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Veedo said:new bios out? sweet. let me know how it ends up working out for you, im off to see if i can find some info on it.
ThomasE66 said:I think it was feeding more voltage than the old version, probably an accurate amount of voltage now. I haven't had any more problems since I dropped it down a bit. Prime95 has been running for about an hour now *keeps fingers crossed*
Bassalisk said:Heres my story with the A8N-SLI ... I bought two of them, making dual machines for me and my wife, to be identical FX-53 chip, and hyperx 2-2-2-5-1T PC3200 ram. eVGA 6800 ultra's. (one each, cant afford 2 quite yet
They both installed fine, booted up fine, installed windows fine, but then just started locking up randomly. sandra memtest on one machine would lockup 3/4ths of the way through every single time. on that machine I had to reduce the cpu multiplier from 12x to 10x to stabilize it. after a few days of running I had to drop the other one down to 11x to stabilize it too! in most cases I had to reduce the mem voltage to 2.6 too, (seems odd, right?)
I swapped the cpu's and got exactly the same results, so it wasnt the cpu's. swapped the ram, no change. swapped the power supplies, (one is antec tru550 and the other is a mad dog 550) and aside from reporting slightly different voltages, still, no change!
Obvious problem, the motherboards...
Anyway, I went out and got two neo4 platinum sli boards, and have been running rock stable at 2-2-2-5-1T on both with the standard 12x multiplier. they still run stable at about 205mhz FSB but really cant boost them much beyond that before they start failing out, but that's fine, if it can't overclock too much, at least it runs stock 100%, the a8n's were nothing but nightmares for me.
jacuzz1 said:V-core baby V-core. The issue with the ASus is that it undervolts and over reports the v-core/ If you had boosted the v-core slightly you would have smoothed right out.
ThomasE66 said:The 1.004 release BIOS seems to have fixed that, at least for me. I wound up over volting and had to back off.
Bassalisk said:Heres my story with the A8N-SLI ... I bought two of them, making dual machines for me and my wife, to be identical FX-53 chip, and hyperx 2-2-2-5-1T PC3200 ram. eVGA 6800 ultra's. (one each, cant afford 2 quite yet
...
, the a8n's were nothing but nightmares for me.
VashTheStampede21 said:whats the best ram timings / mem speed for this board, i have corsair twinx xlpro 3200 1024mb ram , currently running at 210 mhz (420ddr) @2.2.2.5, would higher mhz and higher timings be better overall?
for instance, 220mhz and 3.3.3.6 or something
got a 3500 winnie in this board, and wanna get it higher than 2310mhz
thanks for help
Arvig said:Actually, unless they changed them recently, I don't think Raptors have NCQ, that's why you can use them with the beta bioses. My drives aren't raptors, they are Maxtor Diamond Max 10's, which have NCQ, thus I'm stuck with BIOS 1002 for now.
petersondm said:Hi,
I am having the same Raid 0 install issue is list earlier in the posts. I am running with BIOS 1006, enabled NVidia Raid and all Sata drives, setup Raid with F10 and drive is seen fine. I start the XP Pro install hit F6 and and S when requested and check the NVidia Raid Class Driver and NVidia NForce Storage Controller from the NVidia Raid Driver Disc I made off the MB CD. Both files get loaded I hit enter and Setup continues to load files. I get to the partition screen (Using 2 74 Gig WD Raptor Drives connect to NVidia Sata 1 and 2) the option shown is 141816 MB Disk 0 at Id 1 on bus 0 on nvraid [MBR] is highlighted I hit enter adn format the partition suing the NTFS file system only option there.
