The ASUS A7N8X-X / A7N8X / A7N8X Deluxe Thread

Hi there

First post. I was planning on getting this board with a sempron 3000 and running a basic card (not a gamer, any advice on this?)

I have an old vastec case with a 235W power supply. This board doesnt need a 12V square connector, so could I use my old power supply? I am under the impression that it is quite a good one. The case is certainly good quality and I have used them for years.

I would also bung in a new SATA hard drive and maybe and on 30gig one for backup. Also a single CDRW drive

Any advice gratefully accepted. Thanks

It is a very good board. A bit picky with memory especially if you run it with a 200mhz FSB with DualChannel PC3200 Ram & a few USB issues. Other then that works, it very well.

The board doesn't need a 12v connector but if your system is too power hungry it might be a good idea to have a spare & beefier PSU close by.

Booting a Serial Ata Drive from an A7N8X-X card

Hi all,

I would like to ask : how can i boot my wd 37,7GO Raptor from the A7N8X-X motherboard (i have a pci card dedicated for serial ata support) ?

Thanks for a response, i'm stuck !

Gilles

How i made it

_If u have a floppydrive install the drivers during install the OS
_If u have no floppy but a IDE and a S-ATA HD install the OS on the IDE then unhide S-ata drive for example with ParticionMagic
_If u have some time and ano floppy u have to integrate s-ata driver to yout OS for example:SP2 to your XP version.

Drivers for Win98 (non SE)

Hi

Im running:
A7N8X-E Deluxe (Im very glad I chosed this mobo
Barton 2500+
2x256MB PC3200 Apacer
SATA WD Caviar 200GB
Radeon 9600 /Manli :/

I chose dual boot - WinXP & Win98 because of some progs & games
I really want, does not run under WinXP.

In Windows XP everything works fine,
but for Win98 Im unable to find working drivers for this mobo.
Esspecially for audio subsystem.

Newest drivers are only for Win98SE
(and at the moment Im not about buying it...
I tried nForce drivers:
4.27 (I think this is newest release)
3.xx
2.00

but still the same problem, in device manager I can read in audio processor
properities:
DEVICE LOADER WAS NOT ABLE TO LOAD DRIVERS FOR THIS DEVICE(vmm32.dll)
or something like that.
Are there even older drivers?


Thank for any help

Nexeeker

Conflict?

Is there an inherent conflict between the nForce2 chipset on the ASUS motherboard and the Radeon 9800 Pro? I've read a lot of problems with this combination. When I called ASUS tech support, they believe it's a problem with the PSU.

I just want to make sure that there is no inherent conflict or incompatibility between these two. Thanks.

Counter Strike sound problems

I've had the Deluxe version for two years now and it's been a silky ride.
About a week ago Steam updated CS Source and ever since my ping soars every time I connect and my sound is all funny. I'm sure it's A sound problem since when I disable the sound card via control panel all is well.
Anybody get this problem or have any good advice how to get rid of it?
I'm now using the latest bios (1.9beta) and the lastest drivers (5.10 Whql).
I have a gig of ram, a 9700 pro, an enermax 350watt PSU, in short my system is what would be considered a good midrange system today from reliable parts (all of them).
I'd be gratefull for any ideas.
BTW-I've searched all of Steam's site and no answer helps, and their tech support aren't getting back to me so far....
HELP?!!??

Memory incompatibility

You got that right. I found it out the hard way. After having issues with my computer for almost a month and spending just as much time troubleshooting it, I realized that ASUS motherboard doesn't like Kingston PC3200 memories. PC2700 is fine, but not the faster ones.

Even according to Kingston website, the ASUS and Kingston relationship isn't a smooth ride.

More SATA issues

Hi,
I have been running my A7N8X delux system with 1 SATA drive (AMD Athlon +3200 and 2x512 Mb ram) for over a year now.
I decided to try something new and dowloaded and burnt CDs for Suse 9.3.
I also bought a second (160 Gb Diamondmax SATA drive) for the new os.

The installation went well. The Suse grub boot loader took over and allowed me to boot windows as well as suse linux. I didn't install any drivers other the what was on the Suse CDs.
A couple of hours after the installation I wanted to reboot back to Windows XP where my mail is set up.

After the "grub please wait..." message the system now seem to hang. Nothing happens.
There is no raid set as I wanted to use the drives just as two separate drives. My Windows XP CD doesn't recognise any drives (I guess I need the F6 option, but don't think I needed that when I just had the 1 drive).
The linux repair option on the linux CD can find the partition tables on both drive, but it doesn't recognise the primary partition for linux any more.

Does anyone have any theory as to what has happend and how I can fix it and avoid it in the future?

Thanks,
Mons

problem with pci sata sunix

hi i am knew here.i have asus A7N8X-X motherboard which doesnot support serial ata.so i bye a pci card sata.i install it with no problem with double click on 'SCSI and RAID Controllers', there is no yellow '!' or
'?' in front of 'Silicon Image SiI 3112 Serial ATA Controller'.but when i try to copy paste something big (over500mb) or when i try to install something big(a game) or when the windows open or generaly when the hard disk is fully working for a long time, the pc not responding(froze) for 30 or more second and then it work again.it does this all the time.do you have any explanation for this?is there any drivers problem.where can i find the latest drivers for that pci card.
the model:
Sunix's SATA2000 PCI SATA Card with version drivers 1.0.0.50.
thanks
if you any other information about my system let me know

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

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 .

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.

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

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?

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

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.

1010 is not a offical asus bios, right?

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

Do you have link to the 1010 one?