ASUS P5B-Deluxe; Problems & Fixes

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I have Raptor RAID AND the barracuda perpend. 320Gb on ICH8R .
AND WD1200JB and DVD on the JMicron , as Raid or IDE ..same.

I suggest you TEST differente stripe size , I did 128k and it seems to suck on performance. 32k stripe supposed to be good for x2 Raid0, 16k for 4x Raid0.
Set to Raid in BIOS regardless of drivers. Install Intel Matrix Storage Manager.
Enable WriteCache for the Raid in the Manager
You may want to experiment/consider doing a RAID0 AND RAID1 on the same HDD Array. Thats the specialty of the Intel Matrix :)

I'm building a new system and I would like to know if somebody had compatibility issues in between this mobo (P5B Dlx) and the OCZ DDR2-1000 PC2-8000 Platinum XTC 2GB memory

Thanks,

If you installed Windows in IDE mode on that drive, you are fuxored, you must reinstall Windows and F6 AHCI drivers.

Vista is a bit weird...Here's an issue I had:

I boot XP off a SATA drive, and had my other SATA (a data drive) on the Jmicron port because with the old BIOS versions, the Intel ports took like 20 seconds to detect both drives.

For fun, yesterday I plugged my data SATA onto the Intel ports (one of the black ones, which are apparently for data only) to see how it was doing now. However I forgot that my data SATA was in IDE mode (because otherwise my DVD-ROM would show up as SCSI) and the Intel ports are on AHCI. I booted to XP fine, and then to Vista fine (I have Vista on an IDE PATA hanging off the Jmicron) but the second time I booted to Vista the Intel ROM hung for like 30 seconds and didn't detect the second drive. I did a full install of the Intel Matrix Storage manager to no avail (despite the fact Vista has drivers for them already) and when I booted to XP the drive was also gone and the Intel ROM hung as well.

I thought I was also fuxored and had just lost my data drive, but I plugged the sucker into one of the red Intel ports and it started being recognized again.

So there is either a problem with going from IDE to AHCI even on data drives, or more likely, and this is what I didn't think about, is that my data SATA actually has a Master Boot Record (MBR) because I used to have Windows XP there and I'd never wiped the MBR...We know you can't change from IDE to AHCI on boot drives, so I'm guessing that if your drive still has an MBR, changing from IDE to AHCI causes problems period. So changing it to one of the red (boot) boot ports on the Intel fixed the confusion...anyway, be careful with this stuff and make sure you know everything about your drive before you switch things.

In Vista, here's another really annoying thing - even though the Jmicron is in IDE mode, Vista still makes my DVD-ROM a SCSI device...I don't have a clue how to fix this. I had to install the Jmicron drivers because otherwise it wasn't recognizing the data SATA I used to have on the SATA_RAID port....Now that I have moved that drive to the Intel ports, maybe I can deinstall the Jmicron crap and get my DVD-R/W right. I haven't tried burning from Vista yet to see if the DVD-R/W is performing correctly, maybe it is and we don't have to screw around.

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Originally Posted by Wout

Changing it to AHCI causes a BSOD while booting. I assume I need to reinstall Windows for this to work?

Also, another question. I'm planning on adding two WD raptors next week for a RAID 0. Should I set the SATA controller to RAID then, instead of AHCI?

It is even possible to have a normal hdd, plus 2 hdd's in RAID on the Intel controller?

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There is a guide some where either in this thread with a guide on how to switch to AHCI without BSOD'ing... it worked for me.

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Originally Posted by mrt2

There is a guide some where either in this thread with a guide on how to switch to AHCI without BSOD'ing... it worked for me.

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Yeah, I found it!
I booted into Vista in IDE mode, and installed the jmicron drivers. Then I switched the HDD over tot the jmicron controller, and enabled AHCI on the Intel controller. Booted into Windows (drive still on the jmicron) and installed the Intel drivers!

How much do you guys think I can go with my p5b-deluxe , 2gb ddr 553 (kingston value) and stock cooling ?

