- Jun 13, 2005
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Hello,
I am new to the forums and ive searched but cant find anything on it so here I go if there is something that I missed I am truely sorry:
I just built 2 days ago a pc with
Asus A8N-SLi Bios 1008
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ SD Core(Not OC'ed)
Thermaltake Venus 12 CPU Fan
1GB of Corasair Value RAM
2x 256 BFG 6800 GT
2x 80GB HDD in RAID0 on PCI Raid Controller(SIL 0680a)
SB Live! 5.1 sound card
Antec Truepower 550W
Windows XP Pro 32 bit SP2
Wew! Now Ive exasted all of my A+ knowlege and still come up with a few possibilietes on what is wrong with my system. I can run 3dMark05 for about the first demo then mid second one before if locks up. Sometimes the screen freezes on the last frame sometimes it goes to blue and green virtical lines and sometimes the screen goes black then a STOP error comes up for just about a second all I can make out before it goes off is : NF4_DISP. Ive tried on stick of RAM and then swaped it out with antother with no avail. It feels like the little silver fan in between the 2 Graphics cards is really REALLY hot. I called BFG they said to Change IRQs on the Cards to ones that are physical (0-15) they are currently on 18 and 19. Called ASUS and they said its a VGA card problem talk to BFG. I cant figure out what is wrong with it my system. Another thing that really leads me to believe that it is the MOBO is that when trying to install XP on the NVRAID controller it never would get past the splash screen. So I installed my old IDE RAID controller and it gets past the splash screen then tried to install the nforce drivers... Rebooted did it again wouldnt get past the XP splash screen. Did last known good config(I love that setting) and it work installed the LAN and SMBus Controller drivers rebooted and it was fine. Can someone tell me what to do or something that I can do to see if it is my CPU, MOBO, VGA Cards or RAM please?
If it is the MOBO could someone tell me which is the best out of the 3 that I have a choice from if I return this one to the local pc store that I got it from:
DFI LANPARTY Ultra-D
MSI K8N Neo4 SLI Platinum or
get another ASUS A8N-SLi
Thanks
I am new to the forums and ive searched but cant find anything on it so here I go if there is something that I missed I am truely sorry:
I just built 2 days ago a pc with
Asus A8N-SLi Bios 1008
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ SD Core(Not OC'ed)
Thermaltake Venus 12 CPU Fan
1GB of Corasair Value RAM
2x 256 BFG 6800 GT
2x 80GB HDD in RAID0 on PCI Raid Controller(SIL 0680a)
SB Live! 5.1 sound card
Antec Truepower 550W
Windows XP Pro 32 bit SP2
Wew! Now Ive exasted all of my A+ knowlege and still come up with a few possibilietes on what is wrong with my system. I can run 3dMark05 for about the first demo then mid second one before if locks up. Sometimes the screen freezes on the last frame sometimes it goes to blue and green virtical lines and sometimes the screen goes black then a STOP error comes up for just about a second all I can make out before it goes off is : NF4_DISP. Ive tried on stick of RAM and then swaped it out with antother with no avail. It feels like the little silver fan in between the 2 Graphics cards is really REALLY hot. I called BFG they said to Change IRQs on the Cards to ones that are physical (0-15) they are currently on 18 and 19. Called ASUS and they said its a VGA card problem talk to BFG. I cant figure out what is wrong with it my system. Another thing that really leads me to believe that it is the MOBO is that when trying to install XP on the NVRAID controller it never would get past the splash screen. So I installed my old IDE RAID controller and it gets past the splash screen then tried to install the nforce drivers... Rebooted did it again wouldnt get past the XP splash screen. Did last known good config(I love that setting) and it work installed the LAN and SMBus Controller drivers rebooted and it was fine. Can someone tell me what to do or something that I can do to see if it is my CPU, MOBO, VGA Cards or RAM please?
If it is the MOBO could someone tell me which is the best out of the 3 that I have a choice from if I return this one to the local pc store that I got it from:
DFI LANPARTY Ultra-D
MSI K8N Neo4 SLI Platinum or
get another ASUS A8N-SLi
Thanks