Hi. My old motherboard fried so I went ahead and ordered the whole set as my Athlon x2 2.2GHz was too slow for my needs. My order was:
* Asus CROSSHAIR IV FORMULA 890FX Socket AM3 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard
* AMD Phenom II X6 Black Edition 1090T 3.2GHz Socket AM3 9MB Cache 125W Retail Boxed Processor
* Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz XMS3 Memory Kit CL9 unbuffered
Had to buy new RAM too because my old RAM was DDR2. I am running windows XP SP3 and GeForce 250GTS GPU. I also used the disc that came with the motherboard to install all the drivers.
Anyway, I hooked it up, everything seemed to be working fine except for a few things I noticed right away: The LAN port wasn't working, USB keyboard and mouse wasn't working and there was no sound from my speakers (found out the last one later on).
The LAN port, I figured, wasn't really an issue as I was thinking it would start working after I install the driver for it (I assumed there was one, although I didn't need to install the driver manually for my previous mobo), and I was right.
The keyboard and mouse issue was big, I got pretty frustrated after restarting the PC and changing the USB port numerous times with no success, it did work in BIOS though. Well, most of the time. Then all of the sudden it started working, figured it installed a driver for it automatically.
There was no sound coming from my speakers and I was gonna search on info for it on the web, and finally gave up after no result. So far I have no idea how to resolve this. It's onboard integrated VIA VT2020 @ ATI SB800 HD sound card. I have a usb headset, which works fine, but there is no sound on my speakers when I put VIA HD audio output as my primary audio output device or any other method.
Everything was working fine apart from the audio, the USB headset that I had was working so I was in no rush to spend hours on that, as I was eager to enjoy latest games on max graphics with this new high-performance system. It was fine for a day and a half, then I came across this:
Every once in a while my USB keyboard and mouse (both connected to the computer via single USB drive) would stop working. It's gotten more often now, I'm getting keyboard blackouts like every 10-60 minutes (and I am kind of rushing to write this before another one kicks in). For it to work again, I have to go into Bios and reset all settings (just recently found that, before I would switch and switch usb ports and restart the computer for a half hour). This is really a pain in the ***... Really need a solution.
Some more disappointing changes are: Windows takes a lot longer to load, probably 5 times, it also blinks a couple times during that. Quality of any flash video (youtube, NBA league pass etc.) got poor when I switch to full screen mode, buttons got "squary" as well as video itself. Enb mods (directx graphics manipulation) started crashing games at start up, just getting a quick blink and the app doesn't start. GTA IV stopped working- I get "The instruction at '0x4fee4561' referenced memory at '0x00395068'. The memory could not be 'written'. OK to terminate, Cancel to debug". Those three are not prioritized, but it would be nice if you guys knew solutions to them. To any of them, for that matter.
I've given some thought that the motherboard itself might be faulty, but I'm not sure and I don't really have a way to test it. I'm hoping you guys can help me with all of these problems, it's gotten under my skin already
* Asus CROSSHAIR IV FORMULA 890FX Socket AM3 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard
* AMD Phenom II X6 Black Edition 1090T 3.2GHz Socket AM3 9MB Cache 125W Retail Boxed Processor
* Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz XMS3 Memory Kit CL9 unbuffered
Had to buy new RAM too because my old RAM was DDR2. I am running windows XP SP3 and GeForce 250GTS GPU. I also used the disc that came with the motherboard to install all the drivers.
Anyway, I hooked it up, everything seemed to be working fine except for a few things I noticed right away: The LAN port wasn't working, USB keyboard and mouse wasn't working and there was no sound from my speakers (found out the last one later on).
The LAN port, I figured, wasn't really an issue as I was thinking it would start working after I install the driver for it (I assumed there was one, although I didn't need to install the driver manually for my previous mobo), and I was right.
The keyboard and mouse issue was big, I got pretty frustrated after restarting the PC and changing the USB port numerous times with no success, it did work in BIOS though. Well, most of the time. Then all of the sudden it started working, figured it installed a driver for it automatically.
There was no sound coming from my speakers and I was gonna search on info for it on the web, and finally gave up after no result. So far I have no idea how to resolve this. It's onboard integrated VIA VT2020 @ ATI SB800 HD sound card. I have a usb headset, which works fine, but there is no sound on my speakers when I put VIA HD audio output as my primary audio output device or any other method.
Everything was working fine apart from the audio, the USB headset that I had was working so I was in no rush to spend hours on that, as I was eager to enjoy latest games on max graphics with this new high-performance system. It was fine for a day and a half, then I came across this:
Every once in a while my USB keyboard and mouse (both connected to the computer via single USB drive) would stop working. It's gotten more often now, I'm getting keyboard blackouts like every 10-60 minutes (and I am kind of rushing to write this before another one kicks in). For it to work again, I have to go into Bios and reset all settings (just recently found that, before I would switch and switch usb ports and restart the computer for a half hour). This is really a pain in the ***... Really need a solution.
Some more disappointing changes are: Windows takes a lot longer to load, probably 5 times, it also blinks a couple times during that. Quality of any flash video (youtube, NBA league pass etc.) got poor when I switch to full screen mode, buttons got "squary" as well as video itself. Enb mods (directx graphics manipulation) started crashing games at start up, just getting a quick blink and the app doesn't start. GTA IV stopped working- I get "The instruction at '0x4fee4561' referenced memory at '0x00395068'. The memory could not be 'written'. OK to terminate, Cancel to debug". Those three are not prioritized, but it would be nice if you guys knew solutions to them. To any of them, for that matter.
I've given some thought that the motherboard itself might be faulty, but I'm not sure and I don't really have a way to test it. I'm hoping you guys can help me with all of these problems, it's gotten under my skin already