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My stuff came in so I set about to build:
If you get this main board maybe this post will help you:
The front panel connection pins are poorly marked.
If your power LED requires polarity ( mine does) you gotta put the green (+) wire on the far left pin.
The 4 pin speaker connector is not marked at all but it's sort of obvious when you get the rest in.
Zip Zoom will tell you that the AMD X3 720 ( what I got) is a black box edition and does not have a cooler.
It has a cooler. They are idiots.
Taking Zip Zoom at their word I also ordered the ASUS CPU cooler.
Asus sells a CPU cooler called the LOIN SQUARE and it's a big beast of a cooler. It comes with a bunch of heavy mounting hardware. The mounting hardware requires four holes in the main board.
Those holes are not installed in the ASUS main board.
Nice trick that: the ASUS CPU Cooler for over clockers can't be installed on the ASUS main board made for over clockers~!!!!
I also got the Corsair Dominator 4 gig memory.
It's got it's own little coolling fan kit that has three little fans that blow air over the radiating fins of the memory modules.
That ASUS Lion Square CPU cooler (if I can ever get it to mount) interferes with the Corsair cooler to the tune of about 3/16 of an inch. That's not a huge issue issue, I could trim the fins that interfered - but I can't mount the cooler on the board.
I'm asking ASUS it it is safe to let that monster depend from the itty bitty cooler Clamp that comes with most heat sinks. I think it's too much weight in a static load .
I'll see what the engineers say. The same engineers who designed a board that wouldn't take their own Cooler
If you get this main board maybe this post will help you:
The front panel connection pins are poorly marked.
If your power LED requires polarity ( mine does) you gotta put the green (+) wire on the far left pin.
The 4 pin speaker connector is not marked at all but it's sort of obvious when you get the rest in.
Zip Zoom will tell you that the AMD X3 720 ( what I got) is a black box edition and does not have a cooler.
It has a cooler. They are idiots.
Taking Zip Zoom at their word I also ordered the ASUS CPU cooler.
Asus sells a CPU cooler called the LOIN SQUARE and it's a big beast of a cooler. It comes with a bunch of heavy mounting hardware. The mounting hardware requires four holes in the main board.
Those holes are not installed in the ASUS main board.
Nice trick that: the ASUS CPU Cooler for over clockers can't be installed on the ASUS main board made for over clockers~!!!!
I also got the Corsair Dominator 4 gig memory.
It's got it's own little coolling fan kit that has three little fans that blow air over the radiating fins of the memory modules.
That ASUS Lion Square CPU cooler (if I can ever get it to mount) interferes with the Corsair cooler to the tune of about 3/16 of an inch. That's not a huge issue issue, I could trim the fins that interfered - but I can't mount the cooler on the board.
I'm asking ASUS it it is safe to let that monster depend from the itty bitty cooler Clamp that comes with most heat sinks. I think it's too much weight in a static load .
I'll see what the engineers say. The same engineers who designed a board that wouldn't take their own Cooler
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Re: ASUS M4A78 Pro Main board
Wed, May 6, 2009 - 7:03 AMASUS engineer responded to my query about mounting their high powered CPU cooler.
Ya gotta remove the mounting hardware for the conventional cooler. That'd be the square-ish black plastic mounting hardware that is screwed through the main board to a metal plate behind the mainboard. Then, he says I'll see the mounting holes for the Lion Square Cooler.
OK But I have the system all assembled and running and when I put my hand on the CPU I ain't made it hot - - yet.
The board boots just fine to an IDE drive it's does not have to be SATA.
Still fucking around with the sound.
I haven't got my ACS33 Altec Lansing sound system to run off the main boards integrated sound system.
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Re: ASUS M4A78 Pro Main board
Thu, May 7, 2009 - 1:34 PMThe Main board had an issue with XP and the Auio
This is an XP problem and not a board issue and not a RealTek Driver issue.
Once the system recognizes the hard ware ( which mine would not) it’ll ask you to install the Microsoft UUA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio.
To fix the problem you have to request the hotfix for KB888111.
Click the link:
support.microsoft.com/kb/888111/
Click where it says View and request hotfix downloads at the top left of the article next to the tools icon.
The claim on the Microsoft site is that it’s a hotfix is for XP SP1 and SP2
if you have SP 3 you are still golden the SP 3 changes are minimal..
The hot fix will come to you as an emailed link which you gotta follow and download
Then when you down load it you gotta relate back to the E-mail foe the PASSWORD.
Yah when you try to unzip it it’ll demand a password. Don’t ask me, I didn’t make it that way. I’m guessing some one in legal told them that if they did it that way no one would be able to claim that MS snuck it up on ‘em and broke their box.
After unzipping there will be a mess o’ folders. Each is for a different language.
Select the US folder if you are speaking English.
Inside the US folder is another titled x86fre .
Inside that one are 4 self extracting cab files.
Two of these are named kb888111sp1 and kb888111sp2.
Choose the SP1 cabinet if your XP is SP1
Or
Choose the SP2 cabinet if your XP is either SP2 or SP3.
I installed the SP2 version and then I went to ASUS foe the latest video driver and from the XP Device Manager I selected the HD audio device that had the yellow ? next to it. And did the driver install thing navigating to the Directory where I had stored the driver from ASUS.
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Geting the LOIN Square CPU cooler on
Thu, May 7, 2009 - 1:36 PMYa gotta take the Plastic clip component on the Mainboard off It's screwed to a steel plate behind the main board
The holes for the CPU cooler mounting brackets are under that.
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Re: Geting the LOIN Square CPU cooler on
Thu, May 7, 2009 - 1:54 PMIn my case I had to take a metal snip to the cooling fins on one side 'cause of physical interference with my Corsair Dominator 4-Gig memory fan pack. Yah memory comes with it's own cooling rig.
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Re: ASUS M4A78 Pro Main board
Tue, October 13, 2009 - 2:04 PMlooks like a sweet set up. Are you overclocking?
