Has anyone else here actually tried the phenom ii 980 Black Edition cpu in this board?
I am having a very hard time with it.
couple of key issues:
with default bios settings, it will not boot, bsod attempting to boot anything.
if you even think about overclocking, no boot, not bclk, not multiplier, not even 100mhz more, no boot immediate bsod.
you must go in the bios and set ram speed manually to 533 or it runs at 233, set cpu multiplier manually to stock, vcore manually to 1.325-1.35 (any more or less and no boot), and set NB link manually to 10 (2000mhz(stock)).
a more advanced issue:
if you reset the cmos, the system will not post anymore. To fix it, the method that seems to work twice now is to remove all the ram and insert some random 333mhz ddr2 1gb dimm in the closest to cpu slot and try a couple times to post the system. It eventually will, then you can either set the cpu speed and stuff manually as mentioned earlier, or not... ??
after it posts once successfully, you can reinstall 533mhz ram and it will continue posting fine without even bothering to set anything in the bios.
even if you replace the cpu with an older one, post the system, set all the settings in bios, and then reinstall the 980 cpu, the system will not post lmao. The only fix is to install slow ram in single channel, not fast ram in single channel, it has to be 400mhz or worse.
a unrelated issue to the cpu:
the first two ram slots on my board sometimes work sometimes don't? it will work fine with the first two slots for a while until it never posts again. You must use the other two slots, the orange ones. there is no negative performance hit. It did this too with an athlon 64 x2 as well.
It's kind of pointless to go with this cpu if I cannot overclock it. To be fair I did not intend to use this cpu, I ordered a 955BE for $20usd and this 980BE showed up instead.
Additionally, has anyone ever used raid on this board or chipset? It literally doesn't work. I put the drives in raid, and like DOS recognizes the raid0, but windows xp doesn't, windows vista doesn't, windows 7 doesn't, gnu/linux doesn't, it just doesn't work. I cannot install an os on a raid. I wanted to do two ssds in raid0 to see if it was faster.
am2nf3-vsta/980BE/4GB533dual/ATI4670AGP/1TBssd/winxp32bit