Asus A8R32-MVP Issues

NITRO-X · Mar 28, 2006, 06:25 AM

I am new to this board but find this thread informative to my issues.
I own the ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe rev 1.03G BIOS 0311
I have issues with this mainboard as well. !

Setup:
ASUS A8R32-MVP Dlx
Operon 148
2GB OCZ Gold DDR500
2x74GB Raptors RAID 0
200 GB WD Model JB Data Drive
HP Lightscribe DVDRW 16X
ATI X1900 XT
Creative X-Fi
Enermax Liberty 500W Modular

My Problem
Every now and then my BIOS loses the ULi_RAID Array upon boot and tries to use the 200 GB WD Data drive, even though I have it on the secondary IDE Controller as a slave. (jumpers checked and verified) My HP DVDRW is master. THe BIOS Reports a post mssge stating that no IDE Master was found press f1 to continue, I go into the BIOS and all of a sudden the ULI Raid Device is not in the list! it's as if the BIOS just lost it, so obviously it tries to boot off the Data Drive. Setting the Press F1 if error under "boot settings config" to disabled fixes this No HD Master found error (not preventing me from booting) but it will still randomly lose the RAID setup. This issue comes and goes seemingly at random. The only way to get it back is to keep rebooting the unit. I even reset to all defaults and tried it still would not boot off the Array sometimes, even though I am getting the ULI press CTRL+A to go into the utility on boot..and I clearly see the Array listed 2 x 74GB Raptors RAID 0 Stripe 0x2 16k then it just hangs saying insert proper boot media or choose proper device in BIOS. I go into the BIOS it's (ARRAY) not there. I have run the WD Datalifeguard utility on the drives and they pass, and have tried 2 new SATA calbles. Still having this problem. I also had to go to the 0311 to fix my BF2 Pausing issues, but it seems I have another one to worry about.

cuke2u · Mar 28, 2006, 08:32 AM

Hi, my first A8R32-MVP had exactly the same issue with the drives as you have, I sent it back and Igot a refund, Scan tested it and said there was no fault, LOL. Some were saying that it was my Maxtor drives, however, seeing as you've WD HD's that can't be the problem This new board doesn't have the same issue at all, go figure. Perhaps earlier boards had this issue which was fixed by Asus in the next release...
ChrisC

Lienrag · Mar 28, 2006, 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nystylin74

This is the PSU I'm getting.[color=#000000]FSP Group (Fortron Source) FX700-GLN ATX12V/ EPS12V 700W All-In-One Power Supply - Retail [/color]
newegg Item #: N82E16813131004
is that good?

Yes it's the good one ([color=#000000]FX600-GLN as well).[/color]

djt1 · Mar 30, 2006, 04:34 AM

I just got home to find the new 700Watt Fortron at my door. I connected to my setup and tried to run Cross Fire again, same problem as with 1000Watt PC Power and Cooling, black screen and a lockup. This is absolutely ridiculous.

glynor · Mar 30, 2006, 08:47 AM

I've had my A8R32-MVP board running for a few weeks now, but I've just discovered a major issue with it. I spent the whole night trying to solve the problem but to no avail... Hopefully someone here can help (as lurking on this board -- and the OCUK one -- has certainly helped with some other issues).

The onboard LAN is corrupting data.

EDIT: No, it wasn't. See this post over here. I solved this problem and it wasn't the A8R32-MVP after all (not even that box -- it was the server machine causing it).

I have a small Gigabit LAN with a few other machines. I noticed this evening that when I was viewing thumbnails of JPEG images which live on my HTPC box (via JRiver MC) that a bunch of the thumbnails were corrupted. I started testing, and I ended up setting up a "test folder" of about 1.5 GB of JPEGs. All of them were known to be good on the "server box" (my HTPC) and I created a MD5 sum of the files.

I quickly determined that the images themselves were being randomly corrupted during the transfer over the LAN. If I take the folder of pictures and copy it over to one of my local drives on the ASUS, and then check the MD5 I generated ahead of time on the server machine, a bunch of them fail the check (and the files that fail exhibit visual corruption when you open them). Often, if I copy only the "test folder" over to the ASUS box, it will copy fine (though it still corrupts a handful of files about 1/3rd of the time). However, if I simultaneously copy those files and start some other file copy (of any size), it always corrupts a bunch of files.

I should mention that I tested to ensure that it wasn't the server box corrupting the files by performing identical transfers from it over onto two other machines (my linux box and a Mac). I didn't super-extensively test that, but the HTPC box has been rock-solid for a long time (it's an old ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe) so I'm not that suspicious of it. Also, I used images for most of my tests because that's where I first noticed the problem, not because it was exclusive to them. I would guess it's corrupting data of all kinds (though I didn't extensively test it using other file types).

I'm exhausted now from trying everything I could think of to fix it, but I'll try to give a brief rundown...

