A8R32-MVP - Problems, Problems and more Problems

Hi all, I wanted to start a thread that deals with the issues this board has and which some of you may or may not have experienced. Hopefully we can find ways we might be able to fix them?

A couple of things I have noticed with this board (which I really dont think was/is ready for prime time).. Rev1.03G BIOS 0311

- Buggy BIOS that defies logic, e.g, why can I boot at 270*10 and not at 270*9?
- High pitched whine or whistle coming from RAM when board is idle??
- Voltage fluctuations when idle which is not so bad when under load.
- Interference with onboard sound whilst using network
- Pathetic network performance from onboard NIC's on a 100Mb LAN - (Max throughput is about 2-5%) new and old drivers tested.
- Only my bottom PCI slot works and that has to be wiggled into the right position before it is recognised
Warm boot issues when overclocking (sometimes it boots, sometimes it doesnt)
- long pauses in Windows (which seems to have been rectified by using a PCI network card)
- Long delay initialising BIOS when using a USB hub

I am sure more can be added to this list

I'd rma that sucker, my second board is way better than the first, I will let you know how the network performance goes next week. I will be switching from wireless broadband to wired thru the onboard lan, hope it's better than the figures you mention!!

There is still some interferance in the onboard sound at times, but it's not as bad as my first board.

Your probably right Raja but if I am taking this pile of junk out then I wont be fitting another ASUS board. I had problems with my P4C800e-Deluxe, my A8R-MVP and now this one. I should have learnt my lesson about buying ASUS stuff.

Still I am certain it has the potential to be a good board but so much depends on ASUS helping us out and they have seemed reluctant unless well known people in the industry get involved as well (i.e, having to contact anandtech, driverheaven, etc to get something done about original BIOS problems). Nothing at all has been done to rectify a lot of the problems associated with the older A8R-MVP

Like raja mentioned, the noise you can hear is from a faulty component on the Motherboard,

Myself and raja both RMA'd our first boards and the second one's are fine.

The PCI-E network card seems fine to me

I do get the warm reboot issue, and i have to manually restart

I dont get the pausing in Windows you mentioned and i have also got a USB 2 Hub which doesnt cause any problems. (Although i did get a long pause until i swapped a Saitek game pad for the Xbox360 pad)

Thats interesting. I too have a Saitek game pad and would never have thought to swap it out. Thanks for the heads up on that Coolasmoo
Edit: Tried it without the Saitek, no change, still hangs.

Do you use your onboard network across a LAN or just for the internet. I notice mine is fine for normal DSL usage but for my network at home it was completely unusable. A 2MB email from a friend took nearly 8 minutes to download from my email server...

i use it for both but mostly for Lan and Internet really.

I havent noticed any immediate problems though.

Are you using the Second lan port (nearest the PSU) thats the PCI-E NIC

The other one is a plain PCI one

Just to clear up ,

Im using

USB 2 HUB > Xbox360 controller, Epson C82 and an Epson Photo R340

Onboard Rear > Saitek Eclipse Keyboard, Razor Copperhead Mouse

Front > Usb Pen Drive/Mobile Phone (only gets connected when needed)

- Very flakey overclocking (both original and the new bios)
- Squeeling noise when system is 'busy' could be either a memory or nic issue

thanks for all that info...

i was actually gonna get one not now though

So what do I get to go with a xt1800 then?

What is RMA btw?

thanks peeps

I tried both onboard LAN's and both were slow. When i put my bargain bin $10 NIC in my speed immediately went to 70-80%.

I have a Logitech G15 keyboard, Logitech USB bluetooth hub, Microsoft USB mouse, USB CD/DVD library and a Sandisk card reader
USB Hub - Saitek Rumbleforce gamepad, a Logitech Driving force pro wheel (unplugged as it wont boot at all with it plugged in) and empty usb cables for my phone and camera.

I am a bit miffed with the PCI not working. I cant use any slot other than the bottom one.

RMA- Return to Manufacturer - seems instructions to do this should come on the box

swaussie said:

RMA- Return to Manufacturer - seems instructions to do this should come on the box

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Return Merchandise Authorisation - OcUK give you this to authorise items return for replace/repair

And yes it should