I'm buying an Asus A7N266-VM

i want monitor drivers for samtron 45bn model

I have a ASUS A7N266-vm motherboard with a athlon xp 1700+ cpu,I would like to upgrade the cpu, what is the highest spec cpu that this mothboard will accept ?

Kind regards

Richard

My board asus A7N266-VM prompts me as "systemboard interferrence, your system had previously tempered." it was diverted to bios, i check the manual already and check its CLRTC to clear cmos but it was not available in the board, what are the other alternative to make it run again.

Hi

When I try to get into the GUI mode in my linux box I get some message saying iam running is some out of frequency band..What should i do to change the frequency ..??
I have Redhat linux (WS taroon)..

Plzzzzzzzz help!!

thanks
santhoshi

Hi
Can somebody tell me, where can I find sound and graphic drivers (windows XP) for my motherboard. I have ASUS A7N266-VM.

Processor: AMD Athlon xp 2200+

Hi
Can somebody tell me, where can I find sound and graphic drivers (windows XP) for my motherboard. I have ASUS A7N266-VM.

Has anybody tried to install a Sempron 2200 (166MHz Clok, 9 Multi, 1.5Ghz Frequ.) on the ASUS A7N266-VM? The board does not support 166 FSB but I understand with the modding mentioned elsewhere in the forum I can free up the FSB and than select 166Mhz. The Bios should not recognize the CPU or maybe it might think it's an Athlon XP+ 1500. Who knows?

Any clue?
thanks
Rob

A7N266-VM
Duron 1200
512MB Mem
ATI FireGl8700L

hi,
i got a new amd sempron 2600+ pc with asus a7v400mx motherboard, with 80gb hdd, 256 ddr ram.

my system runs well only with win98.
it hangs us either during installation or during normal operation with winxp, win2000, linux(redhat,fedora..)

please give me a solution

seating memory dimms can be tricky sometimes. verify that there was a positive click on each side when you seated the dimm. also try using http://www.memtest86.com/ to test the memory.

does the bios come up?

if the memory is not seated correctly you could have a failure to post! remove the dimm. reseat and verify all cables are securely seated to the motherboard and case.

the board should POST without a memory dimm. as a last resort try removing the memory and powering on.

if in any case it still will not POST I'm afraid you blew something out.

I would recommend you check the cables and seating of the dimm though first before assuming that.

howdy,
i have an asus athlon 1800+, a7n266vm MB, hynix 512ddr @ 266, dual side , and a 40gb hdd. i was testing a RAM for a friend on my motherboard which is a hynix 512 ddr single side...dunno the frequency. i put in his RAM and booted to see that the RAM was working fine. i felt that i should chk what 1024mb of RAM feels like so i put in my RAM as well.. and well the PC didnt boot. so i removed his RAM and put in mine in the regular slot only to see that now my ram isnt working. i tried his RAM but that didnt work as well. i dunno what happened or what to do. ne suggestions ???? ne help wud be greatly appreciated... kindly reply thank u

i have an asus 7n266/vm and i can't run windows xp instalation program
i have an athlon 1533 micro with 512mb ddr
a maxtor hard of 40 gb
???

hi frens.
i hab athlon 2400+ processor & asus motherboard A7N266-VM .i have i problem in linux linux rehat 9 is intalled properly on my system but when my system is rebooted after installation then linux loading stops after giving "finding module dependencies".how to come over this problem plz help me with this.my email id is -abhishek1562002@yahoo.co.in
if any of u have overcome this problem then please help me also.

I am installing SuSe 9.0 with Samtron 45Bn Monitor. X refuses to start up. It autodetected 45B(T) monitor, but Monitor power LED blinks and no display comes up.

Pl. help

hi all,

i have A7N266 motherboard.I am trying to install Red hat 8.0 on it but it just stops after saying monitor unprobed.

Can somebody tell me that which Nvidia drivers i need and what chagnes i need after installing both drivers in x86conf file.

i need it urgently
gagan

I own an asus a7n266-vm and I have recently formatted my hard disk. Now Im running in win 98, because the installation program for windows xp and windows 2000 doesnt run properly. What can the problem be? Thanx

i have asus A7N266VM motherboard amd 2000+xp
processor & samsung samtron 56v monitor.
works well with windows but hangs while booting wiht redhat linux9 thogh installation is sucessful.whereas redhat linux 8 and fedora core does not istall.if i change monitor with LG, it works.
does anyone have solution?

cant dual boot nt server with red hat 9.0

sir,i have a problem installing linux 9,knoppix 3.2,any many other versions of linux.the system hangs while booting.knoppix works well in text mode.i have even tried mandrak,but i failed installing it in graphics mode.my systems config is
LG 700s monitor,40gb segate harddisk,128mb ram.
plz help me out of this problem.than u.

