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[Megafoo Chavez]

Anyone have ANY luck using this fucking mother board with DDR400? Then you go and try to update the drivers and shit for it and find that its just a fucking mess of files that totally fuck up your system. I hate this piece of shit. Anyone care to shed some light on this piece of shit for me?

 

[Lhadatt]

Do these, in this order:

1. Bios Update:
- Board revision 2.0: http://www.asus.com/support/downloa...=10&l3_id=23&m_id=2&f_name=1010_B.zip~zaqwedc
- Any others: http://www.asus.com/support/downloa...0&l3_id=23&m_id=2&f_name=AN8B1007.zip~zaqwedc
- Check the "BIOS Update Step" link for instructions.

2. Nvidia NForce Unified drivers:
- Winxp: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp_5.10
- Win2000: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_win2k_4.27
- Linux: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0292

3. Realtec Audio drivers: http://www.asus.com/support/downloa...l3_id=23&m_id=2&f_name=alc650_345.zip~zaqwedc

Disclaimer: Only do the BIOS update if you're sure of what you are doing. It may help depending on the specific issues with that board, if there are any -- I don't know, so don't take what I say to mean that there are issues at all. Doing the BIOS update and having something stupid happen during (like a kid brother killing the power to the computer or some other random incident) may very likely fry your BIOS, rending the board inoperable (read: it'll junk the board).

The driver updates should be safe. Uninstall the previous drivers before installing these.

 

[Ristamar]

In regard to the BIOS update, just use the BIOS update software that comes with the board. No fiddling with flash utilities or command prompts, you can update right from your desktop and reboot.

 

[Hooker]

Yeah man, check the CD you got with the board. There's an Asus-Auto-Update or something. The program checks for available bios updates and installs it too. Easiest way to do it and you can never flash the bios with the wrong file

 

[LizardKing]

wait. what happens when you try to use ddr 400? i have 2 of these mobo's that i currently can't get working 100%. usually the problem is when i put in a video card though, the rest of the mobo just stops working. but it turns on without one.

 

[Neo_ZX]

Mine has worked fine with my Mobile 2500+@3200+ with both Samsung and OCZ Dual-Channel DDR-400.

You need the latest BIOS. Check your board revision between the PCI slots. If it's under 2.0 then there could be a problem but that is mostly CPU related. You should be running memory in sync anyways so I assume your CPU is 200MHz DDR FSB. This could be your problem.

If you have revision 1.6 or 1.4 then even the latest update (which claims 400MHz FSB) is most likely not going to work. It didn't work on my A7N8X non-deluxe 1.4 but worked perfectly fine on my A7N8X-E Deluxe.

Check out the Asus forums on www.nforcershq.com

 

[Wellington]

I have not ever gotten dual channel RAM to work, I have one stick of 400 MHZ ram that actually did work, but I kicked it back to 333 soon as I burned out that processor.

You know who would really be able to help out a lot in this topic? Diablos. Sucks he was banned.

 

[Fantasmo]

Help is here!!

Revision 2.0 boards support 400MHZ FSB. Anything less only supports 333MHZ (200/166 FSB in the BIOS setup respectively). If you don't know, check your box. If it doesn't specifically say revision 2.0 or ULTRA 400 anywhere on the box, it's probably the older 333mhz model.

Most importantly, your DDR RAM should be 400mhz (PC3200 or higher), your CPU should be a Athlon XP chip that is designed for 400mhz, and obviously, your Asus board needs to be 2.0 to reach that elusive #. If anything is less, be prepared to experience instability or fry something.

If you do have an older board you can still hit higher levels, but usually not 200 in the BIOS (the FSB is effectively doubled which is why 200=400 and 166=333). Maybe you can hit something like 175-185 and still get a nice jump in performance.

If you need more specific information, go to nforcershq.com and browse around and/or sign up for their forums, Asus specifically.

You can also check the motherboards forum at anandtech.com as there is a huge Asus thread there. nforcers is probably easier.

Good luck!

 

[Megafoo Chavez]

mine is rev2.0 my ram is ddr400 pc3200. just bought it. i flashed the bios to 1008. when set my frequency to 200 my cpu gets read as a xp1100 instead of a xp2500+ very strange

 

[Ristamar]

mine is rev2.0 my ram is ddr400 pc3200. just bought it. i flashed the bios to 1008. when set my frequency to 200 my cpu gets read as a xp1100 instead of a xp2500+ very strange

I have A7N8X Deluxe. Maybe you got some bad RAM. My first order of matched low latency Corsair sticks had to be returned. The problem wasn't completely obvious, at first. I could generally install the OS without a hitch, but the file system would become corrupted in no time flat, and I'd get all sorts of errors. I sent them back to newegg, got a free replacement shipped to me, and it's worked great for over a year.

 

[Megafoo Chavez]

i figured thats what it might be, i got some generic kingsmax cause I for some reason felt its specs were fine enough for this now getting outdated hardware. i doubt the performance increase is worth the hassle of returning it haha. i wanted more ram and a better gfx card for world of warcraft so i bought that and a 6600gt. now im finding out i need a new psu for the gfx card. everything is such a fucking hassle. im tired of dealing with computer problems everytime i want to play some new games. ALIENWARE GET is gonna be my slogan soon