Asus A7N8X deluxe bios fix bobyjo, AI read!

[eviltechie]

for those who owns an A7N8X deluxe and has experienced with unstable bios or anything weird

one solution is said to change the lithium battery!
:biggrin:

read this
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4633

[accurateimage]

yeah did that long ago, helped a little bit but not totally, the 1002 final bios helped the most with the unstable bios :)

[eviltechie]

do none deluxe have problems too?

[accurateimage]

They are just a tad unstable after overclocked... well they are rock stable actually, just everytime you fully shut down the pc and then turn it back on you have to enter the bios and hit escape twice and save the settings and exit. If you click to reboot it you will not loose the settings. Just a pain the the rear by asus. No biggie, the positives far ourweight the negs by 1000x to 1 on this baby :) I would not trade it for the world!

[eviltechie]

so does the battery and new 1002 bios fixes that so that will not happen?

[accurateimage]

The battery fixed my bios from loosing settings all together. I tested my original batt at 2.7V or so.. the new batt I bought for $1.98 at frys reads 3.2V last time I checked :) The 1002 final bios helped solved the bios from reverting back to 100mhz fsb default everytime I rebooted, now it only does it when I completly shut the system down and have to hit the power to turn it back on. Jst rebooting it does notloose anything. Kinda goofy but man besides that little quirk this board is amazing.

[eviltechie]

there are still problems?

the bios still reverts to 100 fsb when u shut it down completely and turn it on?
i thought u said final bios fixed it?

[accurateimage]

it fixed it from doing that when you reboot. Also the pc does not goof at all period unless the chip is overclocked heavily.

[eviltechie]

just a reboot or a total shutdown and turn on?

[accurateimage]

Rebooting from windows = perfectly ok
Full shut down then restart = still goofs, have to enter bios for a split second, hit escape twice and then enter and it is fine and see's the original settings.

[eviltechie]

does it only happen when OC?

thats such a pain...
how do other NForce2 boards perform compared to Asus A7N8X?
such as soltek's?

[accurateimage]

The asus seems to be the hot ticket, the only other one I see in the headlines that I concidered was the abit board. The abit board seems to be more stable at over 200mhz fsb but the asus seems to have more features all around. From the last pole I read the asus is the most desired board.

[eviltechie]

on that nforcershq.com
it seems epox is popular also

btw
i read this in their forum

try disabling ur SATA

if it is already disabled, maybe enable it
some ppl are having stranges solutions because of this
lol

[accurateimage]

I disabled mine, did nothing but let it boot a few seconds quicker.

[eviltechie]

how much percentage of A7N8X users experience this problem?
does it occur on every deluxe or both none deluxe and deluxe?

[eviltechie]

yo AI, have u tried the 1002 Uber Bios?

boby said he has no problems at all with that
but does the problem only occur when you OC?

[BobyJo]

I checked the voltage on the board I have and the new board I had received from NewEgg. Both were a tad over 3volts. So I left them alone. I have had no problems with either in this area. I decided to use the Uber1002 bios. That seems to work very well.

[accurateimage]

The prob only happens when I overclock, and yes I used the uber bios but some features of it do nothing like the chipset voltage. I use the 1002 final, been the best so far out of the 6 I have tried :)

[eviltechie]

hmm i see
well my friend is having some problems with his epox and radeon 9700 pro

so both do have some problems for some people

nforce2 seems like the hot hot chip at the moment
but quality control isnt there yet...


btw he got a week 303 and can get to 2400 no problems
about 33c with my globalwin cak-38 that i sold him
hehe

[I-Can-D]

I got my board and i have problems trying to overclock it, my CPU isn't unlocked but does that mean i cant down the multiplier so i can up the FSB, every time i try that i just get the speech reporter telling me it failed to overclock, other than that the board runs fine especially playing UT2003 but the only thing is my 3dMark2001 SE results at about 12500 are considerably lower than that of accurateimage's. What settings have u got ure mobo running at?

[eviltechie]

which week of 2100 b is yours?

[I-Can-D]

was that question for me? what does it mean?

[eviltechie]

yes its for you

well first of all is it a tbred core or palomino

second if it is a tbred, which version A or B

third of all, which week of production if second answer is B?

[I-Can-D]

the cpu is a piece of poo palamino :cry: , which is the likely cause of my inability to overclock, i have managed to get FSB up to 145 stable but thats nothing in comparison to the FSB that i've seen other people getting, is it worth gettin the CPU unlocked or save the hassle and buy a better CPU?

[eviltechie]

the Palominos are not easy to over clock
they are usually locked
that 2100 plus that AI has is thoroughbred and a very crazy overclocking processor

and I am about to buy one to

[I-Can-D]

Man i thought they stopped producing palominos so i went and bought one expecting them all to be thoroughbreds but i got a nasty old one. the prices are about the same here in the UK £75 for the 2100+ pally and thbread. I wish i had of invested my money more wisely, at least the computer works better than my previous 1. a PII 400 lol. Have fun with ure new tb. :wavey:

[eviltechie]

lol
yeah its a bit tricky
thats why i prefer buying localy from ppl who i know so i can ask them to find out which week of tbred and so on

i think there are still some 248's left around...
im checking with a guy in toronto...

[eviltechie]

oh btw AI

smogee got a local chip
week 303

can hit 2600 but he needs better ram than 3200
3500 would be more sufficient

i have a problem now
not sure if i should get 2 sticks of 256mb PC3500 right away and dual or 1 stick of 512mb then add 1 more 512 later on to run dual later

i would hope to get to 1GB in the future but would never need 1.5GB
not sure if 768mb will be sufficient in the future either

[accurateimage]

Hey wanted to include that since I have done the v-mod I have had no problem at all with the bios loosing it's settings! I am not sure how that works out but it has not happened once to me on a shut down, power up or a reset!

[eviltechie]

woh
thats nice!

so maybe the problems all originated from the northbridge?
seems like nForce2 is good performance wise but most of the hardware problems havent been solved yet as it is too "advanced" for mobo makers...
lol

my epox is doing ok right now

[accurateimage]

After the vmod I would not trade my board for anything else on the market.. I was thinking about going with abit or possible the epox were my only other conciderations, but after the mod this board is insane stable! And with the upgraded copper coller on the north side it still runs just a tad warm to the touch.