A7N8x Deluxe CPU and FSB Speed Settings

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:43:28 -0600, Charlie Hoffpauir
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>On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:52:43 -0500, wrote:
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>>On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:43:39 -0600, Charlie Hoffpauir
>><> wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:33:02 -0500, wrote:
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>>>>For now, though, I will take your advice and drop the speed.
>>>>
>>>>If it becomes rock solid stable at a lower speed, what does that mean?
>>>>Does it mean the CPU is marginal? That is one possibility in my mind,
>>>>but are there other possibilities? I wouldn't mind buying a new CPU
>>>>because I can get a faster one for pretty cheap, but I would hate it
>>>>if it turned out to be the board. Actually, I am tempted to buy a
>>>>whole different board and CPU.
>>>
>>>If lowering the speed makes it stable, are you considering getting
>>>another board? If so, are you interested in getting rid of this one
>>>(cheaply), I also have an A7N8x Deluxe and am having no problems with
>>>it.... but I also have a box with a cheap ECS board in it that is real
>>>flaky.... so... I sure would like to replace that ECS with something
>>>that wouldn't cost me a lot.
>>>
>>>If interested you can contact me off list at charliehoffp at yahoo dot
>>>com.
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>>You seem confident that my problem is not the board. Hmmm...
>
>Not at all! I'm interested in it ONLY if lowering the speed makes it
>stable, which would then indicate to me that the board was OK.

Well earlier today, at the rated speed it was running for various
amounts of time under Linux, from 20 minutes to an hour or so. I
decided to run the Asus Probe utility so I could monitor the temps and
voltages, so I swapped hard discs for on with XP on it. Under XP the
PC would hardly boot before it froze up. I went into the bios and
slowed it down, and it has been running stable for a couple of hours
now (under XP), although, based on past performance, it will
eventually freeze up even at an underclocked speed. The CPU and
motherboard temps were very good,BTW, and the voltages are all in
range.

But my point is that it gets better at slower speeds, but I don't
think I can slow it down enough to make it perfectly stable.

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:15:04 -0500, Paul <> wrote:

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>> Dang, it froze up again. Good thing I wasn't flashing the bios when
>> it happened. Now I don't know what to do. It seems to be more stable
>> than it was before I started mucking around. It is running at the
>> proper clock speed which it wouldn't do before. This has me stumped.
>
>Drop the clock speed, and test stability again.
>
>As you correctly note, flashing an unstable system is asking for trouble.
>
> Paul


It freezes up no matter what I do. I've given up on it. It is now a
source of parts. I already took out the hard drives. Next will be
the DVD burner and power supply to go into another computer that I'm
putting together from parts.