BIOS: 311 & 201 (both tested, both have issue)
LAN Port Used: LAN1 (PCI-E) & LAN2 (PCI) -- again, both have issue
Drivers: I've tested using the ASUS supplied ones (both the Marvell driver and the ULI drivers), and using the current driver downloaded from Marvel and ULI's respective websites.
Cabling: Replaced cable from switch to ASUS, tested with different (known working) port on switch.
Switch: Hawking Tech 8-port GbitE Switch H-GS8T
Local Drives (on ASUS box): tested with a wide variety of drives (both PATA and SATA internals and a USB2 external drive)
Windows Firewall enabled (just as a "backup" for my IPCop firewall)
Most BIOS settings at default, other than to disable the Serial/Parallel ports, floppy, Game Port, and modified Boot Options. I also generally keep whichever LAN port I'm not using disabled (though I tried it with both enabled as well).

In all cases I was using Windows Explorer to perform the copy operations. The copy operations were generally done from a Mapped drive over to the ASUS box, though I also tested using a UNC path, and copying the files from a different disk on the server box.

In general the box has been running pretty well since I bumped to BIOS 0311, other than the occasional shutdown issue (ATI drivers crashing at shutdown or just refusing to power down) and some "mouse input sluggishness" after the system has been running for a while. I have an older Intel Pro Gigabit LAN PCI card that I'm probably going to throw in there tomorrow to test further (just to verify that it isn't some weird piece of software on the system). BTW, the ULI v220 driver seems to have solved some of the "mouse input sluggishness" I mentioned, though I haven't tested it extensively yet.

Either way, this is a very serious issue which makes the board completely unreliable (I can't have it corrupting data and acting like a nVidia ActiveFirewall system)!! Can anyone else confirm (or deny) this? Make sure to test by starting more than one remote file copy at once...

jpinard · Mar 30, 2006, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glynor

I've had my A8R32-MVP board running for a few weeks now, but I've just discovered a major issue with it. I spent the whole night trying to solve the problem but to no avail... Hopefully someone here can help (as lurking on this board -- and the OCUK one -- has certainly helped with some other issues).

The onboard LAN is corrupting data.

I have a small Gigabit LAN with a few other machines. I noticed this evening that when I was viewing thumbnails of JPEG images which live on my HTPC box (via JRiver MC) that a bunch of the thumbnails were corrupted. I started testing, and I ended up setting up a "test folder" of about 1.5 GB of JPEGs. All of them were known to be good on the "server box" (my HTPC) and I created a MD5 sum of the files.

I quickly determined that the images themselves were being randomly corrupted during the transfer over the LAN. If I take the folder of pictures and copy it over to one of my local drives on the ASUS, and then check the MD5 I generated ahead of time on the server machine, a bunch of them fail the check (and the files that fail exhibit visual corruption when you open them). Often, if I copy only the "test folder" over to the ASUS box, it will copy fine (though it still corrupts a handful of files about 1/3rd of the time). However, if I simultaneously copy those files and start some other file copy (of any size), it always corrupts a bunch of files.

I should mention that I tested to ensure that it wasn't the server box corrupting the files by performing identical transfers from it over onto two other machines (my linux box and a Mac). I didn't super-extensively test that, but the HTPC box has been rock-solid for a long time (it's an old ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe) so I'm not that suspicious of it. Also, I used images for most of my tests because that's where I first noticed the problem, not because it was exclusive to them. I would guess it's corrupting data of all kinds (though I didn't extensively test it using other file types).

I'm exhausted now from trying everything I could think of to fix it, but I'll try to give a brief rundown...

BIOS: 311 & 201 (both tested, both have issue)
LAN Port Used: LAN1 (PCI-E) & LAN2 (PCI) -- again, both have issue
Drivers: I've tested using the ASUS supplied ones (both the Marvell driver and the ULI drivers), and using the current driver downloaded from Marvel and ULI's respective websites.
Cabling: Replaced cable from switch to ASUS, tested with different (known working) port on switch.
Switch: Hawking Tech 8-port GbitE Switch H-GS8T
Local Drives (on ASUS box): tested with a wide variety of drives (both PATA and SATA internals and a USB2 external drive)
Windows Firewall enabled (just as a "backup" for my IPCop firewall)
Most BIOS settings at default, other than to disable the Serial/Parallel ports, floppy, Game Port, and modified Boot Options. I also generally keep whichever LAN port I'm not using disabled (though I tried it with both enabled as well).

In all cases I was using Windows Explorer to perform the copy operations. The copy operations were generally done from a Mapped drive over to the ASUS box, though I also tested using a UNC path, and copying the files from a different disk on the server box.

In general the box has been running pretty well since I bumped to BIOS 0311, other than the occasional shutdown issue (ATI drivers crashing at shutdown or just refusing to power down) and some "mouse input sluggishness" after the system has been running for a while. I have an older Intel Pro Gigabit LAN PCI card that I'm probably going to throw in there tomorrow to test further (just to verify that it isn't some weird piece of software on the system). BTW, the ULI v220 driver seems to have solved some of the "mouse input sluggishness" I mentioned, though I haven't tested it extensively yet.

