Did you try to download 1009 BIOS again and make a USB key bootable to flash this BIOS?
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Did you try to download 1009 BIOS again and make a USB key bootable to flash this BIOS?
I did a couple of times. The flash utility did not want to read the original ROM name unless it was A8N32SLI.ROM. The USB stick was made to be bootable with the neccessary files :(
It's too late now as I wrote here :(
Thank you for posting that in there forums, pleasssseeee get back to me soon if you get any results or give me a link to the thread so i wont have to bother you :D. As for the ram, you have the same set as me???Quote:
Originally Posted by Cisco
just got my board the other day and it came with 0903. should i get 1009? is it better
anybody?
Yeah I have the very same ram. Over at the OCZ support forums there was a discusion just today about what this RAM can do. OCZ itself won't vouch for this RAM doing more than ~225.Quote:
Originally Posted by $JG Money$
Someone just did a review of these sticks on a lanparty ultra D and got it going stable @ 260 2.5-3-3-7 using 2.75v http://hardwarelogic.com/?a=1079&c=60&sp=1
Here's the discusion about that at the OCZ memory OC forum: http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17355
My quick & dirty 1:1 OC of it to 250 was with much looser timings 3-4-4-8 but it was stable enough to do 3DMark '05 and run games all night.
I'll be checking it out more this coming weekend to see if I can get stable with the better timings.
Just got the board up and running.Seems stable so far.Made a super pi run 32meg@26min38sec.
3700 san diego@2800
Swiftech watercooled
1gig xms 3200
6800gt
Ben805: I have just bought an A8N32-SLI and a Thermaltake Big Typhoon. Reading the installation instructions for the Heatsink it says that for Metal backplates not to take it off and to just use screws to mount the TTBT to the mobo. Looking at your pics it appears you took it off and used the TTBT mounting H bracket at the back and the longer bolts? Just want to make sure I install it properly so your guidance is greatly appreciated ;)
Don't want to speak for Ben805, but IIRC Ben's has removed his IHS so he chose to use thumbscrews so he could tighten each simultaneously and not put too much stress on one side of the naked core. I have a TTBT and with the A8N32 all I had to do was remove the retaining mechanism from the front of the motherboard (the black plastic square around the CPU socket), leave the standard Asus backplate in place, and using the two shorter mounting screws provided just put them through the H bracket and screw them into the threaded holes that will be sticking up through the mobo from the backplate. With the back plate Asus provides you could almost install the BT without removing the mobo from the case if you can get a screw driver in there at the angle it needs to be to clear the aluminum fins.Quote:
Originally Posted by ubern00b
I've had this mobo for almost 2 months now and after some instability I decided to run Prime/3dMark together again and after the 6th hour or so the system just shuts down. Happened twice so far. Temps are definitely fine. I'm lowering my CPU voltage and speed 50mhz and running this again.
Anyone else have a similar problem?
I Just bought a A8N32 SLI Deluxe, and i have a 2 x 512 Patriot XBLK , and a XFX 7800GT.
It's my first time with a bios like this one.... and i cant understand very well this settings.
Can anyone help me to say what settings do i need to change in Bios to overclock my AMD X2 3800+ ?
BTW...i cant boot with RAID 0....doesnt have the option in F10 (nvraid utility) to boot from RAID...its in grey.
I Have the 1009 Bios.
What is you NB to SB/pclink frequencies? If you are OCing you need to turn them down to 3 or 2 depending on how high you go. Take you FSBxHTT and it needs to be around or less than 1000. I had the same problem when I was running it at 4X Auto 4X 16UP. My htt is at 268 so 4x gives me 1072 which will boot/run prime but fail 3dmarks. Dropped to 3x Auto 3x 16 and all is fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deus Excalibur
I like the board so dont give up. I an run as high as 370HTT if I want to and it is more stable than my Old A8V after I got it all tweaked. GL
I CANT SET THE OPTION "[B] SET BOOT" IN THE NVRAID BIOS !! ITS GRAYED !!! anyone know why ??..i already tested everthing with no sucess... dont know what to do now...
