*** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

[GuitarDaddy]

Originally posted by: Digitalis
Dual 12v rails are part of the ATX 2.0 spec.

That is recomended, but not esential for NF4 boards like this.

The ATX 2.0 spec's where developed for server applications well before the advent of of SLI motherboards. In a server environment dual rail power supplies are very usefull in supporting multiple hard drive arrays. The ATX 2.0 specs did not take into account the high power requirements of the motherboard when running 2 high end video cards.


Dual rail power supply should not be used on this board!! unless you can find one with 25a on the primary rail.

 

[cronic]

i wish i would have know that before i just bought the antec neo 480. it works great with one card, but i guess its not going to do the job when i add the 2nd 6800 ultra. oh well, thats why ebay is so great.. thanks

 

[obald1]

Originally posted by: michaeldorian

Originally posted by: obald1
Not sure if I got the right thread - but here goes:

Purchased Lian-Li V10000 and Asus A8N-SLI D Mobo. The Firewire header from the front is not long enough to reach the Firewire connector on the Mobo. Anyone know where to find an internal cable that can extend the firewire header? (basically internal 10-pin female to internal 10-pin male)

Here is a pic of the header assembly:
http://www.performance-pcs.com...0_210&products_id=2150

Thanks, Scott

Lian-Li V10000
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Mobo
4 x 512 MB DDR400
AMD 64 FX-55
2 x 74 GB Raptor RAID 0
PC P&C Turbo 510-SLI

How is the PC Turbo-Cool 510 SLI? Is your system running stable? I have a OCZ 600 Powerstream but after reading the manual it appears this PS does not make enough amps on the 12V line for our SLI setups. I pretty much have the same setup as you but the machine is not stable and im not OCing.

Your OCZ should have plenty of current for 2 boards. Did you plug an additional power cable into the EZ Plug on the Mobo. It says that 2 cards will not be stable until you supply power to this connector. I am in the process of assembling my machine. Got everything now but the darn video cards - I am having a tough time locating 6800 Ultras for under $600 bones. Where'd you get yours? How much did you pay?

 

[obald1]

Originally posted by: vlad4

Originally posted by: obald1
Not sure if I got the right thread - but here goes:

Purchased Lian-Li V10000 and Asus A8N-SLI D Mobo. The Firewire header from the front is not long enough to reach the Firewire connector on the Mobo. Anyone know where to find an internal cable that can extend the firewire header? (basically internal 10-pin female to internal 10-pin male)

Thanks, Scott

Scott, I have the same case, I found that if I did a little creative re-routing of the PC-1000's wires, everything would reach. Basically, I took the left side panel off and routed all of the cases cables through that plastic clip near the left bottom of the motherboard, then up behind the CD bays.

Hope this helps.

vlad4

I think I'll jerry rig a 10-pin internal female to 10-pin internal male and add 3 inches. Short of this I will have to re-route the cables per your method. What a PITA. Everything else is so fine on that Lian-Li, you think they would have had this one dialed. Thanks for the help.

 

[obeythefist]

Hey, since this is the official thread for this motherboard and all, I have a friend with a real problem with his two SLI Certified MSI NX6600GT-TD128E cards. The problem is, when he enables SLI within the ForceWare drivers, an notification dialog pops up and tells him "His secondary display cannot be used in SLI mode because his second graphics card will be used to assist the primary card", then the drivers clear the SLI checkbox.

I've checked everything out and the cards are just fine on their own, the hardware is all good and the OS is installed and working quite stable.

We've tried different ASUS BIOS's and ForceWare and NForce drivers, all with the same result.

The configuration is all exactly correct, EZ Plug power connected, the selector card is set to Dual, the BIOS is configured to Auto (or SLI, doesn't make any difference).

When we boot the system, the ForceWare drivers pop up a little speech bubble in the system tray saying "This system is configured for SLI, click here to enable it", so I am sure everything is right there.

