Asus a8n-e..

[Order 66]

It would be great if I could tell which revision Newegg is shipping now. I live in Barbados and calling tech support is not an option. Has anyone ordered recently?

 

[werty316]

Originally posted by: Order 66
It would be great if I could tell which rev Newegg is shipping now. I live in Barbados and calling tech supports is not an option.

I didn't get mine form newegg but mine if Rev2. Most like that is what they ship.

 

[walk2k]

Sorry if this is a repeat question but..

Actually 2 questions.

1) I have 4x256 DDR400 (Corsair XMS C2) but it sets the ram speed to 333mhz. If I manually set it to 400mhz it won't POST. I get one long beep followed by 2 short beeps (repeated) and I have to manually clear the CMOS (crash-free bios my @#$).

I know the RAM is fine because I moved it over from an intel 2.8 setup, where it happily ran for like 2 years at 400mhz, cas2 (2-3-3-5). Is there a trick here? Do I need to up the voltage maybe? I don't really understand all the numbers on the memory page...

2) Does the board need special drivers for SATA HDD? I keep getting corruption when installing WinXP. Then when I chkdsk it finds (and fixes) errors, but they keep coming back. Drive is an older Hitatchi 7K250, SATA-150, not the newer SATA3.0 model.

If I did, where would I get such drivers? WinXP wanted a floppy disk, I don't have a floppy disk, the board sure didn't come with any floppy disk....

 

[iRONic]

Originally posted by: Order 66
It would be great if I could tell which revision Newegg is shipping now. I live in Barbados and calling tech support is not an option. Has anyone ordered recently?

I received mine from Newegg in late December '05. Rev.2 with 1010 bios.

 

[werty316]

Originally posted by: walk2k
Sorry if this is a repeat question but..

Actually 2 questions.

1) I have 4x256 DDR400 (Corsair XMS C2) but it sets the ram speed to 333mhz. If I manually set it to 400mhz it won't POST. I get one long beep followed by 2 short beeps (repeated) and I have to manually clear the CMOS (crash-free bios my @#$).

I know the RAM is fine because I moved it over from an intel 2.8 setup, where it happily ran for like 2 years at 400mhz, cas2 (2-3-3-5). Is there a trick here? Do I need to up the voltage maybe? I don't really understand all the numbers on the memory page...

2) Does the board need special drivers for SATA HDD? I keep getting corruption when installing WinXP. Then when I chkdsk it finds (and fixes) errors, but they keep coming back. Drive is an older Hitatchi 7K250, SATA-150, not the newer SATA3.0 model.

If I did, where would I get such drivers? WinXP wanted a floppy disk, I don't have a floppy disk, the board sure didn't come with any floppy disk....

1) When using 4x 512MB sticks it sets the memory speed to 333MHz. Pretty much all boards do this. Nothing you can do unless you want to sell your 4 sticks and get 2x 1GB sticks.

2) This board doesn't need special drivers as it uses onboard SATA controller. Do a full format when installing windows.

 

[skdevnath]

Originally posted by: werty316

Originally posted by: skdevnath

Hi Guys,
Is ZALMAN ZM-NB47J sufficient for cooling the north bridge for this board ?
I don?t want noisy fan. Will this cooling will be sufficient ?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118214 - $5

Or should I go for replacing the North bridge with Asus?

I use this on my A8N-E as we speak and it cools quite well but it was annoying to install.

Originally posted by: skdevnath
Instead of Corsair I am planning to get OCZ, right now newegg had good deal.

OCZ 2GB DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Platinum System - $180(AR) + tax
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820227210

How good this for overclocking, timing looks better than Corsair Twinx2048-3200c2pt, so I guess I can get better overclocking. I am not a mad overclocker.

If you plan on using the Zalman ZM-NB47J cooler you will need a fan to cool it as it wasn't meant to be used for OC'ing. It was meant for silent cooling. Some users had problems because they didn't provide enough cooling to the Zalman cooler when OC'ing.

Yes I will do a bit overclocking, is CPU side intake case not sufficient? I guess some of air pass through the NB too.

 

[werty316]

If there is no air passing directly on it which an intake fan does not do you might have heat issues. The Zalman cooler was meant for no sound and zero vibration. You could always try it and if the sytem gets unstable you can always pick up a 40mm fan.

 

[walk2k]

Well I had to reformat the drive, and now it's ok. I lost a bunch of stuff but nothing irreplaceable.

About the RAM though, I managed to get it running at 400mhz once, but I set it back to normal for formating and installng... Will try to mess around with it some more (but I'm gonna disconnect the HDD while I do it to avoid corruption.. boot from a memtest CD or something) Pain in the butt. I don't want to replace the ram.. if I buy any more ram it will be DDR2, for an AM2 board

Edit: got the RAM working nicely @400mhz.
If you're having trouble, try these settings

Bios DRAM page, from top to bottom... (BIOS 1010)
400mhz
2 (cas)
6T
3T
3T
10T
13T <-- if this is set lower than 13 the board will not POST (long beep, 2 short beeps)!
3T
3T
2T <-- command rate, errors with 1T (I have 4 dimm)

What CPU-Z shows. The SPD reading.(very conservative obviously...)

