Asus M2N-E Help

[g12rxz]

I received the ASUS M2N-E to replace my ECS KA3 MVP today, hooked it up and booted up the computer. I installed all the latest drivers, but there are a few oddity's. Currenlty my hard drive is showing up as a 'removable device' and i have the removable device icon in my taskbar, but this cant be right because its my internal SATA3gbs HD! Also, in device manager i have an 'unknown pci device', and even after all the driver installs... it still hasn't gone away. I'm curios if it has to do with the ATI Catalyst drivers... will be checking that for any conflicts, but i would also like any help you guys can offer! Another thing is i can't overclock at all... wondering if its my bios, a new revision is out, but i dont know what mine is, and they say not to use the EZ-Flash utility so now i have to figure out how to flash the bios....

UPDATE
Removed all forms of ATI drivers, restarted, reinstalled catalyst 6.8's
Figured out why the hard drive shows up as a removable device, not worried
device manager still shows an uknown pci device (code 28)

 

[pt]

i have a M2N-E too, and the board to overclock sucks ass, big time
check this forum for your problems, it is usually slow but i think i saw the answer to your problem in there, if you can found a way to get more than 1.95vdimm tell me (without hardmod)
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=M2N-E&SLanguage=en-us

 

[Yin]

Was it a fresh installation of windows?

 

[pt]

Was it a fresh installation of windows?

of course, i chenged everything in my system but the HDD wich i reformated, wich is your memory?
about the unknow pci device, it apperared to me too, it's probabily a bug, i have a sound card and it works fine, just turn the pci device off

 

[Yin]

of course, i chenged everything in my system but the HDD wich i reformated, wich is your memory?
about the unknow pci device, it apperared to me too, it's probabily a bug, i have a sound card and it works fine, just turn the pci device off

Yeah its a good idea to list all your parts in detail it helps alot, especially when it comes to overclocking

 

[pt]

unknow device problem solved:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...board_id=1&model=M2N-E&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

 

[g12rxz]

link isnt working for me... ram is Patriot 'extreme performance' 2x1gb pc5300 @4-4-4-12 kit. i'm not concerned too much about overclocking until i get the board stable. another thing i noticed is the sound cuts out in regular intervals when playing games, or watching movies. ASUS' support forum seems like crud

 

[Yin]

link isnt working for me... ram is Patriot 'extreme performance' 2x1gb pc5300 @4-4-4-12 kit. i'm not concerned too much about overclocking until i get the board stable. another thing i noticed is the sound cuts out in regular intervals when playing games, or watching movies. ASUS' support forum seems like crud

wait ur telling me its not stable atm?

 

[g12rxz]

No, i cannot successfully restart, it wont post, have to completely power down and power cycle up, memory doesnt run stable at 1t and 667mhz, but on the ECS it was stable at 1t and 748mhz, and i only stopped there cause i couldnt push cpu voltage higher.

in the end though i'm just going to have to go with the lesser of the two evils and stick with the ECS KA3 MVP, although theres features about the M2N i like, the ECS overall has just that much more, and yes thats cause its a higher end board, but price performance its just that much better, it was only about 30 dollars more than this nforce 570 ultra based board, and has the latest ATI northbridge dual gigabit etc etc, just not good for changing ram timings, and doesnt like to have the HT multiplier changed, which would allow me to push this processor further.

 

[pt]

the M2N-E his a stable mobo, it has just bad Bios, asus support sucks ass and the forum speed is way low, the restart problem is happening to everyone, i'm hopping that in the next BIOS version it will be fixed, if you can change it to a MSI or a DFI board change it, that ECS looks good too, probabily better than the M2N-E

 

[g12rxz]

specs wise it is but it has problems with increasing voltage and a few other settings key to breaking the 236 barrier i seem to have, i figured an asus would have no problem with being able to raise voltages, but as i'm learning now, you can touch barely anything in the bios, most i can do is loosen timings on my ram and raise the cpu voltage, max overclock is 210, so its really nothing special. the ecs though of course isnt bad, but it has its quirks like anything else, and i figured if i could get a board for a little cheaper, get some money back, and be able to overclock farther, that the time and effort would be worth it. and yes, i agree that the asus support seems to suck, and the forums do run slow, and this boards problems are all bios related... but if you go to ECS' site, they dont even have a forum... either way though, i'm backing stuff up, i updated the bios to the latest 0304 on the asus, i'm going to do a little M2N-E vs ECS KA3 MVP tonight and see what i like more. This is the kind of stuff that for some reason never happens to the people that review this hardware, i really wish sites would list problems they have, or the major deficiencies of the boards they review instead of not saying anything... or even 'long term' reviews which focus on how hardware performs over time rather than at the moment and used for about an hour to get some benchmarks and thats that. although more work, it would be a lot more insightful.

