A8R32-MVP what is it

Dr Who

with my little knowlage, the a8r-mvp ( the one I have at this time ) share the IRQ very similar to the board raja has and coolasmoo, yes this mobo has problems with the voltage , and maybe the IRQ shareing is not up to par but the programs that are causing the problem run ok with none or very little problem ?

could it not just be somthing as simple as the games not liking the RD580 chipset, as in the past we know that some games have problems with certain chipset/cpu combos which are usualy sorted with a game patch , not a sysytem rebuild

just my take on the matter .when OCuK dispatch the mobo ,I will be able to make a more enlightened input. funny thing tho I seem to have ordered before Duke but have no mobo
 
Hi guys

I haven't had any major problems with the board & X1900 XTX... just a few cooling issues to solve.. i.e due to watercooling (cpu), there is little air movement in the case which means the chipset gets too hot (old chipset wasnt passive). So I can't do too much until either the AC X2 or new Zalman gpu coolers come out plus need to hook up a silent 80mm case fan.

Motherboad came with the 2nd revisions bios.

Currently running Opteron 146 @ 300 x 10 3.0GHz and XTX at stock. See here for 3DMark results.

CS-S and Trackmania Nations (all on max settings more or less) run OK, as well as the 3DMark test runs. Going to give TOCA 3 a try tonight/tomorrow.
 
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Hi,

where can I find the revision number for my board, and also do you have battlefield 2, if so can you give it a try and see what happens after about 5-10 mins of playing

Thanks
Raja
 
Hi, I've run into an issue with this board and my drives and I am wondering if anyone can help me.
I have, as my main drive, two Maxtors MaxlineIII's, which are setup as Raid_0's. I also have two Diamondmax 10's, which are giving me issues, setup as JBOD's, on the same controller - the ULi M1575. These drives were fine on my A8V but were connected on a different controller, the Silicon, with the maxline's on the promise. I can mount the Diamondmax's through XP but it is failing to format them. The only way I've managed to format is through booting up to the XP disc and using that to partiton and format whilst going through the install XP routine, then rebooting before actually installing anything, however I get problems when performing a offline defrag. I've tried through the dos prompt and that fails, a quick format fails also. One thing I'm wondering is maybe I need to change any of the jumpers on the drive, both set as master, I think.
Anyone out there with any ideas?
ChrisC
 
Hi Chris,

in my experience Sata connections ignore the hard drive jumpers. The rest has me baffled, I have 2 wd 250gig hard drives in raid 0 and they work fine with this board, so I can't offer any more advise.

PS can someone please tell me how I can find out what my motherboard revision number is?

Thanks
Raja
 
raja said:
where can I find the revision number for my board, and also do you have battlefield 2, if so can you give it a try and see what happens after about 5-10 mins of playing
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As above, it can be found between the PCI slots :) I don't have BF2 so can't test that for you :o
 
Hi,

cheers found it just above the bios battery, it's 1.03g, so I guess that rules it out being an evaluation board.........

Duke I did not have bf2 on this computer either, but I downloaded the demo just to see if the results would be the same as andy and coolasmoo. EA games UK has it, it take about an hour and a half to download, if you don't have time that's fine. I just thought it would help clear up issues of pre release boards etc....

Thanks
Raja
 
lordedmond said:
Dr Who

with my little knowlage, the a8r-mvp ( the one I have at this time ) share the IRQ very similar to the board raja has and coolasmoo, yes this mobo has problems with the voltage , and maybe the IRQ shareing is not up to par but the programs that are causing the problem run ok with none or very little problem ?

could it not just be somthing as simple as the games not liking the RD580 chipset, as in the past we know that some games have problems with certain chipset/cpu combos which are usualy sorted with a game patch , not a sysytem rebuild

just my take on the matter .when OCuK dispatch the mobo ,I will be able to make a more enlightened input. funny thing tho I seem to have ordered before Duke but have no mobo
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You could be right, all I am saying is that I moved away from AMD due to instability issues a while ago, I was hoping that coming back (reading reports etc) that the latest gen mobo's were gonna have solved all the irq sharing issues that were present on the older NF2 mobo's I had back then...

It seems I was wrong to have believed the positive reports about AMD as there are still issues with instability...

My P4 system used to stay on 24/7 for months without a reboot, and yet with this system, I can expect a crash at least once every few days... major pauses when running games, and an inability to run USB without a crash every few minutes....

IMHO that is unacceptable on a motherboard for consumers in this day and age....

Trouble is I am between a rock and a hard place now... do I sell an FX60, 2gb of ram at a massive loss and then buy an Intel crossfire mobo, CPU and ram or persist in trying to find a crossfire AMD mobo that works as it should? and just throw more good money after bad...

I am not overclocking, dont want to overclock, dont want to squeeze every last drop out of my FSB, HTT and cpu, I just want a stable x86 system...

Is that too much to ask?

:rolleyes:
 
I agree mate, this board (so far) is pretty bad...

Ok it might get better with updates but I want something that works now and I think I will be getting rid!

One thing I will say is this...dont get rid of your stuff. You have some excellent gear. Just go and buy yourself a A8N32 or A8N-Sli Deluxe. I know I will be going back to this! Never had any issues with this board!

I dont think I will be going back with ATI in a hurry. Will be sticking with NVidia for the near future...I think they are a little better all round!
 
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Duke I did not have bf2 on this computer either, but I downloaded the demo just to see if the results would be the same as andy and coolasmoo
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If I get time this week, I'll give it a try matey.
 
guys im pretty dissapointed so far with your experiences with this mobo as i was planning on getting one.

im sure you know about this but to the guys that have dual X1900 cards,
waht psu's are you running as its been found that crossfire on the RD480 needs a single 12v rail psu to function correctly. maybe it applies to the new mobo aswell.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29940

maybe just maybe this is what is causing all your problems
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Ducati Mach 1
 
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Spooky,

I have a seasonic s12 600w, it's approved by ati for crossfire, secondly I had no issues like this whilst using the a8r-mvp, so it's not the power supply...............


see ya
 
a monday thought what GFX card is evey body using ?

is everybody using a x1900xt/xtx

a wild though as its one game ,maybe two , could it not be the cats 6.2 profile thatis causing the hicthes

maybe its time to test with the 5.13 as suppied on the cd that came with the card
 
I am using a X1900XTX also however...

I have a couple of 7800GT's still lying about. I will possibly try installing one of these into the board and see what happens. Wont be able to do until later tonight as working late, so if anybody does it before me I'll look out for there post.
 
OK - Just tried my 7800GT card quickly.

Popped on HL2 Lost Coast

and......

The Same thing happens. Oh well its not the GFX Card anyway! Looks like it really is a motherboard problem???
 
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