Any ideas/

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Originally posted by: obeythefist
Hey, since this is the official thread for this motherboard and all, I have a friend with a real problem with his two SLI Certified MSI NX6600GT-TD128E cards. The problem is, when he enables SLI within the ForceWare drivers, an notification dialog pops up and tells him "His secondary display cannot be used in SLI mode because his second graphics card will be used to assist the primary card", then the drivers clear the SLI checkbox.

I've checked everything out and the cards are just fine on their own, the hardware is all good and the OS is installed and working quite stable.

We've tried different ASUS BIOS's and ForceWare and NForce drivers, all with the same result.

The configuration is all exactly correct, EZ Plug power connected, the selector card is set to Dual, the BIOS is configured to Auto (or SLI, doesn't make any difference).

When we boot the system, the ForceWare drivers pop up a little speech bubble in the system tray saying "This system is configured for SLI, click here to enable it", so I am sure everything is right there.

Any ideas/

The message you listed I beleive actually says something like "If you enable SLI mode the outputs on the second card will be disabled" do you want to enable SLI? Yes/No. This message is normal and basically means if you are running SLI only the outputs on the primary card are active. You must click Yes to enable SLI, if you click No it clears the checkbox.

 

[michaeldorian]

Hi,

Thank for your reply, Yeah I did plug in that extra power into the EZ Plug. Still I get random crashes and system freezes every now and then. I think the 20 AMPS per rail is just not enough for this thing. Any how I got mine from gameve.com, I know on eBay there are some with ending below 600. You should check it out.

Michael

 

[TMI]

HAD INSTALLED BIOS 1003, AND THATS WHERE PROBLEMS STARTED. REFLASHED BIOS WITH 1002 AND IM RUNNING LIKE A TOP. FOR SOME REASON 1003 WOULDNT RECOGNIZE THE RAID ARRAY AND WOULD LOCK UP AFTER PCI PERIPHERAL IRQ BOOT SCREEN. THATS WHAT I GET FOR FIXING SOMETHING WITH A NEW BETA THAT WASNT BROKE

ITS WORKING GREAT NOW

 

[michaeldorian]

I think the ultimate power supply is going to the the PC Power and Cooling 510 Deluxe SLI. This is actually Nvidia certified hardware. Based on my research you are right GuitarDaddy, this board needs a strong single 12V rail especially when running 2X 6800 Ultras. Waiting for my 510 SLI. Its back order and should arrive by the 26 of this month.

Michael.

 

[iscsidude]

If noise is not a factor, I agree, the PCP&C 510 will be the ultimate. However, I'm writing this with earplugs in place as a customer of PCP&C!!!

I'm curious where people are finding reference suggesting that dual rail supplies are not suitable for SLI.

Check this out...
http://www.bleedinedge.com/gui...ect/psu_select_01.html

BTW, anyone find a way to cool the NF4 chip without the 8K RPM fan supplied...?

 

[FastEddie]

Originally posted by: iscsidude
If noise is not a factor, I agree, the PCP&C 510 will be the ultimate. However, I'm writing this with earplugs in place as a customer of PCP&C!!!

I'm curious where people are finding reference suggesting that dual rail supplies are not suitable for SLI.

Check this out...
http://www.bleedinedge.com/gui...ect/psu_select_01.html

BTW, anyone find a way to cool the NF4 chip without the 8K RPM fan supplied...?

That's a very good link iscsidude.

The two equations we are dealing with are: Watts = Volts times Amps, AND watts divided by volts = amps.

 

[iscsidude]

Yes. And Watts / Amps = Volts.

Then there is Ohm's Law.

 

[darknodin]

This thread is huge... and i didn't see any clear answer to this... but if its already been answered sorry for that but... Is the SLI selector upside down or not (I haven't received my video card yet so i can't tell you about my experiences tho

 

[hwan]

Sorry if this has been posted already but is everyone running onboard LAN? The reason I'm asking is because I'm using a netgear FA311 NIC instead of the onboard LAN (just a preference since the onboard connection on my old A7N8-X used to just disappear randomly) and I'm getting much slower download speed than with the onboard Marvell. A 1.7M file takes about 20secs with the Marvell connection but up to 2minutes with the NIC. This is after a fresh install of XP, SP2, Windows firewall turned off (currently running Norton) and NIC driver from the CD. Oh and whenever I use the Marvell ethernet port, I get a high-pitched noise from the system

 

[Shaga]

Could give me fast recommendation about ram. You can see my rig from my signature.

