AMD 64/A8N-SLI Problems

[Brando569]

Has anyone had problem with their Asus A8N-SLI or AMD 64 x2 3800?? I dont mean driver problems but problems in general. Ever since I got everything all together I've been having an assortment of problems in both Windows and Ubuntu. In windows it took me about a week to get a fully functioning OS that didnt have wierd (unusual) quirks or where things didnt work. I finally had to Install XP x64 to get everything to work right.

Stuff went good for about a week or so and now stuff is getting screwey again. I installed some old(er) ram that i had laying around from my previous asus board and when i booted into windows it was saying that it found an ACPI x64 Uniprocessor and it installed it. I removed the ram and now i cant get it to go back to the dual core drivers. Also my Harddrives have been acting up, stuff has been running extremely slow compared to usual (my HDDs seem to be written to ALOT, im pretty sure its not frag problems or spyware/viruses). it takes atleast 30 seconds to a minute for nLite to start up when it used to open instantaneously. Also my computer seems to freeze randomly. I ran an extensive HDD check on my western digital HD (which has windows installed on it) via the ultimate boot cd and it didnt give me any errors.

In ubuntu, stuff seems to freeze sometimes too which never happened before. ive also noticed that in windows some of my shortcuts have disappeared from the start menu (windows update, computer management, etc...)

I was just wondering if anyone has had problems like this, ive been thinking it might be my processor since everything i bought off line came in a box and i bought from online retailers. i bought my cpu off of ebay and the guy said it was OEM and in working order and said it was never used. when I got it, the dude had wrapped it up in tissue paper and put it in a box. i was thinking that might have something to do with it.

heres my complete system specs:

A8N-SLI

2x512mb Kingston DDR400 RAM (Which were on Asus's QVL List)

AMD64 x2 3800

Thermaltake Polo 3 in 1 heatsink

Nvidia GeForce 7800GT

Enermax Liberty ELT500AWT

Two DVD Burners

I'd appriciate any comments or suggestions on this since i've spent about $800 on this total and have had nothing but problems

thanks

Edited June 10, 2006 by Brando569

[ripken204]

what drivers are you using? dont use the asus drivers, use the nvidia drivers. have u installed the amd dual core driver?

have u tried nliting the 64bit windows?

[nitroshift]

the specs look good. i'd go with ripken and use drivers provided by the manufacturers of the chipsets / devices rather than those asus gave you on the cd.

[Brando569]

i think ive used both, once i finish my UA im most likely gonna re-install windows. the only thing is i cant test my cd out because vmware keeps on giving me an error about the scsi drivers not being supported when im not even using them in the first place