A8N-SLI Deluxe/Premium thread

[blut3ng3l]

thank you.. all of you... for replying to me... great forum. i did it all myself. thanks for nothing.

[fvbounty]

Originally Posted by PaR

I tried the Zalman passive heatsink and found it too hot for my liking. After a little searching I came upon this Titan TTC-CUV3AB heatsink It has an optional plastic fan guard when left off makes the heatsink only about 7mm or 8mm tall. It fits perfectly below any video cards. It also has a pair of blue leds in the fan and it is quiet (< 22 dBA). I had to do a couple of small modifications to get it to work. First, the holes had to be slotted slightly as the VGA mounting holes are 1mm to 2mm longer than the northbridge holes. No problem with a dremel motor tool. Also, to keep the springs from slipping into the slots, I added a couple small washers. This was probably not necessary but just a precautionary step. Last I put a plastic sleeve around the RF choke that comes in close proximity to the new heatsink as can be seen in the pictures. I actually used a section of plastic from a bike chain lock picked up at a local hardware store for about $2.50 Heat shrink tubing would probably work as well. Again this was done as a precaution. The heatsink kit also comes with a nice tube of silver compound.

Do you have a link to this chipset cooler.....??? Thanks for any info....

[fvbounty]

Originally Posted by blut3ng3l

thank you.. all of you... for replying to me... great forum. i did it all myself. thanks for nothing.

Glad you figured it out ....Have a nice day......

[nukemm]

hey RangersFan

i have almost the same system specs like you, 2 beasts 6800ultras a8n-sli deluxe

guess what!!

my freakin' chipset fan died on me a couple of days ago, after around 3 months of usage, what a POS! now i'm waiting for a replacement and i hope it won't die on me again...

my cards reached temps of 97C!!!!!!! its insane =/

[RangersFan]

Originally Posted by nukemm

hey RangersFan

i have almost the same system specs like you, 2 beasts 6800ultras a8n-sli deluxe

guess what!!

my freakin' chipset fan died on me a couple of days ago, after around 3 months of usage, what a POS! now i'm waiting for a replacement and i hope it won't die on me again...

my cards reached temps of 97C!!!!!!! its insane =/

Why wait on a replacement fan that is just gonna die again? I mean that tiny little POS running at 8000rpms was sure to die, I dunno what Asus was thinking.

I am sending my PC to a modding company, who is drilling a 120mm blowhole up top, and they agreed to fit my 6800U's with the Zalman VF700CU coolers, and then see if in fact the swiftech mcx159 (or any other cooler) will fit with the added clearence the zalman gpu cooler provides.

[nukemm]

well i don't want to ship my PC anywhere it's too much of a pain in the *** just for a tiny little fan, and i have no choice its a replacement or nothing, i'm in canada =/

[blut3ng3l]

Originally Posted by fvbounty

Glad you figured it out ....Have a nice day......

actually, i didn't. i'm getting a "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter." error message. (i'm trying to install windows xp btw)

this is what i did....
i put my pc together partialy, flashed bios to 1006, then put everything else in and connected all the wires.

i then went into bios and set it up like this....
Main

- Make sure all your discs and optical drives are listed
- Enabled HDD SMART monitoring

Advanced

CPU Configuration > DRAM configuration

- Max Memclock (MHz) : DDR400
- All other settings : Auto

CPU Configuration

- Hyper Transport Frequency : 5x
- AMD K8 Cool ‘n’ Quiet control : Disabled

PCIPnP

- Plug & Play O/S : Yes
- Init Display First : PCIEx
- Resources Controlled By : Auto
- PCI/VGA Palette Snoop : Disabled

Onboard Device Configuration > IDE Function Setup

- All settings : Enabled

Onboard Device Configuration > NVRAID Configuration

- RAID Enable : disabled

Obviously you’d set this to ‘Enabled’ and select which disks you’d like to use if you have more than one harddisk you’d like to use with RAID. Keep in mind that RAID only makes sense with identical harddisks each on their own IDE or Serial-Ata channel.

Onboard Device Configuration > USB Configuration

- All settings : Enabled

Onboard Device Configuration

- Onboard NV LAN : Enabled
- Onboard LAN BOOT ROM : Disabled
- Onboard Marvell LAN : Disabled
- AC97 Audio : ENABLED
- PCI IEEE 1394a : Enabled
Silicon Image SATA Controller : ENABLED
- Serial Port1 Address : Disabled
- Parallel Port Address : Disabled
- Game Port Address : Disabled
- Midi Port Address : Disabled

Disable all devices you don’t need or plan to use, this frees up extra IRQs and means there’s less device drivers to load creating less system overhead.

SLI Configuration

- EZ-Plug Warning : DISABLED

JumperFree Configuration

- Overclock Profile : Manual
- CPU Frequency : 200.0
- PCI Express Clock : 100MHz
- DDR Voltage : 2.70v
- CPU Multiplier : Auto
- CPU Voltage : Auto
- PCI Clock Sync : 33.33MHz

LAN Cable Status

- POST Check LAN Cable : Disabled

PEG Link Mode

- PEG Link Mode : Disabled
- PEG Root Control : Auto
- PEG Buffer Length : Auto

Speech Configuration

- Speech IC Reporter : Disabled

Instant Music

- Instant Music : Disabled

Power

- ACPI Suspend Type : S3
- ACPI APIC Support : Enabled

Power > APM Configuration

- Restore on AC Power Loss : Disabled
- PWR Button < 4 secs : Instant-Off
- All other settings : Disabled

