K8N-E DELUXE+USB PROBLEM...faulty mombo or faulty PSU?pleasseee help!

Hello all,
I am writing from Greece.I am a proud owner of an athlon 64 3000+ and a k8n-e deluxe mombo.I have the following problem;when i plug in my USB Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem,a very high pitched sound comes from the mombo...it is then and only then when this sound is produced.As long as the modem is plugged in and operating the sound is alive...it dies as soon as i plug out the modem.There is nothing else wrong,only this REALLY annoying sound.I have two theories.
1)My PSU is of low quality and that causes the problem (i own 400Watt PSU kinda no name,it's called Pegasus)
2)The mombo is faulty.

Please help me me cause i dont want to go and RMA the mombo if something else is wrong...


PS1:The USB Alcatel Speedtouch is known for it's power problems cause it drains 500ma,but with my previous motherboard and supply (A7N8X deluxe revision 1.04 and PSU 350) nothing bad ever happened.

PS2:I have connected one SATA 120Gb hdd (Western Digital. JD model),1 NEC 3500A DVD-RW and Asus 9600XT graphics card.

PS3:I have tried bioses 1005 and 1006,o/c and non-o/c cpu and mem,nothing works.

I had the EXACT same problem with the MSI nForce3 250 Platinum card...
Now... you were lucky to find out that it is the USB causing that, because it took me a week to find out, since it was the internal USB connection (I had a card reader hooked up to it).
It is not your PSU. I thought so too, so I went and I spent 100 $ for a new Antec TruePower 380W.. didn't help..
Also, what i was noticing is that when I load the video card (AIW 9800) the noise would go away - tested the card - wasn't that... Anyway.. after a week i figure that it was the USB causing the problem...

So you wonder what happened at end - MOBO died... and it did so with style... First, one by one, USB hub died... it stopped recognizing peripherals.. every peripheral i would plug in it would say - Hardware Unknown.. or something along those lines...
One time the computer froze, I rebooted it... it went to the boot screen and said that there was a CMOS checksum error... and that it was resetting the overclocking settings to default (which i never turned on).... it wouldn't boot any further...

I went and I got the ASUS with the VIA chipset... has been working like a charm.. knock knock...

As for the MSI I'm still waiting for them to ship me the new one...

I know I didn't help you much.. but at least I hope you feel a bit better that you are not alone... When I was trying to expaling the high pitch noise - they thought i've gone crazy ...

Good luck...
Cheers,
m.

I thought I would post here as I have the same mobo, just purchased it on 2nd Dec 2004.

Firstly back to the USB Modem issus, does the cable modem come in a Ethernet form or is it USB only, I say this because I had lots of trouble with my Cable modem which is USB & Ethernet, but with another mobo the IWill BD100+ this had IRQ conflict errors with my TV card, so I put the TV card in my other machine and all was fine.

Could you not use the 10/100/1000 onboard ethernet card that comes with the K8N with your cable modem, if the cable modem is owned still by your cable company ask them to swap it for the ethernet version and use that giga card on-board.

Now my K8N-E Deluxe problem, I still havn't seen it in action
To start with I had a very stable Win98 SE OS with the old hardware (which is back in place now cause of this problem).

I rebuild the machine... New power supply 450watt both ATX power cables used 4 & 12 pin connectors.

AMD 64 3000+ 2Ghz cpu, GigaBtye Geforce FX 5900 GT, 512MB lump of Crucial DDRAM.

I am sure all hardware in 100% installed, anyway boot up for the first time, no message from the sound card, into the 1005 bios to set date/time and leave all else to default/auto detect.

Next Windows attempts to start... ....

Disk error writing to drive C: (first error)

Safe mode startup...
Windows protection error Device VKD (second error).

So no windows, no safe mode....

I ask Asus, they have replied once. "They say must be a virus", that does not make sense because I gave up after a few hours and put the old GOOD hardware back in the case, Windows loaded like a charm.. Old machine working as it did.

So my question is has any body got any advice, Ideas as to what the issue was/is and maybe how on earth I get to use my new £350 worth of new hardware.

All the mobo drivers are on a CD whereby the installer is a windows setup.exe... How do I install that from the DOS prompt.

Another thing I noticed with the new mobo booted, I was sat at the DOS prompt after the Asus booted ok, I thought I better take a copy of some important letters my wife had written.

So I used the old DOS copy c:\blah\*.doc e:\save, only to find that later with the machine rebuild back as it was, all the files that were touched and copyied, win scan disk said that they were bad...

Again very odd, new mother board booted pressed <Ctrl> to get to a dos prompt and use dos copy I get corrupt files, not only the copies but the files that were copied.

Anybody got any ideas... or had similar problems..

Regards Mike.

Hey!
I have to disappoint you but you should prepare yourself for a new, fresh OS install.
Windows will not boot if you change the motherboard - u have to reinstall.
I suggest to you to move on to WindowsXP due to several issues such as better usability, new drivers, better support, more updates..etc... bottom line - it's time to meet new technologies.
So back up your old data... and start from scratch. Get an XP cd and you should be in business in no time.
In case you are into Linux - even better, get a linux versio for 64bit architecture, and you will have a system that runs faster than anything you've seen before.
Good luck,
m.

Thanks for the bad news, but I have done this before with success, if I remember correctly with Win98 first edition, when I moved my other machine onto a 1.2 Ghz AMD sat on a Iwill KK266-R mobo.

Maybe its all to do with chipset, this new nforce3 chipset must be very different from VIA, I will check the manual yes as luck would have it all hardware & software manuals 6 feet away.

I have visited a few other motherboard forums and I haven't found much info... good or bad.

I would like to hear some success stories about this mobo, but I guess ppl only post issues & problems...

I have FULL XP pro on order, I will take some backups, remove some files and defrag, then try a fresh FULL install.

I'll post back a message on any interesting info or findings which may be useful to others.

I just hope I choice of mobo was wise, I only did it because it fitted with the CPU I wanted and came with a very fast ethernet card built in...

Regards Mike.

I think I may have something here...

I just ran "System Information" on the PC which I tried to put the Asus mobo in and found to my horror (I just forgot I guess) that some two of my disks are FAT not FAT32, see below...

Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
Upgrade using /SrcDir=G:\WIN98 /IQ /U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IE 5 5.50.4134.0600
Uptime: 0:01:40:28
Normal mode
On "M1" as "Mike"

GenuineIntel Pentium(r) II Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology
512MB RAM
69% system resources free
Windows-managed swap file on drive E (2498MB free)
Available space on drive C: 457MB of 2047MB (FAT)
Available space on drive D: 164MB of 1005MB (FAT)
Available space on drive E: 2498MB of 8283MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive F: 710MB of 1005MB (FAT)

I wonder if the mobo don't like FAT disk drives...

Any one got any views on that... ?

Or do I just go buy some new disks...

Regards Mike.

With the brand new AMD64 bit system and the motherbaord that supports SATA, different RAID configurations(you should explore this option)... maybe it's worth getting one or few bigger harddisk. 160GB is dirt cheap.. you can go NTFS for a change and then just plug in your OLD drive to get all the data out. XP will read your FAT/FAT32 drives...
As for the motherboard not supporting FAT... that is not an issue, because it is entirely OS related - software.
I know that I had to reinstall XP when i changed my motherboards. With 98 i never had that issue, because back in those days reinstalling 98 took no time...
I don't even think they have Win98 drivers for the new chipsets, and I'm positive that 98 doesn't support it out of the box... we are talking differences of 3 generations here...
Good luck,
m.