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Post by mistone on Jan 5, 2019 18:08:21 GMT -5
found this board on local auction site for 20zł, inside a case with some crappy psu and with a neat arctic copper silent cooler. was hella dusty, but worked fine except when i booted it one of the coils i think was making a tiny whine sound each one second or so. then i played around the bios a bit (gotta say this board has a really neat bios) and when i set the cpu voltage to 1.8V the noise got more constant and higher pitched, and when it booted it was all over the place with the crazy whiny noises. checked the caps next to the coils and desoldered them all, put in some new ones, along with one close to the mosfets near ram which was badly bulged (this board has FIVE mosfets next to the ram slots, i have no idea why so much). Some of you guys got drivers to this board and bioses? Or played with it before? looks like a very neat 462 board  |
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jan 5, 2019 18:17:33 GMT -5
I have what ever you want for that board.  They are an excellent overclocking board, but beware of Epox sudden death syndrome. |
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Post by Ashley98 on Jan 5, 2019 21:05:53 GMT -5
Have the same board non pro I think? Same issues caps are shot tho and need replacing I could hear a lot of coil whine too from wherever it was coming from...noisy with a palomino ...no such sound with a t-bred
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Post by mistone on Jan 6, 2019 7:02:52 GMT -5
Have the same board non pro I think? Same issues caps are shot tho and need replacing I could hear a lot of coil whine too from wherever it was coming from...noisy with a palomino ...no such sound with a t-bred i think it's worth replacing since those are regular 3300 uF 6,3V caps that you can find on any motherboard |
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jan 6, 2019 10:33:02 GMT -5
Your board is missing the fan on the NB. Put one on it. The NB runs hot on all of the NF2 ultra boards.
I will link you to my OneDrive for drivers and bios that you need.
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Post by mistone on Jan 6, 2019 10:46:53 GMT -5
Your board is missing the fan on the NB. Put one on it. The NB runs hot on all of the NF2 ultra boards. I will link you to my OneDrive for drivers and bios that you need. i know what you mean scotty. i have a bit trimmed pentium 3 cooler on my NF7 nb. so definitely going to put something on this one. thinking about a small tower cooler, also big thanks |
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Post by mistone on Jan 6, 2019 14:16:41 GMT -5
well, the board does boot, but when i change anything in the bios and try saving & rebooting, there is no video output for a while and instead of board rebooting it hangs at P1 post code. bad battery? haven't replaced it yet. if that doesnt work then i guess i'll be replacing ALL caps with brand new ones
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jan 6, 2019 14:41:27 GMT -5
No such thing as P1 post code. It is 1d. You read it upside down.
It is a GPU detection error. Re-seat the vid card or try another.
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Post by mistone on Jan 6, 2019 14:53:03 GMT -5
oh crap guess im dumb lol thanks, the video card is a PCI matrox so that's weird. and it works until i try do save bios settings. i'll try with some generic agp one
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Post by mistone on Jan 6, 2019 14:58:07 GMT -5
tried an agp fx5200, same thing. i guess battery is flat because when i unplug it for 5 minutes bios resets to defaults. then i go in and only thing i change is boot order (wanna install windows from DVD drive), then hit f10, Y, and the screen goes black, LCD goes through three or two codes and stops at 1d.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jan 6, 2019 15:59:06 GMT -5
Yeah. All the good NF2 boards do funky things on a dead battery.
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Post by mistone on Jan 6, 2019 15:59:26 GMT -5
gotta find a spare and i'll report back.
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Post by mistone on Jan 6, 2019 16:03:22 GMT -5
ok, brand new battery in. nothing changes. no clue, gonna order completen new set of caps and see how she goes, it's gonna be a good deed anyway she could use some
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Post by mistone on Jan 6, 2019 16:28:00 GMT -5
funny thing is if i only run it with one stick of memory it hangs at a different code which is 10. but the behaviour is the same, hangs after saving bios settings
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jan 6, 2019 16:59:07 GMT -5
Code 10 is what I get on a cold bugged processor or a general processor error.
Re-cap the board. After you're sure you can get in and out of the bios without hanging, I would flash the bios.
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Post by mistone on Jan 6, 2019 18:11:49 GMT -5
gonna order caps tommorow.
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Post by mistone on Jan 13, 2019 11:06:30 GMT -5
update: i replaced every cap on the board except the smallest ones near the sound chip etc. the board boots, goes into windows, but hangs after some time. if i try to save bios settings, it hangs at 1d code, and same goes after rebooting from the windows hang. if i reset the bios with a jumper, it boots again but isn't stable to enough to try flashing the chip. one thing i noticed is that the mosfets near ram slots get REALLY hot to the point where it's hard to touch them. all 5 of them. it must have been like that for quite some time, because from the underside the pcb in that area has changed colour a bit. any tips?
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jan 13, 2019 11:15:12 GMT -5
Board is cooked.
Don't waste any more time on it.
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Post by mistone on Jan 13, 2019 11:17:55 GMT -5
well guess your right. but what would be the cause? if i had time to waste...
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jan 13, 2019 11:19:47 GMT -5
No idea. Something in the power delivery. Traces in the layers are probably damaged. Not repairable.
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Post by george on Jan 22, 2019 9:25:35 GMT -5
I have played with Epox socket A nforce2 motherboards. Still have one of them which i restored, in my museum  How does it act if you underclock it, e.g. lower frequency, vcore, perhaps vdimm a notch or two? Would it stay going as long as to put the latest BIOS in it? One of the aforementioned "sudden deaths" is e.g. caused by too a daring overclock, corrupts BIOS on POST. Only way to get out of that is to hot-flash the BIOS chip in another board. The hot mosfets does not sound good, could be some other component has given up. As a test you could add some cooling to the fets, see if stabilizes a bit. |
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