Power > Hardware Monitor

- Q-Fan Controller : Disabled

Boot > Boot Settings Configuration

- Case Open Warning : Disabled
- Quick Boot : Enabled
- Boot up Floppy Seek : Disabled
- Bootup Num-Lock : On
- Typematic Rate Setting : Enabled
- Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) : 30
- Typematic Delay (Msec) : 250
- OS Select For DRAM > 64MB : Non-OS2
- Full Screen LOGO : Disabled
- Halt On : All Errors

changed the boot order.

saved the changes and let the machine reboot.

tried to boot of xp cd, and got error "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter."

here are my specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 90nm Retail
IBM Hitachi 160GB Serial ATA 7200RPM
Zalman CNPS7700-ALCU CPU Cooler Retail
Corsair 1GB DDR400 XMS3200 Dual-Channel (2-2-2-5)
NEC ND-3520A 16X Double Layer DVD±RW
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe nForce 4 SLI
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E GeForce 6600 GT PCI Express 128MB x1
SOPRANO VB1000BWS Case
ASPIRE ATX-AS520W
FDD 1.44MB NEC

also, under SLI Configuration in the bios, "SLI mode : Normal for single video card" isn't listed.

let's see... i have one sata HD plugged into the sata 1 connector. the dvdrw is plugged into secondary ide. pin 1 aligned. i unplugged and plugged them back in. checked the wiring. i see no problem... the hard drive shows up in bios ...

[JCNiest5]

Regarding the disk failure at boot up, you may want to check if it refers to the floppy drive (if there's one inserted) or your HD, which may not have an OS loaded/installed yet. If your HD is not partitioned yet or no OS is loaded/installed yet, OR your floppy is inserted but no OS on it, you will get that error message. If your HD already has an OS loaded but it's still giving that error message, you may not have chosen the boot sequence correctly (if you have to multiple HDs attached).

[blut3ng3l]

Originally Posted by JCNiest5

Regarding the disk failure at boot up, you may want to check if it refers to the floppy drive (if there's one inserted) or your HD, which may not have an OS loaded/installed yet. If your HD is not partitioned yet or no OS is loaded/installed yet, OR your floppy is inserted but no OS on it, you will get that error message. If your HD already has an OS loaded but it's still giving that error message, you may not have chosen the boot sequence correctly (if you have to multiple HDs attached).

my HD is not partitioned yet and no OS is loaded/installed yet. there is a floppy connected. so, if i dissconect the floppy drive, i wont get the error?

[blut3ng3l]

JCNiest5, above i told you that my HD is not partitioned yet and no OS is loaded/installed yet, and that there is a floppy connected. i only have one hd btw.

I took out the floppy ide cable, and it still seems to show up in bios, and F8 boot.

I still get the "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter." error message.

according to what you said, it seems like the HD not being partitioned or having an OS on it is also a problem.

how do i fix this, and install my OS? i'm building a pc from scrach, it's almost there. meh...

[JCNiest5]

Originally Posted by blut3ng3l

my HD is not partitioned yet and no OS is loaded/installed yet. there is a floppy connected. so, if i dissconect the floppy drive, i wont get the error?

IF you disconnect your floppy drive, you will still get an error due to the PC not having anything to boot from, an OS is missing, in other words. It requires: 1) An MS-DOS disk; 2) A HD already with OS installed; or 3) a CD with Windows XP (or Windows 9x/ME/2K) to boot from.

I think there is a boot disk available somewhere on the internet if I can remember correctly. I don't remember where to download, though.

[blut3ng3l]

Originally Posted by JCNiest5

IF you disconnect your floppy drive, you will still get an error due to the PC not having anything to boot from, an OS is missing, in other words. It requires: 1) An MS-DOS disk; 2) A HD already with OS installed; or 3) a CD with Windows XP (or Windows 9x/ME/2K) to boot from.

I think there is a boot disk available somewhere on the internet if I can remember correctly. I don't remember where to download, though.

i have a cd with windows xp pro in the dvdrw, and i still get the error. i'm trying to install win xp pro from my cd. the floppy still seems to show up after being discconected. i disabled it on the main page, and took it out of the boot line. didn't work. enabled it. didn't work.

what now?

[RangersFan]

if it's detecting the floppy after it's been disconnected, maybe you need to reset your cmos or something. That is really strange...

[JCNiest5]

Originally Posted by blut3ng3l

i have a cd with windows xp pro in the dvdrw, and i still get the error. i'm trying to install win xp pro from my cd. the floppy still seems to show up after being discconected. i disabled it on the main page, and took it out of the boot line. didn't work. enabled it. didn't work.

what now?

Under Boot Device Priority in the BIOS, did you set 1St Boot Device to CDROM? Does your PC recognize the HD and CD-ROM drive attached?

[blut3ng3l]

Originally Posted by JCNiest5

Under Boot Device Priority in the BIOS, did you set 1St Boot Device to CDROM? Does your PC recognize the HD and CD-ROM drive attached?

yes, 1st boot device CDROM, 2nd HDD. By the way, if i let it run, it will go to the error message. If i press F8, and choose the NEC dvdrw drive to boot with, it will show the error just the same.

do i need to reset the cmos like RangersFan said? and by that does he mean clearing with a jumper? or just setting it to defaults? i tried it with defaults.

by the way, my bios is at 1006. before i attached dvdrw and hdd and case fans, i flashed the bios to 1006. i didn't save stock bios. and also, under SLI Configuration in the bios, "SLI mode" isn't listed. I can only enable and disable the ez-plug.

is my bios version the problem? flashing first?