Make sure you are plugged into the 1 and 2 Nvidia SATA ports that are the topmost and side by side. Under IDE Configuration set: Serial ATA 1 enabled. set nVidia Raid function to enabled and then enable SATA1 Controller. That should do it. Hit F10 when it detects the drives and set up your configuration. GLQuote:
Originally Posted by Brave
Already did that.....
Im using RAID 0 for ages !!! in other Asus boards.
This one...doesnt enable the option SET BOOT. I cant boot from my RAID 0...
Are your drives being seen in the main IDE config as the 4th, 5th or 6th drives? Make sure they are set to enabled as well. I had some trouble with powersupply to my drives at one point. Try just the drives being plugged in and DC anything else you can to rule that out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brave
Do you have the Nvidia raid driver installed? When you say boot you mean getting into the config utility right? You know you will not be able to boot windows off a raid that does not have the right controller driver in the INF's?
This is not a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brave
You should be able to boot from your RAID.
The bootable option is dissabled by default because it auto detects the BIOS setting, so you do not need to set it by pressing F10.
If you cannot boot then you should check your memory.
In my case with Ballistics DDR500 I had to increase the volts above 2.7.
This is because with the new BIOS' dividers my memory is at 250 MHz when I am not overclocked.
Check your BIOS settings and enable 32bit transfer rate on each hard disk on the RAID.
Did you also set the BIOS boot options to boot from your RAID?
Then you need a floppy disk or a usb key with the OEM RAID Nvidia drivers v6.82 and your original Windows XP SP2 CDROM.
You set to boot from CDROM with the RAID0 as second boot device and you should press F6 to load the drivers the first time you install Windows.
I have a bootable RAID0 with 1009 BIOS and it is OK.
Had my first real scare with this board last night.
After pushing the memory timings/fsb too far ( 2-2-2-5, 310x9) I got the 'bad bios checksum' error.
Usually the board would just give me the option to f1 - setup or f2 - restore defaults. This time however it searched for floppy and then when no floppy found, the CD and kept searching continuosly. Not panicing at this stage I thought I would just reset the cmos (battery method) - same error reported. Slightly concerned now I tried the jumper method, still no go. Tried flashing back to the original bios (703) that came on the mobo CD and it got so far as erasing the bios then started to program the bios but stalled halfway through!!!!!!!:eek:
In a serious state of panic now I had no option but to hard reset (even though the bios is now wiped and manual says this should not be done??). Rebooted ok (after a tense few seconds) but still got the checksum error.
My last option was to attempt to re-instal the bios that I had when things originally went wrong(1009). Did this via floppy method, worked fine, rebooted - Bad checksum error...noooooooooo!!! I did however get 5 beep error codes...hmmmm - 5 short beeps on ami bios = Processor error The system CPU has failed :(
In dispair I rebooted three more times and on the last reboot I tried just booting with a single stick of ram...single beep...all ok:woot: :banana: Replaced the other stick of ram to see if that was causing the problem(not that it should as I wasn't getting any beep error codes now and again it booted fine.
Can't for the life of me figure out why removing one stick of memory should enable the thing to boot (especially if the beep codes were correct in saying a processor error) and why the bios recovery didn't work this time round but I thought I'd let everyone here know all is not lost if you end up in the same boat as I was last night, just try everything.
Well done Ic3man.
The easiest way to clear the RTC (real time clock) when the system hangs due to CPU OC (overclock) is to shut down (press the power button for a few seconds during start up) and reboot the system. Then we need to enter BIOS and load setup default values, reboot and set the desired settings.
This only works with CPU failures. In case of memory failures we need to clear the CMOS.
The right way to clear CMOS is to unplug the power cord, remove every extra USB cable and all PCI cards (this is optional in case a USB device or PCI card mulfunctions), remove the battery, change the position of the BIOS reset jumper to 2-3 pins for a few seconds, put it back to 1-2 pins, install the battery, plug the power cord, turn on the PC, press Alt F2, insert the original ASUS CD, enter BIOS, load setup defaults.
Then you may flash another BIOS from a floppy or USB key.
This resets the BIOS. But without the Alt F2 with the original ASUS CD, the old corrupted BIOS remains.
By removing one stick the BIOS was forced to reconfigure the memory.
What is a hard reset?
...Pressing the reset button (not really 'hard' is it:D ). A soft reset is by going into windows/rebooting, at least thats how I interpret it.
