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Post by cbjaust on Mar 19, 2020 21:57:26 GMT -5
The barebones server was anything but  with 2 x Opteron 270 CPUs and 8 x 1GB Corsair CM72SD1024RLP-3200/S Registered ECC DIMMs. The Spare board also has a couple of CPUs, 2 x Opteron 248 CPUs (OSA248CEP5AU). There is not a lot of action on the bot with 2 x Opty 270 so there will be some more team points coming sooner or later  . Now if only I could work out which clk gen the board has and if there is any support for it. BIOS had memory dividers above 200MHz too - 216, 233 and 250 IIRC, so that at least should be interesting. |
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Post by Mr.Scott on Mar 20, 2020 15:42:33 GMT -5
Clock generator shouldn't be too difficult to figure out. Find the PLL #.
nTune or Clockgen for NF4 should work out of the box.
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Post by alpi on Mar 20, 2020 17:01:38 GMT -5
Nf2200 proffessional is an nf4 basically so as I've seen with my Supermicro nf2200 based board, an nf4 clockgen works perfect. At my board only the first boot sequence examining the bclk and set it to 200 so any simple restart leave bclk as it was.
That 400+ mem dividers are existing in my bios even, however its pretty much interesting what are those made for, especially its not common within desktop boards, pretty strange for ecc mems since 400 mhz sticks are not so common.
I think you can use nearly just the same and all the tweaker softwares in os what good for an nf4 939. Memory controller and multi, vid tune things also worked for me.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Mar 20, 2020 18:48:05 GMT -5
I have K8N-DRE here that I've never ran before.
Been stock piling CPU's for that for a year or two now.
Need to run that thing at least once.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Mar 20, 2020 20:14:04 GMT -5
I have K8N-DRE here that I've never ran before. Been stock piling CPU's for that for a year or two now. Need to run that thing at least once. You still haven't Fired that up yet!! Lol. Get to gettin' / Well, maybe after the house comp eh? |
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Post by cbjaust on Mar 20, 2020 23:10:00 GMT -5
I'm having a hell of a time getting a clean DOS to work from a floppy drive. I've rage destroyed two floppy disks already. With the USB stick plugged into the back it hangs just after detecting the IDE CDROM drive. Hiren's boot CD doesn't make a clean dod environment to boot from. UBCD just boots to XP, My Server 2003 disc hangs at the "Starting Windows Setup" text mode stage. It's being a pain in the arse at the moment. I just want to flash the BIOS to the actual K8SRE bios so CPU-Z will detect it as such so I can get it added to the hwbot data base. At the moment it is identified as the barebones GT24-B2891 that it is: also it's gonna have to run Server 2003 or earlier because no drivers for the Rage XL in Win 7 so the res is limited to 1024 x 768 without a driver whereas it should do 1600 x 1200 max. Thanks for the input fellas, I'll try Clockgen for nF4.
EDIT: Windows 7 no go for nTune 2.00.20.05 from the DFI nF4 driver disc (LP nF4_003) nVidia nTune 6.08 freezes during the installation and Clockgen for nF4 won't run without a signed driver (cg64.sys) so I'm back to trying to get Server 2003 installed.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Mar 21, 2020 9:19:42 GMT -5
Run XP pro on that rig. You should have no problem with the install and it supports dual processors.
If you have to run W7, turn off signed driver verification.
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Post by cbjaust on Mar 22, 2020 0:04:28 GMT -5
Finally got the BIOS flashed to the latest. It was on the release BIOS and ended up flashing each newer BIOS in turn to get to the latest - it refused to flash directly to the latest. I was flashing the BIOS specified for the barebones server and once I had the latest I flashed the BIOS for the board itself but it didn't change the name of the board. i thought it might go to K8SRE or S2891 at least but it is still GT24-B2891. All that was after finally finding a not fucked floppy disk. Such a frustration at the time too! Now it's up and running with Server-2003 R2 x64 and I'm just about to see if Clockgen for nF4 works.
Edit: Clockgen for nF4 does work but it's flakey as all hell, I got it to 205MHz once so far but for wPrime it is of little use as it is slower than Windows 7 for that.
Mr.Scott , any chance you could look into the latest BIOS to re-enable the RAM dividers for above 200MHz and see if there is any chance of bclk and VID control? |
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Post by Mr.Scott on Mar 22, 2020 8:10:49 GMT -5
Mr.Scott , any chance you could look into the latest BIOS to re-enable the RAM dividers for above 200MHz and see if there is any chance of bclk and VID control? Certainly. |
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Post by cbjaust on Mar 22, 2020 8:23:02 GMT -5
Thank you kind sir.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Mar 22, 2020 10:29:29 GMT -5
Finally got the BIOS flashed to the latest. It was on the release BIOS and ended up flashing each newer BIOS in turn to get to the latest - it refused to flash directly to the latest. I was flashing the BIOS specified for the barebones server and once I had the latest I flashed the BIOS for the board itself but it didn't change the name of the board. i thought it might go to K8SRE or S2891 at least but it is still GT24-B2891. All that was after finally finding a not fucked floppy disk. Such a frustration at the time too! Now it's up and running with Server-2003 R2 x64 and I'm just about to see if Clockgen for nF4 works.
Edit: Clockgen for nF4 does work but it's flakey as all hell, I got it to 205MHz once so far but for wPrime it is of little use as it is slower than Windows 7 for that.
Mr.Scott , any chance you could look into the latest BIOS to re-enable the RAM dividers for above 200MHz and see if there is any chance of bclk and VID control? I see your frustration first hand now. The bios you flashed is still for the barebones unit. It is an Acer OEM bios. That is why you lost some control and the board ID didn't change. All of the bios's that have a .wph bios file are Acer controlled OEM bios's. You don't want any of those. I cannot mod them because they're encrypted, even with a hex editor. The release bios (100) is the only non Acer OEM that I've found so far. Still looking, still working on it. Just giving you a heads up. |
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Post by cbjaust on Mar 23, 2020 0:03:30 GMT -5
The BIOS files for the barebones are all here and they all have .B10 as the extension. I'll put them below for convenience. Thanks again.
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with 2 x Opteron 270 CPUs and 8 x 1GB Corsair CM72SD1024RLP-3200/S Registered ECC DIMMs. The Spare board also has a couple of CPUs, 2 x Opteron 248 CPUs (OSA248CEP5AU). There is not a lot of action on the bot with 2 x Opty 270 so there will be some more team points coming sooner or later 
. Now if only I could work out which clk gen the board has and if there is any support for it. BIOS had memory dividers above 200MHz too - 216, 233 and 250 IIRC, so that at least should be interesting.
