Asus a8n-e..

[ProviaFan]

My current mouse doesn't have a "tail light," but I've noticed this in general with some of my systems (including one that has been going for several years); even with the computer "off," if the PSU is on, some things will light up under certain circumstances. I don't think it's anything to worry about.

 

[Gerbil333]

My MX500 doesn't have a tail light either and I can't see the light at all until I flip the mouse upside down. I'll take a look at the bottom of the mouse before I boot up the system tomorrow.

My A8N-E does leave the "F-lock" button lit on my Logitech Elite keyboard after shutting the computer down. It did the same thing on a Gigabye GA-K8N Ultra-9 and my Abit NF7-S 2.0, but it does not do that on my Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 or Asus K8V SE Deluxe. I find that very strange. I imagine it's related to some BIOS setting I haven't bothered investigating that differs from board to board.

 

[Viperoni]

It might make a difference if you can change if the USB ports are powered off the +5v or the +5vsb rail... the +5vsb should be on all the time IIRC.

Also, I'm testing for stability at 2.65ghz at the moment... 294x9 @ 1.45v, stock HSF

 

[Viperoni]

Nope, wouldn't do 2.65 even @ 1.4625, so I just dropped it to 2.5 @ 1.4375, should be good

 

[blurp]

There is a new BIOS 1007-002 (beta) ... No release note it seems. Anyone know where we can find some news about this bios ?

http://support.asus.com.tw/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

 

[lumbus]

I just ordered a A8N-E from NewEgg. Glad to have found this thread. Thanks for all the info about the chipset fan.

I ordered an X2 to go with it and I'm unsure whether the bios version on the mobo will support it. Do I need a working CPU to do the BIOS flashing that you can get to during POST (Alt-F2 or something)? I hope not, I don't think I know anybody with a 939 CPU...

Thanks!

 

[ProviaFan]

In my experience, there were no problems flashing an A8N-E to the 1005 BIOS with an X2 and the shipping BIOS. Put the BIOS file on a blank floppy and do the ALT+F2 flash; you should have no problems.

 

[agent2099]

Originally posted by: Hellspawn
ok I installed my new a8n-e mainboard tonight and a retail boxed 3200+ venice. No overclocking. Installed xp w/sp2, and a zalman 7700 alcu. idle temp about 32c, load about 42c. Nice. Used the 6.66 drivers, got all the windows updates, etc. I did not install the firewall.

First problem: the first time after a reboot or power-on start, when the browser is brought up, there is about a 30 second delay where nothing happens.. Nothing in the status bar at the bottom. It is blank. After about 20-30 seconds, it pulls up my homepage just like it should.

The next time I open the browser all is fine (unless I reboot between times).

Any thoughts? I have no idea where to start.

You know I never really thought about it, but I have the same "problem." Upon reboot, it takes about 20 seconds for the LAN to "kick in." I know this because every time I restart, Steam pops up with the "can't connect, would you like to use offline mode" message.

What really irks me though, is I get repetitive lag when gaming. It seems every 60 seconds or so, I will freeze for about 5 seconds when plaing CS:Source, Battlefiled 2 or whatever. As you can understand this makes my online gaming experience very frustrating and as a result I have not gamed extensively since I got this board.

 

[Gerbil333]

I haven't had any problems with the integrated NIC. My LAN connection works as soon as Windows loads and I've had no lag in online games. I'm using default LAN BIOS settings (version 1005), default XP SP2 network settings that automatically connect to my Netgear MR814 router, and the nVidia 6.53 nF4 drivers.

 

[lumbus]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan
In my experience, there were no problems flashing an A8N-E to the 1005 BIOS with an X2 and the shipping BIOS. Put the BIOS file on a blank floppy and do the ALT+F2 flash; you should have no problems.

Great, thanks!

 

[ProviaFan]

Also, after flashing the BIOS, enter it and load defaults, exit, and then enter again. Some obscure troubles seem to be avoidable by doing this, though I have no idea why.

 

[bishop98]

Thanks guys I tried the plugging my mouse into a different port and Viperoni was right it doesn't power on after shutdown anymore.

 

[evaD]

On the A8N-E, Windows XP should install on your SATA disk without any special procedure.

So, on my A8N-E, without a RAID setup, I should be able to just skip the F6 procedure, and forget about loading drivers?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: evaD

On the A8N-E, Windows XP should install on your SATA disk without any special procedure.

So, on my A8N-E, without a RAID setup, I should be able to just skip the F6 procedure, and forget about loading drivers?

That worked for me. YMMV as always, but I don't have any reason to believe that my experience was unusual.

 

[Xchus]

I dont know if it helps and if you have any Qs but look at my sig and PM me for any OCing Qs. I have the A8N-E and the only problem I have found is the damn 1T problem. I cant get 1T timings on anything over 250MHz and that really sucks. Let me know if any of you know a work around or something at all on how to fix this.

