I've had a replacement motherboard, CPU and memory, but it will not boot fully with a XP2600+ (Barton core) 166 Mhz x 11.5, 3200 DDR memory, however, with a XP2200+ (133 Mhz x ?) and it runs fine, at 133 Mhz all is fine, at 166 Mhz, it's bad. I have the latest BIOS (Rev 1001) installed, but that didn't make a difference. I wonder if anyone has one of these boards running with XP2600+ or faster. I should have heeded the advice and stayed away from Asus, my previous Asus boards over some years were trouble free. I would also like to know the experiences of anyone with a board from another manufacturer with similar stats, ethernet (10/100/1000), audio, USB 2.0, firewire and SATA, so I can get it changed. BTW, with the XP2200+, everything on the board is funtional, though I haven't used SATA, firewire or 1000 ethernet. Currently running SuSE 9.0 Pro with kernel.org 2.6.6-rc1. I couldn't install 9.0 Pro with the 2600+ in, it kept giving errors on installing packages. I've done a check on http://mp3.zonebg.com/cpu/cpu.php and the CPU is genuine. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
On Sunday 18 April 2004 08:51, Sid Boyce wrote:
I've had a replacement motherboard, CPU and memory, but it will not boot fully with a XP2600+ (Barton core) 166 Mhz x 11.5, 3200 DDR memory, however, with a XP2200+ (133 Mhz x ?) and it runs fine, at 133 Mhz all is fine, at 166 Mhz, it's bad. I have the latest BIOS (Rev 1001) installed, but that didn't make a difference. I wonder if anyone has one of these boards running with XP2600+ or faster. I should have heeded the advice and stayed away from Asus, my previous Asus boards over some years were trouble free. I would also like to know the experiences of anyone with a board from another manufacturer with similar stats, ethernet (10/100/1000), audio, USB 2.0, firewire and SATA, so I can get it changed. BTW, with the XP2200+, everything on the board is funtional, though I haven't used SATA, firewire or 1000 ethernet. Currently running SuSE 9.0 Pro with kernel.org 2.6.6-rc1. I couldn't install 9.0 Pro with the 2600+ in, it kept giving errors on installing packages. I've done a check on http://mp3.zonebg.com/cpu/cpu.php and the CPU is genuine. Regards Sid.
I'll weigh in here with a bit of personal experience. I built a system based on the A7nX-vm/400 board. In no way could I install SuSE9.0 on this while W98SE went on first try. Albeit, Win98 ran flaky. With much digging on google groups and elsewhere I discovered that this board, and all A7NX variants are extremely memory sensitive. Only the best will do. Three different types of generic RAM failed to allow an install of SuSE, only when I paid to upgrade the RAM to high quality Kensington did I get a stable system. BTW, My install errors were MD5 and other copy type errors. My CPU is an XP2500+ too. You may wish to look into this as a possible source of trouble. Tim
Tim Erickson wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2004 08:51, Sid Boyce wrote:
I've had a replacement motherboard, CPU and memory, but it will not boot fully with a XP2600+ (Barton core) 166 Mhz x 11.5, 3200 DDR memory, however, with a XP2200+ (133 Mhz x ?) and it runs fine, at 133 Mhz all is fine, at 166 Mhz, it's bad. I have the latest BIOS (Rev 1001) installed, but that didn't make a difference. I wonder if anyone has one of these boards running with XP2600+ or faster. I should have heeded the advice and stayed away from Asus, my previous Asus boards over some years were trouble free. I would also like to know the experiences of anyone with a board from another manufacturer with similar stats, ethernet (10/100/1000), audio, USB 2.0, firewire and SATA, so I can get it changed. BTW, with the XP2200+, everything on the board is funtional, though I haven't used SATA, firewire or 1000 ethernet. Currently running SuSE 9.0 Pro with kernel.org 2.6.6-rc1. I couldn't install 9.0 Pro with the 2600+ in, it kept giving errors on installing packages. I've done a check on http://mp3.zonebg.com/cpu/cpu.php and the CPU is genuine. Regards Sid.