I am using asus A7N266-VM,AMD Athlon xp,which work superpbly with windows butRH linux9.0 installed in graphical mode easily.But can't boot.It shows an error,

error 28:The selected item is not fit into memory

Pls give me a solution.

I have the Asus A7n266-VM motherboard too. I have successfully installed both windows XP Pro and Redhat 8.0 with GUI. It wasnt easy but it can be done. When installing redhat you have to unplug the rear USB card (the one not on the motherboard) for some reason it just plain wont work with linux. You have to install Linux in run level3 (text mode) then install all the drivers and edit the x86fconfig file. But just incase some of you were having doughts, i just wanted to let you guys knwo it CAN be done and when its done the board performs nicely in GUI mode, and the 3D and openGL look very sweet.

I'm new to this party but hopefully can get some help.
I have a ASUS A7N266VM motherboard and AMD 1800+ processor.Works superbly with windows XP, but as you said,I cant load RedHatLinux8.0 in graphical mode.It installed in text mode but the GRUB boot loader gives "error 28:the selected item can not fit into memory".As such the monitor goes undetected during installation(Samsung Samtron 56v).Iam trying to install RHL 9,it takes graphical mode during installation.But the problem is same.

Pls inform me how can I install.

Sankar Mondal
HIT

I have a question what does it mean when the multiport dynamic resolution is off

Sir
I am having AMD Athlon xp 2000+ processor with Asus A7N266-VM/SE mother board, 128MB DDR SDRAM nVDIA chipset. My problems are - Windows XP takes more time to start. - 3D games are working very slowly. It takes more time to close the run programs. Kindly suggest how to rectify the problems. Where is the fault.
Thank you.
Kannan,S.

for RHL install in text mode, install lilo as the boot loader ans skip X configuration. then dl the drivers from nvidia site. get the NVIDIA-nForce*.run file it is easiest to install. also get the latest version of grub (.93) install te drivers do an xf86config and select geforce2 as the display. configure your monitors for lower frequencies than it supports. after it generates the /etc/X11/XF86config file, edit this file and cahnge the line driver "nv" to driver "nvidia" ten reboot and startx.

i am using Asus A7n266 mother board and did not find graphics and sound drivers for windows NT with the accompanying mother board CD. kind guide me where to find these stuff

URGENT URGENT

i have asus main board and having nVIDIA chip set. also have XP .I can't run red hat linux in gui mode ,i was install it in graphics mode.so should i install in text mode and then find the drivers for that ?

is ture that the mandrake linux is more gui
then red hat ?
will any body help me

linux 9.0 installation completed successfullyerror 22 message
ext3-fs: ide0 (3,69): could'nt mount because of unsupported optional features(4)
mount error 22 mounting ext3
pivoroot:pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed:2
unmount /initrd/pro c failed:2
freeing used kernel memory:128 freed
kernel pain c: no init found. Try passing init=option to kernel

Ive had no end of trouble getting the integrated LAN to work on redhat 9.

i have a asus A7N266-VM Se mother board with AMD athlon 2000+.my computer hangs up when i search for cheats using a cheat searcher for games.

CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME????

Hi,

I'm new to this party but hopefully can get some help.
I have a ASUS A7N266VM motherboard and AMD 2000+ processor.Works superbly with windows XP,ME but as you said,I cant load RedHatLinux8.0 in graphical mode.It installed in text mode but the GRUB boot loader gives error 28.As such the monitor goes undetected during installation(Samsung Samtron 56v).Iam trying to use LILO.Hopefully it works.Lets ee.
H.Das
IITM,chennai

iam having a m/b A7N266-VM with duron 1.2ghz processor.my problem is iam not able to install redhat 8.0 on this chipset m/b.so pls tell me solution to install it.

On my A7N266-VM with 512 Mb / 80 Gb
SUSE 8.0
Install latches in gui mode
Install OK in text mode but
launch latches on the hardware scan (dead)
fail safe launch OK

Mandrake 9.0
Install in gui OK
Launch latches on mounting devices.

Any clue ?
Can someone recommend a specific distro ?

I had some problems installing with RH9

Do you run this features of this mother board?:
-USB base
-USB additional of the front panel
-USB additional of the back panel
-LAN with intgrated Realtek 8201L PHI
-Internal VGA
-Digital Audio Interface for 3D Sound

In my installation (RH9) is OK only this features:

-USB base

By
Paolo

Hello

I had some problems installing with ASUS MB A7N266 VM/LAN-UAY with Redhat9

The features of this MB are:
-USB base
-USB additional of the front panel
-USB additional of the back panel
-LAN with intgrated Realtek 8201L PHI
-Internal VGA
-Digital Audio Interface for 3D Sound

BUT in my installation (RH9) is OK only this features:

-USB base

And for you?

