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

[cavallino]

there 's an user in this forum named tetete that has 2 6800gto but he does not give us any news.I've searched the web but substancially no info about this.I've read about a boy that has a 6800gto sli setup but he told that he has corrupted image.He say that nvidia told him 6800gto are sli capable but the fact are that 6800gto in sli are like shizz.
I want to know if this is a driver problem or if it is just that 6800gto cant' work fine in sli....this is why i want to know if someone here got it.

for sure a 6800gto is a 6800gt with just 12/5 pipe/vertex.

i hope someone can help me


thanks

 

[Thorsson]

Originally posted by: cavallino
there 's an user in this forum named tetete that has 2 6800gto but he does not give us any news.I've searched the web but substancially no info about this.I've read about a boy that has a 6800gto sli setup but he told that he has corrupted image.He say that nvidia told him 6800gto are sli capable but the fact are that 6800gto in sli are like shizz.
I want to know if this is a driver problem or if it is just that 6800gto cant' work fine in sli....this is why i want to know if someone here got it.

for sure a 6800gto is a 6800gt with just 12/5 pipe/vertex.

You can enable the extra pipelines/shaders with Rivatuner on most cards. I thought the GTOs came without the SLI connector though. I'm certain the first models didn't have one - I got sent one (which I RMA'd as not bring what I ordered and got a full GT in replacement at no extra cost).

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: rockstar
I actually did read this entire thread before buying my A8N-SLI. I expected some issues, but my experience has been great. I avoided some problems by reading ahead. I think many people jump on the "grass is always greener" bandwagon when it comes to DFI. I can't blame them too much after another stellar AT review. But! ASUS has a solid reputation to uphold and I believe the bios will be enhanced and fixed. I also understand that overclocking is not a guaranteed/supported feature. I came from a DFI Lan Party UT250GB. I was frustrated with their bios support. Every bios released for that board was beta. The latest official bios for that board is from 8/27/03, the initial release (still)! Its not a perfect bios either. Luckily, there were tons of helpful DFI users and there were some beta bioses that actually worked ok. Anyway, I don't mean to bash DFI, but I choose not to buy their products anymore. I think ASUS will deliver. They have already released several updated bioses since I purchased. So sit tight people! (and let us know as soon as you find a bios that will get over the 1T barrier!)
Thanks for reading

I really hope so.

 

[iscsidude]

Two questions for anyone in the know:

1. Does the new Plextor PX-716SA firmware upgrade address the A8N-SLI compatability issues? Also, how loud is this drive? My experience with Plextor has not been a good one in terms of noise.

2. Does anyone know why the 6800 card prices have increased in the last week? I'd been waiting to buy a second eVGA 6800 Ultra, but the price went up $50 this week alone. They had been consistently going down for the last month and then this.

Thanks in advance.

 

[SkyBum]

Originally posted by: iscsidude
Does the new Plextor PX-716SA firmware upgrade address the A8N-SLI compatability issues?

I just updated my PX 716 SA Firmware to 1.04 and am still having SERIOUS issues. I just posted a thread to CD Freaks a couple of minutes ago, here's a cut/paste of the problems im having:

I've been unable to get the 716 SA to work at ALL with my A8N-SLI.

-The drive passed a self test A-OK.
-Inserting any written disc into the drive results in a Windows lock up immediately after spin-up (have not tested with a blank disc aside from self test).
-Booting with a disc in the drive results in a Windows lock-up immediately after the Windows load screen.
-Setting the boot device priority to CD-Rom in Bios allows me to boot from my Windows installation CD with the drive.
-Device manager recognizes the device and reports it as functioning correctly.
-I was able to succesfully update the Plextor firmware to 1.04 but this seemed to have no effect with regard to the problem.
-Same issues when running the drive with the jumper (multiword DMA).
-Mobo bios is at 1004. The system is not overclocked in any way.

There are no other optical devices connected, the drive has been tested on all 4 sata ports (have not tried the SATA raid ports). Plextor tech. support had nothing helpful to offer beyond an OS re-install or an add-on sata card.

