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asus a8v deluxe and athlon 64 3000+ wont boot xp. please help!

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vigobit

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i have an athlon 64 socket 939 purchased a couple of days a go along with an asus a8v deluxe wifi mb.
im having abit of trouble. First, the windows install would lock up, then 2. try it worked (xp).
Now, when its supposed to start windows, a bluescreen is flashed for 1/10 second and the system reboots.
tried upping the memory voltage, chaning the graphics card, different ram (socket 3)
any ideas?

sincerely

vigobit


memory 3200 twinmos 512 meg
bios 8.00.09
3000 athlon 6 s939
a8v
 
The optical drives are on the same IDE channel with each other as well as the HDD's, right?

And if they are at least that, try flipping the IDE connecters on the motherboard.
 
Maybe the power supply is having a hard time keeping the power stable, resulting in errors? What brand and model of power supply is it? If the Windows installation got corrupted somewhere along the way, then you'll want to start over after correcting the underlying cause of the instability. Raising memory voltage is one step, and if the power supply is not up to the challenge, replacing it is another step.

Also, the BIOS goes by a four-digit number starting with 10--, so look at the BIOS chip (located here) and tell me what the 10?? number is on its sticker. That would be the one it shipped with. If your board is the A8V-E Deluxe then there's only one official BIOS revision at Asus's site, and it already supports all Socket939 CPUs released thus far, so that shouldn't be an issue for you.

If you have the time to fill in this template below, it could help people get insight on your system, its power demands, etc... hit Quote and you can then edit it with your own info, and you can hit Edit on your resulting post if it doesn't come out quite right the first time. 🙂



  • Power supply Antec TruePower 430
  • Motherboard Asus K8N-E Deluxe
    • Revision 1.03
    • BIOS 1005
  • CPU Athlon64 3000+
    • Core 130nm Clawhammer
  • Memory (2) 512MB Corsair XMS 3200C2 modules
    • Voltage Manually set to 2.7 volts
    • Timings AUTO, results in 2-3-2-6 @ 200MHz
  • Primary video card ATI Radeon 9800Pro AGP 8x
  • PCI slot #1 (top) empty
  • PCI slot #2 empty
  • PCI slot #3 LeadTek Winfast TV/FM tuner card
  • PCI slot #4 Creative Audigy 2 ZS
  • PCI slot #5 LSI Logic Ultra160 SCSI
  • PCI slot #6 (board only has five PCI slots)
  • Boot drive 160GB Seagate 7200.7
    • Interface Serial ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 SATA controller
    • Jumper setting not applicable (SATA)
  • Additional hard drive 40GB Seagate 7200.7
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, primary channel
    • Jumper setting Master
  • Additional hard drive 18GB Seagate Cheetah 15k.3
    • Interface SCSI
    • Controller hosting this drive LSI Logic U160 card
    • Jumper setting SCSI ID 01
  • Optical drive #1 NEC 3500A DVD burner
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
    • Jumper setting Master
  • Optical drive #2 Lite-On combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
    • Jumper setting Slave
 
You need to run Memtest and see if your memory is ok at the default timings.
www.memtest.org
You can also run CPUZ to see what your timings are running at.

I bought the fancy XMS memory at 2225 timings, and my system would crash, until I set them to 2336.

Go to my web page and look at the screen shots to see how to raise your memory timings. It's a lot to read, so just scroll down to the part where I talk about how I over clocked.
Try 2336, and if that doesn't work, you can relax them even more to say 3448.

http://www.nogodforme.com/MyBabyTera.htm

Here, it's this picture I'm talking about.

http://www.nogodforme.com/images/DSC03896.JPG

It's the 3rd number that causes the problems, it can't be a 2, it must be 3 or greater.

The A8V has a hard time running memory at agressive timings.
 
I just built a computer similar to yours for my brother (AMD 3000+ and Asus A8V Deluxe + Corsair Value Ram). And i used Mechbgon's Guide (Thanks Mech!).

I had no problems at all except not plugging the switch jumper to the right pins.