By.
Paolo

I have this motherboard and I've had no problems running Win2K and RedHat Linux 8.0
Yes the GRUB bootloader fails - although you will find a solution if you type the error msg into google.
If you're a linux newbie, use the LILO bootloader to begin with. Install redhat in text mode and then download the graphics drivers from nvidia.com.
Nice motherboard, lots of features, no problems

I also had GUI problems installing RedHat 8.0 my new ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard. However RedHat 9.0 works fine. Now I am having problems getting the networking configured.
-Toby

I have system Config: ASUS A7N266-VM mother board with 256 mb DDR ram, 40 gb Segate HDD, and SAMTRON 45BN monitor
I am facing problem while loading REDHAT LINUX 8.0
it will not going to gui mode installation, and after installation in text mode, when booting with grub and selected linux grub shows error selected item may cannot fit into memory
Please any one help me to solve this.
Thanking you,

On ASUS A7N266-VM motherboards, "startx" causes onboard nVIDIA VGA not to send video signal out on Red Hat 7.3 Linux!!! No way to use graphical stuff! But why??

On ASUS A7N266-VM motherboards, "startx" causes onboard nVIDIA VGA not to send video signal out on Red Hat 7.3 Linux!!! No way to use graphical stuff! But why??

I have a susu a7n-266 vm board and AMD 1700+
But ı think my performance very very bad...
Can u help me?
What is the problem??
THANKS..

I have a Asus A7N266-E Motherboard PC Based system and have a flaw with the GRUB boot loader. I have tried installing on a empty harddrive, with Win2k and it cant boot from hd only floppy and cdrom. The message "Selected item cannot fit into memory" appears when trying to boot from HD. As I tried the kernel on the floppy - it still gave me the same error.

Any ideas?

For linux to work on this board you MUST use Lilo, not Grub (SuSE 8.1 uses Grub by default.)

I have been running SuSE 8.1 on this board for a while, and it runs flawlessly.

I can't even install Win2K, though...... :-|

Error 28 : Selected Item cannot fit into memory discusses this error.

Also the startx crashing error.

The boot error seems to be related to Grub, are you using this as your boot loader?

Does Lilo or a boot floppy work?

The system I built was for someone else, they needed to run Windows 2000, which is what was loaded on it.

Also mentioned was using switchdesk from the console to change the window manager. Something about Gnome having a bug. In one case WindowMaker was recommended.

Hi -

I read your article - I've built an Asus A7n266-VM system, and tried to install SuSE 8.1 on it. After installation on first boot it fails with the message

kernel (hd0,0) vmlinuz root = /dev/sda3 vga = 788 [ linux-bzImage, setup = 0x1400, size = 0x10aab8 ]
Error 28 : Selected item cannot fit into memory.

The system runs fine with Win98.

What OS are you running ? Did you have any problems if it was Linux?

Thanks in anticipation

Ross Morton

Dept.of Public Health
University of Glasgow
Scotland

More updates...The Epox is alive and well. The monitor went bad! It's OK the nforce Asus is super so I don't feel bad about it.

I swapped the bad monitor out for a SyncMaster 755DF from Samsung which was the best monitor I've seen for $159 shipped.

OK the Epox POSTed in another case, I did clear the CMOS with the onboard jumper so I'm still not certain what happened.

I want to load a new OS this week, not sure if I'll get to it. I have Debian disks I want to try out.

Installed the motherboard this weekend.

The only components from the old system was the case, power supply and hard drive.

Because of the difference in the chipsets, it was not a drop in replacement. Via vs Nvidia.

I installed the Athlon XP 1600+ and 512+256MB of DDR Dram.

With the onboard video using 32 MB as currently configured.

Performance in UT 2003 demo was very playable at 640x480 16 bit, and acceptable in 800x600 32 bit.

Actually thinking about it now, bumping the shared memory for video up to 64 MB would help a bit. And of course the free AGP slot is just icing on the cake for when I add a new card in 4-6 months. One of the reasons I selected this board was the AGP slot. Nvidia chipset and that I have had success in the past with mATX form factor all in one mother boards.

The post mortem is not complete, too busy today, but I have a bad feeling it may very well have been a bad keyboard! Once I got the new system up and running the keyboard stopped working on a subsequent reboot. A spare swapped in has been going fine.

What I'll try is booting the old Epox up in another case.

Checking the BIOS, (If I can get it to POST) I have an inkling that the stop on error function will be active, no keyboard in many cases will raise an error flag.

arggh. Anyway, I'll update this thread with what I find...