outta the blue reboots ne idea why?

[LeeJend]

The A7n8X family got a lot of complaints for while last summer.

Haven't heard any new complaints in a while. A buddy just got the basic A7n8X with the 333 mhz FSB chipset and he's loving it, but his gainward ge4-4200 would not work at all with it or another 333 MB he has. I suspect the factory overclocking in the Gainward was the problem.

EPOX makes an unexciting (not much in the way of overclocking or fancy stuff) but reliable motherboard. Some friends and I have been passing one around the country as a loaner for 2 years. No problems. On the up side unexciting also means low risk.

That board has 400 Mhz FSB but does not support dual ddr, its the old nforce2 chipset. The 8RDA3I uses the nforce2 ultra that should support dual ddr but they don't mention it on their web site. That kinda lowers my opinion of them. Either they don't support the feature or they're too stupid to put it on their web site. Not a good sign.

Gigabyte also makes a reliable MB, but follow on support with bios updates has been pretty bad.

 

[Daniel Rossi]

ok thanks for that what is it now days no 1 seems to put any effort in what they make lol but neways with power supplys when you watch your voltage in your bios the voltage shouldn't jump too often should it?

 

[Taurus]

Originally posted by Daniel Rossi
ok thanks for that what is it now days no 1 seems to put any effort in what they make lol but neways with power supplys when you watch your voltage in your bios the voltage shouldn't jump too often should it?

as a rule of thumb, your voltage is perfectly fine if it's within 5% of spec (5v=4.75-5.25, 12v=11.40-12.60). between 5-10% shouldn't cause any short term problems but it would be recommended that you replace your power supply at some point. over 10% out of spec (5v=4.50-5.50, 12v=10.80-13.2) would demand a new power supply soon before you ruin some hardware.

and you should be able to monitor your temps and voltages from within windows. check your motherboard manufacturer's website for a utility to download.

 

[Daniel Rossi]

ok thanks for that, i think i will get a new power supply as for one thing it couldnt hurt when you have a few usb devices drawing power and out of all the computers ive had when you watch the power reading it hardly varies too much but on this the figures dont stay up long enough lol but they are within specs, well some of them are anyway