 

[Order 66]

What about Tigerdirect? Has anyone ordered this board from them recently? Do they ship revision 2 with the new fan these days?

 

[cesto]

whew...finally got my system working. im downloading the SP1 service pack to get the HDD to be recognized more than 127gig.

at any rate, i believe my system randomly rebooted when i was away...and after reading this seems to be a problem people were having. i'd like to update the bios...is this as simple as just downloading the latest version from the web site? do I have to make any other adjustments, take any precautions, follow any particular steps? i don't want to mess anything up.

thanks guys!

 

[werty316]

Originally posted by: Order 66
What about Tigerdirect? Has anyone ordered this board from them recently? Do they ship revision 2 with the new fan these days?

If you live in Canada don't order from Tigerdirect unless you are actually going to one of their stores; they rip you off with shipping order form ncix.com.

Originally posted by: cesto
whew...finally got my system working. im downloading the SP1 service pack to get the HDD to be recognized more than 127gig.

at any rate, i believe my system randomly rebooted when i was away...and after reading this seems to be a problem people were having. i'd like to update the bios...is this as simple as just downloading the latest version from the web site? do I have to make any other adjustments, take any precautions, follow any particular steps? i don't want to mess anything up.

thanks guys!

Updating is easy just download the file to a floppy and use "Alt+F2" when rebooting during POST.

 

[Rdub64]

I just built a new computer with an A8N-E, AMD 3200+, 512 of Kingston DDR on A1 + B1, 480W truepower PSU.
Booting up just with this alone (no hard drives or disc drives connected) and using a MSI RX300HM PCI-E 16x graphics card.
Now on booting;
Ill go right into the BIOS, and the very odd time, it will lock up while giving the loading bios message (very bad).
Sometimes when booting up the CPU fan wont start. at all, and ill have to power off and back up for it to start.
Finalyl in the BIOS, i will go check the CPU fan speeds, and it will usually sit around 1000rpm, which is very low.. as the cpu temp will get upto around 50C just sitting there. the odd times it will be up around 2800-3000 where the cpu will drop down to 40ish. most often what wil happen is the cpu fan speed will jump around between 500-2500 every 1-2 seconds, and sometimes the fan will stop completely for about 10 seconds before starting again.
If i add a sata hard drive or a IDE hard drive, then go into the bios, the temperatures and voltage meatures will freeze and no longer update until i remove the drives.
I have treid taking out the video card and putting an old card in a PCI slot and booting and it has no effect on the problems.

I had managed to install windows XP pro before i had noticed most of these problems, and I have flashed to the latest bios to no avail. and i got several other problems there too. Sometimes at booting, the icon would come up showing that i wasnt connected to the internet, then it would go away, then pop back, about every second for a minute until i was finally connected for good. and my liteon dvd/cd burner combo drive would work and windows would install the drivers. then after reboot the drive would not read any discs, so i would have to uninstall the drive then reboot and it would work.. then after next reboot it wouldnt work again, etc etc.

asus probe would also not update the temps/voltages, saem as the bios.

Any ideas, or is the motherboard most likely defective and should be returned for a new one? i have a friend with a A8N-E and he has never had any of these problems before.

 

[walk2k]

Originally posted by: Rdub64
Sometimes when booting up the CPU fan wont start. at all, and ill have to power off and back up for it to start.
Finalyl in the BIOS, i will go check the CPU fan speeds, and it will usually sit around 1000rpm, which is very low.. as the cpu temp will get upto around 50C just sitting there. the odd times it will be up around 2800-3000 where the cpu will drop down to 40ish. most often what wil happen is the cpu fan speed will jump around between 500-2500 every 1-2 seconds, and sometimes the fan will stop completely for about 10 seconds before starting again.

Sounds like a bad CPU fan, or it's not plugged in right. If you check the connections and it still acts like that, I'd RMA it right away. Is it a retail box CPU or what? Well whatever, it should not act like that, and is probably the source of all your troubles.

I have a new 4400+. With the case open to fresh air the CPU fan is around 2800 with temp at 34-35c (idle). With case closed, fan 3000 temp, 39-41c (idle).

 

[walk2k]

Is there a version of Asus Probe that properly reports all the fans on this board?

The one that came on the disc... it calls the "chip" fan the Power fan, and it doesn't show the chassis(1) or power fan at all anywhere...

 

[rox1co]

what chipset fan do you recommend to replace the crappy one asus put in?

 

[EndGame]

Originally posted by: rox1co
what chipset fan do you recommend to replace the crappy one asus put in?

Jing Ting........

 

[sandeep108]

Originally posted by: walk2k
Is there a version of Asus Probe that properly reports all the fans on this board?

The one that came on the disc... it calls the "chip" fan the Power fan, and it doesn't show the chassis(1) or power fan at all anywhere...

