The ASUS A7N8X-X / A7N8X / A7N8X Deluxe Thread

[monsm]

Hi antegeia,
Drivers can be found on http://www.sunix.com.tw
I had a look they have a new one 1.0.0.51.

It might not make a difference though. When the PC freeze, I presume the harddrive is busy during those periods(?)
I have that some times as well. This could be due to Windows XP rather than your sata card. Try to go in to system/performance in the control panel and check the initial size of your swap file. It might not be big enough (I always set the initial size to the one recomended by Windows.
I have also heared complaints about the indexing service (run under services in adminstrative tools). I'm not quiet sure, but that might have that effect too. Try to switch it off and see if it improves.

Good luck.

Mons

 

[antegeia]

again the same

Yes this happened when the hard drive is busy especially when i copy paste something big.at this time tha drive doing a voice like”krkrkrkrkr”.
I use windows xp media center .i went to system/permormance and i set recommended initial size (1534).the maximum is 3024.I also increase it not to the maximum but the same thing.i don’t know is there any specific number?
I disable indexind service but it doesnot work.
I saw a post here with a man who had the same problem.he said that:
“ I installed a SATA drive yesterday and ran into a really wierd problem, after switching on the SATA jumper & configuring my SATA drive (Maxtor 6B299MO) I started to move som files from my old drive. When I mover a lagre file my computer froze (XP SP1) This happened every time I moved someting of the size 700Mb. Tried a lot of stuff and finally solved it by uppgrading to Silicon Image Serial ATA driver version V1.0.0.22. Really wierd problem. Upon solving thih I also upgraded my bios from v1002 to v1008 which seemed to make wonders to my boot time. (just the feelng) One annoying thing with the SATA is that you geta window that displays you SATA drive when you boot which makes it slower.’
This post was 11-04-2004 and the drivers he put are older than mine.
He said that he upgrade the bios from v1002 to v1008.what bios motherboard bios or pci card bios.
But i don’t know how to upgrade bios.i have hear that if you this wrong you can harm your motherboard.where can i find step by step clearly imformations about bios update?
This problem is very bothering i wish i had bought ide hard drive.
Thank you monsm .

 

[monsm]

Updating the bios is probably a good idea. Go to the asus site: www.asus.com You might be forwarded to their Taiwan site: www.asus.com.tw) and search for bios update for your notherboard there. Make sure you find the bios update for your specific motherboard. You might have to check the version of your motherboard as well (it will be printed on the card probably close to the Asus logo).
You'll find instructions on how to do it together with the download. It usually involve creating a boot diskette and another with the bios update file. When asked by the bios flash software take a backup of you existing bios just in case.
You could try mailing sunix about bios update for your sata card. The drivers on the sunix site are probably identical to the ones on the Silicon Image site, but I'd go for the ones on the sunix site first in case there are some special configuration involved. My onboard sata works fine with the drivers from the Silicon Image site though.

You could also try a surface scan of you hd if you haven't done that already. I recon the bios update ought to help though. The early bios versions had very flaky sata support after what I have seen in other posts.

I managed to get my striped set of 2 hds working on my machine after much trouble (including replacing a crashed hd). It's very fast now though. It does occationally still freeze up for a few seconds if I have lots of programs open when xp has to do swapping.

 

[sgtLENIN]

Choosing RAM

Hey!

I have the A7n8x-deluxe revision 104 and recently wanted more ram so i could play BFII (dont we all)... so i went from Kingston 2x256 2700 to new 2x512 OCZ Premium 3200. Oh! This is gonna be GREAT with bfII.. or? No, it aint great at all. My computer got corrupted files and games were unstable to say at least.

With 1008 bios from Asus i got errors in memtest86 so i decided to try the CPC off option and got a hacked 1008 (ah i used several hours to find those) with CPC off, ran memtest and it found NO errors, i tought i had made it but my computer started restarting auto so i guess not

So i sent the ram back to the shop and im still waiting for their opinion on what ram to choose, in the meantime im asking you people :bounce:

Thanks in advance

 

[antegeia]

by the way i am trying to update mybios.now i have the version 1004.what is the best bios version to install.i am going to put the 1010 version which support sempron.what do youthink?

 

[monsm]

Allways install use the latest available bios when updating. All previous fault fixes will be rolled into it.

 

[antegeia]

i update to version 1010 but it did this again when i went to copy paste something big(1.5gb) and during this time i tried to open something else.as i can see i have to deal with this problem.
what swap means? copy -paste?
i will try to update the bios sata card.
sorry where is that surface scan that you tell me to do?
thanks monsm.

 

[sgtLENIN]

1010 is not a offical asus bios, right?

 

[antegeia]

i don't know.assus support site has other versions.i will try 1009.

 

[sgtLENIN]

i don't know.assus support site has other versions.i will try 1009.

Do you have link to the 1010 one?

 

[antegeia]

as i can see you have A7n8x-deluxe.confirm that this is your mobo and go to that site:http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
there is no 1010 version for that mobo.they have 1009 beta.and others

 

[sgtLENIN]

as i can see you have A7n8x-deluxe.confirm that this is your mobo and go to that site:http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
there is no 1010 version for that mobo.they have 1009 beta.and others

Yeah thats what i tought

 

[xyz]

rev. 2 drivers

i have the asus a7n8x deluxe with a amd athalon chip in it. sadly, i loaded the wrong drivers for it and i believe i need revision 2 drivers, any help? im fairly aquainted with computers but im not a pro. please help :|

 

[xyz]

im confused. i have a rev 2.0 mobo, how do i load drivers for it? and do i need to reset my bios? i know it isnt running correctly.

