I recently bought two refurbished ASUS A7V880's as I had some spare Athlon XP's sitting around (1900+ and 2100+). The first board was toast from the start and was unstable even when changing BIOS settings... hanging/freezing. Shortly after, a constant high-pitch whine developed around the power regulation section of the board and one of the torroids was extremely hot (too hot to touch).
The second board seemed better but i've found some instability with it as well, tho it's inconsistent. I ran Prime95 on this machine for five hours today and didn't see a single hiccup. I rebooted a few times, took a ghost image of the machine (PATA HDD installed), swapped the HDD from PATA to SATA, applied the ghost image to SATA HDD, booted again, ran Prime95 for another three or four hours - no problems. I then rebooted to config some stuff in the BIOS and it hung... rebooted and it wouldn't load Windows (hung with the progress bar only part way through), rebooted and the same, went back to the BIOS and it froze again. Arg.
Anyway, just checking to see if i'm missing something before returning these boards - decent socket A boards are getting hard to find these days.
I get the same behaviour with a variety of the following components installed... no one component is obviously flawed, both HDD's have been tested elsewhere and the memory is good.
Windows 2000 SP4 (48-bit LBA enabled in registry)
Athlon XP 1900+ and 2100+
Samsung, Micron and Corsair 512MB DDR400 DIMMS
Enermax 365W and 485W PSU's
ATI Radeon 7000
Maxtor 40GB PATA and Maxtor 200GB SATA
LG CD-RW and Samsung DVD-ROM
Anyway...
The second board seemed better but i've found some instability with it as well, tho it's inconsistent. I ran Prime95 on this machine for five hours today and didn't see a single hiccup. I rebooted a few times, took a ghost image of the machine (PATA HDD installed), swapped the HDD from PATA to SATA, applied the ghost image to SATA HDD, booted again, ran Prime95 for another three or four hours - no problems. I then rebooted to config some stuff in the BIOS and it hung... rebooted and it wouldn't load Windows (hung with the progress bar only part way through), rebooted and the same, went back to the BIOS and it froze again. Arg.
Anyway, just checking to see if i'm missing something before returning these boards - decent socket A boards are getting hard to find these days.
I get the same behaviour with a variety of the following components installed... no one component is obviously flawed, both HDD's have been tested elsewhere and the memory is good.
Windows 2000 SP4 (48-bit LBA enabled in registry)
Athlon XP 1900+ and 2100+
Samsung, Micron and Corsair 512MB DDR400 DIMMS
Enermax 365W and 485W PSU's
ATI Radeon 7000
Maxtor 40GB PATA and Maxtor 200GB SATA
LG CD-RW and Samsung DVD-ROM
Anyway...
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