Either way, this is a very serious issue which makes the board completely unreliable (I can't have it corrupting data and acting like a nVidia ActiveFirewall system)!! Can anyone else confirm (or deny) this? Make sure to test by starting more than one remote file copy at once...

Wow, that's pretty horrible. If you use a separate PCI LAN card is the data still corrupted? If so, this sounds like a major BIOS problem.

~~Alien1~~ · Mar 30, 2006, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NITRO-X

I own the ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe rev 1.03G BIOS 0311
I have issues with this mainboard as well. !

All Asus mobos with ATI chipsets are having some really strange issues from what i hear

You are not the first one reporting some serious and strange problems with a Asus-ATI based sollution
Nothing new

Ati is still a rookie in the Mobo-chipset department but i guess they will become better in their next sollutions
or maybe just ASUS Bios sucks with these sollutions right now,
with more mature Bios versions they will fix it

jpinard · Mar 30, 2006, 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien1

All Asus mobos with ATI chipsets are having some really strange issues from what i hear

You are not the first one reporting some serious and strange problems with a Asus-ATI based sollution
Nothing new

Ati is still a rookie in the Mobo-chipset department but i guess they will become better in their next sollutions
or maybe just ASUS Bios sucks with these sollutions right now,
with more mature Bios versions they will fix it

If a person is not running two video cards it's not ATI's fault since the Crossfire chip isn't being used. It's all on Asus.

Coolasmoo · Mar 30, 2006, 05:22 PM

i was having the same issues with crossfire completely locking up on any game.

The problem for me was the Uli sata drivers Latest and the ones prior to that.

The only version of the Uli Sata Driver i can use is :

21/11/2005 version 1.0.5.2

Anything newer than this driver then crossfire is a no go

glynor · Mar 30, 2006, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpinard

Wow, that's pretty horrible. If you use a separate PCI LAN card is the data still corrupted? If so, this sounds like a major BIOS problem.

I haven't yet tested it with a standalone PCI LAN card, though that is the plan for tonight.

I also (thankfully) created a drive image of the system just after I got Windows installed, with only the ASUS-provided drivers and Ghost installed. I'm going to try rolling back to that tonight to verify that the problem isn't some other piece of software I have installed.

I don't really have anything too odd, and certainly nothing that messes with the LAN drivers or anything, but it's worth checking...

I assume no one else has really done any further testing on this? I'd really like to see if it's just me, or if it's just something that hadn't been discovered yet.

jpinard · Mar 30, 2006, 10:57 PM

If I'm not running a home network, is there any way I can check this for you on my system?

glynor · Mar 30, 2006, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpinard

If I'm not running a home network, is there any way I can check this for you on my system?

No, not really. I'd also really like to see someone test with a A8R32 (the RD580 based board).

*snuffy* · Mar 31, 2006, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien1

Ati is still a rookie in the Mobo-chipset department but i guess they will become better in their next sollutions
or maybe just ASUS Bios sucks with these sollutions right now,
with more mature Bios versions they will fix it

I have ATI reference boards that run perfect; the issues are not related to ATI. I will leave it at that.... just hope that a bios fix is all that is needed.

cuke2u · Mar 31, 2006, 04:51 PM

Hi, I have a home network consisting of two wired PC's one a A8R32-MVP, through a D-Link DSL-G624M, and two laptops through the same router on wireless. Can I be of some help?
ChrisC

Bingo13 · Mar 31, 2006, 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snuffy

I have ATI reference boards that run perfect; the issues are not related to ATI. I will leave it at that.... just hope that a bios fix is all that is needed.

You have a Manta board?

djt1 · Mar 31, 2006, 06:32 PM

I’ve got Cross Fire working! It was all because of the ULi USB drivers. I uninstalled them and everything is working fine. I reformatted yesterday and I can’t believe the incredible performance I’m getting with this setup.

I have one question, is anyone using .Net 2.0? I have it installed with .Net 1.1 but I’m wondering if it’s necessary.

On another subject, both the PC Power and Cooling 1000Watt and the Fortron 700Watt power this setup without any issues. Although I have been partial to PC Power and Cooling, the Fortron is a very nice PSU for the money.

[color=#005500]Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe/BIOS 311
Athlon64 FX-57
Corsair TwinX2048Mb-3500LL Pro
ATI X1900XTX / X1900 Cross Fire Edition (CF)
Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS
2x WD 36Gb Raptor (RAID 0)
Plextor Premium
Plextor PX-716A
PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW/1000W
Silver Stone TJ03
Windows XP Pro/SP2[/color]

cuke2u · Mar 31, 2006, 08:45 PM

Hi, I just install .net 2.0 The 6.3's run ok with that both on my Pc and my laptop....
ChrisC

calous3 · Mar 31, 2006, 11:04 PM

I've been trying to OC this Mobo with no success evry time I changed the FSB I would try and reboot but just hang pre post. Then I would press the reset button and rebooted fine it will reboot from windows np but has a prob doing a save and exit from the bios and cold boots.

