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First , my apologies for multiple posts.
And glad to hear that your some of the difficulties are sorted out. I would not say that you straight away change your memory timings to faster like 6,3,2,2T. Although I am dead sure that your memory can handle that. It is better to first make other things nice and steady. Your memory is running at 200*2Mhz.So first step is to oC your processor to 200 Mhz FSB to synchronize with the memory. They say that it gives better results while running your proc FSB in sync with your memory.
For the problem of locking up at upping the FSB it seems you will have to increase your CPU voltage setting first. Be sure to have good cooling. There are many suugestions on OCing on overclockers.com. There are many hoary old wise men of the anandtech forums who have discussed such matters threadbare in some previous posts. I hope you will get the answers to all your querries.
 
Hey Unbiased, thanks again. I tried the settings that u mentioned, same result, system lock. I didnt change anything but the settings for memory and the system would not boot, no beeps or anything, removoed the battery, reset all, and viola, workin again. Did i possibly do something wrong? My CPU is a 2500 Barton, which is 333 FSB, could that possibly be the problem? Thanks again.

Will
 
If you set everything to "user defined" the options you need will open up. A couple of great resources are the Asus forums at AMDMB forum and NforcersHQ. There is a very good FAQ at NforcersHQ.

The above is the cut- paste from a previous page on this thread.The people on this thread have dicussed overclocking this board in detail. Just for your help.
now my two cent's worth-
No the problem is not 333 Mhz FSB of your CPU. May be the problem is that you are not locking your AGP/PCI speed. There is a setting in the bios which gives different options for AGP speed. If you have kept it in auto then make it manual and give AGP speed as 66 Mhz. Prbably this will solve the problem.

And just to make sure that there is no confusion about the FSB and memory speed, 333 FSB means 166*2. And your memory is already running at 400 (200*2). In order to sync your memory with CPU fsb, change the setting from 'By SPD' to '100%'.

Think this will solve the prob.
 
Hey Unbiased, how ya doin? I really appreciate all the help you have given me, it was MUCH appreciated. With that help, I have been able to get up to 2Ghz, with my front side bus at 182. I think i'm gonna break down an get the 3200+ instead of playin with this. My temps have been consistent around 47C on the motherboard an 37-39 on the Mobo 😀 I'm usin a Dr Thermal Extreme on my cpu, but good god its loud lol. Well, i just wanted to let ya know how much of a help you had been to me, again, i really appreciated it. Thanks you.

Will
 
Does anyone know which revision of the Deluxe series I need for a mobile XP 2500+? I am wondering if I can get away with using the non-Ultra 400FSB version, since the mobile barton only runs at 266FSB anyway.

Thanks.
 
Was thinking about getting the A7N8X-VM/400. How does the integrated TV Encoder thing work?

I looked at the board and did not see any hookups
 
I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe. Asus Probe and the BIOS are both reporting 50C for my CPU at idle (11x200 @ 1.7v) with a Thermalright ALX-800 w/ Panaflo L1A.

With my Albatron motherboard using the same CPU/Heatsink, the reported temps were 7-8C cooler.

Are there any issues with the motherboard reporting a higher than actual temp? The CPU is stable, even when it climbs to 60C under Prime.
 
Overclocking problem
I am trying to get the same results everyone else is having but i don't know why i can't overclock

I am running
a Mobilebarton 25000
the deluxe version rev1 on the latest bios (i think its 1.08)
I have kingston hyperx pc-4000

and 9800 pro

Yet i am having trouble having it stable above 2ghz
even with the voltage pumped up

i Just rma'd my processor and got a new one back... so its not that...
is it my memory?
my mobo?
 
Does anyone know if this board or the E version of this board supports IDE raid 0? I don't need SATA raid. Just IDE. Please let me know. Thanks.
 
Does anyone know if this board or the E version of this board supports IDE raid 0? I don't need SATA raid. Just IDE. Please let me know. Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: Batman534
Does anyone know if this board or the E version of this board supports IDE raid 0? I don't need SATA raid. Just IDE. Please let me know. Thanks.
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Nope, but nothing is keeping you from getting a PCI Raid card. Peace.
 
I'm using an Asus A7N8X Deluxe PCB Revision 1.04 motherboard. Although a BIOS enabling 400 mghz FSB Barton support has been released, will this board actually benefit from a 400 FSB CPU, or should I just get a 333?
 
