"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
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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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