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    "With issues on nForce4 starting to surface" what do you think Anand is referring to?

    " if you play an unsupported game you take a performance hit" I don't quite get that, if I play an unsupported game and create a profile so that it runs in 'single-chip' mode (non-SLI) why would it take a performance hit? Agreed on the 'financial' hit in this case obviously. Also this...
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    "With issues on nForce4 starting to surface" what do you think Anand is referring to?

    ChineseDemocracyGNR, do you have an URL for those comments? It might be late but I can't seem to find any sort of link to the comments section for the article :( Hannibal, can't remember my scores off the top of my head, but I also only have a 3500+ and with 4x512MB sticks (which run at...
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    "With issues on nForce4 starting to surface" what do you think Anand is referring to?

    well, if two generations from now one card will be a lot faster than my two cards (quite likely) I might just go for a non-SLI configuration instead: just because one chooses SLI now it doesn't mean we're stuck with it forever, if in two years I bought a GeForce 8800, say, I could just keep one...
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    "With issues on nForce4 starting to surface" what do you think Anand is referring to?

    btw, I don't think I have more money than sense ;) I 'upgrade' (as in, buy a new PC) only once every 3-4 years and I figured that investing the extra money was a way to future-proof my rig a little bit more (since for all I know it would be a lot harder to find a second identical 6800GT in the...
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    "With issues on nForce4 starting to surface" what do you think Anand is referring to?

    this quote was in the video card buying guide regarding how it would be unwise to go SLI given these 'issues'. Given that I am running an a8n-sli deluxe with 2x6800gt with no problems whatsoever (save the SI raid wanting to (slowly) rebuild every time XP crashes, which happened only once in over...
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    a8n-sli, silicon image raid in raid1 questions

    I did this twice, once it was fine (and ran fast right away) and the other it was again 'reduced', in order to fix it I switched one of the HDs to a different SI port and chose 'rebuild array' in the BIOS, after that it ran fine again (wonder why!). I have to say I got the 'reduced' only twice...
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    a8n-sli, silicon image raid in raid1 questions

    I had no idea the array was actually rebuilding itself when I had all the 'reduced' issues (didn't see Robbidoo's reply at the time), in order to get things back to normal what I did was go in the BIOS, remove the array and recreate a RAID1 array with 'immediate' data copying (not sure if it's...
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    A question for people using the Silicon Image RAID chip (on a8n-sli for example)

    I have 2x200GB HDs in RAID1 on the SI chip, and I'm wondering if anybody can help me understand a problem I've been having, as the documentation provided is fairly useless. Basically the fact is that, when XP shuts down improperly (last time it happened it was due to the IRQ_LESS_NOT_EQUAL in...
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    Sudden slow HD speed (not spyware related)

    Just wanted to report on this since after quite a while things are now working great and maybe somebody will benefit from my experience. - First of all, I was never able to get the nforce4 sata drivers to install (package problems as described above), drive was always stuck in PIO...
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    I am going nuts: enabling UDMA on my SATA hd (a8n-sli)

    just one more thing: if I have time in the future I might try to reinstall everything and put it again in raid1 on the nvraid, although I have heard about the nvraid not being as bug-free as the SI controller.
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    I am going nuts: enabling UDMA on my SATA hd (a8n-sli)

    ok, let me rephrase the situation (I hope that if anybody else is having this issue they might benefit, that's why I'm not switching to PMs). = originally my PC had 2 drives in RAID1 on the SI ports = everything was fine for 3 days, then all of a sudden everything became really slow: not...
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    I am going nuts: enabling UDMA on my SATA hd (a8n-sli)

    well, I rebooted on the 'other' SATA HD (since it was RAID1 they were the same) which was very clean and before I did all the messing with the drivers and so on and you know what, 6.39 installs *but* it still gives the 'not supported by this processor type' error message for some reason (and the...
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    I am going nuts: enabling UDMA on my SATA hd (a8n-sli)

