Anyone Using Asus A8N WITHOUT problems?

[kjackson09]

I am interested in purchasing the ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard. Primarily due to the nVidia nForce4 chipset and the PCI-Express. (in addition to the stability of ASUS) I am not sure I will even ever use the SLI option.

Has anyone setup this board without major problems? There appears to be numerous threads of issues with this board. I am looking for those who setup this board without problems.

Cheers,

Kerry

 

[century child]

You probably won't get many replies because there are already several other threads over this topic. I for one didn't have any major issues but I also did my homework before building it even though I have been building systems for many years and usually only glance in the manual for the pin configuration of the front panel connectors. There is a lot of new technology here and it has some little quirks. Like the fact that you have to populate RAM slots beginning with B1 if you are only using 1 mem module instead of A1. You have to install 2 separate drivers for the Nvidia RAID controller alone during Windows installation instead of the usual 1. Little things like this have caused lots of people headaches and could have been avoided if they'd only taken the time to look through the manual and/or do a little reading online. As long as you take your time, pay attention to what you are doing, and read at least the pertinent parts of the manual, (and don't use a SATA optical drive) you will likely experience a trouble-free installation.

 

[Relion]

I am...and a lot of ppl outthere are...and a lot of other ppl are having problems...Im currently running at stock speeds (xcept video) with unflashed bioses... no problems so far...

 

[user1234]

It's one heck of a board, but there are a few pitfalls. The biggest one is the beta BIOSes, especially the 1003.005 version. While it adds a few options, it has a few bug including one DISASTEROUS one - it corrupts the CMOS when you UNPLUG the machine from the power outlet (but not when you just turn it off). Afterwards the machine will not POST, or POST very irregularly. The only fix is to clear the CMOS. So advice number one: avoid using the beta BIOS.
One other small thing to note is the little EZ card, which is a tiny selector card plugged into the board, which selects between dual or single video cards. On my board it came in the dual position, but I never changed it (I didn't even notice it in the beginning). Instead, you could just select single mode in the BIOS, and also disable the EZ plug warning in the BIOS (it's a warning when the selector is on dual and you don't have additional molex power plugged into the motherboard).

Except for these two issues, it was the smoothest build ever. Also overclocking was the easiest ever, it can be done almost completely from Windows.

 

[Relion]

Originally posted by: user1234
It's one heck of a board, but there are a few pitfalls. The biggest one is the beta BIOSes, especially the 1003.005 version. While it adds a few options, it has a few bug including one DISASTEROUS one - it corrupts the CMOS when you UNPLUG the machine from the power outlet (but not when you just turn it off). Afterwards the machine will not POST, or POST very irregularly. The only fix is to clear the CMOS. So advice number one: avoid using the beta BIOS.
One other small thing to note is the little EZ card, which is a tiny selector card plugged into the board, which selects between dual or single video cards. On my board it came in the dual position, but I never changed it (I didn't even notice it in the beginning). Instead, you could just select single mode in the BIOS, and also disable the EZ plug warning in the BIOS (it's a warning when the selector is on dual and you don't have additional molex power plugged into the motherboard).

Except for these two issues, it was the smoothest build ever. Also overclocking was the easiest ever, it can be done almost completely from Windows.

Well...its still beta....thats what betas are for...I ll wait til final to flash my mobo...

 

[Angry Kid]

Just a small nit-pick, but the title of this thread should be -- Anyone Using ANY nForce4 Boards Without Problems??

ASUS doesn't seem to be th only offender.

Unfortunately.

=/

 

[kjackson09]

Angry Kid you are probably right, but seeing as I was only interested in the ASUS A8N and I think the only other one is the Gigabyte board I don't think there are any other nForce 4 boards currently available.