I've spent hours Googling this issue and while I've seen many issues regarding this drive model I did not see any info where inserting a disc was resulting in a system hang. It would seem to be a problem very specific to my system.

Sorry I can not offer any more details but anything beyond the above info is pretty much over my head. Any suggestions or ideas?

The thread is here, you might also wish to see the PX 716 SA Motherboard Compatability List Contribution thread which is also on the CD freaks site.

 

[imported_starfury6]

Friends, Romans, Countrymen...

I finally have my voltage problems sorted by the delivery of my PCP&C510 and the temp problems sorted by a much noisier fan and changing the PCI Sync to Auto from 33.3 (drops the temp of cpu by quite a bit)

1. Now I am experiencing a weird issue whereby I get no output on the monitor from a cold boot. After it gets into windows, I hit the reset switch and the output is fine, from gfx card post to windows, etc. By 'no output' I mean that monitor turns itself on, but complains that it can't display the current mode.

2. When running 3dmark05 I get the first 2 game demos, Return to Proxycon and the Firefly thing run fine but as soon as the 3rd one, the airship, cuts in I get lots of flickering all over the place. The temps aren't a problem, nothing is overclocked and it's not tearing or flashing textures so I am assuming it's a driver error. The game demo 3 must be doing something else to the 6800 Ultra GPU that the first 2 don't. I haven't seen anyone else with the problem though.

Asus SLI Deluxe Bios 1006
Dual XFX 6800 Ultra (tried various 7x.xx series currently 76.10)
PCP7C 510 SLI PSU
Dell 2001FP LCD Monitor
AMD64 FX55
Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2
Thermalright XP-120
Maxtor DM10 250GB SATA (NCQ disabled in Windows)
NEC 2500A DVDRW

Thanks in advance for the reply.

 

[steamnputer]

Originally posted by: starfury6
Friends, Romans, Countrymen...

I finally have my voltage problems sorted by the delivery of my PCP&C510 and the temp problems sorted by a much noisier fan and changing the PCI Sync to Auto from 33.3 (drops the temp of cpu by quite a bit)

1. Now I am experiencing a weird issue whereby I get no output on the monitor from a cold boot. After it gets into windows, I hit the reset switch and the output is fine, from gfx card post to windows, etc. By 'no output' I mean that monitor turns itself on, but complains that it can't display the current mode.

2. When running 3dmark05 I get the first 2 game demos, Return to Proxycon and the Firefly thing run fine but as soon as the 3rd one, the airship, cuts in I get lots of flickering all over the place. The temps aren't a problem, nothing is overclocked and it's not tearing or flashing textures so I am assuming it's a driver error. The game demo 3 must be doing something else to the 6800 Ultra GPU that the first 2 don't. I haven't seen anyone else with the problem though.

Asus SLI Deluxe Bios 1006
Dual XFX 6800 Ultra (tried various 7x.xx series currently 76.10)
PCP7C 510 SLI PSU
Dell 2001FP LCD Monitor
AMD64 FX55
Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2
Thermalright XP-120
Maxtor DM10 250GB SATA (NCQ disabled in Windows)
NEC 2500A DVDRW

Thanks in advance for the reply.

your first issue may be that you have the monitor plugged into the wrong card port I(i.e. try the other card) exepericenced a simliar thing and thought I had fried something becuase I could navigate through the BIOS but when XP loaded I lost all visual.

The second thing might actually be the monitor but I have not heard of that specific problem. I was going to get a new LCD over 17" inch but then found out that the anything over 17" causes problems please look here and see if it helps.....

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1492908&enterthread=y
and here is a another
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1540129&enterthread=y

i did see your model specifally listed good luck

steamnputer

 

[imported_starfury6]

Thanks for the links steam, I'll have a read. as for being plugged into the wrong port, it's currently plugged into the top card port one (dual DVI cards) and I have dualview disabled. That's correct isn't it?

