asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition

[Scott]

My friend got this motherboard to go with his new (A)M2 system, along with that he picked up some ocz PC2 DDR 800 4-5-4-15 (something like that) ram. with that ram in the computer, it got all sorts of wierd errors, so i had to borrow the ram from a friend's little brother's comp (only person i know with ddr2 ram). It was junk pc3200 ddr2 ram, but it worked, and i installed windows (i'll probably get him into letting me install slackware on it, once i figure out how to properly setup grub for a raid 0) with that ram i was able to update the bios to the latest version, then the ram he purchased originally worked fine. What was the problem with the original bios? was the voltage too low? could it have just been plain inncomptabile? could it have not agreed with the spd timings?

Everything is working fine now, I'm just very curious as to why that happened.

--Scott

[Michael]

What BIOS version was originally on the board? Did you try clearing the CMOS before swapping the RAM?

Anyhow, glad to see you got it working.

[Scott]

Sorry, I should have mentioned it in the original post, it was the default 0302 bios, and I updated it to 060# (forgot the last number, but it was brand new)

Yea, I cleared the CMOS, and yes I did it the proper way, by turning off the computer, unplugging the power cable, pushing the power button to clear out any excess power, unplugging the 24 and 2 pin mobo connectors, moving the cmos jumper, removing the cmos battery, waiting a minute, then putting everything back.... I must have cleared the cmos 20 times while i was trying to get it working, and it was an even bigger pain in the butt since the graphics card that was being used is the 7950 GX2, which is HUGE, and covers the cmos jumper, so I had to remove it each time the cmos was cleared.

--Scott

[ramguy]

I read about the problems with OCZ memory modules. Check out reviews at

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227124

[gamena__pz]

Hi guys . I have a question whit a great matter for me. I want to know about all the errors and problems you know for that klass motherboards and specially about this board and his cooling. And `bout the normal tempreture that the AM2 CPU had on this board ... :confused:

[Michael]

LM_Sensors currently doesn't support the sensors used by this motherboard. The CPU temperatures can, however, be monitored if in the BIOS but not within Linux at this time.

[Setlec]

i would like to know if this motherboard with the last version of the bios more compatible with linux? i mean that i would like to buy it and be sure that the wireless AP would be recognize by the last kernel.

thank you for helping.

[Michael]

We have the M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Vista Edition that arrived this week so look for a Phoronix review of it in the coming weeks.

[Setlec]

oh thank you! i really want to read about it because i maybe go to buy it... thank you.

[Setlec]

hmmm vista edition? there is not a vista edition on the asus website

[Michael]

hmmm vista edition? there is not a vista edition on the asus website

Then it must not be released to the public yet :D

I think there's just a few alternations in the Vista one.

[Setlec]

Then it must not be released to the public yet :D

I think there's just a few alternations in the Vista one.

Well if it's for a later release maybe you could tell me about the actual version... Does the wifi works fine with latest bios?on your review you said that it doesn't work natively in linux... and does the LM_sensors read fine within linux with latest bios?

PS: sorry for beging such a pain in the ass with my questions.

[Michael]

Well if it's for a later release maybe you could tell me about the actual version... Does the wifi works fine with latest bios?on your review you said that it doesn't work natively in linux... and does the LM_sensors read fine within linux with latest bios?

PS: sorry for beging such a pain in the ass with my questions.


Don't know with the latest BIOS, but for the Wiki you likely need to use ndiswrapper. LM_Sensors should work.

[Setlec]

Hi Micheal, i've noticed that the vista edition has been released to public.. and i am very curiose about your review... can you give us some info about how is going your review?

thank you ^^

[Michael]

Hi Micheal, i've noticed that the vista edition has been released to public.. and i am very curiose about your review... can you give us some info about how is going your review?

thank you ^^

Still on the review bench. No progress yet.