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Venice core in EPoX 9NPA+Ultra?

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Jeff H

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Guys,

Should I expect any issues to crop up with a 3200+ or 3500+ Venice core AMD64 in an EPoX 9NPA+Ultra board?

TIA,

Jeff
 
Originally posted by: Jeff H
Guys,

Should I expect any issues to crop up with a 3200+ or 3500+ Venice core AMD64 in an EPoX 9NPA+Ultra board?

TIA,

Jeff
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No. The latest 3/22/05 BIOS supports them with no issue. A couple of hardware review sites confirmed this.

 
ChicagoPCGuy, thanks for the reply. I'm on an EPoX "kick" as of late, now using my third board (4PDA2+). I've had good luck w/ EPoX and don't see any reason to change.
 
ClockerXP, that's a good question, and I don't know the answer. I wonder how long it takes for a board going through the distribution chain to show up with a current BIOS?
 
Does anyone know if it's possible to setup up a board (w/ a Venice cpu) with a current shipping BIOS (if it's not the 5322 BIOS) and flash it to get the recognition? Or does one have to have a "pre-Venice" processor to do this?
 
Well I just had built for me a new system with the EPoX 9NPA+Ultra and a san diego Core Athlon 64 3700+ and it worked with the Bios that came with the board! But I also updated the bios to the latest one. By the way this board is working great no problems at all! Glad I want with Epox 🙂 i updated the bios with the software it comes with worked great. No more need for a floppy to update Bios. And the Chip Set Fan is not noisy at all! I don't think you will have any problem.
 
gate1975mlm, thanks for the confirmation, and your success story. I've become very partial to EPoX products. I'm on my third board now, and even though I've looked at a lot of nForce4U boards, I keep coming back to the 9NPA+Ultra.

I'm going to pair it w/ a Venice 3200+, G.SKill CAS2 PC3200 512x2, SATAII Samsung 160GB hard drive, and an MSI 6600GT card.

Did you go w/ a SATA HD? If so did you need to have the SATA drivers on a floppy for the F6 thing when you set up XP? Or did you go w/ a different OS?

Jeff
 
Originally posted by: Jeff H
gate1975mlm, thanks for the confirmation, and your success story. I've become very partial to EPoX products. I'm on my third board now, and even though I've looked at a lot of nForce4U boards, I keep coming back to the 9NPA+Ultra.

I'm going to pair it w/ a Venice 3200+, G.SKill CAS2 PC3200 512x2, SATAII Samsung 160GB hard drive, and an MSI 6600GT card.

Did you go w/ a SATA HD? If so did you need to have the SATA drivers on a floppy for the F6 thing when you set up XP? Or did you go w/ a different OS?

Jeff
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I am using 2 Maxtor SATA Drives. I had someone build it for me. So I am not sure if they needed to press F6 for the drives. But If I had to guess I don't think they needed to. From what I understand you only would need to press F6 if you were going to set up Raid or something. I am almost 100% sure you will not need a floppy to install the SATA drives. The board is Very Stable! So far I have nothing bad to say! And trust me I was going nuts trying to find the right board. My needs were a very Stable board and Quiet Chip Set Fan. And thats what I have gotten 🙂 I paid $107 + Shipping At http://www.mwave.com/mwave/index.hmx? What a Deal!

For a long time I was going to go with MSI,Asus or DFI all more money. But the MSI and ASUS have very noisy Chip Set Fans. And I heard the DFI was kind of Buggy. So I took a chance on the Epox and MAN I am so glad I did. I am not an Over Clocker so I could not tell you if its good for that. One more thing the last thing that got my mind made up on going with the Epox was because this is the only board where the Video card does not go near the Chep Set Fan! I never liked the idea of my Video card going over the Chip Set Fan like all the other Nforce4 Boards.

To tell you the truth I don't understand why more here don't have this board?????

Maybe its because most people buy for the name. I gues MSI,ASUS are more well known then Epox.

Hope this help 🙂
 
gate1975mlm, that's my understanding, now that SATA is native to the chipset, rather than an add-on feature. I've not yet set up a SATA system, so I'm trying to learn before I dive in.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff H
gate1975mlm, that's my understanding, now that SATA is native to the chipset, rather than an add-on feature. I've not yet set up a SATA system, so I'm trying to learn before I dive in.
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Jeff I'll let you know in a few mins because I am reformating and installing windows XP Home today.

 
Originally posted by: ChicagoPCGuy
Originally posted by: Jeff H
Guys,

Should I expect any issues to crop up with a 3200+ or 3500+ Venice core AMD64 in an EPoX 9NPA+Ultra board?

TIA,

Jeff
Click to expand...

No. The latest 3/22/05 BIOS supports them with no issue. A couple of hardware review sites confirmed this.
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Jeff H,
I just set up the same system as you except I got the Venice 3000 and a Hitachi SATAII hard drive. It booted up fine with the shipping bios (1-25-05) and windows installed without any F6 floppy disks. I did double check to see that RAID was disabled and no other IDE hard drives were present.
 
XingHa, thanks for relating your experience. FWIW I'm doing a system redo after my daughter's high school graduation. This will be my first AMD system since the K5 era.

I recently built a couple of integrated Sempron systems for family members, and they were a couple of the easiest setups I've ever done. I'm looking forward to getting my system up and running. In addition to a Venice 3200+ cpu I'm going w/ the G.Skill 1GB (512x2) CAS2 PC3200, 6600GT and a Samsung SATAII drive.
 
I need some help since you guys are using the same board I have. I installed with a 3000+ venice core amd and a hitachi 80g sata had. I am trying to use an old ata 133 drive on the system aswell for my downloads and music storage. I got xp to load fine, but when ever I reboot the system it gives me this error

disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.

I download software fro Hitachi to test the drive and make sure it is working, and it is according to the software.
This is all new merchandise and since I hadnt ever set up a sata drive I was wondering if any of you could guide me to fix this problem. Its been a huge pain in the neck.
 
where are the best epox forums.. i wanna read more about this board. does it work well with value ram like corsair?
 
LyNX31, that's how I read it. Or maybe I'm simply hoping it's that way <g>. FWIW I don't see a lot of activity in the EPoX newsgroup either. I just ordered my fourth EPoX board (9NPA+ Ultra). My previous three boards have been good performers, with no issues on any of them.

Jeff
 
I spoke with EPoX support last night. The 9NPA+ Ultra will boot with the new X2 CPU, but it is not fully optimized yet for it. They said they have a BIOS update coming out in about a week from yesterday (6/21/05).
 
Guys,

I owe this thread a response, since I got my system set up yesterday. First, the Venice 3200+ cpu was recognized and runs fine on the 9NPA+ Ultra board. Second, the Samsung SATAII drive was also recognized by the board and by WinXP SP2 w/o any extra input.

OS and apps. set up w/o a hitch. Seems a bit snappier than my previous setup (P4 2.8GHz C, EPoX 4PDA2+ board) but not significantly speedier. I didn't do the upgrade for speed alone. A buddy wanted my Intel setup, and I'm getting his setup to put in a machine that will go to college this fall for younger daughter.

FWIW I put on an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64. It was a snap to install, and virtually silent. CPU temp (stock right now) runs about 40C.
 
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