Here are some of my settings your help would be appreciated.

memclock mode [limit]
memclock value [166 mhz]
mct timing mode [manual]
cas latency (cl) [2.0]
tras [6 clk]
trp [3 clk]
trcd [3clk]
trrd [2 clk]*
trc [10 clk]*
trfc [16 clk]*
trwt [3 clk]*
user config mode [manual]
read preamble [5.5 ns]* (auto)
async latency [8.0 ns]* (auto)
cmd-addr timing mode [1t] (auto)
bank interleaving [auto]
burst length [4 beats]
hardware memory hole [disabled]

ai overclocking [manual]
cpu frequency [245]
pcie frequency [100]
fid/vid change [manual]
processor frequency multiplier [x11]
processor voltage [1.400v]
ddr voltage [2.6]
pci-express voltage [+1.20v]
vcore over voltage [+.2]
southbridge over-voltage [enable]
peg link mode [disabled]
peg buffer length [longest] *

gart error reporting [disabled]
mtrr mapping [continuous]
cool n'quiet [disabled]
ht link speed [800 mhz]

ecc enable [disable]

dual-slot configuration [dual video card]
rd480 ht pll control [normal]

Any help greatly appreciated.

Calous3

4400+X2 @245 * 11
2 X 1gb corsair XMS 3200
2 x X1900 xtx Crossfire
1x74gb WD Raptor
A8R32 MVP Deluxe
530W Tagan PSU

theonlybabyface · Apr 1, 2006, 12:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by calous3

I've been trying to OC this Mobo with no success evry time I changed the FSB I would try and reboot but just hang pre post. Then I would press the reset button and rebooted fine it will reboot from windows np but has a prob doing a save and exit from the bios and cold boots.

Here are some of my settings your help would be appreciated.

memclock mode [limit]
memclock value [166 mhz]
mct timing mode [manual]
cas latency (cl) [2.0]
tras [6 clk]
trp [3 clk]
trcd [3clk]
trrd [2 clk]*
trc [10 clk]*
trfc [16 clk]*
trwt [3 clk]*
user config mode [manual]
read preamble [5.5 ns]* (auto)
async latency [8.0 ns]* (auto)
cmd-addr timing mode [1t] (auto)
bank interleaving [auto]
burst length [4 beats]
hardware memory hole [disabled]

ai overclocking [manual]
cpu frequency [245]
pcie frequency [100]
fid/vid change [manual]
processor frequency multiplier [x11]
processor voltage [1.400v]
ddr voltage [2.6]
pci-express voltage [+1.20v]
vcore over voltage [+.2]
southbridge over-voltage [enable]
peg link mode [disabled]
peg buffer length [longest] *

gart error reporting [disabled]
mtrr mapping [continuous]
cool n'quiet [disabled]
ht link speed [800 mhz]

ecc enable [disable]

dual-slot configuration [dual video card]
rd480 ht pll control [normal]

Any help greatly appreciated.

Calous3

4400+X2 @245 * 11
2 X 1gb corsair XMS 3200
2 x X1900 xtx Crossfire
1x74gb WD Raptor
A8R32 MVP Deluxe
530W Tagan PSU

Change peg buffer length to the default (sorry, I'm at work) and change the rd480 ht pll control to high speed I believe. Leave all of the voltages to auto except vcore and try that. Also, if you're running crossfire which it looks like you are, then under the Advanced Options section of the bios, go to PCI Configuration, ensure P2P Writes is Enabled. I am running 280 HTT and 1400 Hypertransport!!!

calous3 · Apr 1, 2006, 01:38 AM

Nice one m8

Thats the first time its booted from a switch off & the htt is @ 250 x 11

.

will keep testing. but fantastic result. thanks for your help..

Calous 3

theonlybabyface · Apr 1, 2006, 01:49 AM

Excellent. As you get the board higher, come back and post your results and settings and hopefully we can all benefit.

calous3 · Apr 1, 2006, 04:13 AM

np

calous3 · Apr 1, 2006, 09:16 AM

Managed to get upto 260 x 11 3dmark06 9542

Unfortunately bombed on prime95 2hrs, could be the mem settings also the ht is over 1000 need to have a fiddle again today but well impressed gone from rags to riches with this board

If anyone has any idea what the mem timings should be for this boards with 2x1gb corsair xms 3200 i.e trwt,trfc,trc,trrd,read preamble, async latency etc, i would greatly appreciate the help.

