Question about EPoX EP-9NDA3J

[LoungeAct404]

They look good, all the reviews say they're good, except one guy who said that it had a built in hardware firewall that was giving him crap.

Does anyone else have this motherboard? Is it pretty solid overall? Can you overclock decently on it?

The reason I'm going with EPoX instead of MSI is because the reviews on the Neo 2 Platinum say that they all got a ton of DOAs, had lots of problems and what not (this seems like it's only the more recent people, meaning maybe all the new MSI Neo2s are being gay...) so I just decided to go with EPoX because they have the 3000+ Venice combo deal that comes out to about 226$ altogether.

 

[MrCodeDude]

I own the 9NDA3J.

I :heart: it. There is one small problem that I've encountered and that is every now and then, the startup will hang at "Detecting IDE Devices." Restarting the machine will fix it though. Happens maybe once a week.

I've gotten the FSB to 302MHz.

 

[mjscott22]

Hey i was just wondering if you had any more problems with it locking up at bios. I just hooked my dads up and it hangs for a really long time then detects IDE devices then hangs up again. It takes like 5 minutes to get past the BIOS to start booting.

 

[MDE]

My 9NDA3+ (same board with 2 extra SATA ports and FireWire) has been rock solid since about March. I'm running my 3000+ Winchester at 2.5GHz (280HTT) so it does overclock decently .

 

[mjscott22]

is it possible to tell if the BIOS chip is installed wrong? This thing will not boot from the harddrive. I know that it is not that hard drive, because I have run the diagnostics on it. If the XP cd is in the ROM it will boot up to windows but not from the hard drive, like it cant find the boot sector or something. While booting it hangs, tries to boot to the floppy, seems to skip the HD and then tries the CD Roms.