Recent content by yukster

Well, I've given up on this approach to solving my freeze-up problems with this board; it froze up with only the 3com NIC enabled. I RMA'ed the board... hope that the problem really is the hardware. As far as your questions go (cuz I never did figure out why the 3com didn't work... both the...

Yeah, I started a new thread in "3com NICs" but haven't gotten any replies yet. As far as having solved my freeze-up problem, the jury still out on that. So far, so good, but until I've got all my devices back on and don't freeze for a couple weeks, I'm still expecting the worst.

I have an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe, which has Nvidia and 3com NICs on the board. I'd been having freeze up troubles, but they've gone away since disabling the Nvidia NIC. Unfortunately, the 3com NIC is stubbornly refusing to talk to my gigafast router. The NIC drivers are installed just fine and...

I don't know if anyone's still paying attention to this thread, but after disabling the Nvidia LAN it hasn't frozen up in a couple days. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get the other NIC on the mobo--a 3com--to work. The drivers install just fine, windows says the NIC is working fine, but...

A quick update: swapped the RAM and it still freezes up. Talked to Asus tech support and found out the the RAM slots are numbered in the opposite direction I thought. But, even with the RAM in slot one, it still freezes up. It also froze up in safe mode w/ networking but not in regular safe...

Well, this might make a difference. Last night I left it in safe mode with networking and it froze up. That was with most of the peripherals on in the BIOS, so I turned them all off except the LAN and left it in safe w/ networking again... and it froze up. So, it looks like it's either the LAN...

pddxr: Nice idea (and one that hasn't been mentioned) but I NEVER plug a computer into the wall or even a power strip. I use an APC 650 UPS. This should be conditioning the power. I'm actually gonna be moving pretty soon, so while my set-up is torn apart, I'll leave this box plugged into a...

Wow, what a flurry of replies suddenly... thanks! Let's see; I ordered a new stick of ram today: 512 MB of corsair pc2100 (there have been some issues with the nforce and corsair 2700, but that was only a specific batch and only the 2700). I guess I should try bumping the RAM voltage. Sorry to...

I can't remember if I mentioned it, but yes, I did flash the BIOS... and have tried three different sets of drivers for the mobo. I do think it's a driver issue; as someone pointed out on another list, this is a very new board and we users do the manufacturers testing for them... we're the...

I talked to an "expert" at the store I bought the board at a little while ago. He put me back on the hardware trail... not that I necessarily think he knows what he's talking about. It's very frustrating that there is so much guess work involved in this. Anyway, he pointed out that...

I'm running Windows 2000/sp3, not XP. I only have one profile. Not using any screen saver or Windows power options. Last night I turned off all the integrated peripherals in the BIOS and it didn't freeze up. I'm gonna leave it the same way tonight to make sure that wasn't a fluke. This brings...

Hey, thanks for all the advice guys... I would have responded sooner but I thought I was gonna get email notification... (I have it marked, but it must not be working). Let's see, I haven't actually swapped RAM cuz I don't have any more DDR that the single 512 stick I'm using. I've been trying...

I bought a spiffy new ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe (w/ SATA RAID, 5.1 Dolby Sound, Firewire, USB 2.0, AGP8x, etc.) last December and built myself a new system with that, an Athlon XP2000+, 512 MB of DDR2100, a Matrox G450, two IBM drives (40 and 80 gig), a Plextor cd burner and Windows 2000 (w/sp3). It ran...

Thanks for the suggestion... tried it and, unfortunately, the SET command doesn't work beacause I don't have the right snap-in. And before I go on and start asking about snap-ins, I think I need to ask some basic straightforward questions to make sure I understand all this. What exactly goes in...

I can't boot without the floppy... sorry, I thought that was the only possible problem that a bad mbr could cause. If I have a floppy with ntldr and ntdetect.com on it in the drive when I start up, it boots into the win2k install on my hard drive just fine. Without the floppy it won't boot. I...