Asus a8n-e..

[cookie365]

Hi all

This may be a dumb question, but can anyone tell me the difference between this motherboard with manufacturer code 90-M9L0JA-G0EAYZ and this one with manufacturer code 90-M9L0JA-G0EAYVZ ??

Does that V make any difference?

Needless to say the Asus website doesn't offer any clues, and nor can the company selling the things :roll:

I've just bought (without knowing of the others existence) the pricier one (without the V) and I'm wondering whether I've got some some extra features or whether I'll have to go without dinner tonight to make up the money ??

Thanks

 

[Maike]

Originally posted by: chros
Have you seen that Asus had deleted the latest beta bioses from their websites (1009beta, 1010beta) ?

Strange ...

Yup have been looking for em, and strangly they have been taken down

 

[Maike]

As i have posted in another place, something does give me problems.. my puter wont shutdown? Does anyone else with the A8N-E have the same problem?
I was thinking a BIOS update could help me out, and there is BETA bios on the asus website again (1010-003) after they took some off.
So far this is my only problem with the board ands its never crashed etcetc

here helping you build yourself :
Igot the 1008 Bios version
with a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2,20GHz tray S 939 Venice E6
2x1024MB DDRRAM MDT PC400 CL2,5
MSI NX7800GT-VT2D256E grafix
2x 160GB Samsung HD160JJ SATA II
Seasonic S12 500W powersupply
1 super old network and WinTV go card

 

[thaneboy]

 

[thaneboy]

Hello !!
Problem on ASUS a8n-e with CPU AMD Athlon 64 (3000+) venice .
I face lot of problem with the latest driver 6.66 from nvidia . I upgraded the bios to 1008 (for CPU support) . But when i put 6.66 or 6.55 driver i get the following error : Specially when i try to start the ISP's dialer (which uses LAN) . So when i revert back to drivers provided by ASUS on their CD , my machine ran stable.
==== Here is something from Blue screen of Death====
The bugcheck was: 0x000000fc (0xf1ce1844, 0x2f3d6163, 0xf1ce1780, 0x00000001).

OS : winxp sp2

 

[Spammeh]

yes! mine doesn't shutdown windows properly either. im using the latest beta bios at the moment 1010.003?

 

[Maike]

Yes ,wont shutdown on 1010.003 as well as i thought.
Did you try 1005?

 

[Maike]

Hehehe, i solved the problem with new Chipset drivers v6.70 from Nvidias website after i read those 6.65 and 6.66 caused some of it to this board and this bioses.
So, deinstall your old drivers and install 6.70 for your A8N-E that helped me. For now i can say this board i can again recommend. *happy dance*

edit! I got bios 1010.003 still, if that helps troubleshooting

 

[Spammeh]

oh excellent ill give them a try today

 

[sandeep108]

Anybody else try the 6.70 drivers? Any improvements or let everything that is working fine work without fiddling?

 

[cabroker]

I downloaded the 6.70 drivers the other day and also updated my bios to 1010.003. No problems at all so far.

I recently upgraded my RAM to 2GB (1GB X 2) Crucial Ballistix DDR500. I can easily get to 250mhz speeds @ 3-3-3 8 but only at 2t. 233mhz is the max I can get at 1t. I have read numerous reviews on how easily this ram will overclock to 300mhz @3-3-3-8 @1t. But after doing more research, I found that most of the guys that were getting this great overclock have DFI boards. There seems to be something with the Ballistix and Asus boards.

 

[Spammeh]

damn i still can't shutdown properly even after installing the nforce 6.70s

 

[johnnqq]

does anybody know if this memory will work?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227210

 

[blurp]

Originally posted by: johnnqq
does anybody know if this memory will work?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227210

No doubt.

 

[icewall]

hey guys i just finished installing winxp on my new setup (a8n-e motherboard)

I put in the asus cd.. and there is some stuff i am not sure if its good to install..

eg. ai booster, cool & quiet and nv chip set..

Please tell me if i need them or they make system overall permance better or worse.

and also where is the ethernet driver on the cd.. i can't seem to find it..

Thanks

 

[blurp]

Ai Booster : Get away from that.
Cool & Quiet : well, according to me, it is cool and well... quiet. I like it
nv chipset from CD is a bit outdated, you may prefer to install to 6.70 version directly from Nvidia. They contain the ethernet drivers. Most people seems to like them. don't install the nvidia firewall though.

