Gino said:
Mine behaves strangely. Dunno if it's a problem of PSU or MoBo or
disk. Sometimes it says cpu fan failed then doesn't boot (no vid) or
the video keeps blank and typing the password it boots (blind),
sometimes not. Sometimes, it doesn't detect IDE drives, either with
or without video. This lasted for ten days two weeks ago and
disappeared.
Sometimes the screen gets blank for 1 or 2 seconds during a session
then recovers.
Up to here I would say PSU.
I disconnected about half of the load (all SCSI drives, CD burner &
CR Rom) this didn't change anything. The steady-state voltages are
within the specified ranges (3-1/2 digit multimeter). Dunno about
surges because the board sinks a high current and might create
voltage drops or ringing while powering the MoBo On. I don't have an
oscilloscope available to make the test. Would like to find the
electrical specs of the board !
When you remove load and still get the same problems with the same
regularity... possibly not PSU. At least.. the cpu can probably handle the
load - it could still be a dry joint in the psu or something.
Anyway, I'm far of being satisfied with this board. Too much heat
from the CPU (2400+) albeit well ventilated.
And thats board related?
The case must remain open.
The 3COM lan port doesn't work when the NVidia is enabled.
Have I spoken to you about this before? I still reckon it's likely to be
the routing table configuration in the bios. For example, when I enable a
certain combination of the NICs, it doesn't attempt to access the internet
through my dialup, prefering to attempt to use one of the NICs. This is a
problem with the routing table in Win2K... It's setting up the masks wrong
and using my NIC as a gateway, not my modem.
I've
the random problems described above. No BSODs but random freezes,
especially under IE 5.5 no kbd, no mouse, no network
You done a memtest86 on it to confirm memory stability?
I can't install
the Nvidia drivers (from the Asus CDROM) on a fresh Win98 SE (on a
separate partition), ... However it worked the first time when the
system was pristine. Today, the suspend button doesn't suspend !
You shopuldn't really be using Win98 these days, it's atrocious in
comparison to Win2K/XP. The memory management is poor, resources low and
stability is questionable.
? Manual seems pretty complete to me.
problems are recurrent from the first rev to
the newer ones.
Yes, that is annoying, but I think some of the problems are software related
(some of which should be fixed in the 3.13s).
Some softwares aren't supported by the NForce 2
chipset (Maxtor PowerMax for example So I can't check my disks).
OK, but pretty rare.
The Asus site sucks. Never they answer.
Given, they could do some load balancing or something - having their website
throw SQL errors at you is annoying. As to support, you either need to RMA
the board or come here or nForcersHQ for advice.
I've spent tens of hours on different sites. Everywhere this the same
sounds and feelings.
Only from the people that are not happy with their board. There are many
people who do not need to go to these forums to complain, because their
board works flawlessly. My board hasn't caused me any problems whatsoever.
Ben
