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[ProviaFan]

Viperoni: I have that issue as well, which has thus far greatly limited the amount of overclocking that I can get out of my X2. Given that you have a single-core chip, you may be able to restore proper HT multiplier function by going back to the 1001 BIOS, but there are some caveats to beware of when doing that.

 

[Fatz]

I am happy so far with this board, the MB fan is a little noisy but in games I have two case fans howling anyways.

Question, does anyone know where we can find a change log for the beta bios's like 1006.003? I would like to know whats changed before I try it.

 

[Amaroque]

I don't understand why people are having HT multiplier problems. I've used every BIOS from 1001 to 1006.003, and I've never had any HT issues.

Now if I haven't had a problem from 1001 to 1006.003, then it would seem to be a MB issue, and not a BIOS issue... Hopefully I'm wrong.

 

[Viperoni]

Right now I'm having trouble hitting 2.0ghz stable (222x9)

I only have SiSoft Sandra to tell me the multiplier... Interestingly, CPU-Z doesn't tell me the Bus Speed...

 

[ProviaFan]

I'm not sure - the HT mult issue shows up with post-1001 BIOSes, which seems to indicate that the boards can work under certain conditions. I wish we could find something in common for those of us for whom it doesn't work.

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

has anyone had any luck with overclocking the 3500 venice with this board? Or any board for that matter.

 

[sandeep108]

Sorry for the blank posts

 

[sandeep108]

Sorry for the blank posts

 

[sandeep108]

I had a case of no video, but the OS did continue to load; it was because my monitor was on DVI, and the card wasn't enabling video output on that output. Connecting to the analog (HD15) output long enough to get into Windows and change the display output settings fixed the issue. I assume this is not your system's problem, but mention it anyway to justfiy asking you how your monitor is connected. Are your fans all spinning up correctly?

I am having the same problem with DVI connection. Once it loads it displays fine, but cannot sometimes display the bios. Which setting is to be done to enable the video output on DVI in the drivers?

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: scrawnypaleguy
...the chipset fan is now the only thing that i can hear in my setup, and i would like it to be totally silent. any suggestions?

You can read this thread at AT about the hsf problem and find lots of solutions but the most popular has been to use the Zalman NB47J along with some other form of additional cooling.

Greg

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

Originally posted by: Fisher999

Originally posted by: scrawnypaleguy
...the chipset fan is now the only thing that i can hear in my setup, and i would like it to be totally silent. any suggestions?

You can read this thread at AT about the hsf problem and find lots of solutions but the most popular has been to use the Zalman NB47J along with some other form of additional cooling.

Greg

well gee thanks greg, but I've already fixed that. I mentioned it somewhere in this forum a while back. I decided that since i'm rich (hooray for graduation money) I'd go for the swiftech. I installed it, and it's nice and quiet, and the temps are the same. Thanks for the advice though. I posted some pictures on my new myspace account. I think you need to have an account to view them, but here's my site: www.myspace.com/johnscoville

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

Actually, I had another question about this board. Does anyone else here use speedfan? I use it and a samurize config to monitor my system stats, and I was wondering if anyone knew what all the temperatures listed were for, since speedfan doesn't label them, it just gives the temps. By comparing them to Asus PCprobe, I know which ones are the cpu and motherboard, and there's another for the hard drive, but there's two others and I don't know what components they represent. Anyone else know?

 

[imported_Technomancer]

It's funny, I activated the fan control in my BIOS and my system was MUCh quieter after reboot. It cuts my CPU stock fan RPM's to 1/3 of what it would have been previously, with perhaps 4 C increase in idle temperature. Now I can hear a whining noise that I suspect is the motherboard fan, but it's really nowhere near as loud as the CPU fan used to be which roared like a jet. If the replacement from ASUS really doesn't perform to my satisfaction then I will get the Zalman heatsink. My P-180 has an intake fan that would blow right across the NB47J, provided that I improve my cable-managing Kung-Fu to match. The 30 Db intake fan is nowhere near as audible as the mobo fan, at least not with the door closed. But once I replace the mobo fan I'll replace the stock fan on my CPU; RPM per RPM the Zalman 7700 AlCu looks like it should cool much better than the stock HSF.

EDIT: With the BIOS change, my new system now sounds pretty similar to my old Compaq system.

 

[garyd9]

Originally posted by: Technomancer
It's funny, I activated the fan control in my BIOS and my system was MUCh quieter after reboot. It cuts my CPU stock fan RPM's to 1/3 of what it would have been previously, with perhaps 4 C increase in idle temperature. Now I can hear a whining noise that I suspect is the motherboard fan, but it's really nowhere near as loud as the CPU fan used to be which roared like a jet.

Odd. Your using the stock HSF from the 4200X2? That giant heatpipe thing? I'm using the same thing, and mine isn't noisy at all. In fact, the loudest thing in my machine right now is the asus NB cooler (that 9k RPM thing) that whines like a jet engine. After that are the HDD's.

