Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe

[Hondaman]

I am thinking of purchasing a board in need of caps. It is the Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe. I used to have the M2N-SLI, and believe this is the same chipset -- nVidia nForce 560 -- this board supports both EIDE *_and_* SATA hard drives (either the nForce chip set or the I/O chip does).

Some boards only support booting from EIDE, and any SATA must be in a RAID. This board fully supports both types of drives. 2 or 3 GB or RAM maximum, IIRC.

I have a dual-core Athlon 5400, fan, memory, and if this is the same chip-set, my XP 64 license from my M2N-SLI will still be good (2 years since my old board died).

(My old EIDE-only computers are acting up, and I really need to switch over to SATA, with a couple of EIDE USB externals as backups.)

Can somebody point me to a "block diagram" so I know which capacitors are for what purpose? I did not see a pre-made kit on the badcaps.net store. I can post pictures and make lists once it gets here.

Also, if this nForce chipset "has problems", someone please show me another used board that can handle both kinds of hard drives, so I can copy data to SATA drives. I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks!

[Hondaman]

Re: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe

Okay, a correction. The "Deluxe" model has the 570 chipset -- only one IDE channel but 6 SATA plugs. That is the one on eBay.

The "regular" model (M2N-SLI) is the one I used to have -- it has the 560 chipset, with two IDE channels and 4 SATA ports. I can get a "regular" M2N-SLI from an eBay seller in China, but I don't trust eBay sellers in China.


EDIT: I also see an Asus P5GC-MX-1333, micro ATX, with lots of bloated caps, 1 IDE channel, 4 SATA ports. Comes with 2 GB RAM and a 3 GHz Pentium D. It would be a good solution for the money, and it would give a good excuse to use the soldering station.

[pfrcom]

Re: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe

Asus M2NPV-VM is worth considering - two IDE connections and four SATA, plus on-board video

Mine's running an Athlon II 260 without issues

Asus support shows a 255 being OK - so I thought with a 260 being the next step, then shirley ...

Only idiosyncrasy is a message from BIOS 5005 about the keyboard being locked out (haven't seen that message since 486 days) but it goes away by itself after a couple of seconds

I also stuck a heat sink on the Southbridge chip, which runs uncomfortably hot

[Elysarian]

Re: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe

The SATA drives on these boards are boot able and don't have to be configured as RAID.

I have a couple of these (one is the "Vista edition") at home and aside from their limited processor support (one of them won't POST with a phenom in there) they're pretty reliable boards

[Craftypear]

Re: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe

I am thinking of purchasing a board in need of caps. It is the Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe. I used to have the M2N-SLI, and believe this is the same chipset -- nVidia nForce 560 -- this board supports both EIDE *_and_* SATA hard drives (either the nForce chip set or the I/O chip does).
Some boards only support booting from EIDE, and any SATA must be in a RAID. This board fully supports both types of drives. 2 or 3 GB or RAM maximum, IIRC.

I have a dual-core Athlon 5400, fan, memory, and if this is the same chip-set, my XP 64 license from my M2N-SLI will still be good (2 years since my old board died).

(My old EIDE-only computers are acting up, and I really need to switch over to SATA, with a couple of EIDE USB externals as backups.)

Can somebody point me to a "block diagram" so I know which capacitors are for what purpose? I did not see a pre-made kit on the badcaps.net store. I can post pictures and make lists once it gets here.
Also, if this nForce chipset "has problems", someone please show me another used board that can handle both kinds of hard drives, so I can copy data to SATA drives. I would appreciate it very much.

First of all I am sure you know that some people on Ebay are not quite honest. I bought a bunch of stuff and ended up with one quarter of if being bad/defective. Losing the money was the worst part as it could have gone to other worthy endeavors (or parts).

Second of all, I bought a Asus M2N-E SLI mainboard from Ebay that works but with one bug (humming or low pitch chirp). I think it is a low end board, but oh well it works. Like others have said not many chips will run in it. It has the Nforce 500 Chipset, due to its being a low end model I think. Asus website does not have the block diagrams, I know gigabytes website does.
See ya

[Craftypear]

Re: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe

Just to be clear Gigabyte website has a block flow-chart of their boards not an actual Schematic with caps and resisters listed etc sorry for the misinformation.