A8R32-MVP what is it

on the lighter side of this fiasco, maybe we should try dialling 118-118, those 2 moustached morons may have some info. Especially as they're now using the a-team music.
 
Would like to say thanks to Raja and Coolasmoo and all the others really trying to get this issue sorted! Thanks guys - I really want to like this board but I also need something that works and is stable...I know that as soon as I send it back there will be a fix and i will regret it!

Just for info my system consists of

Thermaltake TR2-500w PSU
2x512mb Mushkin XP4400
1xConnect 3D X1900XTX Cards

Have also tried my Winfast 7800GT card and the same happens...

Hope any of this helps. As I say Im still looking and hoping for a solution.
 
Just pre-adding my thanks to everyone for trying to sort this as well - as I have this board arriving tomorrow, and anticipate these problems :( - as all I do is edit old home surf movie footage for transfer dvd and stuff, and play BF2,HL2 & CS:Source - so by the looks of things I stand a high chance of this happening - I'll certainly post when it's built and let you know if i'm getting problems too - spec is as follows:

FX-60
Asus EAX1900XTX - single
2Gb G.Skill DDR ZX PC3200 2X1Gb
Nesteq 620W ASM PSU

XP Pro OS will go on a clean 160Gb SATA Western Digital Caviar 8mb Cache.
Will post as soon as it's up and running in one form or another.
 
Front page DriverHeaven


http://www.driverheaven.net/#news100818

That brings us up to this evening when some of our readers contacted us saying that they and a few others were experiencing random performance issues in real world programs (such as Quake 4 and Battlefield 2) when using their A8R32-MVP. Having read through those issues it was clear that they too had attempted many of the same fixes as us and as they did not have access to the timing fix bios (v 0309) they were left with an unusable board and worse, a waste of money.

We have chosen to publish the above information to ensure that anyone wishing to purchase the A8R32-MVP is aware of the issues that end users are currently experiencing as no online review has yet made people aware of the performance issues with this particular board. We also want to make existing users aware that they cannot fix the issues themselves.

We await the fix from ATI/Asus and will report back on its success as soon as we have tested it. Hopefully now that real users are affected Asus will give the fix a higher priority.
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Full news post :

http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?t=100818
 
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Wow, blimey, things are hotting up. I'm so glad I found this forum with all you guys making your contributions. I've just performed my third XP install and I'm bushed, gotta teach IT tomorrow as well :-) Keep the positives coming I'm sure that this will be a great motherboard once this problem is sorted out...
ChrisC
 
HI,

well at least it's good to see that asus know about the problem, and all this publicity that us guys have been able to stir up should help our cause, and also help a lot of people who have ordered the board. Let's just see if they can deliver the bios, sheesh we can't get our hands on 0309................

Thanks
Raja


I might try to contact ATI and see what they say......
 
Good info on DH there.. at least it sounds like Asus/Ati KNOW what the problem is.. lets just hope it only takes a bios update to fix
 
Hi again folks and good morning :-)
Well after re-installing X64 onto my maxlineIII's using raid_0 I again retested with HDtach. Burst is ok, over 250mbs/sec again, average is over 98, however the average seek time is over 16ms, whereas Maxtor quote an average of 9.0. So maybe the timings issue is also affecting the HD speeds, if that's so that would explain why quake stutters whilst the drive is being accessed....
ChrisC
 
chriscatt said:
Hi, gone a bit quiet around here, I guess we all just hold our breath eh?
ChrisC
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i dont supose there is any new news

the ball is now in asus/ati court to produce a bios that will work,we ( not the royal one )have gone as far as we can , no ammount of messing with the setting will correct a duff bios

yourself,raja and coolasmoo pluss others have done your bit it has been confirmed and we await the result


good work guys in the face of all the reviews ( which in the future i will take no notice of apart from one and we all know which one that is , they were unsure and held back
 
Hi,

Just got an almost automated response from ati, so I've pushed the 'ticket' back at them saying the issue has not been resolved so far.

I had another e-mail from anadtech asking me more info about drivers etc, it kinda takes time to get through all the things before we get any real answers.

I think if we can get together and put together a single typed screen of all the things we have tried in collaboration, in terms of system settings, re-loads, configs, psu specs, amd drivers, hotfix etc. We could then forward this in our initial email and get all bases covered, forcing a quicker answer to the real issue, rather than beating about.

We can just copy, click and paste, the info everywhere we can.

I don't think we should let up the pressure on asus or ati, those reviews look like paste and click results to me anyway, and at best the games were probably played for a couple of mins, to obtain frame rates, even hoping for that much is far fetched............

Thanks
Raja

see how some sites already know we are on to their 'reviews' and using our info as their own??? It's still good though as it puts the word out.

I have spent the last few years playing around with audio circuits, and amplifiers. The situation with reviews in audio, is that the vendor has to pay a fee to get a review in key magazines, this is a fact, and has been well documented by vendors who became known to me.
 
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Hi raja,

If you read the full article at Driverheaven, the issue is a bios timing fault so i dont think we need to do anymore than wait really ,

They are aware of the problem and all we can do is hope that it gets fixed quick.

:)
 
Hi,

I suppose impatience creeps in, I suppose I'm concerned that things will go the way of the previous model............

Raja
 
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