Asus A8N-E...does anyone know?

[Baaru]

ok, I can't seem to find the answer to these questions anywhere, I'm hopeing somebody here would know.

1. Will an Asus A8n-E paired with an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 90nm Rev. E ADA3700BN** (San Diego) post? If not, does that mean I have to update the bios of the mobo? If so, to what revision?

2. I plan on getting the following memory to use in a dual channel setting: CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWINX1024-3200XL 2-2-2-5. If I put 1 stick in slot A1 (black) and B1 (black) will this work for a dual channel setup? Or must I buy 4 sticks of 256meg and use that in a dual channel setting (placed in all 4 slots?)

If anyone has information on this please pass it along as I was ready to order my parts and then read some conflicting information. I'd like to know with pretty good certainty before I blow alot of money.

thanks!

 

[imported_Kensai]

Depends on the BIOS revison. The ones with the the older revions probably won't POST. Don't know which revions will. Never worked with that board.

 

[cornholio2]

That was also my project Baaru, to find out if this mobo will boot on Venice since somebody told me that when he bought the mobo from newegg it has the 1001 bios. And the people from newegg is saying that they're not hardware techs. They're selling this mobo and they have no idea what bios is in the mobo they're selling. I guess they don't know the Revision of the mobo neither. Ain't that frustrating? I'm tempted to buy DFI but I kept on seeing people having problems with the mobo and compatibility.
If only a retailer will sell this with a combo and free bios and driver update, I won't hesitate to buy it immediately like the one they're doing at monarchcomputer.

 

[Baaru]

Yeah i'm have a hard time finding that information as well.

I've read a post or two here where people state that this mobo was able to boot up with the San Diego in place, but that it would not recognize it in the CPU for what it is untill you updated the bios to 1004.

HOWEVER, when I got to the ASUS site the latest BIOS they have the is 1003 released on 4/25/2005. So, I don't know where this 1004 bios is that these people are talking about. What's more, when you go to here and search by motherboard name and Athlon 64 3700 revE socket 939, you get that the supported bios is 1003

http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx

CPU Since PCB Since BIOS
Athlon 64 3000+ (CG version) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 3000+ (rev.D) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 3000+ (rev.E) (Socket939) ALL 1003
Athlon 64 3200+ (CG version) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 3200+ (rev.D) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 3200+ (rev.E) (Socket939) ALL 1003
Athlon 64 3400+ (CG version) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 3500+ (CG version) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 3500+ (rev.D) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 3500+ (rev.E) (Socket939) ALL 1003
Athlon 64 3700+ (rev.E) (Socket939) ALL 1003
Athlon 64 3800+ (CG version) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 3800+ (rev.E) (Socket939) ALL 1003
Athlon 64 4000+ (CG version) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 4000+ (rev.E) (Socket939) ALL 1003
Athlon 64 FX-53 (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 FX-55 (CG version) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Sempron 3000+ (rev.E) (Socket939) ALL 1003
Sempron 3200+ (rev.E) (Socket939) ALL 1003

 

[cornholio2]

1004 is the beta version for san diego so you can overclock it i guess and 1003 for venice. UNless there's etailers that are willing to update for us, we'll be fine but for now we're stuck with this assignment. I'm just hoping that the premium version of this mobo is true so there would be no problem whether it's venice or san diego.