New ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Final BIOS

[jAkUp]

I know most of you that are running SLI use this board, a new bios was released 1/21/05.

V.1003
Dated 1/21/05

1. Re-translation item strings, value and help to French.
2. Fixed asus update 64bit OS fail
3. DMI information : Fixed AMD Athlon64 CPUs Processor Family will be wrong shown as Opteron
4. Support nVidia DualGPU PCIE VGA card.
5. Change CopyRight year from 2004 to 2005.
6. Support PEG for ATI X850 PCIE card.
7. Modify Cool n Quiet string and default value.
8. Correct Hyper Transport item string for multi-language.

Download Here (http://usa.asus.com/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=21&l3_id=4&m_id=1&f_name=1003.zip~zaqwedc)

[Clay]

Thanks! Have you noticed any gains with this version?

[jAkUp]

I just installed it, so far everything is ok, but I tried overclocking too far and now I need to reformat.. haha

[Clay]

You're a renegade! :D

[Ronin]

I just installed it, so far everything is ok, but I tried overclocking too far and now I need to reformat.. haha

I take it the A8N doesn't have the gift of the Neo2 (where SATA 3/4 aren't affected by OCing), or did you get corruption some other way?

[jAkUp]

Yea, turns out it had to restore a backup registry file after Windows crashed, after that my sound would not work and reinstalling the driver did nothing.. I really wish this board allowed more voltage for the CPU, 1.55v is the highest it will take :( Not having much luck with overclocking, 225mhz FSB is about the highest stable OC I can get.

[Ronin]

Hrmm...there has to be a way to up the voltage beyond that. I wish my box was done (I've got the board, the CPU, and the cards, and could build a makeshift box with that now, but I'm not going to), so that I could take a look at some things, too. This is not to say you don't know what you're doing, just that I'd like to see it, too. :)

I find it odd that the A8V has so many voltage options and that the A8N has almost none....perhaps there's a hidden keystroke in the bios to get to them?

[jAkUp]

Yea the older BIOS allowed a max of 1.65v, the new 1.3 downed it to 1.55v. This is my first AMD board so I may be missing something.

[Mr_LoL]

Yea, turns out it had to restore a backup registry file after Windows crashed, after that my sound would not work and reinstalling the driver did nothing.. I really wish this board allowed more voltage for the CPU, 1.55v is the highest it will take :( Not having much luck with overclocking, 225mhz FSB is about the highest stable OC I can get.

time to get on of them DFI boards jakup. you can give your cpu a whopping 2.4v on your cpu :eek:

[Ronin]

The MSI updates did the same thing, but allowed you to set 1.55, and then up to 10% over that in voltage increases, so at least it allowed you to go higher (or you could use Core Center, and up the VCORE to ~1.8V, iirc).