    nvraid is/was disabled in the bios, that's why I wondered why the heck I get that message. SI raid is disabled as well. ide prefetch is enabled hds are connected to the nv sata ports, NOT the SI sata ones (they used to be in RAID1 on the SI but after it went down to 3MB/sec I figured what...
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    I am going nuts: enabling UDMA on my SATA hd (a8n-sli)

    enabling/disabling things in the BIOS has weird effects: my HD is on SATA1 and my CDROM is a master on IDE1 if I disable only IDE0 I get a 'NVidia RAID trying to find an array' screen just after the POST screen, then winnt boots but freezes (black screen) just before going in the graphical...
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    I am going nuts: enabling UDMA on my SATA hd (a8n-sli)

    I did a lot of add/removes, experimented with different nv controllers but still no dice. I have 3 controllers showing (dual channel IDE controllers, one for IDE1/2, one for SATA1/2 and one for SATA3/4 I think). My HD is on the second 'primary IDE controller' (which is SATA1), my DVD is on the...
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    Sudden slow HD speed (not spyware related)

    I am running BIOS 1002, I really don't think it should make a difference here, should it? I think it's something related to XP somehow
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    Sudden slow HD speed (not spyware related)

    yep, SP2 is installed
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    Sudden slow HD speed (not spyware related)

    actually I think the problem is that I can't install the nvidia nforce IDE drivers: I've tried installing all sorts of versions (mobo CD, asus' site, nvidia's site) and it always dies with a 'This installation package is not supported by this processor type. Contact your product vendor'...
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    I am going nuts: enabling UDMA on my SATA hd (a8n-sli)

    ok, I think I might have made some progress: if I try to upgrade the driver of the 'standard dual PCI controller' I am given the choice between the MS one and the CK804 (unsigned) NVIDIA one, HOWEVER when installing it I get an error that says 'This installation package is not supported by this...
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    I am going nuts: enabling UDMA on my SATA hd (a8n-sli)

    ok, I installed the NVIDIA PCI drivers from the mobo disk but no dice, nTune tells me that everything but the DVD-RW is set to PIO, when I go in device manager I have 9 entries for IDE controllers, 3 primary, 3 secondary and 3 'standard dual PCI IDE controllers' all using MS drivers (nothing...
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    I am going nuts: enabling UDMA on my SATA hd (a8n-sli)

    the HD is connected to the nv SATA1 port, I have installed the IDE drivers from the nvidia website (when I do an add/remove in the control panel I can see 'NVIDIA IDE driver' among the installed entries) it just seems that XP doesn't want to use them for my IDE controller for some reason, any ideas?
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    Sudden slow HD speed (not spyware related)

    HD tach gave me a transfer rate for my raid of 2 megabytes/sec! (and 30msec seek). I kind of got fed up with it and decided to just go with a single drive and just backup to the second occasionally (probably an even better idea) so I moved an HD to one of the 'normal' SATA ports and left the...
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    I am going nuts: enabling UDMA on my SATA hd (a8n-sli)

    I used to have 2x200GB in RAID1 on the silicon image controller, for some reason after a few days since I got my PC things started slowing down to a crawl: HD tach gave me a transfer rate for my raid of 2 megabytes/sec! (and 30msec seek). I kind of got fed up with it and decided to just go...
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    Sudden slow HD speed (not spyware related)

    ok, I'll post back here tomorrow with more info, fingers crossed it's the CF reader!
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    Sudden slow HD speed (not spyware related)

    will do, I wish I had run it before it slowed down though... what numbers do you think I should be seeing for my config?
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    Sudden slow HD speed (not spyware related)

    I got my new computer last w/end and all this week I've been installing a lot of things (some of my old games, some new games I bought, various utilities) and at some point my HD performance has dropped down to *maybe* 1/5-1/10th of what it was before and I have no clue about what's going on...
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    a8n-sli does not power off on XP/SP2 shutdown

    if it was an app hanging it wouldn't shut down cleanly, which it does: it shuts down and goes to the 'you can turn your system off now' screen like in win98 basically, rather than actually turning itself off as well.
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    a8n-sli does not power off on XP/SP2 shutdown

    is this normal? I have all the various ACPI options enabled in the BIOS but when I shut down my PC it does not turn off on its own (it goes to the 'it is safe to turn your computer off' screen). Can anybody point me in the right direction? thanks in advance.
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    ASUS A8N SLI + Antec True Power 430W ???

