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I want a working mobo (not another dead a7n8x)
I've had 2 Asus a7n8x mobo's so far, brand new, and they both have
failed to work. Can someone recommend a mobo for the same price (~ £100) which works with Athlon XP2700. Something from a company which produces motherboards which actually work would be nice. Thanks. |
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Fred Bloggs wrote:
I've had 2 Asus a7n8x mobo's so far, brand new, and they both have failed to work. Can someone recommend a mobo for the same price (~ £100) which works with Athlon XP2700. Something from a company which produces motherboards which actually work would be nice. Thanks. Those are usually solid boards. The Abit NF7-S is a good one as well. -- Winerr 012 - Cash Underflow - Credit Card Number Will Be Assimilated |
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nospam wrote in message . ..
On 27 Aug 2003 02:38:20 -0700, (Fred Bloggs) wrote: I've had 2 Asus a7n8x mobo's so far, brand new, and they both have failed to work. both From the same company? The A7N8X's are pretty solid. How is your power supply? The Epox Nforce2's are also good. i have an aopen case/cpu. 300w psu. the first one blew!!! i got a replacement and no output on monitor. so i send the mobo/cpu back. now the human speech bios startup test says `failed ram check`. the ram is fine. tried all 3 slots, plus another stick of working ram. can't be arsed wasting more time on a third board, so i`ll try another brand. |
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:53:45 -0500, ljg wrote:
I have been researching the A7N8X delux board and I have found that it is rather difficult to find straight out recommendations from ASUS that one can find easily....the ram they recommend....seems to be brand new rams....however....I guess any non-ECC....184 pin....unbuffered....Cl=2 (they actually want 2.5).......333 mhz or 400 mhz will do....but I am not sure... See their QVL (Qualified Vendors List) then good luck in finding them... I say all this because some people have had trouble with this board and Ram maybe why. I am thinking of building a comp using this Motherboard. On 27 Aug 2003 13:45:23 -0700, (Fred Bloggs) wrote: nForce2 boards have a bug regarding memory, that they require memory "capable" of timings faster than what the board is trying to run. It is a known issue with the nForce2 chipset, not really with any particular motherboard though it's possible some manufacturers are toying around with the BIOS to set more conservative settings regardless of what the SPD dictates or user selects. The next issue is then if memory manufacturers are accurately rating the memory or taking nForce2-related RMA into account and underrating the memory. Because memory quality, yield, can and does change, the best course is to do a lot of research right when you're ready to buy the memory, visit forums and buyer feedback areas like at http://www.newegg.com and you may get a better idea if others have had good results with brand X, type Y memory, even the particular production lot being sold at a given vendor. At worst just buy from someplace with a good return policy. Dave |
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ljg wrote in message . ..
I have been researching the A7N8X delux board and I have found that it is rather difficult to find straight out recommendations from ASUS that one can find easily....the ram they recommend....seems to be brand new rams....however....I guess any non-ECC....184 pin....unbuffered....Cl=2 (they actually want 2.5).......333 mhz or 400 mhz will do....but I am not sure... See their QVL (Qualified Vendors List) then good luck in finding them... I say all this because some people have had trouble with this board and Ram maybe why. I am thinking of building a comp using this Motherboard. Look on the net - i'm not the only one having trouble with this board! I'm using pc3200 ram. that should work, as it does in other boards. and ram from machines which have been running for months doesn't work in my board. i only have so much patience!! will look into some other boards as recommended in this thream (thanks to all who have helped). |
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