I tried enabling "QFan", but found that it's only slowing down the CPU fan, and has no effect on CHA1 or CHIP fans (which the documentation claims it does.) I also wish the "QFan" allowed full CPU fan speed at temps lower than 51C. (With CnQ, my CPU temps drop to below MB temps.)

BTW, as my first post here, I'll give you an idea of the entire system config:
Asus A8N-E
- stock NB cooler (NOISY!)
Athlon 4200 X2
- clocked to 2.4Ghz via HTT bus at default voltage
- stock HSF
2x1024 corsair DDR400 (2.5/3/3/6)
- running at DDR440 speed at 2.75
Antec Sonota II (using the duct - which works well for me)
NVidia 6600 GT (stock speeds)
- Zalman VF700 Cu (dropped load temps from 72C to 53C!)

CPU temps never get over 49C, and drop as low as 30C when idle.

 

[samio]

Have any of you with the x2 4200+ try set the vcore between v1.375 and v1.45?

The reason I ask is I also have a x2 4200+ and the board does not retain any of the above voltage. It just default to v1.34.

 

[imported_Technomancer]

Yeah I'm disappointed that the fan control doesn't do anything for the intake and chip fans, because those could stand to slow down too. Right now the chip and front intake are loudest; graphics and HDD are pretty quiet.

EDIT: All stock cooling except for the added intake fan. I've never seen CPU temp above 46 C and never saw the mobo above 42 C even with the chip fan unplugged. Then again, somebody said that that sensor wasn't accurate enough as it was too far from the chipset area being cooled.

 

[garyd9]

Originally posted by: Technomancer
the mobo above 42 C even with the chip fan unplugged. Then again, somebody said that that sensor wasn't accurate enough as it was too far from the chipset area being cooled.

I believe the sensor for the "system" (or motherboard) temp is about an inch from NB chip. That makes it pretty useless as a NB temp indicator, but places it close enough to the NB (and VGA card) to get an idea how warm the air inside your case is. Of course, that all depends on your air circulation.

I'm starting to consider dropping this board in favor of some NF4U board that has good (or at least reliable) NB cooling, and better temp monitoring/fan control. The problem is that any motherboard that has those things has other problems. My goal of a completely reliable, quiet, cool, slightly overclocked, dual core, 64bit system doesn't seem to be working out.

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

Have you seen that new Abit nf4u board? It's got passive heatpipe cooling just like the a8n-sli premium, but it's basically the same price as the a8n-e. If i had known that this board was coming out when i was building my a8n-e system, i would have changed motherboards.

 

[Madness101]

What's the model number?

 

[ytsejam1138]

Originally posted by: Madness101
What's the model number?

I believe scrawnypaleguy is referring to this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127212

 

[Viperoni]

I wanted to get the AN8-Ultra, but they still haven't hit Canada from what I understand.

 

[spazo]

Anyone running a 20pin psu with this motherboard? My psu has 21amps on the 12+ rail so I think its should be sufficient to support an overcloked 3200+ and X800xl...

 

[Gonzaga]

I'm sorry to bother you but i'm going crazy...
I have an Asus A8N-E rev 2 and the rest of my pc is this:
Aerocool AeropowerII+SE 450w
AMD 64 3000+ Venice
1 Gb Twinmos Dual Channel
Hitachi Sata II 160 gb
Sparkle 6600 256 mb PCI-e..
All of these components are brand new. I was installing win xp and it was all going fine when it was copying the files to the computer.. but when it reboots it appears a blue screen with error: 0x0000007b. (.... 0xc0000034..) and i don't know what to do...
I change the memories to different slots, and then i used just 512 mb in different slots and it still happens.. and i can't install the win xp!!!!!!!!! i'm getting mad!
Should i flash the bios? Can it have something to have with my hard drive is sata II? Can anyone help me?
Thank you

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Gonzaga
I'm sorry to bother you but i'm going crazy...
I have an Asus A8N-E rev 2 and the rest of my pc is this:
Aerocool AeropowerII+SE 450w
AMD 64 3000+ Venice
1 Gb Twinmos Dual Channel
Hitachi Sata II 160 gb
Sparkle 6600 256 mb PCI-e..
All of these components are brand new. I was installing win xp and it was all going fine when it was copying the files to the computer.. but when it reboots it appears a blue screen with error: 0x0000007b. (.... 0xc0000034..) and i don't know what to do...
I change the memories to different slots, and then i used just 512 mb in different slots and it still happens.. and i can't install the win xp!!!!!!!!! i'm getting mad!
Should i flash the bios? Can it have something to have with my hard drive is sata II? Can anyone help me?
Thank you

Welcome to the Forums Out of curiosity, did you pick your name because you go to Gonzaga University in Spokane? My middle sister is a reference librarian at Foley Center there, was curious

What I would do here, is raise the memory voltage to 2.7 volts and see if that stabilizes it and stops the blue-screen errors. At this point, it would probably be good to start over on the WinXP installation too, in case some files got corrupted during file copying. Good luck!

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Heh. Um - question:
What's with the thread title "I AM YOUR FATHER" ?