Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Not Recognized

[Guest]

Vista: x64 Ultimate build 5384
Motherboard: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe

Vista is installed and works fairly well for a number of applications, but
it does not recognize my motherboard at all. I know it has to see it at some
level to have everything working, including the onboard sound and nforce4
processor, but whenever I try to do things like update the board bios or
install the asus monitoring tools it lists that I have no Asus motherboard
installed. There are also 'unknown devices' which I have tracked down to the
game ports, but it won't let me install the drivers for them because I don't
have any Asus motherboards installed.

Has anyone seen this before and know how to get the system to recognize my
mainboard? I can't find any Vista drivers on the Asus site.

 

[Guest]

I have the same mother board and I am also having trouble with the drivers.
For starters I cant get a working sound driver for, "Realtek ALC850 AC'97
Driver" and I also have 4gig of memory and it only reads 2gig's?

 

[Zapper]

What happens when you try to install the Realtek beta Vista drivers?
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/dlac97-2.aspx?lineid=5&famid=12&series=8&Software=True

They worked for my Shuttle with AC'97

 

[Guest]

I installed the realtek drivers from asus.
it was a 84 meg download for all windows os's.
i installed them and clicked run as administrator.
when it was done the icon showed up in the tray and allowed my to get all of
my speakers working.
before that the speaker setup would only have sound out of the front's and
the center
it showed all of the speakers but no sound came out the sub or the rear
speakers
when tested.
i'm running vista rc1 bld 5600

 

[Guest]

I have the same motherboard. I have withdrawn from using Windows Vista
because of the lack of drivers and support indicated at this time. ASUS is a
major manufactorer of leading edge boards but the drivers and installation
were unsatisfactory. The Board was unstable in my experience with Vista.

 

[Guest]

I have VISTA 32bit RTM on this board, all ports/drives plugged into the USB
headers work, sound works, NVIDIA & Marvell ethernet connections work, etc.,
etc. Only issue I had was after installing a couple of programs, control
panel would crash windows explorer. Backtracking, using system restore got
back to CP working right, reinstalled everything I had before, except PC
Probe II (that might have caused the issue), no problems now. I probably
won't be re-installing that. I have the most current bios, I doubt they'll
be releasing anymore BIOS updates for this board so there's really no reason
to have ASUS update on here. If you've got the most current BIOS, you don't
need to run any ASUS programs anyway. You shouldn't need any drivers that
aren't already installed by VISTA or after running MS update. Try a
re-install, with a format/complete install, not updating or repairing your
windows install. I've got some weird hardware hooked up/on board, the
install & update found all the drivers. Jim

 

[formerprof]

My A8N32SLI-Deluxe works perfectly with Vista x86 and x64; the real support
you'd be needing if you keep the board are the nVidia drivers for the
chipset and disk controllers. There should be Vista drivers for the Nforce
4 chipset for quite a while to come. ASUS "support" amounts to allowing you
to download the nVidia drivers. I don't think you have anything to gain by
changing boards but keeping the same memory and CPU.


All good wishes.


formerprof

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

The only issue I have had with the motherboard and vista business is
that the usb ports did not work. 

See WIndows Updates today .....

 

[jabloomf1230]

Hah! My Firewire ports are not detected in Vista x64 Ultimate, so don't
feel bad. ;-)

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Glad to hear it -- enjoy!

 

[Guest]

I am currently using the Asus A8V mobo. the yukon ehtenrt gigabit card
connects to the internet only in safe mode. is ASUS working for support of
this mobo?
I ordered the a8n32-sli deluxe 3 months or so ago, i haven't even opened it
yet b/c of the marvell yukon integrated lan card bad rap i've read on the
internet.
Should i switch to a different mobo company?
Any fix for the A8V mobo LAN issues?
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Keith]

Same here - I have the original A8N SLI Premium and never had a problem with
the onboard LAN.

 

[Guest]

I am using the A8V mobo with vista ultimate 64 bit. i have the A8N-SLI DELUXE
in an unopened box specially for Vista but I read that it is not vista
compatible. ASUS supprot told me to return it to the online retailer but I
bought it in september 06 and they say say they can only replace it.
I will no longer buy ASUS products because they refuse to support theur XP
motherboards so that they can sell their new Vista boards.

 

[Bill Thomas]

I am using the A8N32 sli deluxe with vista, not the exact same board,
but no problems with this model.


Bill

 

[Bill Thomas]

oops I looked back at the header and you do say the a8n32 sli deluxe.
Mine works great with vista ultimate.

 

[GeraldF]

oops I looked back at the header and you do say the a8n32 sli deluxe.
Mine works great with vista ultimate.

Is the SLI working?
What Nvidia drivers are you using?

Thanks

 

[Bill Thomas]

Unfortunately I'm not using it in sli mode yet. I am only using one
nvidia 7950gt. I am now using the latest driver from nvidia, 100.64,
but had no problem with the earlier drivers. I just downloaded the
latest nforce4 drivers which is:

nforce4_amd_winvista32_15.00_english_whql

no problems so far.

Now, I need to get another 7950gt card to run it in sli. I am using
Vista Ultimate.

 

[BSchnur]

And until nVidia has SLI supporting drivers for Vista you probably
should wait...