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tony wrote:Hi Shaun, Looks like a nice mini board and the asus bios menu seems a lot easier than my capszuma standard intel board. I can see how the old horseradish mistake could happen! Might be easier to start a thread on a mini atx board. There is bound to be people interested. this thread has gone off the wall but is certainly a good read from the beginning for people interested in going off the planet on their build

Tony, have you done some tweaking in the BIOS of your Zuma?

sima66 wrote:

tony wrote:Hi Shaun, Looks like a nice mini board and the asus bios menu seems a lot easier than my capszuma standard intel board. I can see how the old horseradish mistake could happen! Might be easier to start a thread on a mini atx board. There is bound to be people interested. this thread has gone off the wall but is certainly a good read from the beginning for people interested in going off the planet on their build

Tony, have you done some tweaking in the BIOS of your Zuma?

Think I set some if it one day I was there

Still not mastered the Intel bios?
Certainly not as simple as other manufacters bios's

As outlined above I adjusted the ram voltage and clock speed. Yes there was some heavy breathing over my shoulder as I skilfully negotiated the intel bios settings but that was just a coincidence of timing!

The one good part of the Intel Bios I miss on my currenr MSI board is the ability to go in and shut down all unused USB ports.

Sligolad wrote:The one good part of the Intel Bios I miss on my currenr MSI board is the ability to go in and shut down all unused USB ports.

What you talking about Willis?? Did I miss something in my exhaustive adjustments?

Forgotten most of it now but I think there are 12 or 14 USB ports on the Intel Zuma board and I used to switch off all but the 2 or 3 i needed in Bios...might have some screenshots of that Bios page knocking about so will post if I find any.

nige2000 wrote:

sima66 wrote:

tony wrote:Hi Shaun, Looks like a nice mini board and the asus bios menu seems a lot easier than my capszuma standard intel board. I can see how the old horseradish mistake could happen! Might be easier to start a thread on a mini atx board. There is bound to be people interested. this thread has gone off the wall but is certainly a good read from the beginning for people interested in going off the planet on their build

Tony, have you done some tweaking in the BIOS of your Zuma?

Think I set some if it one day I was there

Still not mastered the Intel bios?
Certainly not as simple as other manufacters bios's

That's why I asked! :(((
If anybody remember all the BIOS tweaking what improved the sound and how they did it?

I tried to find and disable the SpeedStep (EIST), Turbo, C-State, but I could not find them!!! I found the step by step instructions on Google, but when I'm going into my Zuma BIOS, there is always something missing! :(((((

Nige2000,

I see in your signature that you have a Haswell I3 @ 800MHz. It is my understanding that Haswell I3s have the CPU multiplier locked. Please enlighten me how you achieved that.
Tks.

There's no prob setting the frequency
Though I'm not familiar with the 1200kpr
Best ask some of the guys using that board
Usually just a matter of setting the multiplier to 8

I wanted to say thank you to nige2000 for posting the info on modding a Silverstone USB card.

I was planning to buy an "audiophile" usb card, but I like the idea of DIY mods and saving money, so I ordered the 4 port Silverstone USB3.0 card, and modded it today.

In my mod I added a DC in jack to the bracket, and connect a little linear walwart to the jack, to feed it around 10VDC.

I also added a 7805 to provide power to the molex connector, so I don't need to connect anything to the molex in.
I have an Amanero card on the other side, but it receives 3.3VDC from another source, so the 5V USB only powers one chip.

At first I tried a fancy 3.3VDC regulator I had, but it takes too long to come up to 3.3, and the USB port didn't work.

So I just threw in a LM317 with a couple resistors and one cap across R2.

And a couple little pieces of tape to isolate the 3.3V pins of the connector and it worked :).

I'm running both the 7805 and the LM317 off of the DC jack with 10VDC. At some point I'll probably make or buy a better 3.3 reg to power the card with, but I got it working with an external reg so I'm happy.

I still need to buy an oscillator and power it so I can change out the crystal.

Randy