 

[steamnputer]

Originally posted by: starfury6
Thanks for the links steam, I'll have a read. as for being plugged into the wrong port, it's currently plugged into the top card port one (dual DVI cards) and I have dualview disabled. That's correct isn't it?

yeah it should be the top port, you have SLI enabled in the bios, on the card and in windows? as far as your cards goes I can't help but yes you should have dual outputs off, not that i even have the option(grumble moan grumble) SLI disables dual outs. I did see somewhere about using an EGA adaptor in those threads or not to use it, i forgot, on my end I still have a good ol 19 CRT so I don't have any of these problems.

 

[vlad4]

Originally posted by: starfury6

1. Now I am experiencing a weird issue whereby I get no output on the monitor from a cold boot. After it gets into windows, I hit the reset switch and the output is fine, from gfx card post to windows, etc. By 'no output' I mean that monitor turns itself on, but complains that it can't display the current mode.

I purchased a Dell 2001FP and it worked fine for 45 days, (after 30 days you can't get it refunded). The main issues I ran into were no display during post, which made it impossible to edit the BIOS. This was only when connected to the DVI port of the monitor, when connected to the SVGA port it was fine. There's quite a number of folks that had this issue, (hopefully the link will work if not search Dell forums for 2001FP Problem). The only way to get into the BIOS was to connent the analog adapter to my 6800 Ultra and then use the SVGA analog connection to the monitor.

This happened with a Gainward 5200, a Gainward 5900 GS, a BFG 6800 Ultra and a Gainward 6800 Ultra GS. Dell tried to tell me that it was only nVidia cards that were affected and a video card BIOS issue, but there were folks with ATI cards that had the same issue. Of the three replacement monitors that Dell shipped me, two had the same problem and one just plain did not work no matter what.

The only solution that worked for me was to keep calling Dell and I asked to change to a NEC LCD2080UX+BK and pay the difference. Which they reluctantly did.

 

[obald1]

Originally posted by: mlc

Question regarding the A8N-SLI Dlx Mobo and a TT Venus HSF:

regarding your first question:
I'm not familiar with that particular fan... but I do have another older TT model on a machine I built a few years back.. so I think you have a few options on the connections...
1) option 1 would be to connect the 3pin connector directly to the CPU FAN header as it sounds like you did.. This allows the fan to run full blast @ 5000 rpms, etc. Using this scenario, you'd want to probably enable QFAN via the bios to allow the mobo/QFAN to control your rpms based on the boards CPU temp readings.
2) Option 2 .. you can connect a controller to manually select your speed.. fairly straightforward , but requires manual intervention
3) option 3.. you can connect the provide cpu temp probe.. and let the fan monitor/control its rpms based on temp readings.. This option probably makes use of the 3pin (1wire) connector you referred to , with the 1 wire doing nothing more than sending the rpm reading to your board via the cpu fan header... for monitoring by ASUS probe or whatever else you use...

There is probably another variation to option 1 that comes with some sort of 4pin molex to 3pin adapter to allow you to use the molex connectors off your PSU rather than have to use the header on the board. Some prefer not using the mobo headers to power the fan.. as it takes some load off the board... especially if using higher rpm fans such as this one ...

In any case... I would check their website for clarification on the connections as my memory is vague on this... You can certainly buy another heatsink/fan option.. but I would hold off until you have this one working probably so you can better judge the noise .. and cooling capabilities at lower rpms... I would try option 1 first, and enable QFAN and see how that suits you

mlc:

I worked it out. I bought an extra 3-wire fan lead / connector, clipped the 2 connectors coming from the TT Venus 12 HSF (one yellow, and one with red/black leads), and spliced into the new lead / connector pair. Plugged into the CPU Fan header on the mobo, and presto, Cool n Quiet works. Unfortunately, it only has 2 gears for the HSF: 2250 RPM (silent) and > 5000 RPM (deafening) while Dooming.

I'm going to get a Zalman or Thermalright, and turn off Cool n Quiet. Thanks for the help!