Asus has really been very stupid on this issue. The board does not control any fan at all except the CPU fan. It monitors also only the CPU, chipset (labelled as Power Fan in Probe) and one chassis fan, even though it provides 2 or 3 headers for the fans. Even more stupid is that you have to connect the rear chassis fan to the bottom most right hand side for monitoring - very few fans have such long wires. The whole Q fan stuff is as such useless. My old Intel MB could control and monitor 3 fans in addition to the CPU fan.

Since my Antec TP480 can control the fans, I have connected all fans (front, side and HDD) to it and managed to rig an extension wire for the rear chassis fan for Probe to monitor. Since it is a 120mm Coolermaster, it is quite quiet anyway.

 

[skdevnath]

Asus has really been very stupid on this issue. The board does not control any fan at all except the CPU fan. It monitors also only the CPU, chipset (labelled as Power Fan in Probe) and one chassis fan, even though it provides 2 or 3 headers for the fans. Even more stupid is that you have to connect the rear chassis fan to the bottom most right hand side for monitoring - very few fans have such long wires. The whole Q fan stuff is as such useless. My old Intel MB could control and monitor 3 fans in addition to the CPU fan.

Since my Antec TP480 can control the fans, I have connected all fans (front, side and HDD) to it and managed to rig an extension wire for the rear chassis fan for Probe to monitor. Since it is a 120mm Coolermaster, it is quite quiet anyway.

In this regards, Abit AN8- ultra is really good it has nGuru FanEQ feature, which controls/monitor 6 fans.
OTES1,2, System, NB, AUX, CPU

BIOS monitoring feature also provide option for which component temperature to monitor like CPU, SYS, PWM. Each fan can be set for any of these three temperatures.

So for example I can connect side intake fan to OTES1 and set following setting in the BIOS

Fan speed high(12V) at CPU temp 42C
Fan speed low(6v) at CPU temp 30C

The Fan will be OFF if CPU temperature is less then 30 and then it will switch ON and it will run at full speed at CPU temperature 42 or +. The fan will run low speed in been 30-42C CPU temperature. This makes my system to be very quite if it lightly loaded or idle.

I liked this feature on Abit, but this board has major USB 2.0 problem, that's why I am moving to A8N-E

What about A8N-SLI Premium? does it have abit type above feature or atleast better than A8N-E?

 

[esit]

Version 1011 2006/02/17update

OS DOS

Description A8N-E Bios version 1011
Please do read the description before updating BIOS
To avoid crashing file system, please do update the chipset driver to below version prior to this Bios.
For WinXP 32bit system, please download and update chipset drivers V6.65 or later
For WinXP 64bit system, please download and update chipset drivers V6.65 or later
For Win2k/2003 32bit system, please download and update chipset drivers V6.66 or later
For Win2003 64bit system, please download and update chipset drivers V6.66 or later
1- Fix sometimes asusupdate will show Unknown flash.
2- Update awdflash to v1.16 to avoid the system BIOS being downgraded
3- Add an option in the Bios to Enable/Disable "Wake up from S1/S3/S4".
4- Fixed instant Music function fail issue.

 

[skdevnath]

Originally posted by: skdevnath
Do anybody has USB 2.0 problem with this board?

I have Abit AN8 Ultra, which also has NF4 Ultra chipset. My current system hangs whenever I transfer big file like 3-4 GB over USB 2.0(like USB enclosure hard disk).

Guys I never got any answer about my above question about A8N-E.

Have anyone tried transferring file of size 3-4 GB or more from Hard drive to any USB enclosure hard drive?

 

[skuri]

I copy 90GB MP3 from external USB hard drive to internal SATA hard drive without problems

 

[GeezerMan]

OK, I'm confused, as usual. Ram is like tax instructions to me. I'll be building a PC with the A8N-E and I already have some Kinsgston value ram, model KVR400AK2/1GR
Looks like the Kingston web page does not have this model as recommended for the A8N-E, but they have several others that they do recommend, like the KVR400X64C3AK2/1G
These appear to have he same specs. what's the difference?
Thanks


http://www.valueram.com/datasheets/KVR400AK2_1GR.pdf
http://www.valueram.com/datasheets/KVR400X64C3AK2_1G.pdf

 

[skdevnath]

Originally posted by: skuri
I copy 90GB MP3 from external USB hard drive to internal SATA hard drive without problems

Thanks skuri for this info...

 

[matt4]

HI!

I was going thrugh this pages and i proably missed what i was looking for so i will ask if you can help me.....

First i had only one Sata II disk, now i bought identical one and put them in RAID 0. Before i could see in SpeedFan temperatures of may disks, now when i have RADID 0 i can not....

Can u help me? Is it possible to still see somehow temperatures or no? Without installing additional sensors in my case....

 

[cymanet]

Hi friends. I'm spanish user... my apologizes for my poor english. I'm building a Silent PC and I'm thinking change chipset fan (5200 rpm usually) for a Zalman NB47-J. I have a 12cm fan in front and other 12cm in rear regulated by a rheobus (Akasa AK-FC-03). Do you think that temperature of chipset will increase so much with the passive Zalman?
Thank you very much