Calous3
4400 X2 @260 x11
2x X1900xtc Crossfire
2x1GB Corsair XMS 3200 @ 2.5,3,3,7
74 GB WD Raptor
A8r32 MVP Deluxe
530 Tagen PSU

theonlybabyface · Apr 2, 2006, 12:15 AM

I'm up to 280 htt at default voltage. I'm going to wait until the next BIOS revision arrives (should do alot for this board) before going forward. I am extremely pleased with the performance so far.

tastyweat · Apr 2, 2006, 12:55 AM

Setup new system... Asus A8R32-MVP, 2x 1GB Corsair, X2 4400, Powercolor X1900XT, 250GB Maxtor Sata 2 + LG DVDRW

Problems started at first - no vga output and yet all external periferals would power up... after a couple of hours of switching things around - I managed to get it to work - and was working great... up until I turned it off this afternoon!

Problems have come back again - once or twice - I've been able to get some vga output - on one of the two screens I have here - crt via dvi-dsub converter and dvi tft

When I was in windows - I had both working fine - but yesterday with the vga probs and today - if I get any vga out it's only on the crt - and it doesn't matter which port its in.

I've unplugged everything - right down to the bare essentials to get the system to run - and this evening those are the only times I've been able to boot the system up.

i've reset the cmos, reseated the memory - switched to using only 1 stick, re-seated the graphics card - even tried the second pci slot - to no avail.

I've never come accross a problem like this one before - anyone got any suggestions please?

Cheers!!!

tastyweat · Apr 2, 2006, 12:55 AM

I know that my bios is the 02xx one.. not the latest 0301...

I just found this on the asus knowledge-base:

Quote:

My system doesn't boot when certain ATi VGA card is installed. Why?

---

Answer

Please update to BIOS version 0309 or later to solve this problem.
[color=#800080]http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=A8R32-MVP%20Deluxe&type=BIOS[/color]

If this is the same issue as mine - how do they expect me to flash my bios without being able to see the screen!!!

BWX · Apr 2, 2006, 01:04 AM

Maybe get a cheap PCI card to do it or something?

tastyweat · Apr 2, 2006, 01:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BWX

Maybe get a cheap PCI card to do it or something?

After buying all this stuff... I literally have no money left! couldn't even if I wanted to (not to mention that I shouldn't have to)

I've heard about blind flashing - anyone know how to?

BWX · Apr 2, 2006, 01:16 AM

Quote:

After buying all this stuff... I literally have no money left!

I know the feeling..

JinMTVT · Apr 2, 2006, 03:56 AM

hi all!
first post on this site! nice information and feedback!!

First off,
i want to say that i was seriously let down by the many problems we are having with this board .. i only buy Asus since almost 8 years now , and i never had ANY problems with all the mobos i have purchased ( from dual slot-A to recent 939 stuff )

I had the same stuttering problem as most of you experienced in games ...
HL2, Oblivion and BF2 were completly unplayable ...

i updated to 311 bios and it fixed the issue completly, thought i am pretty sure that it could have been avoided from ASUS would they have done correct testing before releasing this product. But they fixed this one up pretty fast i guess .. lets give em this credit

Now i have smoething else, of wich i have yet to read about in here!

I am having serious AUDIO problems with the onboard audio
Almost 3-4 of the times i boot up the computer,
the audio is completly @#$%#$%

be it in Media player to games and even withing Direct X testing ( dxdiag )
the audio slows down, skip and makes some popin noises ..this is bad!
It does it with line output and with heaphones
using any and all of the output jacks !!!

I tried to uninstalled the audio drivers, reinstalled, 2 diff versions ..
then played with ATI drivers, all my direct show encoders ..
well i tried almost everything posisble that could be related to audio

Nothing fixes this bug
it does not do the same thing as what was fixed from the bios

this bug even goes on when only playing regular music with 0 decoding
( CD )

As anyone of you experienced that ?
it is reallly bad ...and i can't play any game at all like that
it is going to pup up my speakers!!!
( i am an audiophile, this is completly untolerable .. can't wait to get my diy dac running
and not use this SHITTY onboard DAC ...bad bad bad !!! )