I have Kingston Valueram 1gig(512mbx2) PC3200(DDR400), and I could get Kingston HyperX PC3500(DDR443) 1gig(512mbx2) by paying 60euros.
Is the trade fair/reasonable/too much?

I can't get OCZ, Corsair or any other awesome sticks from the local stores around here, nor webshop around here. Only Kingston HyperX DD433. Please answer quickly so I know should I buy. Thanks in advance.


ps. this question ain't needing a fast answer, but what mobo drivers you use?(as for chipset/audio etc) I use nforce 6.31 REMIX from guru3d, works great but not sure could it work even better.

 

[iscsidude]

You may want to check out the ASUS QVL for Memory at:
http://www.asus.com/products/m...cket939/a8nsli/qvl.htm

 

[sreams]

BTW, anyone find a way to cool the NF4 chip without the 8K RPM fan supplied...?

http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/p...ew.asp?idx=71&code=014

Fits perfectly... and even has cutouts in the heastsink so that this can fit on your video card(s):

http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/p...w.asp?idx=138&code=013

I have both.

-S

 

[iscsidude]

Thanks Sreams,
I'd like to use it on both as well.
What video card are you running it on?

Can I assume you are also running a Zalman CPU Fan?

 

[Dijital]

i'm not sure if anyone has come across this yet, but i've installed xp sp2 and installed all the drivers from the cd. after i boot up, i get to the windows loading screen, but then it hangs and i cant figure out what happened. i just have a blank screen with nothing happening.

anyone seen this one?

 

[user1234]

Originally posted by: iscsidude
If noise is not a factor, I agree, the PCP&C 510 will be the ultimate. However, I'm writing this with earplugs in place as a customer of PCP&C!!!

I'm curious where people are finding reference suggesting that dual rail supplies are not suitable for SLI.

Check this out...
http://www.bleedinedge.com/gui...ect/psu_select_01.html

BTW, anyone find a way to cool the NF4 chip without the 8K RPM fan supplied...?

But the noise from the psu doesn't matter that much, considering the constant annoying rumble coming from the chipset fan, in addition to the not very quiet AMD stock cpu fan, all of which I can hear quite clearly thru the supposedly quiet Antec Sonata case, which has friggin holes in the sides that lot all the noise out. This is the price you have to pay for high performance I guess, it's just a shame that it makes me not want to turn it on at all.

 

[AiponGkooja]

Originally posted by: Dijital
i'm not sure if anyone has come across this yet, but i've installed xp sp2 and installed all the drivers from the cd. after i boot up, i get to the windows loading screen, but then it hangs and i cant figure out what happened. i just have a blank screen with nothing happening.

anyone seen this one?

What kind of monitor do you have? You might have to lower the res/screen refresh rates on a different monitor and log out to save the settings (I don't think settings save if you change them in safe mode).

 

[Dijital]

i'm using a 17" samsung tft-lcd monitor. res is 1280x1024 at 72hz refresh. i dont think that's the problem, but i'll give it a try.

 

[AiponGkooja]

Originally posted by: Dijital
i'm using a 17" samsung tft-lcd monitor. res is 1280x1024 at 72hz refresh. i dont think that's the problem, but i'll give it a try.

*shrug* I just know that that is exactly what happened at that same point when I plugged in a really old monitor.

 

[michaeldorian]

Hi,

Has anyone tried this yet? Any taughts? Does this actually help anybody? Solve any stability problems? I dream of stability.


Beta Drivers - ForceWare

ForceWare Release 65
Version: 67.66
Release Date: January 18, 2005
BETA Driver


http://nzone.com/object/nzone_...ds_winxp_2k_67.66.html

Going to try it when I get home. I hope this addresses some things.

Michael

 

[KBtn]

i'm still waiting for some more competition to hit the shelves to get the prices a bit lower.