 

[Pandaz3]

I have found that a simple re-format does not always do the trick, You sometimes need to wipe the drive to truly clear the information and then reformat. Reformatting by itself just erases old Directory. When you reinstall there could be a conflict in the underlying info as Windows will reinstall in about the same place it was before.

If there is a harder way to do something, I'll find it. Not a lot of people buy into my theory, but I like it.

 

[Yin]

specs wise it is but it has problems with increasing voltage and a few other settings key to breaking the 236 barrier i seem to have, i figured an asus would have no problem with being able to raise voltages, but as i'm learning now, you can touch barely anything in the bios, most i can do is loosen timings on my ram and raise the cpu voltage, max overclock is 210, so its really nothing special. the ecs though of course isnt bad, but it has its quirks like anything else, and i figured if i could get a board for a little cheaper, get some money back, and be able to overclock farther, that the time and effort would be worth it. and yes, i agree that the asus support seems to suck, and the forums do run slow, and this boards problems are all bios related... but if you go to ECS' site, they dont even have a forum... either way though, i'm backing stuff up, i updated the bios to the latest 0304 on the asus, i'm going to do a little M2N-E vs ECS KA3 MVP tonight and see what i like more. This is the kind of stuff that for some reason never happens to the people that review this hardware, i really wish sites would list problems they have, or the major deficiencies of the boards they review instead of not saying anything... or even 'long term' reviews which focus on how hardware performs over time rather than at the moment and used for about an hour to get some benchmarks and thats that. although more work, it would be a lot more insightful.

I know what you mean ASUS support team is fuckin useless, I got a A8N-SLI Premium Mb and some crazy OCZ ram, but they offer me no help in getting the ram to run at the specs, and I've also asked ocz they gave me plenty of help and thats where i learn most of my shit. But in the end i still wasnt able to get it to perform at the specs so i just gave up.

 

[g12rxz]

I know, but everytime i reformat i literally boot up the seagate cd and erase the partition with 0's and then re-partition/format it and then install windows. So far though, KA3 MVP is much better in terms of out of the box usability compared to the ASUS M2N-E. Probably going to return the ASUS instead of the ECS board.

 

[Pandaz3]

I know, but everytime i reformat i literally boot up the seagate cd and erase the partition with 0's and then re-partition/format it and then install windows. So far though, KA3 MVP is much better in terms of out of the box usability compared to the ASUS M2N-E. Probably going to return the ASUS instead of the ECS board.

Well that is really wiping it then!

 

[pt]

I know, but everytime i reformat i literally boot up the seagate cd and erase the partition with 0's and then re-partition/format it and then install windows. So far though, KA3 MVP is much better in terms of out of the box usability compared to the ASUS M2N-E. Probably going to return the ASUS instead of the ECS board.

i think it is a good idea, i will do the same if i could, but there are better boards out there, a DFI on your setup will be very good , i'm stucked on this ASUS, (unfortunately) and will have to keep it, i'm just wishing Asus personnel puts more vdimm and vcore on this board, nothing more

 

[g12rxz]

The board ASUS in theory is very good, but thats about where it ends. It's highly deceptive in my opinion to market and sell a board that has problems doing basic things... like restarting.. or even supporting ddr800 (and remaining stable, as it needs 2.0 to 2.1v to run). It does things that may baffle or confuse some people, like working in such a way that if you have a sata drive as your main boot drive, it will show up as a removable device! (of course theres a good reason for that but it is quite odd) The unknown pci device issue, which was supposed to be AMD Live!, well, the fix by disabling it in bios had no effect for me. I had sound issues with my creative SBA 2 platinum, even though i guess its only been reported for x-fi's, on this board at least, i was getting sound cut-outs. If all this board's problems are bios related... why are there so many bios revisions by ASUS for this thing that don't seem to help at all, can't they just fix everything in one big swoop and be done with the troubles its causing people. It's just pathetic, out of the box this board I would deem useless for any power user.