*** Official ASUS K8V/DELUXE (K8T800) Thread ***

[Algere]

Originally posted by: Snark42
I'm really pleased with this mobo (K8V Deluxe SE). I have my RAM running stabile at 2-3-2-5 and everything seems to be working great except one tiny thing. When I boot up it says that "BIOS is not installed", but then it boots fine into Windows XP Pro. What could be the problem? When I run CPU-Z it says that I'm using "American Megatrends Inc. version 1001.005". So why does it say I don't have BIOS installed when I boot up? any help is appreciated

It's the Promise controller

When nothing is connected to the controller i.e. hard drive(s) it'll report that. Just disable the Promise controller in the BIOS to get rid of it.

 

[neokenzo]

Okay I am having problems with my memory again. I have set 2:1 DDR400 in BIOS but when I open CPU-Z its onl showing 225Mhz at 1:1. Is this because I am overclocking?

 

[THELAIR]

ARGH....

I hate being an early adopter... I PRE ORDERED and got it the day it came out, and this board of course has the 0333 capacitors. I even just had one blow on me... and now my system is seriously fuck3d...

time to get the MSI board...

I'm in Japan so its hard to RMA to my local mom n pop store back in Canada.

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[THELAIR]

POSTED WAY BACK JUST AFTER XMAS:


http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1212208&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=arc
12/24/2003 11:05 AM


Hey guys,

Setup is as follows
Asus K8V Deluxe 1004 BIOS (latest)
Athlon64 3000+ (stock OEM HS/F)
Corsair 512MB XMS PC3200 Low Latency DDR CL2 w/ Platinum Heatspreader (CMX512-3200LLPT)
ATI AiW 9600 Pro latest catalyst drivers etc
2x WD Raptor's in RAID 0 on VIA SATA raid controller
1x WD 250GB SATA on Promise SATA raid controller (not in raid mode)
Plextor 8x DVD burner
SB Audigy 2 ZS
Win XP SP1
default bios settings, nothing overclocked. Disabled onboard audio.

According to the Asus manual, with 2 dims, whether they be single or dual sided (how the hell can i tell??) the memory chips should be occupying DIMS 1 and 2 (of the 3). I have done that.

However i am still experiencing intermittent blue screen of death physical memory dumps.

It's quite odd, I can go a few days playing games, and everything is fine, then reboot for whatever reason, and blam winXP loads into a blue screen.

The latest issue happened when I applied some further Windows XP updates, now I can not get windows XP to load one way or another, even safe mode. Loading last known good configuration also failed, making me think its still somehow hardware related.

What is wrong? Is it my RAM? Faulty motherboard?

I experienced physical memory dumps on both the 1002 bios and 1004 bios.

any insight appreciated.

I hate the feeling of an untrustyworthy, unstable system.



That was 3 months ago :| Never have I been so pissed off with a motherboard. If this was an ECS due to "cheap capacitors" fine, id accept that, but not on ASUS' flagship motherboard :|

AVOID AVOID AVOID

 

[Snark42]

I can understand why you're so upset, I'd be pretty pissed off if that happened to me. But the problem was with the bad capacitors, and it was only a tiny batch of which the "shelved units" have been recalled (last time I heard). This was the very first time that I built a computer (or even done anything with a motherboard. I found it fairly ewasy to do after reading this entire topic and other on GameFAQs.com and I have everything up and running just great. I know you've lost a lot of respect/trust for ASUS and their products, but if you'd be willing to give this motherboard another chance, I think you'll be happier in the end (happty with board, and happy that you once again trust ASUS). That sounds kind of odd, but ASUS does make good quality products (and at least there are brave enough to own up to a mistake like this, some companies wouldn't). I have the ASUS K8V Deluxe SE.

If you do end up getting this board again then I suggest you get the K8V Deluxe SE version because it has a WIFI port (card not included). You could then buy a decent WIFI card and pop it in. This makes a lot of sense for where you live because Tokyo is high density when it comes to people/space. WIFI internet is like cell phone "bubbles" (area of support) excpet that it's in the ealy stages, so there aren't a ton out there, but since you're living in tokyo, it'll catch on faster and you'll very quickly get complete WIFI "bubble" support.

 

[Algere]

Originally posted by: neokenzo
Okay I am having problems with my memory again. I have set 2:1 DDR400 in BIOS but when I open CPU-Z its onl showing 225Mhz at 1:1. Is this because I am overclocking?

Probably cause of turbo mode?


EDIT: 450 MHz DDR sounds like a overclock to me.

