XP3200+ / A7N8X Deluxe Problems
 

Hi all!

Just built ny new computer for university, and im having a few problems.
Specs are as follows:

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with SLK800 HS and 35cfm fan @2.19GHz
Asus A7N8X Deluxe PCB2.0 with build 1006 bios
Corsair XMS PC3200 2x512MB TwinX (not LLPT)
HIS Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
Audigy 2 Platinum ex
Adaptec AHA2940U2W SCSI host adapter
IBM Ultrastar 36Z15 15Kr 18.6GB
Quantum Atlas 10K III 73GB
Plextor Plexwiter Premium

I set everything up, and installed a fresh copy of XP Professional, and then
downloaded and installed all the latest drivers for my hardware. There were
no major teething problems initially, but as i begun to install software and
try to use the computer I noticed some very strange things happening:
1) CRC errors on disk reads. Both the hard drives and the SCSI controller
have been used in my old system as the OS and extra hard drives with no
problems at all. The errors happen randomly, along with file corruption
notices. However, if you retry the operation then sometimes it works. Wierd.
2) Very slow installs. When I try to install some games, such as SOF2, the
install process is incredibly slow. HDD activity is low, the CD light is on
continuously, and the install goes at a snails pace. The load on the cpu is
about 2%, and the ram / pagefile are 850mb free and 12mb used. It's as if
the CD is running at 1x just to spite me - the noise from it is certainly
not very much.
3) Slowdowns like you used to get in win98 when the system runs out of ram
and gets locked in pagefile reads/writes. It happens ocasionally and
completely randomly.
I get plenty of general glitches too, like services not starting, errors in
programs etc... wierd stuff.

Any ideas?

Jason

So the A7N8X is the version 2 and officially supports 200fsb cpu's? Just
asking cos my mates A7N8X Deluxe is the nforce 2 chipset and not the Ultra
400 which does support the 200fsb cpu's.

doughnut


"Jason" wrote in message
...
Hi all!

Just built ny new computer for university, and im having a few problems.
Specs are as follows:

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with SLK800 HS and 35cfm fan @2.19GHz
Asus A7N8X Deluxe PCB2.0 with build 1006 bios
Corsair XMS PC3200 2x512MB TwinX (not LLPT)
HIS Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
Audigy 2 Platinum ex
Adaptec AHA2940U2W SCSI host adapter
IBM Ultrastar 36Z15 15Kr 18.6GB
Quantum Atlas 10K III 73GB
Plextor Plexwiter Premium

I set everything up, and installed a fresh copy of XP Professional, and
then
downloaded and installed all the latest drivers for my hardware. There
were
no major teething problems initially, but as i begun to install software
and
try to use the computer I noticed some very strange things happening:
1) CRC errors on disk reads. Both the hard drives and the SCSI controller
have been used in my old system as the OS and extra hard drives with no
problems at all. The errors happen randomly, along with file corruption
notices. However, if you retry the operation then sometimes it works.
Wierd.
2) Very slow installs. When I try to install some games, such as SOF2, the
install process is incredibly slow. HDD activity is low, the CD light is
on
continuously, and the install goes at a snails pace. The load on the cpu
is
about 2%, and the ram / pagefile are 850mb free and 12mb used. It's as if
the CD is running at 1x just to spite me - the noise from it is certainly
not very much.
3) Slowdowns like you used to get in win98 when the system runs out of ram
and gets locked in pagefile reads/writes. It happens ocasionally and
completely randomly.
I get plenty of general glitches too, like services not starting, errors
in
programs etc... wierd stuff.

Any ideas?

Jason

"Doughnut" wrote:
So the A7N8X is the version 2 and officially supports 200fsb cpu's? Just
asking cos my mates A7N8X Deluxe is the nforce 2 chipset and not the
Ultra 400 which does support the 200fsb cpu's.

doughnut

"Jason" wrote in message
...
Hi all!

