Just bought a ASUS A7N8X
Put a AMD 3000+ 333MHz Baron CPU and COSAIR VS512MB400
BIOS REV 1010 DATE: 8/4/2004

BIOS Settings
166 X 2 (333MHz) FSB
1.65V
Memory setting
200 MHz
WD 20g HD
CD LIT-ON 48X24X48 CD-RW
RAIDON 9200

Currently running W98S new install. System is running very slow. My AMD 1GHz ran fast. I can not open two programs at once. I open my FIREFOX and takes forever to load this site. COX cable running at 166K but my other 3COM had 540K download. Figured I might disable the on-board NIC and put the 3COM in this new system.

My BIOS might be set wrong or old BIOS. Please any reply to my slow problem on my newly built system.

Thanks ahead
JC

Spyware?

your ram should run synchronous with the CPU...in theory. never tried it otherwise.

I have now installed NIS and SPYBOT. This is a fresh new install of W98S. I am going to try XP and then LINUX.

After install W98S, I install Direct X 9 which took 30mins. This is not right.

after reinstalling W98 it seem to work better.
but still slow to open programs

Hello cerpher

And Welcome to Techspot I have this same motherboard but here what is really strange I have BIOS 1011 mine came with it . I am running my barton 2500XP overclocked with no problems what so ever..

Number of CPUs 1
Name AMD Athlon XP
Code Name Barton
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+
Family / Model / Stepping 6 A 0
Extended Family / Model 7 A
Package Socket A
Technology 0.13 �
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE
CPU Clock Speed 2104.8 MHz
Clock multiplier x 12.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 175.4 MHz
Bus Speed 350.8 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2104.8 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 64 bits

Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard model A7N8X-E, REV 2.xx
BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS revision ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1011
BIOS release date 05/20/2004
Chipset nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400 rev. C1
Southbridge nVidia nForce2 MCP-T rev. A4
Sensor chip Asus ASB100
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.0
AGP Data Transfert Rate 8x
AGP Max Rate 8x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, enabled
AGP Aperture Size 128 MBytes

Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 210.5 MHz
FSBRAM 5:6
CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 7 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Kingston DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 Kingston DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes

As you see here ..

Here is a few things you can do

Set your ram to SPD in BIOS
pay a visit to www.blackviper.com to learn how to turn off some of the services..

Update your spyware program and run it
Update your antivirus and run it..

Next download and install A-squared and run this you can find ithere

If you still have problems download and install Hijackthis place HJT in its own folder and post you log here someone will take a look at it ..

I have the -X cheap cousin. It's been great for over 1.5 year. 2500+ here. I'm running at stock speed and 200Mhz RAM speed no problem. I could o/c it if I wanted to and I had. Up to 2.2 ghz stable. My BIOS is 1009. 1010 would turn my PC on if there was net activity a # of times. Yes I disabled the option to wake up from lan.

Could you try www.knoppix.net and see if Linux boots up and runs faster?

I ran some test and found my FSB is 166MHz not 333MHz.
I believe this is the reason why my system is running very slow.
My BIOS is set at 166MHz at rated 13 which is 2158.
AMD 3000+ is 2.2MHz Barton

Cache

CPU

Motherboad

Memory

SPD

FSB Test

dude 166 is 333fsb move your multiplier to 13 and tras to 7

my multiplier is at 13 and cpu 166 = 2158 AMD is 2200
so what is TRAS 7
I do not see that in the BIOS

It is a memory setting 2.5 lantency 3 Ras to cas acess 3 memorybank switch

and 7 T(RAS) row addressing strobe in BIOS set it to user defined you will see that as well as placing this on SPD.

ALso what memory is this 2700 3200 ddr??

I downlaod the 3dmark5 program and would not start. The HD keep freezing.
Does anyone know a system software to check the HD speed and motherboard check?

I believe the Maxtor 2B020H1 is running at 33 or 66 and not 133. I have tried different OS and they were all slow. I have been working on this for a week. Now I change the HD to a Maxtor 52049H3 and now my A7N8X is running a little faster. My newest Max 2B020H1 worked fine in my ABIT 7RAID motherboard at 33 ATA and 66. I now remember it was slow when over worked by running 3 different software at one time. I always figured it was my slow system.

Now I believe my HD will not work at 133 or 100. I would like to test it since it works with my ABIT motherboard.

Thanks again for all your help.

3d mark will not work if there is a video card problem or your direct x is messed up and a few other things. Did you install the motherboard drivers?

I installed Direct 9x and yes I installed the lan, audio, and usb. There were no other drivers.

I do get a Fatal Exception error VDX SAVRT (02) blue screen when I do a restart. It happen sometimes.

I figure it is a driver problem but the system show no problems. I did a memory test using testmem.exe file from the internet. I believe it maybe the lan driver. I am using all the latest from ASUS. I am going to try a 3COM 100 NIC card and disable the nForce LAN on board.

GO to Nvidia and get the drivers these are the ones I use and have no problem what so ever as you can see with a aquamark score over 39000 wich is great for a socket"A" and 333fsb..HereThis is a really great board and buy chance what ram are you running?

Those are good files, I will use them later, but remember I am using W98S.
Thanks again for all your help. I will download the software and run this version to test my system and get back to you all

Anyone know how to get the LAN to get 100 and not 10.

Well half of the problem could be solved if you get XP-Pro or even Home for that matter...pretty morden system running on a old OS.