ECS 945P-A is ICS 954127BF

Hi all. I finally opened up my case and found out that the ECS 945P-A board uses the ICS 954127. This program is working incredibly well so far. I was able to get my fsb speed to 250mhz and even higher on my pentium D 820. With the cheap ecs board bios, I was only able to go up to 237mhz bus because the stupid board will not detect my sata harddrives above that bus speed. With systool, I can bump the bus speed above this constraint and still use my sata harddrives. It's incredible!

I have a suggestion though. It would be cool if systool and atitool is integrated such that when a 3D application is detected, a profile for both the fsb clock and vga clocks can be loaded. It will also be nice to set systool to load certain profiles when it detects certain programs are loaded. That way we can optimize electric efficiency and save on our electric bills and also allow our hardware to last longer. Fan speed adjustment like speedfan will be great too.

I have pc4000 corsair memory. I'm running at 246 stable without voltage adjusments. However even if I up the voltage, I can't go higher. The reason is most likely the power supply. I have a 550watt Thermal Take ps but it uses the old connectors so that should be the limiting factor.

settings at 4 4 4 12. They are at the slowest settings. I just left it to auto managed ram timing in the bios.

What is the temp of your cpu? Dl speedfan. If your heatsink is not seating properly (which is very common) that can be a reason. Also check ur ps.

What is the problem u get when o/c? Freeze? auto-reboot? auto-shut off?

dl = download. I meant download speedfan to monitor your temps. But that is not necessary anymore.

To determine what it is, do this.
DL memtest or RightMark RAMTester Utility and test your ram at 220mhz and see if there are problems with your ram. If not, then the problem most likely lies somewhere else.

Then test the cpu by running TWO instances of prime95 and select Small FFT test which stresses your cpu. If no error, then most likely you have some sort of power problems.

First of all, make sure u plug all the power cables correctly to the mb. It is possible that u left out a plug and your comp still boots. Make sure you plug in power to the video card if it has a connector and plug the power to the pci-e slot on the mb if u using pcie.

Is your power supply using the new (I remember it is 24) pin power connector or the older connectors with 4 pins less? For o/c purpose using the old connector on new boards will limit your o/c. I'm using the old one and I feel this is capping my o/c potentials. Antec 450w is kinda weak for o/c an intel dual core. Intel chips are power hunger monsters which draw around 300watt or possibly more when o/c. Now if you have a top of the line video card like the ATI x1800 which draws another 250watts at full load, then you have no hope of o/c (Nvidias uses less power). You also have harddrives, fans, drives, etc.. draining from your ps.

When u buy a ps, make sure u buy one with a very high efficiency rating; At least 70% efficiency. Even though a ps is rated at 550w, it most likely can provide only 450w of constant power.

List all your other specs, like video card, hds, etc...