 

[iscsidude]

Originally posted by: SkyBum

Originally posted by: iscsidude
Does the new Plextor PX-716SA firmware upgrade address the A8N-SLI compatability issues?

I just updated my PX 716 SA Firmware to 1.04 and am still having SERIOUS issues. I just posted a thread to CD Freaks a couple of minutes ago, here's a cut/paste of the problems im having:

disc into the drive results in a Windows lock up immediately after spin

I've been unable to get the 716 SA to work at ALL with my A8N-SLI.

Wow! Glad I asked. Thanks for the reply and I sure won't be buying a PX-716 until this is addressed.

I <cough> backup lots of DVD's and I think I'll be sticking with the NEC 3520's for the near term.

I see CDRINFO rates the Plextor very highly on DVD-R writing and was therefore considering one.

Based on your response, I'll sit tight until I hear there is a resolution to this problem.

Thanks!

 

[SNIa]

I had some problems with my A8N-SLI Deluxe, I was origonally thinking it was my powersupply as I was getting BSOD machine check exceptions. So, I unpluged a 300 GIG drive I have, and the BSOD went away. Thinking it was the powersupply, I got an external PSU pluged it in to the drive... still BSOD's. Last thing I checked was CABLE SELECT, I turned that off, and set the drive to master... BSOD's gone, it wasn't my powersupply.

It is the only drive I had on my PRI PATA channel. My other drives are SATA, DVDRW (Plextor) and Hard Drive (Raptor)

 

[iscsidude]

Originally posted by: steamnputer

Originally posted by: starfury6
Friends, Romans, Countrymen...

The second thing might actually be the monitor but I have not heard of that specific problem. I was going to get a new LCD over 17" inch but then found out that the anything over 17" causes problems please look here and see if it helps.....

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1492908&enterthread=y
and here is a another
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1540129&enterthread=y

i did see your model specifally listed good luck

steamnputer

Steamputer,
I'm currently using dual Samsung monitors 21 and 26 inch. DVI to the 21" and VGA to the 26" LCD. (The 26" gives me my TV signal on split screen in my home office. I'm not having any issues. Also, I'm not SLI at this time. Having read your links, I doubt I will go to SLI until this is fixed. Thanks.

 

[Thorsson]

Originally posted by: SNIa
I had some problems with my A8N-SLI Deluxe, I was origonally thinking it was my powersupply as I was getting BSOD machine check exceptions. So, I unpluged a 300 GIG drive I have, and the BSOD went away. Thinking it was the powersupply, I got an external PSU pluged it in to the drive... still BSOD's. Last thing I checked was CABLE SELECT, I turned that off, and set the drive to master... BSOD's gone, it wasn't my powersupply.

It is the only drive I had on my PRI PATA channel. My other drives are SATA, DVDRW (Plextor) and Hard Drive (Raptor)

Cable Select only works with the correct PATA cable, and I think sometimes not even then. Setting jumpers to master/slave always works.

 

[AnimalAsteroid]

I have been reading where some of you are having problems with the Plextor PX-716 with the A8N-SLI. I have been using the PX-716 (look at my sig) since I built my system over the Xmas holidays with 0 (zero) problems. Works flawlesly. Worked great with the original driver installed (don't remember the version), upgraded to 1.04 soon as it came out and still have no problems.

As for LCD displays over 17" not working with the A8N- SLI, I've been running dual Sony 23" DVI monitors since day 1 with absolutely no problems. System hasn't even had a hiccup.

I've built 7 (seven) A8N-SLI systems for friends & co-workers using the same components as in my sig and these systems are all running flawlesly.

I would suggest that you try hardware before you believe everything you read in forums and make decisions based on that. Because someone that you don't know tells you something on a forum deosn't make that truth. I know people don't want to waste $$ on hardware that may not work, but I believe that most QUALITY hardware will work if you do your part. Granted some cheap/off-brand stuff may give you problems but if you do your part quality parts should work. I think most of the problems you are reading about are posted by people who have no idea what they are doing. They may genuinely be having problems, but these problems are caused by them, not the hardware.