Mar 30, 2006, 08:47 AM	#305
glynor DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bar Harbor, Maine, USA Posts: 88 Rep Power: 0	A8R32-MVP Issues I've had my A8R32-MVP board running for a few weeks now, but I've just discovered a major issue with it. I spent the whole night trying to solve the problem but to no avail... Hopefully someone here can help (as lurking on this board -- and the OCUK one -- has certainly helped with some other issues). The onboard LAN is corrupting data. EDIT: No, it wasn't. See this post over here. I solved this problem and it wasn't the A8R32-MVP after all (not even that box -- it was the server machine causing it). I have a small Gigabit LAN with a few other machines. I noticed this evening that when I was viewing thumbnails of JPEG images which live on my HTPC box (via JRiver MC) that a bunch of the thumbnails were corrupted. I started testing, and I ended up setting up a "test folder" of about 1.5 GB of JPEGs. All of them were known to be good on the "server box" (my HTPC) and I created a MD5 sum of the files. I quickly determined that the images themselves were being randomly corrupted during the transfer over the LAN. If I take the folder of pictures and copy it over to one of my local drives on the ASUS, and then check the MD5 I generated ahead of time on the server machine, a bunch of them fail the check (and the files that fail exhibit visual corruption when you open them). Often, if I copy only the "test folder" over to the ASUS box, it will copy fine (though it still corrupts a handful of files about 1/3rd of the time). However, if I simultaneously copy those files and start some other file copy (of any size), it always corrupts a bunch of files. I should mention that I tested to ensure that it wasn't the server box corrupting the files by performing identical transfers from it over onto two other machines (my linux box and a Mac). I didn't super-extensively test that, but the HTPC box has been rock-solid for a long time (it's an old ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe) so I'm not that suspicious of it. Also, I used images for most of my tests because that's where I first noticed the problem, not because it was exclusive to them. I would guess it's corrupting data of all kinds (though I didn't extensively test it using other file types). I'm exhausted now from trying everything I could think of to fix it, but I'll try to give a brief rundown... BIOS: 311 & 201 (both tested, both have issue) LAN Port Used: LAN1 (PCI-E) & LAN2 (PCI) -- again, both have issue Drivers: I've tested using the ASUS supplied ones (both the Marvell driver and the ULI drivers), and using the current driver downloaded from Marvel and ULI's respective websites. Cabling: Replaced cable from switch to ASUS, tested with different (known working) port on switch. Switch: Hawking Tech 8-port GbitE Switch H-GS8T Local Drives (on ASUS box): tested with a wide variety of drives (both PATA and SATA internals and a USB2 external drive) Windows Firewall enabled (just as a "backup" for my IPCop firewall) Most BIOS settings at default, other than to disable the Serial/Parallel ports, floppy, Game Port, and modified Boot Options. I also generally keep whichever LAN port I'm not using disabled (though I tried it with both enabled as well). In all cases I was using Windows Explorer to perform the copy operations. The copy operations were generally done from a Mapped drive over to the ASUS box, though I also tested using a UNC path, and copying the files from a different disk on the server box. In general the box has been running pretty well since I bumped to BIOS 0311, other than the occasional shutdown issue (ATI drivers crashing at shutdown or just refusing to power down) and some "mouse input sluggishness" after the system has been running for a while. I have an older Intel Pro Gigabit LAN PCI card that I'm probably going to throw in there tomorrow to test further (just to verify that it isn't some weird piece of software on the system). BTW, the ULI v220 driver seems to have solved some of the "mouse input sluggishness" I mentioned, though I haven't tested it extensively yet. Either way, this is a very serious issue which makes the board completely unreliable (I can't have it corrupting data and acting like a nVidia ActiveFirewall system)!! Can anyone else confirm (or deny) this? Make sure to test by starting more than one remote file copy at once... Last edited by glynor; Apr 2, 2006 at 05:44 AM.

Mar 30, 2006, 10:57 PM	#311
jpinard DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 278 Rep Power: 0	If I'm not running a home network, is there any way I can check this for you on my system? __________________ [COLOR=blue]DFI LP UT NF4 Ultra-D ... AMD 64 FX-57 @2.85 Gig no extra voltage ... 2 Gig Patriot 3200LL RAM 2.5-3-2-5 1T ... ATI X1900 XTX ... Creative Labs X-Fi Xtrememusic ... Forton FX600-GLN 600 Watt[/COLOR]

Mar 31, 2006, 11:04 PM	#318
calous3 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	No cold boot I've been trying to OC this Mobo with no success evry time I changed the FSB I would try and reboot but just hang pre post. Then I would press the reset button and rebooted fine it will reboot from windows np but has a prob doing a save and exit from the bios and cold boots. Here are some of my settings your help would be appreciated. memclock mode [limit] memclock value [166 mhz] mct timing mode [manual] cas latency (cl) [2.0] tras [6 clk] trp [3 clk] trcd [3clk] trrd [2 clk]* trc [10 clk]* trfc [16 clk]* trwt [3 clk]* user config mode [manual] read preamble [5.5 ns]* (auto) async latency [8.0 ns]* (auto) cmd-addr timing mode [1t] (auto) bank interleaving [auto] burst length [4 beats] hardware memory hole [disabled] ai overclocking [manual] cpu frequency [245] pcie frequency [100] fid/vid change [manual] processor frequency multiplier [x11] processor voltage [1.400v] ddr voltage [2.6] pci-express voltage [+1.20v] vcore over voltage [+.2] southbridge over-voltage [enable] peg link mode [disabled] peg buffer length [longest] * gart error reporting [disabled] mtrr mapping [continuous] cool n'quiet [disabled] ht link speed [800 mhz] ecc enable [disable] dual-slot configuration [dual video card] rd480 ht pll control [normal] Any help greatly appreciated. Calous3 4400+X2 @245 * 11 2 X 1gb corsair XMS 3200 2 x X1900 xtx Crossfire 1x74gb WD Raptor A8R32 MVP Deluxe 530W Tagan PSU