A few things: Try running the system with just the bare essentials. Unplug the CD-rom, soundcard, wifi etc.
Run only one stick of memory. When running two sticks dual channel, the A8V preferes the 1st and 3rd slot. Try another PSU. Re-seat all components.

Edit: Oh yeah, i had a problem with the Yukon gigabit ethernet driver. I had to re-install it twice because when i first install the driver, i would get BSOD. Try booting into safe mode in windows (keep pressing the F8 key before startup)
 
Hi guys! thanks for taking the time to reply to this.
tried flipping the IDE connectors, tried memtest all ok, tried different timings and voltages. all seemed ok.
Ive tried installing windows several times now, and it finally
got through the installation. Im pretty sure its a psu problem now,
its only a cheap 350 watt'er that came with a low cost case, i really
should now better 🙂. It boots windows now, and soon afterwards becomes unstable
and boots. Guess the wattage is not the main problem, guess the 12 rail is a bit crappy. shows 11.987 in bios, but under load i guess it drops.


  • Power supply Cheap noname 350Watt (suspecting q-tec) no specifiaction of 12 rail ampage
  • Motherboard Asus A8N-E Deluxe
    • Revision 2
    • BIOS 1009
  • CPU Athlon64 3000+ socket 939
    • Core
  • Memory (1) 512MB twinmos twister 3200 C2 module
    • Voltage Manually set to 2.6 volts
    • Timings AUTO, not sure
    • Primary video card 6800LE at 16v6 (6800gt)
    • PCI slot #1 (top) empty
    • PCI slot #2 empty
    • PCI slot #3 empty
    • PCI slot #4 empty
    • PCI slot #5 empty
    • PCI slot #6 (board only has five PCI slots)
    • Boot drive 160GB samsung 161N spinpoint 7200 8mb cache
      • Interface Serial ATA
      • Controller hosting this drive
      • Jumper setting not applicable (SATA)
    • Additional hard drive 160GB western digital 7200 8mb cache
      • Interface Parallel ATA
      • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, primary channel
      • Jumper setting Master
    • Additional hard drive none
      • Interface
      • Controller hosting this drive
      • Jumper setting
    • Optical drive #1 Liteon 851s DVD burner
      • Interface Parallel ATA
      • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
      • Jumper setting Master
    • Optical drive #2
      • Interface Parallel ATA
      • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
      • Jumper setting Slave
    [/quote]
 
I'm prone to throwing high-quality power supplies at every problem 😱 but it seems justified here. If you can afford it, check out the Enermax models with the dual 12V rails, the 420W one at ~$70 perhaps?
 
sounds like a good idea. 70$ is cheap compared to what i have to pay for them over here (norway).
The market under 100$ is flooded with q-tec 450/550/650 with i guess really crappy 12v ampage 🙂
Ill look into it. Ill also do some more testing at the memory timings. Thanks
 
Originally posted by: vigobit
http://prisguide.hardware.no/vis_kategori.php?cat_id=36

this displays a list of psu's available here (starting with lowest price)
Can you guys recommend something from the list? (sorry mostly norwegian 🙂
Im not sure what to buy
And i dont have an enormous budget 😉

thanks

sincerely

vigobit
Click to expand...

I only skimmed through the first page, but I saw Fortron, and that's a good brand - if there's nothing else apart from Q-Tec etc then a 400W Fortron will do nicely, and provide decent power for a good few years.
 
Lo and behold! a shiny q-tec logo!
Its a q-tec 350w psu. (thats guaranteed a peak value)
17a at 12v. which is probably a max.


How are your takes on Hiper and NorthQ psu's?
hiper 425w ans 525w is within my price range.
What should i look for in 12 V ampage? over 20 ampere max? i see a lot of places specifying amps at max at 12 volt. hiper has 25A at 12V on the 425 version, and 29 at the 525 version.
Edit: reviews show 16 ampere on 12v on 425 and 20 at 525. 20 should be sufficient?

hmm


thanks

vigobit
 
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