Hope that helps.

Originally posted by: icewall
hey guys i just finished installing winxp on my new setup (a8n-e motherboard)

I put in the asus cd.. and there is some stuff i am not sure if its good to install..

eg. ai booster, cool & quiet and nv chip set..

Please tell me if i need them or they make system overall permance better or worse.

and also where is the ethernet driver on the cd.. i can't seem to find it..

Thanks

 

[Fadey]

I reinstalled windows after updating my moterboard drivers because i couldnt shut down either, but it fixed it.

 

[pedramrezai]

I had problems of long windows xp cold boot but disabling ncq resolved it.still after cold boot I should enter bios,wait a little until cpu fan is > 1000 and then proceed to boot windows.I love q-fan so I am not going to disable it.

 

[blurp]

Originally posted by: pedramrezai
I had problems of long windows xp cold boot but disabling ncq resolved it.still after cold boot I should enter bios,wait a little until cpu fan is > 1000 and then proceed to boot windows.I love q-fan so I am not going to disable it.

I disabled the CPU fan monitor in the BIOS to get rid of this problem since my CPU fan has approx 800-900 rmp on idle.

 

[danchee]

Meant to post this here, but accidentally opened a new topic, but here goes.

I'm having installation issues with my rig. When I install Windows, 90% of the time it says it cannot copy a file to the disk. Tried 2 different hard drives, different CDRoms, different media disks, different RAM (even tried ECC), different BIOSes and even new motherboard! The times that I can get the OS installed, it will BSOD on me once it gets into the OS. When it BSODs, I can never boot into the OS ever again. Typical BSOD messages (I can't remember the actual string, but they sound like this "IRQL_LESS_OR_EQUAL, PFN_LIST_xxx", physical memory dump).

Temperature wise, the BIOS screen says CPU is sitting at 35^C. Nothing is overclocked, everything is standard out of box and I did not even tweak the BIOS, running setup defaults. I've tried having a big Vornado fan blowing at the system with the case cover off, the thing is cold to touch, so it's really not over heating. Plenty of stable power from a high quality PSU unit.

I got my bundle from the AMD Tech Tour and it was working great for 3 months or so. Then the chipset fan died while I was at work (making grating sound). When I got home, the system was still up, but I promptly shut it down and called Asus. They sent a new fan, which I replaced and the OS started to die. This is while I was on the IDE drive. So I started to reinstall the OS on the 3 hdds listed below trying to find one that would work. The SATA drives are brand new drives. After a week of trying, called Asus and got a replacement board thinking the chipset is bad. But still no dice.

CPU - Venice 3200+ Rev.E
PSU - PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 ASL
Memory - Crucial Balistix PC4000
Mobo - A8N-E rev2 (BIOS 1005, 1006, 1008, 1010.003 tried em all)
SATA drive 1 (non NCQ) - WD2500JD SATA drive
SATA drive 2 (NCQ) - Seagate ST3300831AS SATA drive
IDE drive - WD800JB PATA drive
OS - WinXP SP2 (slipstreamed CD so that it can recognize drives bigger than 128G)
Vid card - ATI X800XL
Nvidia drivers 6.53, 6.65, 6.66, 6.7

The only thing that I have not changed is the CPU, which I will be doing tomorrow with a friend's. Any suggestions on getting this resolved?

Thanks!
Daniel

p/s - Should the CPU be the culprit, does anyone know who I should contact to get it replaced?

 

[squigly]

Re: AI Booster.

What would you use instead to monitor temperature, fan speed, etc.

Thanks

 

[blurp]

Originally posted by: squigly
Re: AI Booster.

What would you use instead to monitor temperature, fan speed, etc.

Thanks

AsusProb and/or SpeedFan

 

[cabroker]

danchee.
I don't think your CPU is the problem. You may want to try changing your RAM first. I was using Crucial Balistix PC4000 in my rig but was having too many problems with it. RMA'd it and reinstalled my OCZ Platinum PC3200. Many Asus boards seem to have an issue with Balistix. Good luck

 

[danchee]

I'm RMA'ing the RAM, but I've already tried new RAM and that didn't help.

 

[pedramrezai]

I had such problem with a MSI 865PE Neo 2 and after some investigation I figured out
it is a RAM compatiblity problem and changing RAM resolved the issue.Another thing to
try is to give your ram 2.8v and see what happens.