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.
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?
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....
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.
What CPU-Z shows. The SPD reading.(very conservative obviously...)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)
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?
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!
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.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.
Originally posted by: rox1co
what chipset fan do you recommend to replace the crappy one asus put in?
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.
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).
Originally posted by: skuri
I copy 90GB MP3 from external USB hard drive to internal SATA hard drive without problems