 

[Xchus]

Oh I forgot to mention I used my Raptor on SATA port 4 and I never had any problems with corruption!

 

[kmann]

Originally posted by: kmann
I'm having a problem with a machine I just built:

ASUS A8N-E MOTHERBOARD ATX S939 NFORCE4 ULTRA DDR PCI-E16 PCI-E4 2PCI-E1 3PCI SATA RAID GBLAN SOUND
AMD ATHLON 64 3000+ PROCESSOR S939 VENICE 1.8GHZ 512K L2 CACHE 90NM RETAIL BOX
CORSAIR VALUE SELECT DUAL CHANNEL 1024MB KIT PC3200 DDR CAS2.5 2X512MB
SAPPHIRE X600 PRO PCI-E 256MB DDR VGA DVI TV-OUT LITE RETAIL VIDEO CARD
ENERMAX EG495P-VE NOISETAKER 485W POWER SUPPLY ATX12V 24 PIN P4 & PCI-E READY
WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR SE 200GB HARD DRIVE SATA 7200RPM 8MB CACHE OEM 3YR MFR WARRANTY
MITSUMI FA404A-BK 7-IN-1 FLOPPY DRIVE & FLASH READER CF/SM/SD/MMC/MS BLACK
PIONEER DVR-109 DVD-RW 16X6X16 DVD+RW 16X8X16 DUAL LAYER+-R 6X CDRW 40X24X40 INT IDE NO SW OEM BLACK
LINKSYS WMP54GS WIRELESS-G PCI NETWORK CARD 802.11G 54MBPS 2.4GHZ W/ SPEEDBOOSTER

Frequently, on power-up, I get no video. As far as I can tell, based on HDD activity, the machine is not loading the OS when this happens.Once it's running, the machine is fine. I've upgraded the BIOS from 1001 to 1005, but the problem persists.

Everything's running "out of the box"...no overclocking, voltage adjustments, etc.

Any suggestions? Any additional information I could provide that might help? Thanks in advance.

Just to close this off: the problem was a bad video card. Replaced it with the same model and everything's fine.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: evaD

On the A8N-E, Windows XP should install on your SATA disk without any special procedure.

So, on my A8N-E, without a RAID setup, I should be able to just skip the F6 procedure, and forget about loading drivers?

Yes. You only really need the drivers if Windows setup can't see your SATA drive at all.

 

[WobbleWobble]

I'm having issues overclocking my system with BIOS 1007-02 and 1005. Whenever I select a FSB higher than 220 my system doesn't boot. It POSTs but it never gets past the PCI Device Listing, with the little cursor just flashing there.

I've been trying 250x10 (3200+) with my memory kicked down to 266 and HT at 3x. I've tried other combos and occasionally it does boot. And when it does it seems to be Prime stable for hours. I've tried the Load Setup Defaults thing, but no go. Any light onto my situation?

I'm looking to try BIOS 1001, but Asus lists official Venice support with BIOS 1003.

 

[ProviaFan]

After flashing the BIOS, enter setup, load defaults, and save and exit. Then enter setup again and try to overclock.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan
After flashing the BIOS, enter setup, load defaults, and save and exit. Then enter setup again and try to overclock.

I tried that. Right after flashing the BIOS I rebooted, reset defaults, save, reboot, overclock... same issue.

What BIOS version are you guys using to succesfully overclock?

 

[lumbus]

I just got my A8N-E and the X2 and set it up. Judging from the pictures and stories here, it seems like I got an updated version of the chipset HSF, yay! The bios version was also new enough out of the box to support my X2.

I'm using a single SATA drive as the system drive and two SATA drive in a mirror RAID array for data storage. The RAID manager in Windows shows the array and the drives in it and says everything's healthy. I'd like to make sure that it works in the event of an actual drive failure... Can I safely just unplug one drive, or what is the best way to go about this?

Thanks!

 

[WobbleWobble]

I kicked back down to BIOS 1001 and overclocks are fine now. And ver 1001 does support Venice CPUs.

 

[CanadaZ]

Hi everyone, I'm a noob to the forum and pc hardware.

I bought a custom system with this mobo yesterday and have some questions.

1) is it normal for the chipset fan to spin at like 9000 rpm?

2) after I installed the asus ai booster from the cd, I changed a few settings... and then changed it back to default. but now the vcore is like 1.60v, and everytime the computer starts its 1.60. how can i change it back to 1.4 (what is was before)?

3)is there any real difference between a winchester 3000 and an venice 3000, other than the latter overclocking better?

I would highly appreciate any help.

thanks

 

[dwcal]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
I'm having issues overclocking my system with BIOS 1007-02 and 1005. Whenever I select a FSB higher than 220 my system doesn't boot. It POSTs but it never gets past the PCI Device Listing, with the little cursor just flashing there.

Try unplugging your hard drive to see if it boots. I had the same problem when the PCI bus lock wasn't working. If that works, set the PCI bus to 33Mhz in the BIOS.