 

[imported_starfury6]

Originally posted by: vlad4
I purchased a Dell 2001FP and it worked fine for 45 days, (after 30 days you can't get it refunded). The main issues I ran into were no display during post, which made it impossible to edit the BIOS. This was only when connected to the DVI port of the monitor, when connected to the SVGA port it was fine. There's quite a number of folks that had this issue, (hopefully the link will work if not search Dell forums for 2001FP Problem). The only way to get into the BIOS was to connent the analog adapter to my 6800 Ultra and then use the SVGA analog connection to the monitor.

This happened with a Gainward 5200, a Gainward 5900 GS, a BFG 6800 Ultra and a Gainward 6800 Ultra GS. Dell tried to tell me that it was only nVidia cards that were affected and a video card BIOS issue, but there were folks with ATI cards that had the same issue. Of the three replacement monitors that Dell shipped me, two had the same problem and one just plain did not work no matter what.

The only solution that worked for me was to keep calling Dell and I asked to change to a NEC LCD2080UX+BK and pay the difference. Which they reluctantly did.

Not cheering me up here.... Thanks for the info vlad. Definitely seems to be a monitor issue...

 

[dhanson865]

Originally posted by: tmchow

UPDATE: I just got off the phone with the Asus Tier 2 tech support and they didn't really have anything meaningful to tell me other than that it's "probably driver related". The tech also suggested that my PSU must be 28A to support PCI-express graphics card (I'm only using a single PCIe card, not SLI). I'm using a seasonic super tornado 400W, which is rated for 28A @ 3.3V, 30A @ 5.0V and 22A @ 12V. Is this amperage insufficient? Based on my configuration and accoridng to my read of the manual, 400W with 22A @ 12V should be plenty.

You can have sufficient Amps and be low on Voltage for the +12V rail.

I'm not using the tuner card you have but I can vouch for the Seasonic Super Tornado 400W being sufficient for a 3000+ CPU, 6600 vid, 2x CD, 5 80mm case fans, etcetera. Under full load it gets into the 11.8x range on the +12V rail. Not anything to brag about but definately within Spec. It ran at 12.00 on the +12V rail when I had a lesser Athlon XP SDRAM MB in the system.

I'm guessing that ASUS support is tired of dealing with cheap PS issues and is upping the verbal spec to compensate for people trying to scrape the bottom of the physical requirements.

Before I up this system to an SLI setup I'm going to most likely purchase a Seasonic S12 that has 30-36v on the +12v rails (S12 is dual rail) but assuming you are still above 11.80 on the +12v under load I wouldn't be looking at the PS as the prime suspect.

Please also consider that many of the BIOS updates for this board have changed the resume behaviour. It was changed again in the 1006 release BIOS and that might help your issue.

 

[steamnputer]

Originally posted by: iscsidude

Originally posted by: steamnputer

Originally posted by: starfury6
Friends, Romans, Countrymen...

The second thing might actually be the monitor but I have not heard of that specific problem. I was going to get a new LCD over 17" inch but then found out that the anything over 17" causes problems please look here and see if it helps.....

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1492908&enterthread=y
and here is a another
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1540129&enterthread=y

i did see your model specifally listed good luck

steamnputer

Steamputer,
I'm currently using dual Samsung monitors 21 and 26 inch. DVI to the 21" and VGA to the 26" LCD. (The 26" gives me my TV signal on split screen in my home office. I'm not having any issues. Also, I'm not SLI at this time. Having read your links, I doubt I will go to SLI until this is fixed. Thanks.

