Serious Problem - AMD 6000

[Strongbow]

Vcore drops when CPU use increases, this is normal for that m/b!

If you can't wait till contacting Asus on Monday then try updating the BIOS to the latest revision.

[riaan]

Hi Strongbow... Sorry for the late reply, but here's what I had to deal with today...

Was going to take the day off from working my online shop and getting more products uploaded... Today at 4pm SA time, decide to have a quick check to check the stats for the day so far and see who was currently online...

Admin page was open on firefox, so i typed in password and press login, file note found o crap, what now....

type in adress for main shop, file not found, bigger o crap

log onto hosting panel to check the files on the server, sweet blue uckall files... SOMEONE HACKED MY SITE AND DELETED MY FILES, uck uck uck!!!!!

So, 6.5hours later, I've restored, done more security checks, re-uploaded and fixed stuff I did since last backup, and now only is the site up and running again....

So didn't do a single thing on the CPU today....

However, thnx for confirming the vcore drop. Manually downloaded the newest BIOS from ASUS site, installed asus update for windows... ok, havent got newest version, so let it upgrade itself... great...

while we're at it, let it check for newer versions of the bios... now, the newest version i downloaded from the asus site, is 0804... asus update however says that 0301 is the newest update...

screw it, i went with the 0804 as that was the one i got from the website direct, yes it was the correct board's bios...

Still no luck...

[riaan]

No one have any more ideas?

[vaughan]

I'm out of ideas.

Dump the m/b and get a Gigabyte one.

[Nflight]

PoorBoy,

The max amount of defragmentation I ever got after a clean install is maybe 3%... And even after installing the full suite of software I use every day, it only goes up to about 4%...

What installation method do you use to get 30%/40% fragmentation? (not arrogant, valid question)

Riaan: I think this is the solution at hand. Your description of only able to get 3% of your system to finish seems to mean your impatient for the results. Allow the machine to do the full defragmentation not once, but three times. I have done this on all my machines and have even giving this advice to my instructors at the schools I have attended in the last 20 years. I have two machines on Asus boards both 4200+'s. One is on an SLI Deluxe and the other is on A8N board. A8N board is just slightly over clocked, ASUS boards do not like to O/C, they become unstable as mine has over 8%. I recommend as Vaughan has mentioned in his last post - Toss the Asus board and buy a Gigabyte and start over, My next board will be Gigabyte.
Process to do defrag: ON Windows XP; Click Start and slide to All programs, look for Accessories, then slide down to System Tools, Open Disk Defragmentor, let the program run three times. By the time your at the last time the speed of the full deframentation should be accomplished in about 1 to 3 minutes, not the initial 45 or more minutes to accomplish.

[spikey_richie]

I have one of the Gigabyte S-series AM2 M59 SLI boards. Touch wood, so far it has been flawless. The apps. that come with are a bit naff looking, but functional.

http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Moth...ProductID=2302

[Jason1478963]

I usually have enough other parts laying around I can try different devices to find out what the issue is. I'm not an expert, but these are a few things I like to do. I would eliminate everything you dont need. disconnect the floppy from the motherboard along with the cdrom. (I had a SATA burner that an ausus motherboard didnt like and a floppy drive that seemed to cause problems on a different asus board, but both devices worked when used in different motherboards). If those dont work try a different video card if you can(lower power requirements or driver issues with the current one). Check device manager to make sure windows finds everything correctly. It could be your hard drive has controller issues and is near the end of its life. Try a different cable and make sure your jumpers are set correctly on the IDE drive(CS/master/slave). You may wanna try pulling the SATA drive if the OS isn't installed on it. Try just the SATA if the OS is on it. If you have something bootable like UBUNTU you could try a livedcd from the cdrom as the only drive in the system. I like to run MEMTEST from the UBUNTU boot menu. The Asus board might have trouble with your memory in dual channel(try one chip). I see your power supply is a 400watt? What brand and model is it? It could be a little weak and causing some problems. (removing extra devices, using an older less power hungry video card may help you find out if your power supply cant handle the load of your newer equipment) If you get it running you can then add a device at a time until the problem shows up again.

Can you get the motherboard RMAd from the place you bought it?

Sorry to hear about your troubles

Best of luck getting these up and running

Jason

[Strongbow]

Riaan, any comeback from ASUS?

[Zacky]

got the same problem with my computer as riaan does
computer components differences:
m/b m2n-mx se plus
same amount of memory ram but 2x 2gb (ddr2 pc 1066)

so, does this story has a happy ending?

[NeoGen]

Hi riaan

I recommend checking if you have the latest bios installed... I checked on the Asus site and they recommend at least version 804 for the AMD X2 6000+.

For myself I always check and update bios/firmware of everything... motherboard, dvd writer, router, etc... and then also check on each component's website for the most up-to-date drivers.
The drivers that come on cd are always out of date (and sometimes buggy) when they reach the customers hands.

EDIT: oops... there was more pages of thread than I had seen at first. Please ignore if this has already been tried.