There is probably a 4-5% difference in performance between a 333 and 400MHz FSB Barton of the same speed. Just because the board is rated to 200MHz doesn't mean it will run at that speed however, so make sure. If you know your board will work at 200MHz, then I'd recommend the 400MHz version. Peace.
 
Hi everyone... anyone have any ideas before I go through the pain of returning this motherboard?

OK, this morning FedEx dropped off a A7N8X motherboard and Athlon XP 2500+ Barton processor. Installed processor on the motherboard, heatsink, fan, video card, 2 sticks of 512 meg PC2700 memory, new 480W power supply. I turn it on, fans spin, motherboards green power light is on, but I can't get anything on the screen. Monitor just sits with the power light flashing at me.

I've looked over all my connections, jumpers on the motherboard and I can't see anything set incorrectly. Anyone have any other ideas? I really wish I had read this forum a lot closer before ordering this board...

Thanks for any help.
 
Originally posted by: syntaxerror64
Hi everyone... anyone have any ideas before I go through the pain of returning this motherboard?

OK, this morning FedEx dropped off a A7N8X motherboard and Athlon XP 2500+ Barton processor. Installed processor on the motherboard, heatsink, fan, video card, 2 sticks of 512 meg PC2700 memory, new 480W power supply. I turn it on, fans spin, motherboards green power light is on, but I can't get anything on the screen. Monitor just sits with the power light flashing at me.

I've looked over all my connections, jumpers on the motherboard and I can't see anything set incorrectly. Anyone have any other ideas? I really wish I had read this forum a lot closer before ordering this board...

Thanks for any help.
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Is the bios set for VGA?
 
Is the bios set for VGA?
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Hi...

Am I missing something? I can't even get to the BIOS... What are you referring to exactly?

Update: I am pretty confident this board is completely dead. I have an RMA setup with Asus, unfortunately I am without my main system for 2 weeks now and stuck on this old laptop. That's my luck.
 
Try resetting the BIOS via the jumper on the system board...its in your manual stating how to do it...Turn the power on with the jumper on pins 2 and 3 (I believe) and then power it down, put jumper back on pins 1 and 2 , then power back up
 
Try resetting the BIOS via the jumper on the system board...its in your manual stating how to do it...Turn the power on with the jumper on pins 2 and 3 (I believe) and then power it down, put jumper back on pins 1 and 2 , then power back up
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Hi. I tried that already. I took the board down to a local computer shop I do a lot of business with and they tested it with some different memory, a few processors and it would only post one time out of about 20. So, I'm sending it back to ASUS for another.

In the mean time rather than wait I just picked up a new ASUS A7N8X-X board from them and we installed my memory and processor onto it and made sure it was working before I left the store. It seems to be great, the only problem I'm having is the LAN port seems to be dieing randomly and I have to reboot the machine. If it keeps up I'll just turn it off and put my NIC back in.
 
Alright -

I was using a Soyo Dragon KT400 Lite and it wouldn't post at all whenever I tried to overclock my FSB to 200 mhz.

I am using pc3200 RAM that I won in a computer system, I upgraded to the ASUS a7n8x for the sole purpose of overclocking. However, when I did this, (barton 2500 to barton 3200) my computer kept blue screening. It wasn't the over clocking that did it, i've underclocked my system to try and keep it stable thinking that overclocking messed it up, but it does the blue screen bullshit just as much when it's clocked "normally" or even underclocked.

I am running a Volcano 11+ heat sink and my CPU usually stays around 40 C or less, and my mobo 30 C. GeForce FX 5600 OEM, I've tested a DeskStar HD and a Western Digital HD, unplugged all my CD-RW's / CD-ROM / DVD etc, tested multiple sticks of RAM, 1 at a time. I've upped the volts in BIOS and still it blue screens non stop. The error msg on the blue screen isn't consistant, sometimes it is about IRQ and sometimes about a Page file, it's sometimes something else.

I've also fresh formatted and flashed bios to defaults.

Only things I haven't replaced or tested new parts with is my CPU and Video Card (Which both I used on another mobo and worked flawlessly.)

I was just wondering if I should just give up on my ASUS board and trade it in for something else (MSI?) or if anyone else has any good suggestions?

Edit : Oh yeah, I've tested multiple Power Supplies
 
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