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theredpriest
Originally I purchased an A7N8X-E Deluxe to replace a Gigabyte GA-
7N400 Pro that ran for 9 months before it died of bios corruption.
The Deluxe only booted once, I changed some minor bios settings for
time and date but it never did again. I struggled to get the board
to POST in the first place, and went through every conceivable jumper
position and hardware configuration after the reboot failed (with 3
Athlon cpu's, 2 video cards and 2 HDD's; my dram is HyperX PC-3500
2x256 and supported according to ASUS), but it never worked again.
(I also tried an AOpen AK79D400-Max but it NEVER booted at all!)
I'm replacing the Deluxe with an A7V880. Eventually I'll upgrade to
Socket 939 (and Winchester) but for now I want to know a few things...
1) Does the nForce3 suffer from bios corruption the way nForce2 does?
2) Can anyone speak to the overclocking capabilities of the A7V880? Is
the AGP/PCI lock functional? And what bios version is the best for it?
3) Does the KT880 chipset run as hot as nForce2? Case temps (and cpu
of course) were outrageous on the GA-7N400 Pro!
4) I don't suppose Does KT880 suffers from the same bios corruption and
floating frequencies as nForce2, does it?
Thanks in advance for all the help, I really appreciate it!
7N400 Pro that ran for 9 months before it died of bios corruption.
The Deluxe only booted once, I changed some minor bios settings for
time and date but it never did again. I struggled to get the board
to POST in the first place, and went through every conceivable jumper
position and hardware configuration after the reboot failed (with 3
Athlon cpu's, 2 video cards and 2 HDD's; my dram is HyperX PC-3500
2x256 and supported according to ASUS), but it never worked again.
(I also tried an AOpen AK79D400-Max but it NEVER booted at all!)
I'm replacing the Deluxe with an A7V880. Eventually I'll upgrade to
Socket 939 (and Winchester) but for now I want to know a few things...
1) Does the nForce3 suffer from bios corruption the way nForce2 does?
2) Can anyone speak to the overclocking capabilities of the A7V880? Is
the AGP/PCI lock functional? And what bios version is the best for it?
3) Does the KT880 chipset run as hot as nForce2? Case temps (and cpu
of course) were outrageous on the GA-7N400 Pro!
4) I don't suppose Does KT880 suffers from the same bios corruption and
floating frequencies as nForce2, does it?
Thanks in advance for all the help, I really appreciate it!