Re: A8N-SLI Premium and RevE3 vs Rev E6 CPUs
- From: "Christian Berger" <chb2305@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:33:56 +0100
milleron wrote:
>> Hi Ron,
>>
>> milleron wrote:
>>> There are some authoritative folks on the Corsair forum stating that
>>> there are two kinds of Venice-core Athlon 64s -- Rev E3 and Rev E6.
>>> They are further stating that the A8N-SLI Premium, perhaps the
>>> entire A8N line, is not certified compatible with Rev E3 chips and
>>> that if one has a Rev-E CPU, it must be E6, not E3.
>>>
>>> Has anyone here heard this?
>>
>> Up to now (up to BIOS 1011-001) the A8N-SLI Premium does not support
>> the E3 revision, so for me Cool 'n' Quiet doesn't work at all.
>
> I'm the original poster -- this thread was started months ago, I have
> an A8N-SLI Premium with an Athlon 64 3500+ Venice-core Rev. E3 CPU. It
> has performed perfectly with all BIOS versions from 1004 through 1009.
> Cool and Quiet works perfectly. It is necessary to install the AMD
> CPU driver in Windows, of course, but I've never had any problem with
> CnQ once the CPU driver was installed.
>
> It's true that the Asus Web page doesn't list the E3 as compatible (at
> least, the last time I checked there), but I must deduce that it's
> just an oversight since the E6 revisions hadn't even been released
> when this motherboard hit the market. All the original Venice-core
> CPUs installed on this board, probably hundreds of thousands of them
> worldwide during the summer and fall of 2005, seem to work without a
> hitch.
>
I had called the german service hotline of Asus. They told me to check why
the A8N-SLI Premium is not listed to support the E3 revision. Now they have
changed the list and the E3 revision should be suppored since BIOS 1004.
My A8N-SLI Premium was delivered with BIOS 1005, now its flashed with
1011-001, but cool 'n' quiet doesn't work at all.
I have activated the cool 'n' quiet in the BIOS and installed the AMD
1.2.2.2 CPU driver, also the Power scheme is set to "Minimal Power
Management".
But if i set all to "auto" in the BIOS cool 'n' quiet doesn't work. Because
i use some DDR 600 RAM i set normaly several parameters in the BIOS like the
multiplicator of the CPU to 9 and the HT to 272.
Does Cool 'n' Quiet also work for you if you change the multi or the HT
manualy?
How could i check if the AMD CPU driver is realy loaded?
>>
>> You can check that on the Asus Website yourself.
>>
>> The A8N-SLI or the A8N-SLI Deluxe do support the E3 revision.
>>
>> Hopefully they will fix this in one of the next BIOS version.
>
> snip
>>
>> Also the actual beta BIOS Version 1011-001 does not support the E3
>> revision. 8-((
>
> What's the documentation for this statement?
>
It's my own check, maybe i'm wrong. In the mean time they have changed the
list, so they state that from BIOS 1004 the E3 revision should be supported.
If it's working on your machine, you could tell me how did you do that?
.
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