Apr 1, 2006, 01:49 AM	#321
theonlybabyface GO CANUCKS GO!!! Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 129 Rep Power: 0	Excellent. As you get the board higher, come back and post your results and settings and hopefully we can all benefit. __________________ [COLOR=Silver]MY MACHINE : Intel Q6600 \| ASUS Maximus Formula \| 4 x 1GB Team Xtreem DDR2-800 \| EVGA 8800GTS "G92" \| X-Fi Platinum \| Enermax Infiniti 720 \| Samsung 224BW KIDS MACHINE : Intel Xeon 3060 \| Intel BadaXe2 \| 2 x 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 \| BFG 8800GT OC \| Audigy 2 ZS \| OCZ GameXStream 850 \| [/COLOR][COLOR=Silver]Samsung 204B[/COLOR] [COLOR=dimgray][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=dimgray][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][/COLOR]

Apr 2, 2006, 12:15 AM	#324
theonlybabyface GO CANUCKS GO!!! Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 129 Rep Power: 0	I'm up to 280 htt at default voltage. I'm going to wait until the next BIOS revision arrives (should do alot for this board) before going forward. I am extremely pleased with the performance so far. __________________ [COLOR=Silver]MY MACHINE : Intel Q6600 \| ASUS Maximus Formula \| 4 x 1GB Team Xtreem DDR2-800 \| EVGA 8800GTS "G92" \| X-Fi Platinum \| Enermax Infiniti 720 \| Samsung 224BW KIDS MACHINE : Intel Xeon 3060 \| Intel BadaXe2 \| 2 x 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 \| BFG 8800GT OC \| Audigy 2 ZS \| OCZ GameXStream 850 \| [/COLOR][COLOR=Silver]Samsung 204B[/COLOR] [COLOR=dimgray][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=dimgray][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][/COLOR]

Mar 28, 2006, 06:25 AM	#301
NITRO-X DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	I am new to this board but find this thread informative to my issues. I own the ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe rev 1.03G BIOS 0311 I have issues with this mainboard as well. ! Setup: ASUS A8R32-MVP Dlx Operon 148 2GB OCZ Gold DDR500 2x74GB Raptors RAID 0 200 GB WD Model JB Data Drive HP Lightscribe DVDRW 16X ATI X1900 XT Creative X-Fi Enermax Liberty 500W Modular My Problem Every now and then my BIOS loses the ULi_RAID Array upon boot and tries to use the 200 GB WD Data drive, even though I have it on the secondary IDE Controller as a slave. (jumpers checked and verified) My HP DVDRW is master. THe BIOS Reports a post mssge stating that no IDE Master was found press f1 to continue, I go into the BIOS and all of a sudden the ULI Raid Device is not in the list! it's as if the BIOS just lost it, so obviously it tries to boot off the Data Drive. Setting the Press F1 if error under "boot settings config" to disabled fixes this No HD Master found error (not preventing me from booting) but it will still randomly lose the RAID setup. This issue comes and goes seemingly at random. The only way to get it back is to keep rebooting the unit. I even reset to all defaults and tried it still would not boot off the Array sometimes, even though I am getting the ULI press CTRL+A to go into the utility on boot..and I clearly see the Array listed 2 x 74GB Raptors RAID 0 Stripe 0x2 16k then it just hangs saying insert proper boot media or choose proper device in BIOS. I go into the BIOS it's (ARRAY) not there. I have run the WD Datalifeguard utility on the drives and they pass, and have tried 2 new SATA calbles. Still having this problem. I also had to go to the 0311 to fix my BF2 Pausing issues, but it seems I have another one to worry about.

Mar 28, 2006, 08:32 AM	#302
cuke2u DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	Hi, my first A8R32-MVP had exactly the same issue with the drives as you have, I sent it back and Igot a refund, Scan tested it and said there was no fault, LOL. Some were saying that it was my Maxtor drives, however, seeing as you've WD HD's that can't be the problem This new board doesn't have the same issue at all, go figure. Perhaps earlier boards had this issue which was fixed by Asus in the next release... ChrisC

Mar 30, 2006, 04:34 AM	#304
djt1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	I just got home to find the new 700Watt Fortron at my door. I connected to my setup and tried to run Cross Fire again, same problem as with 1000Watt PC Power and Cooling, black screen and a lockup. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Mar 30, 2006, 05:22 PM	#309
Coolasmoo DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 40 Rep Power: 0	i was having the same issues with crossfire completely locking up on any game. The problem for me was the Uli sata drivers Latest and the ones prior to that. The only version of the Uli Sata Driver i can use is : 21/11/2005 version 1.0.5.2 Anything newer than this driver then crossfire is a no go

Mar 31, 2006, 04:51 PM	#314
cuke2u DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	Hi, I have a home network consisting of two wired PC's one a A8R32-MVP, through a D-Link DSL-G624M, and two laptops through the same router on wireless. Can I be of some help? ChrisC