SLI from what i understand will not be dual outs or at least one on each card, if some of the high end cards support dual outs or different stlyes of outs(2 on each card) I could not tell you. The way I understand SLI working is that it divides the load between the two cards reducing overhead on both but it no longer alows dual outs(by no means am I an expert on this) as a price kinda like cool and quiet or A.I.N.O.S. you can't have both. The reason I said that I don't want to get a LCD is that I will be mostly gaming and several people have run into problems on 17"> LCD flat panels i believe in native resolution which what? 1900x1200 or what ever, more so that they don't work real well at higher resolutions and cause odd effects seemingly based on slow refresh rates. Some folks may have no issuses based on how they use there monitor, my best guess is that there are certain monitors that don't work well or are setup incorrectly. The point begin that were issuses far more severe that I wished to tackle and since I had perfectly good dell 19"CRT I still use it. Please understand I am only trying to help with information that is at best incomplete and most likely out of date. I was just trying to point starfury6 in the right direction and by no means does that mean that <17"lcd dvi's don't work, as he even stated it was running fine until he ran 3dmark and stated that I had not heard of that problem specifily.

steamnputer

 

[steamnputer]

Originally posted by: AnimalAsteroid

As for LCD displays over 17" not working with the A8N- SLI, I've been running dual Sony 23" DVI monitors since day 1 with absolutely no problems. System hasn't even had a hiccup.

read above post,

[/quote]I've built 7 (seven) A8N-SLI systems for friends & co-workers using the same components as in my sig and these systems are all running flawlesly.

I would suggest that you try hardware before you believe everything you read in forums and make decisions based on that. Because someone that you don't know tells you something on a forum deosn't make that truth. I know people don't want to waste $$ on hardware that may not work, but I believe that most QUALITY hardware will work if you do your part. Granted some cheap/off-brand stuff may give you problems but if you do your part quality parts should work. I think most of the problems you are reading about are posted by people who have no idea what they are doing. They may genuinely be having problems, but these problems are caused by them, not the hardware.[/quote]

I would define DELL as qualtiy, if you have the rather funny belief that the more you pay for something the better quality it is I would like to sell you a jaguar. Now it would be foolish to discount that you do normally get better quality parts if you pay a premuim, but to do it because of a name when the same product may be made by several manufacters(at the same plant and I challenge you to find parts not made in Taiwain or China) is in my eyes foolish. Also I agree that you should not try and make a race car with junkyard parts but some have to make do with what they have. Now the problem is how do you determine what is quality, I would agree you can't trust everything you read, I ended up with a 35 dollar usb blue led hutch lamp(keyboard), and just read a raving review about that particular keyboard after I already purchased it(in the end I bought a 45 dollar saitek gamers keyboard and I must say it rocks other then the lack of shortcut keys). If you think that everyone is an "expert" on this post I would say that you are wasting your time reading it. I myself consider my knowledge average at best, I don't build sytems daily, I don't run IT or Is systems for a living. But i would appreciate the help from those who do and not be lectured on how I should have not done this that or the other thing. Just an average Joe trying to keep his puter running(hopefully faster and faster) and help anyone I can along the way who have made the same or similar mistakes.

Steamnputer

 

[AnimalAsteroid]

I'm not trying to argue about this or say that I'm better than anyone. Not trying to lecture either. Just telling those that care to read this forum my personal experiences with a couple components people are saying that are known not to work. I have tried some components that do not work also, these parts are on the shelf waiting for me to figure out what to do with them.

As for Jag's, I personally don't like them, but I have 1 friend who has one and thinks it's the best car she has ever owned - go figure!

 

[tmchow]

Originally posted by: dhanson865
You can have sufficient Amps and be low on Voltage for the +12V rail.

I'm not using the tuner card you have but I can vouch for the Seasonic Super Tornado 400W being sufficient for a 3000+ CPU, 6600 vid, 2x CD, 5 80mm case fans, etcetera. Under full load it gets into the 11.8x range on the +12V rail. Not anything to brag about but definately within Spec. It ran at 12.00 on the +12V rail when I had a lesser Athlon XP SDRAM MB in the system.

I'm guessing that ASUS support is tired of dealing with cheap PS issues and is upping the verbal spec to compensate for people trying to scrape the bottom of the physical requirements.

Before I up this system to an SLI setup I'm going to most likely purchase a Seasonic S12 that has 30-36v on the +12v rails (S12 is dual rail) but assuming you are still above 11.80 on the +12v under load I wouldn't be looking at the PS as the prime suspect.

