          i guess there is no temp-issue, the intel board is using the thermal throttling feature, if the temperature is too high, your chipset can adjust the CPU speed downward (without any message ;( )
          btw: the 2,8 is a prestonia core, not a prescott.
          http://www.eldaco.net

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          • #20
            I would still be inclined to check it tho.

            EIther way something is wrong, and so far we dont know what it is. Could be anything.

            Im just going by what i have seen before, alot of these problems come back to a heat issue. Its easy enought to check.

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            • #21
              sure, if the heatsink is'nt fitted 100% exaclty, the chip can't throttle fast enough downward and a good cooling is basic for a stable system. maybe you can try to lower the cpu multiplicator for testing.
              but please check your ram (specs) and casetemp before that.
              http://www.eldaco.net

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              • #22


                Temperature is OK... i was trying to flash my BIOS for 2 hours... i cant boot up in NON-HIMEM environemnt..whatever it is. I booted with different boot disks, same thing. Phoenix Flash utility complains that i got HIMEM on, there is no way i can switch it off. bloody hell, this is tiring

                Here is the link.

                http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...8&DwnldID=6564

                If someone got the same mamma and flashed it somehow, please help me! I got the oldest bios on this one, there were loads of bug fixes since.

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                • #23
                  you need to create a boot disk by formating the floppy disk using dos 6.2 or windows 98 or me

                  at dos promt in dos: type format a:/s or using win98 go to add/remove program and click create boot or start up disk then unzip the bios to the disk...

                  ill get more info for you soon..
                  Reza Bahari
                  visual3d@streamyx.com
                  013-3428162

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                  • #24
                    thanks, but as i said, i've made: 98 Bottable disk, WinXP botable disk, DOs 6.2...windows ME boot disk. Non of them r working properly. I still get error regarding that i should run DOS in non-himem environment.

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                    • #25
                      use drdos to format the disk, dos 6.22 will not work with phoenix bios (often).
                      ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/u...s/drdflash.exe
                      insert a floppy and start the drdos for bios flashing.
                      http://www.eldaco.net

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                      • #26
                        it worked! thanks!!!

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                        • #27
                          no problem..

                          i suggest you post your findings so that others would benefit from it.
                          Reza Bahari
                          visual3d@streamyx.com
                          013-3428162

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                          • #28
                            Having problems with HT on ourselfs, we also would like to know what you did to make it work.

                            Erik
                            A full render queu is a thing of beauty !

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                            • #29
                              have you tried updating your bios....i did and updated my windows xp..
                              ht does not work with older version of windows 2000
                              Reza Bahari
                              visual3d@streamyx.com
                              013-3428162

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                              • #30
                                We have windows xp pro.

                                So all you did was update your bios and windows xp and it worked ?

                                Erik
                                A full render queu is a thing of beauty !

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