ASUS A7N8X - BSOD

[Skiguy411]

Anybody else out there having blue screen of death problems with their A7N8X boards?

I am getting these BSODs(Blue Screens of Death)

"PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"

But in addition, I have frequent rebooting issues.
And I removed all unessential components, so I know
there were no IRQ conflicts.

and this was on a fresh install of XP.

I have all the updated drivers

 

[TourGuide]

This sounds to me a bit like some memory problems I've had in the past. Have you checked the sticks using memtest86?

FWIW - The first A7N8X I had was bad from the get go. I think it had the 1001c BIOS on it, but I never did get it to post. The one I am currently running is fine. No problems at all.

 

[mechBgon]

What brand and model of power supply are you using? Besides memory issues, it could also be insufficient or poorly-regulated power. You might want to go to the hard drive maker's site and download their hard-drive diagnonstic utility too, in case your hard drive is having problems.

 

[Skiguy411]

The power supply is an Antec TruePower 380 watt. I have not used memtest86, but i will try it. I am using 2 sticks of 256mb PC32000 GEIL Ram.

I am using the AMD Athlon XP 2600+ and the ATI Radeon 9500 PRO.

 

[mechBgon]

The GEiL RAM has a spotty reputation (said the cheetah). The Antec PSU is just what the doctor ordered, so I'm guessing it's the RAM.

 

[Skiguy411]

I have however seen others with this same problem on other forums.

http://www.asusnetq.com.tw/topics.asp?ptype=Motherboard&model=A7N8X&subject=BSOD problems

 

[ahsumdude]

Oh yes, Put me in that line.

Installed my MB last week and I would get the BSOD right after posting. System instantly rebooted and the viscious cycle repeated. What I commenced do to after I scratched my eyes out was to reformat/reinstall. However with XP I had another alternative. Upon reinstalling XP it detected a damaged XP installation and asked me if I wanted to repair it? I said "hell yes, repair away." After an hour of reinstalling files I was sitting back at my desktop with neary a problem. I loaded the Nforce drivers and I have been cruising ever since a 200 FSM with memory running in sync. I have ran this board completely stable at 211 FSB however my ram won't do that stable. Running at 211 I had to run my ram at 83% of the CPU FSB. I get better performace running 200 FSB in sync. This is one terrific board.

 

[Skiguy411]

Sigh....I wish I could say that about my board. I have formatted my hd 3 times. While I havent seen a BSOD since then, I have seen many error messages when trying to play a game or run 3DMark2001SE. They wont last 3 min. without it quitting on me and going back to the desktop. Maybe this new Cosair RAM I have ordered will do the trick.

 

[ahsumdude]

Try increasing the voltage to your ram. I increased my DDR ram .1v and have no stability issues whatsover at 200 FSB.

 

[Regalk]

There are two things that gave me those symptons:
Voltage to cpu not enough
DDR too aggressive or needed at least 2.7v to run stably.