A7N8X rev 1.0x and Barton 3200+

[live4spd]

I'm having an issue with my Asus board. I was using a slower Athlon XP processor and decided to upgrade to a 3200XP. The bios was previously flashed some time ago to 1007 so I should have the latest release. I installed the processor, it recognized and worked for about 5 minutes and the computer froze up. I've reset the bios etc, I can get the mainboard to come up in it's "safe" mode but as soon as you go into the bios and save it won't boot up anymore.

I've now tried both processors, 3 sticks of RAM individually, plus another stick of crucial 2700 with the original processor and it will no longer fire up at all. All I get is the Asus reporter saying "system failed memory test"

Heres all the hardware I've tried and tested...

Athlon 1700XP
Athlon Barton 2500XP
Athlon Barton 3200XP
3x Corsair PC3200LL 512MB
1x Crucial PC2700
ATI 9100 128MB Video

Anything else I should try before I get a new mainboard?

 

[JBT]

Have you tried each indivudial ram in different slots it could just be one of the dimm slots? If you have then I would say the board is dead...

 

[live4spd]

Update...

I figured out a couple things. Reason it wouldn't boot anymore is I had the clr cmos jumper the wrong way. D'Oh!

Also after hanging the Mainboard into "system failed memory test" you have to use a different DIMM to "start" the system again.

After all I that I got it to work with 1 corsair PC 3200LL dimm. Anymore then that it's unusable. So what's with this board? do I have do upgrade to a 2.0rev board to get stable performance at 400Mhz?

 

[Fokks]

Short answer... yes.

 

[live4spd]

Ok anyone else care to give some advice. I now have a spanking new A7N8X-E Deluxe mainboard with the 3200XP that doesn't work.

The memory is definately not bad, I've checked one at a time with memtest.