Re: M3A32 Questions
- From: Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:28:23 -0400
Zootal wrote:
1) I bought this board day before yesterday. Installed. Ran for 12 hours. Board dies. Back to store for another board, which so far has been running since yesterday. Do these boards have a high death rate, or was I just lucky?
2) I installed DDR1066, it comes up as DDR800. I changed memory speed to 1066 in bios, and it works OK. Why did it come up as 800? I'm using Crucial Ballistic, and I've verified that the memory really is 1066 memory.
3) Bios options - hypertransport config. Is there any documentation anywhere that explains what these do?
4) Does wifi work for anyone? I can't get it to work at all - seems to be functional, but won't see access points. Causes bsod from time to time, so I disabled it in bios.
You also appear to have posted in vip.asus.com . Which means you've also
read the extensive set of postings about Wifi or the lack thereof.
1) Boards die. There is one report on Newegg of a board that died after two
months - symptoms in that case was some kind of problem with the
handling of NVRAM. I didn't notice an abnormal level of reports
of that type. But there also aren't really a lot of reviews either.
Probably has something to do with the price of the board.
2) The job of the BIOS, when you first get the board, is to try to
guarantee that the board will POST. Imagine if it tried for 1066
right away, and the board only beeped a RAM failure. There would be
a steady stream of boards going back for RMA.
While it is a pain, I think it is better for a board to require
the user to intervene on the RAM settings, and push the RAM to
the final settings.
Even if a BIOS has EPP support, you wouldn't want to force users
to buy a single slow piece of RAM, just to be able to get into the
BIOS and change the settings.
I understand that an AM2+ processor, is supposed to support higher
than DDR2-800, which may have something to do with it as well. Perhaps
1066 would be an overclock setting, with respect to older AM2 processors.
3) Lack of documentation, is something the industry is proud of. Every
BIOS designer dreams of adding settings, that no one has ever heard
of before. Maybe they feel the users are entertained by these
settings.
There is a reference to "Isochronous" for HT here, but this
article isn't answering the underlying question. Which would
be, "what hardware needs isochronous service ?". Maybe that
is why it is disabled. It could be a feature added to HT 3, but
for another industry (standards may be used by more than one
industry, and features may be added to suit them).
https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=31944&seqNum=6
HT Link Tristate, may be referring to power saving, when HT is
(briefly) not being used.
For the others, no clue. Maybe if I could find an HT spec and
download it, there'd be some answers in there.
4) In vip.asus.com, one poster suggested that BIOS 0803 made
a difference. I looked over the available info for this Wifi,
and it could be using an Atheros chipset. That is not a chipset
used by Asus in the past. Also, certain Atheros chipsets appear
to be indistinguishable from one another, at the enumeration
level. (Which is not a problem, as a jumbo driver that supports
all the options could be used.) My guess would be at this point,
that a (crappy) product was released before the development
was even half done. Asus has plenty of mature products they
could have thrown into the box, so why they did this is a
mystery. If this was my motherboard, I'd immediately drive
to the store, and buy a real Wifi solution! Why waste your life,
beating your head against a wall. Maybe, by the time you're
ready to sell the motherboard, they'll have figured it out.
HTH,
Paul
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