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i have a smaal annoying problem with this board, either the mouse or keyboard randomly fail to start when powered up ie. no lights on keyboard etc...

I have a USB modem which always starts fine, so i cant see why only the mouse and keyboard are affected, anyone else have these problems? any ideas or solutions?

Many thanks if you can help
 
Yes thanks it did work, but it's still annoying that the boot order doesn't do what it's supposed to.

On another matter, has anyone noticed that the old trick of holding down INSERT when powering on no longer boots with default settings? It used to be very handy on older mobos if overclocking fails to be able to get back to the BIOS without taking the side of the case off and jumpering the CMOS reset.
 
mattross said:
On another matter, has anyone noticed that the old trick of holding down INSERT when powering on no longer boots with default settings? It used to be very handy on older mobos if overclocking fails to be able to get back to the BIOS without taking the side of the case off and jumpering the CMOS reset.
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Yes, I've noticed that as well. Annoying that this very handy feature isn't there...

Martin
 
Most Asus boards do this automatically without pressing Insert. If it cannot boot at the O/C settings the MB switches to default and ask to proceed (F1) or go to the BIOS setup (del).
 
Can anyone who has this motherboard and a Thermalright XP-120 tell me if the heatsink overhangs the board at all, pics with it installed would be even better if anyone has some.

Just trying to work out if it will fit my case.
 
Can anyone who has this motherboard and a Thermalright XP-120 tell me if the heatsink overhangs the board at all, pics with it installed would be even better if anyone has some.
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havent got a camera as such, but i can tell you (just had a quick look) that the XP-120 doesent overhang the board. The top edge is about 1cm inside the top edge of the motherboard
 
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Ok thanks for that, it should fit in the case fine then, just ordered
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When i fitted this, it slightly moved a few capacitors (located on the left of the cpu socket), but only by a couple of mm. And the heatpipes hardly get warm anyway so theres no problem. Only thing did have to do was remove one memory module, to allow the heatsink to be angled during installion. After that, theres plenty of clearence to put the module back in (even with heatsinks on the memory).

joe
 
RST said:
Can anyone who has this motherboard and a Thermalright XP-120 tell me if the heatsink overhangs the board at all, pics with it installed would be even better if anyone has some.

Just trying to work out if it will fit my case.
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i got one on mine with it overhanging the mofset. it is very close to edge of board but still fits inside my case which has a solid underneath bit where psu is.
 
I see the latest official BIOS still doesn't give more volts for X2 CPU's :( Bit of a joke really.

As soon as the DFI Expert is out over here I'll be moving to that I think, need more volts!
 
I wonder if anyone can help with my system problems.

My problem started off when I was having trouble with the transfer speed from the silicon image raid controller I was getting a max speed of 3MB/s. Having moved the drives I had on that controller over to the NVIDIA SATA Controller I thought everything was working fine. However since then I have been having issues with 3D games being jerky and hanging for 5 seconds at random intervals. My system specs are as below:-

Asus A8N SLI Premium
AMD X2 4400
1GB OCZ 3500
1 x 160GB WD SATA
2 x 250GB WD SATA RAID 1
1 x BFG 7800GTX
1 x Audigy 2
Windows XP Pro 32 Bit

So far I have tried the following to correct the problem:-

- Reinstalled windows twice, all the newest BIOSs, drivers, direct x etc
- Swapped out the memory
- Tried connecting just a single ide hard disk
- Removed the sound card

I have noticed however that when I reduce the sound quality in games to low or disabled the performance seems fine without any hanging however when I enable the onboard audio this behaves the same as the audigy card. I was wondering if the problem with the Silicon Image controller was connected to my overall system problem as I believe the controller uses the PCI bus and so does the soundcard. Anyone with any suggestions would be of great help as this is starting to get on my nerves.
 
Wildman1255 said:
Could somebody tell me where to find the divider in the bios for this motherboard please?

Thanks in advance :)
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rather oddly its under cpu config in the bios, set your dram config to manual and then you get a ram speed options of 400,333,266,200 etc. Those are your dividers.

Its not even clear when you get those options because ddr 333 doesn't mean very much when it's going to end up runninf faster.. 333 is basically 4:5, 266 3:5.. all approx but you get the idea.

Odd that the memory options are in cpu config and the overclocking is in jumperfree???

I think I'll be joinging in with the posters above when the dfi expert comes along.
 
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