Having a lot of strange issues with my asus m3n78-EM, and trying to sort it all out. I've been suspecting the board because many of my problems are things other buyers reported as well on newegg.
One thing that threw a red flag is the +12v rail is showing +12.18 - +12.26 in the bios.
Is this enough to be causing some trouble? And moreover, is it excessive enough that it could be damaging hardware?
The numerous issues I've been having include: Failure to POST from cold boot (CMOS reset needed in some cases), overheating and gradual lack of performance of the iGPU (eve online ran premium at just over 30 fps at first install, now premium is unplayable and classic can drop as low as 5 fps at times), slow load times for most anything (my old 1gb of ram Athlon 2700+ machine loads winxp in 1/3 the time), and a slight overvoltage of the processor, hovering between 1.44 - 1.48v
So, any ideas folks? I just started building computers again after a bit of a break, and first I come back to find abit is no longer worth buying, and seemingly no longer even in the business.. And now I'm having even more troubles with this asus board. Clearly in over my head as too much has changed =/ . For all I know i've done something wrong along the way in connecting my PSU to the motherboard.
Thx.
PSU:
Rosewill 500W Max.
+3.3V@24A, +5V@20A, +12V1@19A, +12V2@18A,
-12V@0.5A, +5VSB@2.5A
Full Specs:
MB ASUS M3N78-EM AM2+ GF8300
CPU AMD|A64 X2 6000+ 3.1G AM2 1M
MEM 2Gx2|CORS TWIN2X4096-6400C5
HD 250G|ST 7K 8M SATA2 ST3250310AS
DVD BURN LITE-ON|DH-20A4P-04 20X
One thing that threw a red flag is the +12v rail is showing +12.18 - +12.26 in the bios.
Is this enough to be causing some trouble? And moreover, is it excessive enough that it could be damaging hardware?
The numerous issues I've been having include: Failure to POST from cold boot (CMOS reset needed in some cases), overheating and gradual lack of performance of the iGPU (eve online ran premium at just over 30 fps at first install, now premium is unplayable and classic can drop as low as 5 fps at times), slow load times for most anything (my old 1gb of ram Athlon 2700+ machine loads winxp in 1/3 the time), and a slight overvoltage of the processor, hovering between 1.44 - 1.48v
So, any ideas folks? I just started building computers again after a bit of a break, and first I come back to find abit is no longer worth buying, and seemingly no longer even in the business.. And now I'm having even more troubles with this asus board. Clearly in over my head as too much has changed =/ . For all I know i've done something wrong along the way in connecting my PSU to the motherboard.
Thx.
PSU:
Rosewill 500W Max.
+3.3V@24A, +5V@20A, +12V1@19A, +12V2@18A,
-12V@0.5A, +5VSB@2.5A
Full Specs:
MB ASUS M3N78-EM AM2+ GF8300
CPU AMD|A64 X2 6000+ 3.1G AM2 1M
MEM 2Gx2|CORS TWIN2X4096-6400C5
HD 250G|ST 7K 8M SATA2 ST3250310AS
DVD BURN LITE-ON|DH-20A4P-04 20X