Please also consider that many of the BIOS updates for this board have changed the resume behaviour. It was changed again in the 1006 release BIOS and that might help your issue.

Thansk for the info.. I have the motherboard sent out for RMA so i shoudl get a replacement next week sometime. From what I recall, I was getting 11.75V on the 12V rail.. is that sufficient? This is what the bios is reporting. But again, I'll have to put the system back together to be sure.

Since you are running way more components that I am, but are getting 11.8V, is this a quality issue with this power supply? in other words, would a replacement give me more Voltage on the 12v rail?

 

[dhanson865]

Originally posted by: tmchow

Originally posted by: dhanson865
You can have sufficient Amps and be low on Voltage for the +12V rail.

I'm not using the tuner card you have but I can vouch for the Seasonic Super Tornado 400W being sufficient for a 3000+ CPU, 6600 vid, 2x CD, 5 80mm case fans, etcetera. Under full load it gets into the 11.8x range on the +12V rail. Not anything to brag about but definately within Spec. It ran at 12.00 on the +12V rail when I had a lesser Athlon XP SDRAM MB in the system.

I'm guessing that ASUS support is tired of dealing with cheap PS issues and is upping the verbal spec to compensate for people trying to scrape the bottom of the physical requirements.

Before I up this system to an SLI setup I'm going to most likely purchase a Seasonic S12 that has 30-36v on the +12v rails (S12 is dual rail) but assuming you are still above 11.80 on the +12v under load I wouldn't be looking at the PS as the prime suspect.

Please also consider that many of the BIOS updates for this board have changed the resume behaviour. It was changed again in the 1006 release BIOS and that might help your issue.

Thansk for the info.. I have the motherboard sent out for RMA so i shoudl get a replacement next week sometime. From what I recall, I was getting 11.75V on the 12V rail.. is that sufficient? This is what the bios is reporting. But again, I'll have to put the system back together to be sure.

Since you are running way more components that I am, but are getting 11.8V, is this a quality issue with this power supply? in other words, would a replacement give me more Voltage on the 12v rail?

Dunno, Seasonic isn't going to want to replace it so long as you are above 11.6V as the ATX 2.x spec allows for 5% under or over.

I'm also running that PC at stock speeds (no overclocking) so the voltage usage is at the minimum I could possibly make it without cutting case fans.

I'm forcing 1T and DDR400 on the memory but leaving everything else in the memory section to auto. More importantly for you I'm forcing the PCI clock to 33.3 even though I'm not overclocking.

There is a section of the bios called Jumper free configuration. I set the overlock profile to manual, the PCI clock Sync to 33.33Mhz. I should probably think to take my digital camera over there and take pics of the BIOS settings one of these days.

I have taken a list of suggested settings from two other sites and merged their recommendations with my needs and made my own list of settings. I have a print out by the computer, but it is at my dads house. I'll probably upgrade one of the PCs in my apt to a A8N-SLI later after the new CPUs come out next month (with hopes of a coresponding price decrease).

The more I think about it, the more I think even an expensive 400w PS is a bare minimum for this MB. I paid almost $90 for that PS and I'm now wanting an even more expensive PS.

 

[bob661]

I finally was able to install my Asus SLI board. I've been waiting for a video card to buy for two months now. Shipping bios is 1002 and the chipset rev is A3. I left the bios version alone. I want to see if there's any hiccups with it. I won't be overclocking for now. Maybe I'll try it in a few months. The install went flawless. I used my previous Windows image so that part went quickly and without any problems. I will be keeping the OEM chipset cooler. I can't hear it at all. There's no rattling or whine like some of the people were saying in previous posts. I ran an open source benchmark called COSBI. That ran flawlessly and my score was higher than before. I also played about 3 hours of UT2004 with some settings turned up and it ran great too. I am very happy with this board.

 

[runestone]

bob, glad your rig is running well, and thanks for the link to the benchmark prog.