The Socket 939 Appreciation Club and Knowledgebase [Official] - Page 2612

Well thats a bummer. did you recheck the RAM again to make sure that its ok? Trying to figure out if a cap has a bad connection can be difficult, so hopefully that isn't it. they look nice and neat to me though. I guess the only thing left I can think of is that your PCIe slot might be going bad on you. Have you ever cleaned it out really well with anything? I've had luck getting a slot to start "seeing" cards again by cleaning out the slot with rubbing alcohol on a piece of filter paper. I'm trying to remember, but you were able to get this card to work in another board fine right?

Best of luck though and kudos for trying to keep the ol 939 alive!
Edited by toughacton - 5/17/13 at 6:34pm

So did a totally Fresh install of windows on a EIDE HDD (Slow I know). Installed 3dmark06.

Had it do a 5 run pass (5 of each test) and it completed. 9446 3d mark.

Then I run it again and it locks on proxycon

Reboot,.

Run 5 pass test - Completes 9661

Run again it locks on cpu test.

Reboot

Run 10 pass test (have no clue where it died but it error-ed out.

Run 5 pass test completes.

Run 3 pass text LOCKS up (Deep Freeze).

Ready to throw in the towel.

From what I can see you did a nice job with the caps. Issues like this could very well be a chip on the board. Those caps were for sure bad though and IMO it was worth a shot. It does sound like it's being finicky. Are you sure you got every cap that was bad? It almost sounds like a cap problem still. I would suggest testing everything, including the CPU in another motherboard that you know is solid - with default settings.

The Opty 180 has been tested on my ASUS A8n-SLI board with the same video card and 3dmark ran a 10 pass test with no issues. So I would be fairly confident that the chip and the Card are solid.

I did get all the bad caps. The rest of the caps are perfectly smooth and not even a single bump on the tops of them and the sides and bottom look just as good as new. I have extra caps just in case, but I am not going to pull every cap and replace it, too much work..

Board has more problems. Caps were a side effect from the initial problem. FWIW, I've never seen an Ultra D with bad caps before......ever. Best guess is a cheap PSU grenaded and damaged the board before you got it.

I suppose that if the caps went bad it could have damaged another component on the board. I would call it quits, and look for a new board or sell your 180. I might be interested in it, for the right price.

Hello everybody. First of all, I'd like to tell why I do appreciate the socket 939. Maybe I digress off topic here, but everything started in summer of 2005. At that time I was just a kid who had a roughly one-year-old PC bought by my dad. That PC was my first one and was comprised of the Pentium 4 3.4GHz HT Northwood CPU, 1GB of RAM, 400GB HDD and the GeForce 6800GT VGA. I though my system was very cool until during a sleepover at my friend's house I noticed he had a PC hardware magazine. As I was skimming through, I stumbled upon two things: the new AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPUs lineup as well as the new GeForce 7800GTX VGA. Back then I knew my Pentium was roughly an equivalent to the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2GHz) or the 3500+ (2.2GHz) CPU, meanwhile the beastly X2 4800+ was the dual-core clocked at a whopping 2.4GHz! I remember I was really impressed by this CPU and so I was impressed by the new 7800GTX since it proved to score ~8000 points in 3DMARK05, which was well above ~5000 points I would score with my 6800GT. After I put the magazine aside I thought "Oh my, if I had these two components I'd have such a beastly PC!".
Back on topic, not too long ago, in the name of old times, I decided to finally pull the trigger and build the system I used to salivate over. Sooth to say, the only two missing components were a MB and a CPU. Finding a motherboard was no problem and I soon came into possession of the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe board. However, getting the X2 4800+ was a big problem. To my surprise, they are still really expensive, probably due to being rare. Fortunately, after some time of searching I was lucky enough to score one for as few as 30 dollars.

So the final specs are as follows:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.4GHz Socket 939 (slightly undervolted)
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard
ASUS GeForce 7800GTX 256MB (430/1200)
2GB of Kingston HyperX PC3200 RAM
500GB WD HDD
350W PSU


And here are some pictures:




As you can tell from the pic, this CPU was produced in 25th week (late June) of 2005, which means it's one of the early X2 4800+s.





Everything up and running:







This system is rock-solid stable and definitely has its own charm, for me at least!
Edited by Hey_Hi_Hello - 5/21/13 at 6:37am

I have an a8n-sli system running still.. I love it! Mine is on a Opty 180...

Hey guys!

It's been a longtime since I've been on this thread. But I come with good news! I'm putting up my ASUS A8N32Sli-Deluxe board, X2 3800+ Toldedo and Mushkin Redline DDR500 2x1GB up for sale.

Not looking to make much as the tech is wicked old now, but I would like to have it go to a good home. PM if you are interested. Name your price(s).

Thanks!