 

[neokenzo]

Originally posted by: Algere

Originally posted by: neokenzo
Okay I am having problems with my memory again. I have set 2:1 DDR400 in BIOS but when I open CPU-Z its onl showing 225Mhz at 1:1. Is this because I am overclocking?

Probably cause of turbo mode?


EDIT: 450 MHz DDR sounds like a overclock to me.

Nope its at Standard Performance Mode. I am overclocking the rig a bit but I still cant understand why its coming up as 1:1 when BIOS says its 2:1.

 

[Algere]

Anything else changed from default other than memory timings?

 

[kvik]

My bios keeps resetting!

Hi, I purchased a k8v deluxe yesterday.. Everything were running fine, and I was playing far cry all night..
But when I turned it on today when I got home from work, the bios was reset.
I checked the jumper, and its set to Normal (so it should not clear!)

I played a bit with it, turned off, took power off etc, and the bios is definately resetting every time the board has no power.

From experience, I know it could've been a dead battery, but the battery is working in another computer..

Does anyone have a clue of what might cause it?

My setup:

AMD Athlon 64 3400+
Asus K8V Deluxe (rev 1.12 with bios 1.05)
2x512Mb Corsair TwinX PC4000 XMS Pro
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256Mb with arctic-cooler cooling
160Gb Maxtor Plus9 IDE133
Pioneer DVR107D 8x dvd-rw
Chill-Innovation 350W PSU (performs around 340W)

Thanks in advance

 

[THELAIR]

Yah that was an emotional post of mine lol! Im curious what will happen to my raid array if i switch motherboards though. Will I loose my windows install on my raid 0 array on my raptors if i change motherboard, even to an asus k8v deluxe SE?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: THELAIR
Yah that was an emotional post of mine lol! Im curious what will happen to my raid array if i switch motherboards though. Will I loose my windows install on my raid 0 array on my raptors if i change motherboard, even to an asus k8v deluxe SE?

I guaran-fvcking-tee it!!! I changed memory and my RAID array took a dump.

On the plus side I've been running Prime 95 for 22+ hours with 0 errors and 0 warnings. I've been up for almost 4 days now on this reformat and reinstall of Windows XP Pro.

Of course I haven't had the system off for more than a few seconds while rebooting during that time. I don't trust it as far as I could throw it. I have a second install of XP on an IDE drive in this system just waiting for the moment my system doesn't see the RAID array on boot up.

I also e-mailed ASUS last Thursday with my problem. I have yet to hear from them. GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE ASUS!!! YOU SUCK!!!

 

[THELAIR]

well do i buy a new asus k8v deluxe SE and try my luck again or just say Fck it and get the MSI... hmm hmmm

 

[THELAIR]

I AM A MORON... SOMEONE PLESE SHOOT ME AND PUT ME OUT OF MY MISSERY...


I just walked out of one of hte largest electronic stores in Akihabara, the largest electronics district in the world and picked up another K8V Deluxe board (i decided to try one last time, plus they didnt have the MSI in stock)

Guess what?

NO VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I put everything back together fine, and im having the same friggen issues that everyone else has on this forum about no video when it starts up.

At first i thought "okay, i had bad capacitors, ill try one last time"

no fvcking way...

LAST ASUS MOTHERBOARD FOR A VERY LONG TIME.

This K8V series has serious flaws

 

[Woodie]

I AM A MORON... SOMEONE PLESE SHOOT ME AND PUT ME OUT OF MY MISSERY...

sic

LOL! Yes, you are. For you: BANG! Now it's your turn.

Wish I had seen this thread before I bought my "highly recommended" Asus board. I should have bought another MSI...I like the one I had, despite people dumping on me because it was IGP, and it was pretty damn stable!

 

[Caminetto]

I certainly feel the pain of those who have systems that are having problems. I have had quite a few motherboards and quite a few were flakey as hell. I have had just 4 Asus boards and each was perfect. I presently have the K8V and it has been perfect. If you take a look at Anandtech or other technical web site's recommendation for the AMD 64, you will find the K8V at or near the top. Why do you think that is? A big payoff from Asus? If you search this forum you will find haters of MSI, claiming that they never had one that worked right or that these boards die after a year or so. And the same holds true for any motherboard. I also see some system builders who refuse to supply adequite power for their system, fail to check for recommended ram, and who I suspect never bothered opening their manual. I am no huge Asus fan, in fact their technical support sucks, but I can tell you that if you want stability, Asus is hard to beat.