As stated I tried installing the orignal bios (703) over the corrupt bios (1009) but for some reason the system just hung on 'programming'. Installing the 1009 bios over the corrupt 1009 bios is what seemed to do the trick for me.
Wish I had another way to access the net last night so you could have helped me out with that post marios, you feel so alone when times are bad with no help except the wife asking 'is it plugged in' :slapass: .
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Originally Posted by Marios
Well...im going to specify everthing that i have done.
With everthing in default in BIOS, i enabled the NVRAID, put the SATA 1 and SATA 2 as RAID ENABLE. I can see the HD Drives in the First Bios Menu. I Save and Exit. I go to the NVRAID BIOS (F10), configure the RAID0, F7 (Accept), and in the main menu of the NVRAID Bios...the option "[B] Set Boot" is grayed. ok... CTRL-X ...i exit. Im going to the Board Bios again, and put in the HARD DRIVES BOOT, i put NVIDIA STRIPE in first place. Save and Exit.
OK....everthing fine.
I put the WinXP SP2 CD, F8 to choose to boot from CD...F6 to install third part drivers. I put the Floppy.....i choose the 2 drivers, etc etc....when it copies all the files...reboot.....and.....and.....it shows a message saying, please insert a boot media...or something like that.
I already tried to put the jumpers in the Hard Drivers to Force it being in SATA1, i already put in SATA 3 and SATA 4, and SATA 1 and SATA 3...etc. I flashed the Bios with the 903 version.
And i find in Asus Forums another 2 people with the same problem.
http://vip.asus.com/forum/bbs_view.a...nt=29&recc=288
http://vip.asus.com/forum/bbs_view.a...nt=29&recc=288
I need to put this machine working as fast as possible.....i already didnt sleep nothing, trying everthing.....i need to sleep.....i need to rest... :(
Please help !!
Sure.
I cannnot even think right when something goes really wrong.
This is why we need someone else to help us in those cases.
Now I had another question about optimal BIOS configuration.
What happens when we use AiNOS 10% with auto SB to NB overclock, auto FID/VID Change (vcore and multiplier) and X5 K8 to NB?
AiNOS overclocks just the FSB on demand.
When there is no stress the CPU works at 200X11=2200MHz (FSB=200).
On demand (ie. SuperPi) the FSB overclocks up to 10% in a range from 200 to 200+10%=220.
This is 220X11=2420MHz for the CPU.
So the HTT should be 220X5=1100
The FSB label on AiBooster is actually the hypertransport in this case but it is all wrong.
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/mloupos/HTT1000.png
AiBooster reads FSB 802.41 at 200.6X11.
The real HTT reported by Everest is 1000
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/mloupos/HTT1100.png
Under stress AiBooster reads 879.96.41 at 219.99X11
The real HTT reported by Everest is 1100
AiBooster gives us false info about the HTT (marked as FSB).
In this case I have enabled both the CPU and the NB Vcore overvoltage just for testing purpposes. My PC works ok without those enabled.
Is this card, A8N32, compatible with OCZ Booster? 3,2V on the ram is not good enough for my Redlines :(
Try setting your CDrom to boot before you RAID.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brave
A few OC hints
Here I checked the SB HTT speed at 250X4=1000 and the NB HTT at 10%X5 which gives a range from 200x5=1000 to 220x5=1100 (2200Megatransfers/s)
I did not enable overvoltage on the Hypertransport.
This shows that AiBooster reports the wrong HTT and that NB and SB hypertransports can be set independently.
Though in case of an SLI rig both SB and NB Frequencies and HTTs should be the same for optimal scores.
This also helps Super Pi scores.
HTT values over 1000 are overclocked and need the overvoltage Hypertransport enabled.
A 250X4 setting for both SB and NB is the best setting.
We may use the proper "FSB multiplier" for our CPU by setting AI Overclocking and the FID/VID Change to manual.
I saw better results by setting the linkwidths to 16 compared to 8 with SuperPi. Did anyone else check this?
The "HT multiplier" for the HTT
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/mloupos/chips.png
The SB to NB Frequency
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/mloupos/AiNOS.png
A double SPI with clockgen FSB and everest HTT reports on stress.
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/mloupos/HTT1100b.png