What board works with 4400+ dual core processor

[Perryg114]

Well I have been struggling with the A8N-SLI premium motherboard and have decided that it is not worth the trouble. Should I ditch the AMD processor and go with another motherboard or just replace both of them. I have already spent over $200 on new memory for the A8N-SLI premium which was a waste of time and money. Are there any boards out there that will run the new AMD dual core processors that actually work? Does ASUS have another board that will work? Not sure weather to RMA the board or what. Seems like all of these A8N-SLI premium are a POS. Never had one problem with Intel CPU based boards.

Perry

 

[hausdave]

I have an Epox Ultra that works superbly and is cost effective also.

Have you considered BIOS updates or are you already well beyond that?

 

[Perryg114]

I have heard the BIOS updates make the problem worse.

Perry

 

[onioneater36]

I have an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ dual core and I love my system. The board you have should work, though. What is the problem? What memory do you have? Can you put a few more system specs out there?

 

[onioneater36]

In my experience, BIOS updates usually don't make the problems worse, they usually make them different.

 

[Perryg114]

Here is a thread a started describing the problem.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=29&threadid=1815857

Perry

 

[renethx]

Locking up problem is often seen in NF4 boards with dual-core processors. For example, ECS nforce4a-939 locking up like crazy, Semi-convinced - nForce4 chipset problem - LONG, and now ASUS AN8-SLI. This problem never occurs with GeForce 6150 boards. My recommendation is sell the NF4 board and GeForce 6200 TC and buy a GeForce 6150 board.

 

[Perryg114]

ANybody have any suggestions for the best motherboard for the 4400+ dual processor chip. I am at a loss as to what to do next. It seems that all the boards I have read about have problems with dual processors. I just want something that will work unlike the A8N-SLI premium motherboard that I have. Is it the Invidia SLI chipset or the ASUS motherboard. I am ready to scrap the chip and the motherboard if I can't find a decent replacement to run this chip. It seems that from reading reviews on Newegg that the AMD chips have more problems than the Intel Chips. I don't need to overclock I just want a reliable stable machine or is that even possible with this processor.

Perry

 

[Topweasel]

Originally posted by: Perryg114
ANybody have any suggestions for the best motherboard for the 4400+ dual processor chip. I am at a loss as to what to do next. It seems that all the boards I have read about have problems with dual processors. I just want something that will work unlike the A8N-SLI premium motherboard that I have. Is it the Invidia SLI chipset or the ASUS motherboard. I am ready to scrap the chip and the motherboard if I can't find a decent replacement to run this chip. It seems that from reading reviews on Newegg that the AMD chips have more problems than the Intel Chips. I don't need to overclock I just want a reliable stable machine or is that even possible with this processor.

Perry

Perry,

I have the same board as you, I also owned the Deluxe version, and Ran boths for months at a time without issue. I have the same CPU as well.

One thing to make sure is if your using 4 sticks of memory use the T2 setting, infact you might want to anyways.

Update to the latest chipset drivers, I recommend not installing Firewall or IDE drivers if you don't have to.

Update to the latest Bios. Asus Is a well known and respected Mobo manufacturer, they even make alot of the intel branded boards. They don't create new bioses for no reason, trust me if their was an iherent issue these more recents bioses are made to take care of them.

You may have a bad board but but A.) Don't think that this means their is an inherent issue with AMD based boards their isn't B.) I can understand that you might not want to buy Asus motherboards in the future but remember Asus is the biggest mb maker in the world, and they accomplished this by creating well performing, stable, workstation like quality boards. One failure even one of my own will not change that. C.) If you don't need SLI then the 6150 based boards are recommened. I would Look at this MSI 6150

But Like I said, don't consider this a mar against AMD, its not, and I wouldn't let this keep you from Asus products in the Future. I do recommend you send the board in for repairs though.

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: onioneater36
In my experience, BIOS updates usually don't make the problems worse, they usually make them different.

QFT

OP: A 4400 and the mb in my sig have worked flawlessly. The only problem, if it can be truly called a problem, is that DFI mb's reguire a bit of tweaking to function at their best. "AUTO" will get you stable performance, but if you want it to scream you have to play with it.

 

[Captante]

I have an Asus A8N-E currently running rock-solid with an Opteron 170 & before I jumped to PCIe, my MSI Neo 2 Platinum worked fine with it too.... I think you either have a bad motherboard or somthing is configured incorrectly in your system.

 

[Perryg114]

It looks like all the crashes have corrupted windows so I am doing a repair to see if this fixes the problem or at least gets me to where I can boot the machine and run diagnostics. I am running 2 1G sticks of Corsair RAM TWINX2048-3200C2PRO. What is this T2 setting?

Perry

Originally posted by: Topweasel

Originally posted by: Perryg114
ANybody have any suggestions for the best motherboard for the 4400+ dual processor chip. I am at a loss as to what to do next. It seems that all the boards I have read about have problems with dual processors. I just want something that will work unlike the A8N-SLI premium motherboard that I have. Is it the Invidia SLI chipset or the ASUS motherboard. I am ready to scrap the chip and the motherboard if I can't find a decent replacement to run this chip. It seems that from reading reviews on Newegg that the AMD chips have more problems than the Intel Chips. I don't need to overclock I just want a reliable stable machine or is that even possible with this processor.

Perry

Perry,

I have the same board as you, I also owned the Deluxe version, and Ran boths for months at a time without issue. I have the same CPU as well.

One thing to make sure is if your using 4 sticks of memory use the T2 setting, infact you might want to anyways.

Update to the latest chipset drivers, I recommend not installing Firewall or IDE drivers if you don't have to.

Update to the latest Bios. Asus Is a well known and respected Mobo manufacturer, they even make alot of the intel branded boards. They don't create new bioses for no reason, trust me if their was an iherent issue these more recents bioses are made to take care of them.

You may have a bad board but but A.) Don't think that this means their is an inherent issue with AMD based boards their isn't B.) I can understand that you might not want to buy Asus motherboards in the future but remember Asus is the biggest mb maker in the world, and they accomplished this by creating well performing, stable, workstation like quality boards. One failure even one of my own will not change that. C.) If you don't need SLI then the 6150 based boards are recommened. I would Look at this MSI 6150

But Like I said, don't consider this a mar against AMD, its not, and I wouldn't let this keep you from Asus products in the Future. I do recommend you send the board in for repairs though.

 

[Perryg114]

Ok I reflashed the BIOS to version 1009 and nothing has changed. I also reloaded windows and now it boots and seems to run ok if I leave the RAM voltage at 3V. This seems a little bit rediculous that I have to run the voltage that high to get it to remain stable with no overclock.

Perry

 

[Perryg114]

The latest in the saga. I sent the board back to ASUS and it came back the same way it left. It passes on memtest86 but locks up on prime95. Sometimes it will lock on boot. Maybe it is the processor that is bad but it always seems to lock on memory intensive tasks. Maybe I will RMA the chip to AMD next. I really don't want to trash a motherboard and chip that amount to over $500. This has taught me one thing. Never by anything AMD unless you like pain.

Perry