    I have dual 6800GTs with the Antec 550 20pin and it's working fine (I didn't do enough homework, otherwise I'd have bought the 24 pin version as it was only $5 more, grrr)
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    a8n-sli, silicon image raid in raid1 questions

    I finally got back my PC from the shop (new mobo, old one gave up the ghost after 2 days for some reason) and I'm wondering about something RAID related. I have two HDs in RAID-1 on the silicon image raid controller and I have two questions: = the hd activity light in my case is nearly always...
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    Asembling System with Asus A8N SLI - Tips??

    hah, replying to myself, I just called the shop and they told me they put in a new mobo but it STILL doesn't POST. I really wonder what's going on! What could be preventing a mobo from posting? the HDs? the video cards? the PSU? that's so weird!
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    it's interesting to notice that among the fixes in bios 1003 there is one that says 'force DDR333 when 4 sticks are plugged in', I wonder if for some reason 1002 tries to run them at DDR400 by 'mistake'
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    thanks, I had no idea that was the case (which FM was I supposed to read? ;) ), now I wonder: would it be best to run at DDR400 2t-2-2-2-5 in single channel or DDR333 1t-2-2-2-5 in dual channel (assuming that DDR400 won't make it in 1t, before the mobo died I had it set to 1t...
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    Asembling System with Asus A8N SLI - Tips??

    hmmmm, as soon as I get back my system from the shop (hopefully sooner rather than later, I just called and they seem to have figured out that it's a mobo issue (gee, thanks, no POST and it takes you TWO DAYS to figure that out?)) I'll check all the voice options are enabled. Also thanks for the...
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    A8n-SLI (Single channel vs Dual Channel Memory)

    before my system toasted cpu-z showed dual channel but sandra single and it gave me about 3700 (4x512 Kingston low latency sticks, running at 2-2-2-5). Looking at the asus QVL there doesn't seem to be any CL2 stick of memory which will work in a 4-sticks configuration in dual channel: had I...
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    posted this one in another thread, I do think it also belongs here: my system packed it in after 2 days of running stable: = went in the BIOS to disable 'cool'n'quiet' = save & exit = on reboot monitor stays black, mobo beeps 1 high/1 low (no voice messages) = tried a few times no dice...
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    Asembling System with Asus A8N SLI - Tips??

    "I thought that once you are up and running you should be relatively stable." it depends, my system packed it in after 2 days of running stable: = went in the BIOS to disable 'cool'n'quiet' = save & exit = on reboot monitor stays black, mobo beeps 1 high/1 low (no voice messages) =...
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    a8nsli + 2 gigs of Kingston low latency and dual channel

    I just posted this question a few hours ago: 2gb of ram does work in this board with these modules but it seems only in single channel (IIRC I'm seeing around 3600-3700 in sandra 2005, will double check tonight at home). Somebody else on the long a8n thread is running with 4x512 as well but...
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    a8nsli + 2 gigs of Kingston low latency and dual channel

    hmmm, I have tried to set them at 1t, 2-2-2-5 in the bios (as opposed to leave things on 'auto') and they run fine, all the mem memtests fine as well: I always thought dual channel was something one could not set in the bios but that was un-overrideable. [edit] it also seems other CL2 ram on...
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    a8nsli + 2 gigs of Kingston low latency and dual channel

    Hello, this is my first post here so please be gentle :) I've recently bought an a8n-sli with a 3500+ and 2 gigs of low latency kingston RAM (4x512, 2-2-2-5 KHX3200ULK2/1G). I do need 2 gigs of RAM so 4x512 or 2x1024 are my only options really. Unfortunately this memory is running only in...