K8V
A64 3200+
2 512 Kingmax PC3200
120GB Sata
60GB Pata
Plextor 708A DVD burner
Lite-on CD burner
9800pro
ENERMAX Noisetaker 470W PSU
5 case fans

 

[THELAIR]

Here is my update.

Returned the 2nd K8V to the store I bought it. Only to find out that they dont do exchanges or refunds. Told them the video issue. They didnt believe me, they even had the gall to say to me in broken english "Toms Hardware say OK"... (kill me now)

Anyways, I got quite loud and agitated and told them i wasnt leaving till I exchanged this Asus motherboard for the MSI (Which they now had in stock) i said ill take a store credit for the difference, and long story short I got the MSI.

Now for the really fun part.

After swapping out the K8V and throwing in the K8T guess what?

She booted up like there was no tommorow. First power on. Ohhh what a beautiful sight.

Since they use the same Raid controllers the bios detected my pre existing raid setup and it loaded right into my previous WinXP setup!

I'll probably end up formatting and reinstalling but at least now i have a fully functional system.

So my question is... what was so bad with my system that the asus board wouldnt start? Oohh im sorry i should rephrase that...what is wrong wtih the K8V that makes it so that it doesnt work wtih a fairly standard system.

Who knows.

Anyways im happy now that I have a functioning system.

Next is the fight to RMA this k8v back to Asus.

GO MSI!!

 

[Algere]

Originally posted by: THELAIR
they even had the gall to say to me in broken english "Toms Hardware say OK"...

LOL

cause we all know Tom is always right

 

[JulesMaximus]

Yeah, I haven't had any issues yet (since reloading Windows that is) on my RAID array with the "approved" Kingston memory. It hasn't been quite a week though and I have started shutting it down at night also. I think the longest I got out of it before was 1 week with the Corsair memory. It obviously has something to do with the memory and the RAID controller on the motherboard though because everything ran fine on an IDE drive for over a month.

It definitely isn't the power supply - I'm running a new Antec True 430W. It also isn't heat related (I ran Prime95 for 22 hours and saw a max of 51 degrees on the cpu-idle is always 40 or 41 degrees) or because I didn't set it up properly. I've built many systems and never run into this kind of instability before. I'll be very hesitant to buy another ASUS board after this though.

BTW-I'm officially at 1 week since I submitted my request for support with no follow up from ASUS (I don't consider an auto reply message saying they received my request and had assigned my case to a tech person as a reply).

 

[THELAIR]

Hi end name brand memory like corsair in my opinion isnt 'crap' RAM. The ASUS board should have been able to handle it fine, just like how my MSI is handling my same ram and same raid controller wti the same hard drives on it.

Ahh well...

I guess when I get my K8V RMA'd and returned, ill just use some IDE drives on it and stay away from the RAID... and use kingston ram

 

[TracyG]

Scallion, did you ever get that error clered up?

"Chassis intruded !
Fatal Error...System halted."

I had the same messge after resetting my CMOS. There is a jumper located on the lower center of the mb in the general vaciniy of the USB2 connections. If you resett this you should be OK.

 

[TracyG]

Can someone tell me where to check for the recalled K8V? Something about bad capacitors...where do I look and what is the number I am looking for?

I am having an issue wih video as well.

I get error "Sysem failed VGA" when first booting up. If I hit the reset I am ok, but have to do this everytime I start up.

I am using Radeon 9700 Pro with K8V deluxe. Asus manual mentions issue between the two on page 2-18. PN on Radion 9700 or 9500 pro needs to be xxx-xxxxx-30 or higher. Why would this be?

Any thoughts?

 

[Algere]

http://www.asus.com/support/faq/qanda.aspx?KB_ID=85257

 

[TracyG]

Thank you Algere I will check that on my mb today. Hope it is not the issue for me, other than the VGA error no problems so far that I can fault ASUS.

 

[Anything2]

I have had no problems at all with this board with a 3000+, 2x512mb PC3200 Hynix chip. Guess im just lucky, but the onboard audio is causing me problems. The center/lfe outputis the wrong way around (center to LFE, LFE to center) the windows volume panel swap lfe/center doesnt work. Anyone know if there is a Soundmax util or sumthin to swap over the channels.

 

[JCali]

I just built the following system and it seems to be running well:

AMD 64 3400+
Asus K8V deluxe SE
Corsair DDR TwinX1024-3200LLPT 2X512MB
ATI Radeon 9800XT
WD SATA 160MB harddrive

The only problem is when booting the computer, there is about a 30 sec delay after it finishes detecting the harddrives and before it starts loading windows. It is annoying - anyone have any ideas?