A8R32-MVP what is it

In Device Manager, 1.0.5.8
The built-in speed test under "ULI Settings" result in 183 MB/sec burst and 63 MB/sec sustained.

1.0.16.0 for the SATA SIL controller
 
Strange BIOS problem (I think)

WOW, the past three days have been a whirlwind. I'll try to keep this as short as possible but I wanted to give as many facts about things as I can.

First off I will say this box was overclocked...a lot. However it was totally prime95 stable and in fact ran for a month playing hl2,fear,hl2 ep1, sin episodes without issue.

Then I upgraded the ATI catalysts to 6.8. I usually like to do a 3dmark run (I hold little stock in it as a true benchmark, more of a guideline/ stess test) Anyways it would crash with a D3D_ERR. Note it ran flawlessly at first, even directly after 4 hours straight of prime95. But all my games still ran so I did not worry about it too much. (I did get it to run by boosting DDR voltage but I did not feel comfortable running the ram that hard all the time (2.85 on corsair twinx2048c2 REV 1.2 ,2-3-3-6 1T@420mhz.

Then three days ago one of my games crashed with a similar error. So I decided to go into the BIOS and change the CAS strobe to 2.5 to see if that might help. Once I made the change and selected "Save and exit" The machine reset, started to boot, got the normal one beep...and then nothing.

No video, no keyboard lights (USB), no floppy seek no light on the mouse (USB) nada.

Since then I have:
reset cmos, pulled (and even replaced) the battery. Swapped the memory. I then pulled both video cards to at least try to force a BIOS error (One long beep followed by three short indicating no video) and it worked. It beeped the error code. I then put one card back in and I got a BIOS screen! yay! I then set everything, and selected save and exit again and..poof! same exact symptom. Like its hanging at the save or it corrupted in some way (oh, also note that when I did get in, all the settings were back to defaults).

Here is the kicker. I have another A8R32-MVP (another saga in itself but i'll spare that story) I reset the BIOS again, still nothing. Once I pull and force the error (using the video card) I was able to get back in. I then reflashed it using a floppy which worked fine. It did boot to bios on its own the next boot, I set only a few settings (date/time, raid etc). and tried to save exit. Got the same hang yet again. So I swapped the BIOS EEPROM from the other motherboard into this one (note this was still at 411 rev, not 502 like the one in the rig), and still have the same exact same problem. And the ability to force the reset and then be able to get in the BIOS is NOT consistent (never was) a crapshoot really. Now it looks like I have to pull the motherboard and bench test it. (You have no idea how much of a pain in the butt that is going to be, here is a pic): Rig Picture

I'm open to suggestions of things to try before gutting the box......
 
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squiffy said:
Got a lemon tbh...get a replacement? Difficult with warranty, not dead but if you've narrowed it down to the board.. :confused:
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well ive tried moving a few card's around to see if it was the irq sharing

i went from this;



to this;



not sure if it will sort it i guess ill just have to see if i still get problems ill test the memory but im sure its fine, and RMA it, what is asus rma like i bet a total nightmare, god it never ends :(
 
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I bought a cheapo PCI video card for test purposes. It will boot into bios and do anything else I want all day long with that card (i'm not going to try to actually boot XP it will screw it up with a different vid card and thats not my problem anyways.*BUT*...

If I put the master crossfire card in (upper slot) machine beeps once but then hangs (no keyboard lights, floppy seek..zippo.

If I put the slave card in the lower slot *MOST* of the time it will boot from a fresh power on, but it will *NEVER* boot from a warm start. That is to say either ctl+alt+del or hitting the reset button. Hangs the same exact way. I find it difficult though not impossible, to believe that I have 2 bad ATI cards, but I highly doubt it. Neither were overclocked at all (yet) I'm going to see if anyone I know has a PCI-e card I can try in either slot.... Just too dang wierd.
 
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Hi, I'd like to say that if it was IRQ sharing then how come many of us have a decent stable system with sharing, as it's always been with this motherboard , or any other AMD based ones that I've owned that do the same. Mine is rock solid whatever I do with it, whatever games I play whatever benchmark I care to throw at it. It is, as all of my motherboard's that I've owned extremely reliable, yes I had issues to begin with, and I had to rma my first motherboard and my memory modules, but now I can say I have a excellent system. I agree with squiffy, I'm afraid, I doubt very much it is IRQ's that cause your problems....

SLI Fallen, have you another CPU you can try?
ChrisC
 
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IRQ sharing has been since 2000 and XP. I've had many PC's with those operating systems sharing IRQ's, no problems. You cannot change IRQ sharing with XP (could with 2000)
 
Hi, then have a talk with your supplier, explain what the issues are and what you done, then politely request a replacment on the grounds that the one you've got is faulty. However you must be sure, and evidence if you can, that you have performed all tests on all other components that have been used, such as memory modules, to prove it isn't them causing the issue...
ChrisC
 
chriscatt said:
Hi, then have a talk with your supplier, explain what the issues are and what you done, then politely request a replacment on the grounds that the one you've got is faulty. However you must be sure, and evidence if you can, that you have performed all tests on all other components that have been used, such as memory modules, to prove it isn't them causing the issue...
ChrisC
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after moving my network pci wireless card off irq 18 ive had no problems and ive been using all day but as ive said before they could pop up at any time ill just wait and see :) cheers for all the advice chris
 
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