Whats up, i was just on the asus site and low and behold, there is a new official bios, the 1003. Its NOT a beta, and i installed it, lets she how she does.
New official bios release for A8N-SLI
- Thread starter Tripp17
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1004-001 is a beta BIOS. The regular BIOS numbers don't have revisions after the number (e.g., final would be 1003, whereas a beta release would be something like 1003-002).
Your probably right, but when I use the Asus Update tool it tells me there are 2 releases 1 release is the Beta and the other release is a release, same numbers though. Doesn't matter to me, I would have installed it anyway.
Yeah, it's much better than previous versions, but very similar to 1003 final. I can go as high as 310 1:1, 2T, and before that, I couldn't go over 260! HTT is at 4x! You have details at 50th page of official thread.
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I tried it and its no good for me. CPU volts are reduced, my machine wouldn't even boot with my current settings. Reducing my O/C settings and I still couldn't boot, getting the system failed due to overclocking at 300mhz less than I'm currently running. And I also got the stupid warning that my chassis fan was running to slow (firtst time I've seen that one). After about 10mins of that nonsense I flashed back to 1003.006 and all is good again.
Was using 1003.006, moved on up to 1003 final. As far as I can tell, aside from fixing some stuff, there's not much new. I myself have not tried to push my OC beyond 245 yet - there's no reason to - so I couldn't tell you if the OCing is better.
If you up the volts in bios and dont use AIbooster you can actually get higher volts than before. Before the max I could get was 1.52 but at the moment I am using 1.58. However if I make a adjustment in AIbooster to any settings it shifs the voltage back down. So do your overclocks in bios only.
Anybody know if the 1004 fixes the "vanishing Maxtor SATA drive" problem? Another thing, I swear that using the 1002 bios, the nVidia SATA ports are flip-flopped somehow. Whether it's physically wrong on the board or just "mislabeled" in the bios I dunno. But my drive is hooked up to the nVidia SATA controller (black ports) as the master 1 sata port. I have no other SATA devices hooked up. If I disable the nVidia SATA ports 1, 2 in the BIOS, save and reboot, it still detects the drive. However if I disable SATA ports 3, 4 it vanishes. I left nVRaid disabled in all cases since I don't need it. I am absolutely sure I hooked it up in the nvidia sata controller port 1 as labeled on the motherboard and in the manual.
This is a complete truth! Ever since 1003 final, where they cut down from 1.65 to 1.55 for 1.4V Winchesters. If you put it on 1.55V, CPU-Z says it's 1.58, so don't change it anywhere... I sure hope some modded bios will come around
Well, now dig my latest problem. I got home tonight, booted up, it went into XP and I started going about configuring my settings and stuff and the system slowly froze and locked up as I was trying to access Control Panel. I hit the reset and after POST, right when it should have started loading the OS, the screen went black (but power light was still green). So I unplugged the monitor from the back of the video card and reinserted and the video came back on. All that was there was a message saying something about a windows system file being corrupt or missing. So I turned off the power and totally unplugged the PSU. Then I powered back on and looked in the BIOS for anything amiss. I decided to enable SMART. It booted fine. I went back in BIOS and disabled SMART, problem came back. . .WTF!!?? Anybody else had this happen?
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