<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:14 AM, James Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@thearmstrongs.org">james@thearmstrongs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Travis, I am using that exact same board (M3N78-VM). The only problem I had initially was the HDMI audio but got that working. I had a question for you, did you update your bios to get the 512M assigned to the video? I found the max I could do was 256M. Also, I have a hissing / high pitch popping noise coming from around the cpu / capacitor area when I playback video or do anything really intensive. Have you noticed that? It is where the square black inductors and capacitors are. I don't know if it normal or something defective. Like I said, does not happen idle, only high cpu usage.</blockquote>
<div><br><br>I did the BIOS update and assigned 512M to the video. I think I updated for CPU support, but decided to use an X2 3800 I had sitting around instead of the nicer CPU when VDPAU came out. I didn't even realize that was a new setting. I didn't mess with it until I tried VDPAU, and I had read that 512M sometimes helped playback issues so I went in and set it there. I have more RAM then I need anyway, so I didn't even think twice about it. My other frontend is a 6150 based chipset and uses software decode. I think it's only got 32M or 64M for video. <br>
<br>I haven't noticed any noise from the motherboard itself, even when doing playback either in software or with VDPAU. I would contact ASUS about that noise, it's possible that it's a known problem with some revs of the board, or it might be normal and I just never noticed it. I would guess that area is a switching power supply for the CPU, so it might be normal to hear some noise from it when the CPU is drawing a lot of current. That board is in a system with no hard drive, booting from USB flash, so it's very quiet. I would probably have noticed that sort of noise durring testing with the case open. <br>
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