I/O wires on A8N

[vidguru83]

im trying to figure out the I/O wires that go to the motherboard. For one, where does the MIC IN wire go to in that connector? also same goes for rear left and rear right audio signal wire?

 

[vidguru83]

should i even plug in the front panel I/O wires for the first startup? or ever since they wouldn't be used by me.

 

[vidguru83]

i started up the computer up, but i get a long beep and two short beeps after that. its more like: ----- -- --
and i have monitor hooked up but all i get is digital/analog and nothing else. any ideas?

It has a moving image that says check signal cable then at the bottom of that moving image it says analog. But i have a DVI connector plugged in.

 

[vidguru83]

ok, i put in a pci card in and it worked sort of, i still see the analog/digital box on the top left corner of monitor at the beginning of POST, but i pressed a keyboard button and i saw the ASUS SLI screen. now what do i do?

 

[vidguru83]

another problem, i get a boot disk failure on the top left corner of monitor when i let the system go by itself to see if i can load XP. Is that with the hard drive or the cd-rom? i don't have the audio cable plugged in from the cd-rom, so that may be it? I have the HDD show up in bios as my first sata priimary, that is after changing it to the Nvidia sata from the silicon image one where the HDD did not show up on BIOS. help me.

 

[Creideike]

All these questions can be answered by looking in your manual; it has your entire hook ups listed. The manual states that if you don't intend on using the on board sound then leave the jumpers on the front audio connectors, however I don't think your Audigy 2 has any front panel hook ups...but I could be wrong! Your video card problem may be due to you not switching your selector card to single video card...read your manuals

 

[FastEddie]

Sounds like your first build. Take the Audigy out of the mix, until you get the os installed. You are running a single S-ATA on the NV S-ATA port, so you must enable that port in the cmos setup. Set your boot order to cdrom-hardisk-removable. Save and exit the bios.

Put the WinXP cd in the drive and boot to it. If you are not running multiple disks in a disk array (raid) then you should be able to proceed through the install of XP without installing any of the nv raid drivers.

 

[vidguru83]

my audigy was always disconnected, so i put the boot order to cdrom-hardisk-removable and i let the computer run through then it shows the black screen with master disk: dvd-rw, ata33 and the first sata master disk: LBA, ata 133 , then below that under device listings its device No. Func No. ......IRQ then at the very bottom it says disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.

okay since i have only one graphics card does it go in the blue slot or black one? and which way does the ez selector face for this setup, i have had conflicting reports about that.

 

[FastEddie]

Your grafics card isn't going to have anything to do with the "Disk Boot Failure."

Did you enter the cmos setup and enable the sata port that the drive is on? If using the nv raid ports, then you need to go to the Advanced Menue/Onboard Device Configuration/NVRaid Configuration, enable NV Raid Enable, then enable the specific s-ata port that the drive is attached to.

Do you have your cdrom installed on the Secondary IDE Port?

Did you have the WinXP install disk loaded in the cdrom when you got the "Disk Boot Failure" message? If not, then you need to insert the WinXP cd in the cdrom and boot your system.

 

[vidguru83]

cd rom is installed on primary ide port, and winXP disk is in when i get the failure. i didnt try the nvraid yet, will do it now. thanks

 

[vidguru83]

Nv raid is enabled and first primary sata is enabled, after i save and reboot it goes to the black screen and the HDD does not show up like it used to, and i still get the disk boot failure, also i got my graphics card to work by putting it on the black pci express lane, but the red light is on. is that a problem? i have the ez selector set to single video card; with it on the CPU side.

edit: i disabled the first primary sata but still left the NV raid to enabled. and the HDD now shows up. still get disk boot failure though.

and just to see if it was the winxp disk i loaded onto another computer and i can see the XP setup screen, so it should be fine right?

even tried a different cd-rom but still got the disk boot failure. could it be the ide cable?

 

[FastEddie]

Yes, try a new ide cable for the burner. How do you have the dvd-burner jumpered? Should be jumpered as master and put on the end of the cable on the Secondary ide connector.

For the video card, plug in an extra 4-pin molex power connector that's right above the first PCI-E slot--that should take care of the red light.

For the NV S-ATA port, Port 1 is the one on the bottom, closest to front of the board. Read the manual insert on p. 2-21, middle of the page.

 

[vidguru83]

its on sata port 1; bottom right. will try and put IDE cable on secondary IDE connector.

success!!! put in secondary ide and it looks like its going to do the XP install, thanks fastEddie. i knew i could count on you

 

[FastEddie]

After you get rolling, remember to set your corsair memory up manually, setting the memory voltage at 2.75v running at DDR400 2-3-3-9 1T should do the trick.

 

[vidguru83]

Will Do, is all that messing with the voltage and timing in the BIOS?

 

[FastEddie]

Yes. The ram timings are in Advanced/CPU Configuration/DRAM Configuration. Ram voltage is Advanced/Jumper Free Configuration/DDR Voltage.

 

[vidguru83]

hello again, i formatted the hard drive wrong and i want to do it all over again with the xp install, how do i do that?

 

[FastEddie]

Follow the same procedure. Put WinXP cd in the drive, boot to the cdrom, setup will check to see if you have a previous install. Pass on the repaid prompts. When you get to the point where you see the partition you have the os installed on, delete the partition by following the prompts. Create a new partition, format the partition, etc...

What did you do, use the entire drive as a single partition?

 

[vidguru83]

yeah i put one partition of 12 gigs and forgot to partittion the rest of it, lol. Another question, it says in the manual to download the nvidia drivers after you update to XP2, did you do that?

 

[FastEddie]

The Forceware Drivers (video card) You can dl now or then, doesn't matter. I usually install the chipset drivers prior to installing SP2, but you need a version of XP that has SP-1 slipstreamed to do that. With an original version of XP, you need to install SP2 first (due to the usb 2.0 drivers).