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A7N8X question --- Updated - PLEASE HELP!

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compudog

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I did scan through the official A7N8X thread. I couldn't find the answer.

New A7N8X deluxe, XP2800+ Barton, Seagate Cuda 60 gig, 2 optical drives.

No OS installed yet. Boots up, goes to Verifying DMI pool data and just hangs there forever. I did reset the BIOS. This is my third A7N8X dlx board, didn't have this with the first one. Any ideas?

Thanks.
 
Board has the 1002.A bios. Changed the UDMA 100 cable and checked other connections. The board (Asus POST reporter) says "Completed Power On Self Test" and "Now booting from operating system" and that's it. It just sits there. I reseated the memory as well. What to try next?
 
Bump ^

Created a set of XP boot floppies. The computer will start to boot to floppy one of the six disk set and then reboot. Over and over and over. Any ideas at all????


Please>>>!?!?!?!?!
 
First thing comes to mind is improper FSB speed. Make sure you FSB jumper is set correctly.

2nd is bad RAM. Try using some different RAM.

3rd is bad processor cache.
 
I had the same problem... only thing that fixed it was a reformat... I don't think Windows XP liked me switching motherboards on it.
 
I will try some different RAM later tonight. FSB settings are correct for Barton CPU (166 FSB mult @ 12.5) can't imagine the processor cache is bad, but anything is possible (if it's the mobo or CPU I will be very pissed!) :disgust:

I wish I could get an OS loaded on this thing, I'd love to finish it up. It's a new home PC for the owner of the company I work for, you know, the guy that signs my pay check. Don't want to upset him!!!!!😱😱😱
 
it sounds to me like the winxp files you have are corrupt. if the cd wouldn't boot then you coppied the files to the floppies and they don't work eigther it soulds like the xp files are corrupt. is it xp home or pro? i had a problem similar to this when i loaded home on my moms computer so i got a pro disk and it worked great.
 
The thing isn't overheating in any way is it? You did remember to remove that little plastic strip that covers the thermal paste on the hsf, right?

I have seen that cause more problems that it is worth and you don't think of it yourself.

Otherwise, I would guess bad ram or a bad IDE cable, had one of those once. Took me quite a while to figure that one out. The middle connector was shot, the end would work fine.
 
Originally posted by: snidy1
Originally posted by: compudog Oh, also set BIOS boot sequence, Floppy, HD0, Optical. I have the WinXP CD in CD drive.
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Have your CD boot first
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It will boot to the media, it just will not install windows. I am going to flash the BIOS to 1003 now. We'll see what happens.

BTW, I tried different RAM, etc. I am beginning to think the board will be getting RMA'd. Temps are fine, and I did remove the TIM strip from the HSF. If I RMA the board I will also be getting a fresh supply of AS3. For the record, this is probably my 200th PC build and my third A7N8X. I have an A7V-133, an A7N266-E and an A7N8X all running right now. This is the first Asus board in recent memory that I've had trouble with.
 
Great. The AWDFLASH utility, built into BIOS doesn't work. The computer has been "Programming Flash Memory" for 15 minutes now. What do I do now??? If I kill the power and use AWDFLASH utility from floppy, will that work? Or am I screwed with this board?
 
The 1.x series and 2.0 boards are mutually exclusive as far as BIOSes go... are you using the right BIOS flavor for your board's PCB revision?
 
OK, the 1003 BIOS is correct for my board rev, and I was able to recover from the wacky flash. The BIOS I got from the Asus site is bad as AWDFLASH says "The file size does not match!" So I am still with the 1002.A BIOS, which should work, but still doesn't. I think I will just order a new board now. Maybe an 8RDA3+. I'm disgusted.


My board is a Revision 1.06 and the BIOS I downloaded is for that board rev. Naturally, I can't download from the USA site, but the Global, Europe and China all work fine. Why is it that Asus, who is supposed to have this wonderful reputation, has such crappy web site performance??? Grrr.
 
"Verifying DMI pool data" - 2 optical drives? Probably cannot determine w/c drives is master/slave.

Remove one of the optical drives for now to install OS. Also check the settings for the drives, master for the HD and slave for the optical/CD-ROM/DVD-Rom drive.

More info here or here.
 
I started the RMA process and have ordered another board (MSI K7N2G.) Thanks for all the suggestions and advice!
 
I had a similar problem with the A7N8X. RMA'd the board, and hope to get another soon. It really is a great board if you can get it to work. 🙂 You CAN use AWDFLASH from floppy, but sometimes you need to DL the BIOS from another source than the USA link. Mine wouldn't even boot from a boot disk. But all the hardware would work find with a different motherboard. ( the old one ). Anyway, I'd love to hear if someone figured out what this was.. just a bad motherboard, or bad users.. 🙂
 
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