Well... got some more information. I just flashed to a 1005.020 beta bios
that have the AGP/PCI lock. At the moment I'm running at 220 FSB with stock
voltage and multiplier. Prime95 seem to run stable. (At 222MHz got error
after 10 minutes.) The thread I found this information explained that only
the later boards, revision 1.02 with serial numbers starting with 45MG0Jxxxx
and later do support this lock. The early boards do not. I was lucky to get
one of those newer boards... : )

Anybody know a program that measures AGP and/or PCI clock speed? I have
Sandra but it does not tell anything...

This BIOS does not seem to have option to adjust multiplier or CPU voltage?
The last official bios had at least the multiplier option. Or coudl it be
that when I have the Cool'n'Quiet enabled it disables those features?



"KMS" wrote in message
news:uorBc.125235$3x.97069@attbi_s54...

I just built my new rig based on ASUS A8V mobo and Athlon64 3500+ CPU. So
far the system works great when "FSB" is overclocked to 217MHz FSB. No
need
to change multiplier or increase the CPU core voltage.

I saw in the amdzone review of this board that there should be a line in
BIOS to lock the AGP/PCI speed? I could not find that. I updated the bios
to
the latest version (dated 6/18/04... I think?), but still no AGP/PCI
lock...

I suspect the AGP/PCI lock does not work, because I got my HD corrupted
when
overclocked the "FSB" to 224MHz. This was with the original bios. (I did
not
try to exceed that with the new BIOS... because I'm tired of making a new
windows install again...) If the lock is working... this should not
happen?
It looks just like the earlier two Athlon64 computers I built to my
friends.
They too were based on VIA chipset... and they too corrupted the disk if I
exceeded the approx. 220MHz.

Suggestions, comments?

KMS