It shows C: Partition1 and then I get this blue screen:
Setup cannont copy the file: nvraid.sys. Options to retry press Enter and make sure XP CD is in CD-Rom. Or skip file. I hit enter and the file can not be found. I understand as it is the file that came off the NVidia Raid Driver Floopy I Made. I can not go any further. If I skip files XP continues to load and I reboot but I get an exception error with drives. Might be a virius and run CDKDSK /F. I have done everything I can think of and cant get this Raid 0 to work and continue loading XP.
petersondm said:Hi,
I am having the same Raid 0 install issue is list earlier in the posts. I am running with BIOS 1006, enabled NVidia Raid and all Sata drives, setup Raid with F10 and drive is seen fine. I start the XP Pro install hit F6 and and S when requested and check the NVidia Raid Class Driver and NVidia NForce Storage Controller from the NVidia Raid Driver Disc I made off the MB CD. Both files get loaded I hit enter and Setup continues to load files. I get to the partition screen (Using 2 74 Gig WD Raptor Drives connect to NVidia Sata 1 and 2) the option shown is 141816 MB Disk 0 at Id 1 on bus 0 on nvraid [MBR] is highlighted I hit enter adn format the partition suing the NTFS file system only option there.
It shows C: Partition1 and then I get this blue screen:
Setup cannont copy the file: nvraid.sys. Options to retry press Enter and make sure XP CD is in CD-Rom. Or skip file. I hit enter and the file can not be found. I understand as it is the file that came off the NVidia Raid Driver Floopy I Made. I can not go any further. If I skip files XP continues to load and I reboot but I get an exception error with drives. Might be a virius and run CDKDSK /F. I have done everything I can think of and cant get this Raid 0 to work and continue loading XP.
petersondm said:Hi,
I am having the same Raid 0 install issue is list earlier in the posts. I am running with BIOS 1006, enabled NVidia Raid and all Sata drives, setup Raid with F10 and drive is seen fine. I start the XP Pro install hit F6 and and S when requested and check the NVidia Raid Class Driver and NVidia NForce Storage Controller from the NVidia Raid Driver Disc I made off the MB CD. Both files get loaded I hit enter and Setup continues to load files. I get to the partition screen (Using 2 74 Gig WD Raptor Drives connect to NVidia Sata 1 and 2) the option shown is 141816 MB Disk 0 at Id 1 on bus 0 on nvraid [MBR] is highlighted I hit enter adn format the partition suing the NTFS file system only option there.
It shows C: Partition1 and then I get this blue screen:
Setup cannont copy the file: nvraid.sys. Options to retry press Enter and make sure XP CD is in CD-Rom. Or skip file. I hit enter and the file can not be found. I understand as it is the file that came off the NVidia Raid Driver Floopy I Made. I can not go any further. If I skip files XP continues to load and I reboot but I get an exception error with drives. Might be a virius and run CDKDSK /F. I have done everything I can think of and cant get this Raid 0 to work and continue loading XP.
petersondm said:Thanks I left the jumpers as they came. When you say a memeory issue you mean the RAM I have installed?
Using Mushkin Dual Pack 184-Pin 1GB (512MBx2) DDR PC-3200
Non Ecc
Unbuffered
Cas 2.5
Voltage 2.6
Got it from NewEgg Model Number 991145.
Looking a custoner review he bought on pack worked fine and a second months later and cant get system to boot now.
I swapped out all the memory and tried just using one DIMM at a time and I still get the same Setup cannot copy the file: nvraid.sys and all other Raid files make sure XP CD is in CD ROM. Again doing F6 and the NVidia Dirvers are taken off the floopy fine I can see both hard drivers as one partition when I go and format them but to continue it seems these files are needed and I have no way to gettting them to where they need to be it seems.
Well I disabled all Raid and just installed XP Pro with same setup using just one WD 74 Gig Raptor using the NVidia Sata 1 and everything seems to work fine. No errors or problems so it seem I cant do anythng Raid on this machine. I will wait till tomorrow to call for some kind of support for this issue.
JL_Audio_User said:EDIT:
How did you resolve it?
Problem fixed. This baby flies (went from PIII 886HZ) to AMD3500+ I am one happy noob!
1 more question. I pluged my external HD via 1394EEE and its not showing up anywhere?
jacuzz1 said:How did you fix it? Drivers or voltage?