Mar 31, 2006, 06:32 PM	#316
djt1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	I’ve got Cross Fire working! It was all because of the ULi USB drivers. I uninstalled them and everything is working fine. I reformatted yesterday and I can’t believe the incredible performance I’m getting with this setup. I have one question, is anyone using .Net 2.0? I have it installed with .Net 1.1 but I’m wondering if it’s necessary. On another subject, both the PC Power and Cooling 1000Watt and the Fortron 700Watt power this setup without any issues. Although I have been partial to PC Power and Cooling, the Fortron is a very nice PSU for the money. [color=#005500]Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe/BIOS 311 Athlon64 FX-57 Corsair TwinX2048Mb-3500LL Pro ATI X1900XTX / X1900 Cross Fire Edition (CF) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS 2x WD 36Gb Raptor (RAID 0) Plextor Premium Plextor PX-716A PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW/1000W Silver Stone TJ03 Windows XP Pro/SP2[/color]

Mar 31, 2006, 08:45 PM	#317
cuke2u DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	Hi, I just install .net 2.0 The 6.3's run ok with that both on my Pc and my laptop.... ChrisC

Apr 1, 2006, 01:38 AM	#320
calous3 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Nice one m8 Thats the first time its booted from a switch off & the htt is @ 250 x 11 . will keep testing. but fantastic result. thanks for your help.. Calous 3

Apr 1, 2006, 04:13 AM	#322
calous3 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	np

Apr 1, 2006, 09:16 AM	#323
calous3 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Managed to get upto 260 x 11 3dmark06 9542 Unfortunately bombed on prime95 2hrs, could be the mem settings also the ht is over 1000 need to have a fiddle again today but well impressed gone from rags to riches with this board If anyone has any idea what the mem timings should be for this boards with 2x1gb corsair xms 3200 i.e trwt,trfc,trc,trrd,read preamble, async latency etc, i would greatly appreciate the help. Calous3 4400 X2 @260 x11 2x X1900xtc Crossfire 2x1GB Corsair XMS 3200 @ 2.5,3,3,7 74 GB WD Raptor A8r32 MVP Deluxe 530 Tagen PSU

Apr 2, 2006, 12:55 AM	#325
tastyweat Lurking Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: The void Posts: 4,794 Rep Power: 75 System Specs	Setup new system... Asus A8R32-MVP, 2x 1GB Corsair, X2 4400, Powercolor X1900XT, 250GB Maxtor Sata 2 + LG DVDRW Problems started at first - no vga output and yet all external periferals would power up... after a couple of hours of switching things around - I managed to get it to work - and was working great... up until I turned it off this afternoon! Problems have come back again - once or twice - I've been able to get some vga output - on one of the two screens I have here - crt via dvi-dsub converter and dvi tft When I was in windows - I had both working fine - but yesterday with the vga probs and today - if I get any vga out it's only on the crt - and it doesn't matter which port its in. I've unplugged everything - right down to the bare essentials to get the system to run - and this evening those are the only times I've been able to boot the system up. i've reset the cmos, reseated the memory - switched to using only 1 stick, re-seated the graphics card - even tried the second pci slot - to no avail. I've never come accross a problem like this one before - anyone got any suggestions please? Cheers!!! __________________

Apr 2, 2006, 01:04 AM	#327
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,669 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	Maybe get a cheap PCI card to do it or something? __________________

Apr 2, 2006, 03:56 AM	#330
JinMTVT DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	hi all! first post on this site! nice information and feedback!! First off, i want to say that i was seriously let down by the many problems we are having with this board .. i only buy Asus since almost 8 years now , and i never had ANY problems with all the mobos i have purchased ( from dual slot-A to recent 939 stuff ) I had the same stuttering problem as most of you experienced in games ... HL2, Oblivion and BF2 were completly unplayable ... i updated to 311 bios and it fixed the issue completly, thought i am pretty sure that it could have been avoided from ASUS would they have done correct testing before releasing this product. But they fixed this one up pretty fast i guess .. lets give em this credit Now i have smoething else, of wich i have yet to read about in here! I am having serious AUDIO problems with the onboard audio Almost 3-4 of the times i boot up the computer, the audio is completly @#$%#$% be it in Media player to games and even withing Direct X testing ( dxdiag ) the audio slows down, skip and makes some popin noises ..this is bad! It does it with line output and with heaphones using any and all of the output jacks !!! I tried to uninstalled the audio drivers, reinstalled, 2 diff versions .. then played with ATI drivers, all my direct show encoders .. well i tried almost everything posisble that could be related to audio Nothing fixes this bug it does not do the same thing as what was fixed from the bios this bug even goes on when only playing regular music with 0 decoding ( CD ) As anyone of you experienced that ? it is reallly bad ...and i can't play any game at all like that it is going to pup up my speakers!!! ( i am an audiophile, this is completly untolerable .. can't wait to get my diy dac running and not use this SHITTY onboard DAC ...bad bad bad !!! )