My motherboard sucks, can someone help me? [abit va6] [newbie mistake]
Q: I have an Abit VA6 half years ago. Newbie biggest mistake I ever made. The board of directors completely sucks, but I do not want to spend another 125 + U.S. dollars for a good motherboard. Especially at a bad time like this.
The cdrom drives me on this computer running at 5x of whether the 32 or 48x. Not only that, but when I read from the cdrom, I can not do anything else, because it takes about 95% of my CPU processing power.
The second problem with my bios and cpu soft menu thingie II. The thing that helps to change the CPU multiplier and voltage easily. Well, if I had the power, not restart, it will reset my settings to 366mhz cpu (default). This is just the CPU setting, not something else. I just got a new piece of hardware and I can not seem to get it back to 733mhz at this time. Forget it as fast as I restart.
Lastly, my computer does not always boot. It usually takes two tries to get on my computer to boot. It can not diet, I mean, the powers and I hear the fans and everything is running but it just does not go to post or anything, just able to do nothing.
Also, Abit tech support sucks. Multiple e-mails, never received an answer. Tried their newsgroups, but nobody seems to how to fix it, although I am not the only problem with it.
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Re:Same thing happen to my CD rom. Everytime I put a cd in it, it'll takes a while for the info to come up. After a few months I got mad and toss it out the window. Ordered a plextor scsi cdrom. If i were u, I'll catch the special right now on the plextor scsi. I just ordered another one.
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Re:The cdrom problem is with any attemps at reading the cd. Not extracting audio(never did that anyway).
I'll try a new powersupply later.
I changed the battery, but that's not it.
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Re:how do you have the cdroms attached? primary/secondary,master/slave? try different combinatios.
power/bios problems could also be related to the cd-rom problem
try a different power supply; could be that it isn't proving the right amount of voltage to each connector
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Re:Unfortunately, my cdrom reads at 8x for digital audio extraction, but it plays games and runs software fine. If this is the case, why worry about it? When I run an audio burn, I tend to make images anyway for my peace of mind. It took three months of being a super sleuth to get the right combo of drivers on this machine to get it stable. Good luck…
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Re:by the way, the cdroms work fine on my other systems
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Re:Trying to read any cds, cdr or retail.
I have a yamaha burner and a creative 32x.
I'll have to check the battery, it's pretty new still(only 6 months), I had this problem from the start. Perhaps the retailer had it for awhile.
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Re:Check the battery on the board for cmos memory. On some boards, during resets, it will forget previous settings regardless whether or not it is plugged into the wall…
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Re:what are you trying to read with those cd-roms drives? drives that have trouble reading, will often hang or slow down a computer. CDRs, warped CDs, scratched CD's, etc. are examples. which drives (make/model) did u try?
first, have you managed to get at least the basics to work without the BIOS/CPU resetting problem and the power problem?
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