2400+ overclock / A7N8X depression

[soltrain]

I've been having an interesting time assembling my A7N8X based compter today..

Parts:
A7N8X Delux 1001.G bios
XP 2400+
256MB x2 Corsair PC3200 XMS
Volcano 9

PCI Raid Card
WD 120 x2
Audigy
430 Antec TruePower


Prior to installing, I unlocked the processor using the wire trick around the bottom of the chip.

I first put the RAM, proc, and the Videocard on the motherboard and tried to boot it out of the box. No POST. No dice. But it was all good -- this was expected, and I reset the CMOS and booted again, POSTed, set up the bios and BAM! I was able to get it going at a nice 10.5 * 200 synched @ 5 2 2 2. The temp was only 40, I could read all the fan speeds, No problems.

Happily, I assembled the rest of the computer, eagerly awating benchmarking. However, when I booted it up again, I got the dreaded "Warning!! CPU is overclock!" error. 3 Hours later, here I am, trying to get it even up to stock speeds. It seems that it will now only go at either 864, or 933 or 1162 no matter what settings I'm using.

Did I jostle the processor while installing the rest of the stuff? Do I need to up the voltage? (I tried, it didn't help) Why would it work then and not now? Any ideas how I can get back to original?

 

[Rage7dfx]

NO ITS THE DAMN BETA BIOS WE GETTING HOPE ASUS GETS TAIL STRAIGHT & GET AS A GOOD BIOS LIKE ABIT & EPOX ARE DOING NO MORE BETAS HOW DARE U BLAME THIS ON AMD LOL

maby u dont want to flash the bios try this but i recomend u flash it . on the main page of the bios where u see hold on : all error but keyboards change to hold :no error or something like that dont want to restart my lol =) the work for me when i use the same bios but it only work ones upon new restart got the same thing after 15 min i was done with it lol just flash the damn thing to 1001.c lol much stable + it actully overclocks

flash your bios to 1001.C 2002/11/01 A7N8X BIOS 1001.C thats there best bios

click here program use to flash bios from windows latest version from asus & here the 1001.c bios just click on USA both extract bios with winzip then open bios update do bios update form file tell where it is u done make sure u extract it



and anyone else that reads this stay away from asus Nforce 2 until they get a good working bios every bios they release all beta 1 month 1 working bios 2 that suck lol . just read then with sandra or wcpu31a or asus own flashing programs lol hope they get a good one out until then stay with 1001.c

for more info on asus and problem with there BETA bios and problems that other user having go here

PS in the german asus site says 1001G final but in fact ist the same 1001G beta bios on the US site OH and stay away from the 1001E they both suck



post back your overclock my is happy @ 2341 hoping to hit 2400MHZ 15 x 156 oh and lower multi use wire trick or l3 brige asus only unlock 13 + so they say =)
good luck



PS make sure u install asus sound drivers from the CD i dont Know what the F#@$ asus did we cant use the Nvidia sound drivers lol or u wont have sound and if u force lol but the rest of there driver pack will install justthe sound drivers have to extract it from the CD lol good luck damn its almost 3:AM


Before i got put something on title to help others the read this i know other people having the same problem stop doing RMA lol people i heard people doing RMA because of the problems.

 

[soltrain]

thanks for the help. Donno why ASUS shipped mine with the "beta" G bios, but I'll down-flash it to C and see what happens.

 

[Rage7dfx]

all are beta bios just there best is 1001.c lol

 

[soltrain]

Fixed it!

I flashed to C and the board no longer gives funny proc settings.

I'm now running at 180*11.5. Ram is at 5:2:2:2