 

[zodiac]

Hello, I've a problem with booting from my new Hitachi s-ata harddrive when my other two WD ata drives are connected. Without the WD's it boots from the s-ata drive without a problem. With the WD's connected it always try to boot from the WD's. I tried to fix that with a different boot order, but nothing seems to work. Please help.

 

[zodiac]

Oops, I forgot to mention that I have the a7n8x-e deluxe.

 

[matris85]

I am not sure but did u try to set the first boot option to SCSI ?
Maybe look at the s-ata threads here :approve:

 

[RandyGB]

Driver problem

Hi all i am new to the board and have a problem i updated my chipset drivers with the Nforce 4.2 one and when i rebooted i have lost all sound on my system i cant even turn it up the system wont let me.

Does any one know what i can do to fix this problem my system spec is.

Time of this report: 7/27/2005, 01:06:02
Machine name: ANDY-ICAI54OI0W
Operating System: Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195) Service Pack 4
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
System Model: A7N8X
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.1GHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Page File: 365MB used, 2096MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINNT
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
DX Setup Parameters: None
DxDiag Version: 5.03.0001.0902 32bit Unicode

 

[zodiac]

Tanx for the help, I solved the problem. Scsi was already first in my boot order. Only by removing the OS from the WD ata drive it would boot from my new sata drive.

 

[jackt283]

Ethernet Driver problems

Hi, just installed XP Pro on a friends computer, we didn't format or anything, and we have lost a bunch of drivers. The problem is we don't have the motherboard disks with us, and upon trying to use the ASUS web page my friend had to commit suicide (not really). I downloaded video card drivers and sound drivers, but the Ethernet driver and the "SM BUS Controller" driver are still unfound.

Can some one please direct me to a place where these drivers can be downloaded.

Thanks muchly!

Model: A7N8X-X Motherboard.
(onboard ethernet).

 

[Didou]

Did you even bother reading the first page ? The link to the latest version of the drivers hasn't been updated but you would've found where to look.

nForce 5.10 drivers (WinXP

 

[Basil]

A7N8X-X with AGP or PCI express

I am thinking to buy a new videocard and I was wondering whether a PCI express would work just as well as any AGP card with this mobo.

Thx a lot.

 

[Didou]

AGP only (read the first page).

 

[Prinsen]

1 gb ddr400 pc3200 on Asus a7n8x 2.0 deluxe

Hello

I got the Asus a7n8x 2.0 deluxe board bios 1008!

I bought a 1gb ddr400 pc3200 unknown brand, but it dont work with my board?

My pal has a newer asus board for socket 939, i tested the memory on that board and it workd fine!

What's wrong! Is it wrong brand?

This is the memory!

Memory

 

[d3a1i0]

A7N8X Deluxe and USB Flash Drive Issues

USB

This board has 4 USB2 connectors on the back panel & an USB header to which you can connect the USB bracket that comes with the board in order to have 2 more USB connectors.

This board cannot boot on an USB device, whichever the type & can have problems functioning with certain USB devices, such as mp3 players.

Here's a list of devices known to have problems with this board :

* 6in1 Internal Reader 3 1/2 usb1, Flash card reader card X4-USB
* MP3 Player DAP 128 Mb (Additek)
* PNY 6in1 Player ( metallic grey look ) which doesn't even work on the a7n266-e
* Creative Muvo 128Mb ( Solution : flash with new firmware update, instructions contained in ReadMe file )
* The Archos JukeBox 20
* Compact Flash USB HAMA Player
* CF USB Player from Crucial

Tips for USB trouble-shooting :

1. Try these Beta Drivers -> USB Drivers 1.2.1 (Mirror Link) or here -> USB Drivers 1.3.1.

2. Spread your USB devices across the different controllers. For ex. if you have 3 devices, connect one to the USB connectors next to the 3Com NIC, one next to the nVidia NIC & the last one on the extra USB Bracket.

3. Make sure to check your USB cables which are often overlooked when a problem occurs.

4. W2K Service Pack 4 clears a lot USB problems reported previously.

5. If you're still having problems, you might need a stronger PSU or you can try connecting your devices to an USB hub with its own power supply. This is known to help in many situations.

PS. For WinXP users ( Taken from nVidia's website ) -> "Windows XP users must install Service Pack 1 prior to attempting to install this package. Failure to do so will result in the inability to support USB 2.0."

I have the A7N8X Deluxe board and a SanDisk Cruzer Mini (512MB). I have the board in a Thermaltake XaserV WinGo Series chassis with a Thermaltake Silent PurePower Standard 560W PSU. My problem is that I can not use my flash drive in USB ports 5 or 6 which are on top of this case. I can use it in USB ports 1, 2, 3, and 4 which are in back on the mobo. When plugged into the top (5 or 6) ports the light on the drive just flashes dimly. However, the ports work fine with my camera plugged into them. I have installed the latest drivers from Asus's site with no luck, obviously. The links in this article for drivers are no longer working, and I don't think it's a driver issue since it does work with my camera. Also, I have a hard time believing that it's a power issue with a 560W PSU. I'm using XP with SP2 so that's not it. I'm stumped , any suggestions.