I'll weigh in here with a bit of personal experience. I built a system based on the A7nX-vm/400 board. In no way could I install SuSE9.0 on this while W98SE went on first try. Albeit, Win98 ran flaky.
With much digging on google groups and elsewhere I discovered that this board, and all A7NX variants are extremely memory sensitive. Only the best will do. Three different types of generic RAM failed to allow an install of SuSE, only when I paid to upgrade the RAM to high quality Kensington did I get a stable system.
BTW, My install errors were MD5 and other copy type errors. My CPU is an XP2500+ too.
You may wish to look into this as a possible source of trouble.
Tim
The memory is not Kingston memory, so that is a possibility. I just put the 2600+ into an A7V333 with DDR2100 memory and it failed the same way as on the A7N8X-E. I think I shall try to get some Kingston memory and see if it works. Thanks and Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
Sid Boyce wrote:
The memory is not Kingston memory, so that is a possibility. I just put the 2600+ into an A7V333 with DDR2100 memory and it failed the same way as on the A7N8X-E. I think I shall try to get some Kingston memory and see if it works.
Before assuming the memory is at fault you should try raising memory voltage. Some boards just won't work with "standard" memory voltage. For this reason, you also may wish to consider a high quality power supply if you are using the one that came with your case. -- "Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others..." 1 Peter 4:10 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
Felix Miata wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
The memory is not Kingston memory, so that is a possibility. I just put the 2600+ into an A7V333 with DDR2100 memory and it failed the same way as on the A7N8X-E. I think I shall try to get some Kingston memory and see if it works.
Before assuming the memory is at fault you should try raising memory voltage. Some boards just won't work with "standard" memory voltage. For this reason, you also may wish to consider a high quality power supply if you are using the one that came with your case.
O'k my turn. I have two Asus A7n8x mobos wboth running M$ XP with one a dual boot Sus 9.0 Pro. The first with the AMD 2600+ was extremely memory sensitive and failed repeatedly till I upgraded the memory. The second the Linux box with the XP 3000 was equally troublesome till I bought Corsair! In my case I also had troubles with an XFX FX 5700 vid card until I downgraded it to an Asus TI4200. After I switched vids it installe fairly ho hum but later lost connectivity. I still have problems with a lost connection but that is another thread and no one has been able to give any advice. Donald correll
Donald Correll wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
The memory is not Kingston memory, so that is a possibility. I just put the 2600+ into an A7V333 with DDR2100 memory and it failed the same way as on the A7N8X-E. I think I shall try to get some Kingston memory and see if it works.
Before assuming the memory is at fault you should try raising memory voltage. Some boards just won't work with "standard" memory voltage. For this reason, you also may wish to consider a high quality power supply if you are using the one that came with your case.
O'k my turn. I have two Asus A7n8x mobos wboth running M$ XP with one a dual boot Sus 9.0 Pro. The first with the AMD 2600+ was extremely memory sensitive and failed repeatedly till I upgraded the memory. The second the Linux box with the XP 3000 was equally troublesome till I bought Corsair! In my case I also had troubles with an XFX FX 5700 vid card until I downgraded it to an Asus TI4200. After I switched vids it installe fairly ho hum but later lost connectivity. I still have problems with a lost connection but that is another thread and no one has been able to give any advice. Donald correll
Hmmmmmmmmm..... I shall try to get different memory, after that I'm going Gigabyte on the motherboard. On the ethernet side, I'm using the reversed engineered nvidia driver "forcedeth" part of kernel 2.6.x, running 2.6.6-rc1 currently and it's stable at least with a 2200+. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
Felix Miata wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
The memory is not Kingston memory, so that is a possibility. I just put the 2600+ into an A7V333 with DDR2100 memory and it failed the same way as on the A7N8X-E. I think I shall try to get some Kingston memory and see if it works.
Before assuming the memory is at fault you should try raising memory voltage. Some boards just won't work with "standard" memory voltage. For this reason, you also may wish to consider a high quality power supply if you are using the one that came with your case.
Thanks, I shall have a look at the memory voltage, my power supply is a 400 watter specifically bought for the reasons you mention. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
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Donald Correll
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