Just built ny new computer for university, and im having a few
problems. Specs are as follows:

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with SLK800 HS and 35cfm fan @2.19GHz
Asus A7N8X Deluxe PCB2.0 with build 1006 bios
Corsair XMS PC3200 2x512MB TwinX (not LLPT)
HIS Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
Audigy 2 Platinum ex
Adaptec AHA2940U2W SCSI host adapter
IBM Ultrastar 36Z15 15Kr 18.6GB
Quantum Atlas 10K III 73GB
Plextor Plexwiter Premium

I set everything up, and installed a fresh copy of XP Professional, and
then
downloaded and installed all the latest drivers for my hardware. There
were
no major teething problems initially, but as i begun to install
software
and
try to use the computer I noticed some very strange things happening:
1) CRC errors on disk reads. Both the hard drives and the SCSI
controller have been used in my old system as the OS and extra hard
drives with no problems at all. The errors happen randomly, along with
file corruption notices. However, if you retry the operation then
sometimes it works.
Wierd.
2) Very slow installs. When I try to install some games, such as SOF2,
the install process is incredibly slow. HDD activity is low, the CD
light is
on
continuously, and the install goes at a snails pace. The load on the
cpu
is
about 2%, and the ram / pagefile are 850mb free and 12mb used. It's as
if the CD is running at 1x just to spite me - the noise from it is
certainly not very much.
3) Slowdowns like you used to get in win98 when the system runs out of
ram and gets locked in pagefile reads/writes. It happens ocasionally
and completely randomly.
I get plenty of general glitches too, like services not starting,
errors
in
programs etc... wierd stuff.

Any ideas?

Jason




I am using an XP 3200+ 400 fsb CPU with my A7N8X-DLX and it works perfect.
The non-deluxe model also supports 400 fsb CPU.

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I had similar problem. My registry file was getting corrupted and once a
week I had to restore the system from backup. Also copying large files and
than comparing them showed that there were differences, usually it was just
one or two bytes in 700Mb file. I exchanged MB, CPU and even the PS but
problem was bad memory module! I replaced it an now it works just fine 4
weeks already.

Artur


1) CRC errors on disk reads. Both the hard drives and the SCSI controller
have been used in my old system as the OS and extra hard drives with no
problems at all. The errors happen randomly, along with file corruption
notices. However, if you retry the operation then sometimes it works.
Wierd.

Doughnut wrote:
So the A7N8X is the version 2 and officially supports 200fsb cpu's?
Just asking cos my mates A7N8X Deluxe is the nforce 2 chipset and not
the Ultra 400 which does support the 200fsb cpu's.

Even the Rev 1.4 now supports 200 mhz FSB (and higher) now. It happened two
or three BIOS revisions ago for Asus, anyway.

Interesting what you say about bad memory... I adjusted the latencies in the
bios to the ones on the manufacturers spreadsheet and it made only a very
little difference. I have no other PC3200 RAM that I can try the computer
with... do you think i should exchange the ram for some new sticks?

Jason
"Artur Butryn" wrote in message
...
I had similar problem. My registry file was getting corrupted and once a
week I had to restore the system from backup. Also copying large files and
than comparing them showed that there were differences, usually it was
just
one or two bytes in 700Mb file. I exchanged MB, CPU and even the PS but
problem was bad memory module! I replaced it an now it works just fine 4
weeks already.

Artur


1) CRC errors on disk reads. Both the hard drives and the SCSI
controller
have been used in my old system as the OS and extra hard drives with no
problems at all. The errors happen randomly, along with file corruption
notices. However, if you retry the operation then sometimes it works.
Wierd.

you can get my revision 1.04 up to 230mhz

If you are using any form of cooling software that invokes the primary
cooling bit for the A7N8X-Deluxe, you will likely experience disk
corruption.

Jeff M.

Akvatoid wrote:
you can get my revision 1.04 up to 230mhz

Doughnut wrote:
So the A7N8X is the version 2 and officially supports 200fsb cpu's?
Just asking cos my mates A7N8X Deluxe is the nforce 2 chipset and not
the Ultra 400 which does support the 200fsb cpu's.

The option is in the BIOS he just has to dig a little.

Even the Rev 1.4 now supports 200 mhz FSB (and higher) now. It happened two
or three BIOS revisions ago for Asus, anyway.

I have the 2.0 DLX, BIOS 1003. I'm running a 2500+ at 400FSB giving me
a 3200+. Win98SE runs rock solid 24/7 and never gets above 44C.
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When your PC gives a little they give a lot.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/disco

In article ,
AJ wrote:

I have the 2.0 DLX, BIOS 1003. I'm running a 2500+ at 400FSB giving me
a 3200+. Win98SE runs rock solid 24/7 and never gets above 44C.


When you start up does it say " memory frequency is @ 200 mhz
in dual channel mode " ?

I've been trying to get mine to run @ 400 but I'm so clueless about the
bios settings, and I've heard mention of this gets doubled and that.....
I'm baffled.

Does anyone have a site which walks you through the bios, explaining
and suggesting settings ? The manual is useless to me.

Jim