nForce 680i Troubles?

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, December 14, 2006, 12:45 PM EDT

[H] has posted an alert outlining some possible issues with NVIDIA's flagship nForce 680i SLI chipset. They site reports from around the web and explain some of the issues they've experienced in their own lab.

"Some of the nForce 680i motherboards have some serious storage issues that can render a system build useless. Not all nForce 680i boards exhibit this problem. The problem does not seem to be confined to certain system configurations as some motherboards will work with a specific configuration while others will not. The problem also seems to spread across all 680i motherboards regardless of brand judging from feedback across Internet forums."

We've worked with a handful of 680i boards from Asus and EVGA (NVIDIA) ourselves and haven't experienced any major issues. Hopefully nothing turns out to be wrong with the hardware and a driver or BIOS update solved everything.

Tags: nforce, force, 680

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com

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