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Originally Posted by Wout

Yeah, I found it!
I booted into Vista in IDE mode, and installed the jmicron drivers. Then I switched the HDD over tot the jmicron controller, and enabled AHCI on the Intel controller. Booted into Windows (drive still on the jmicron) and installed the Intel drivers!

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Glad to hear you go it to work :)

But now you got me thinking if I should connect my primary drive to the SATA_RAID connector and my other drive (data drive) to one of the standard SATA connectors. I don't plan to use RAID, but does anyone know if there is a performance gain to be made by using the Jmicron controller?

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Originally Posted by ThreeNF

Glad to hear you go it to work :)

But now you got me thinking if I should connect my primary drive to the SATA_RAID connector and my other drive (data drive) to one of the standard SATA connectors. I don't plan to use RAID, but does anyone know if there is a performance gain to be made by using the Jmicron controller?

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In theory, you'd think that by balancing the workload over two controllers it should be faster. I'm keeping my Maxtor on the jmicron controller, and will run the two raptors on the Intel controller in RAID 0.

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Originally Posted by Tcmjr

How much do you guys think I can go with my p5b-deluxe , 2gb ddr 553 (kingston value) and stock cooling ?

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not very far without a cpu!!:stick:

Hahaha, dumb me :P

c2d 6300

It depends on how high your mem frequency will go. E6300 starts from FSB 266@DDR2-533, so you need to increase the voltage on your Kingston's and see how far they go.

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Originally Posted by Wout

In theory, you'd think that by balancing the workload over two controllers it should be faster. I'm keeping my Maxtor on the jmicron controller, and will run the two raptors on the Intel controller in RAID 0.

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Well, for the fun of it, I ran HD Tach with my primary drive connected to a standard SATA connector (Intel controller). I got a burst speed number of 240 on average.

I then connected my drive to the SATA_RAID connector and the burst speed using HD Tach was 280 on average.

I understand that this utility isn't something representative of the real world, but it's interesting to see that it was faster. I will try to get a hold of some other benchmarking tool (SiSoftware?) and see what I get using that.

Sandra will probably give you very similar numbers between the 2 controllers...if you haven't already, boost your PCIe bus speed up to 118 or 119 Mhz...anything above 120 will deactivate the intel controller...increasing your bus speed will give you a nice jump in performance on the Intel controller.

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Originally Posted by Blackoberst

It depends on how high your mem frequency will go. E6300 starts from FSB 266@DDR2-533, so you need to increase the voltage on your Kingston's and see how far they go.

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Should I go increasing the cpu and memory FSB at 1mhz increments together ?

FSB increase determines DDR speed increase, so you only have to rise FSB. I don't how good are those Kingston sticks at overclocking. Try 1.9v or 2.0v for mem voltage and FSB 333 and then do some testing. Also manually select the timings. Try some relaxed timings like 5-5-5-16 for 667.

that is true if you are using 1:1 ratio but changing DDR speeds other than 1:1 will also affect memory performance either up or down

In theory using 2 separate controllers should give u a performanse boost, due to controller workload division, but I dont know how much boost or is there an effect visible in real time enviroment.

Tommorow i revise manual and post it here as tread... so plz all of u who have time plz go over it and tell me if there are any changes you fell should be made http://www.altus.co.yu/temp/Q.htm

Need some newbie help. I just built a new system with the following:

P5B-D
E6600
Mushkin 6400 CAS 4 2GB (placed in yellow slots)
Seagate 7100.10 320gb NCQ drive
WD Data drive (non-NCQ)
Samsung SATA DVD-RW drive
ATI graphics

I have been reading a lot of posts and am confused about the SATA ports. There are the INTEL ports, the JMicron ports, and some RAID port. What should I hook my SATA NCQ drive up for best performance? Where I should put the non-NCQ HD and DVD drive? My guess is I have to re-install XP and put in the drive disk for NCQ. I also read about upping some frequency.

Is there a guide that discusses these things, or is it just continue reading through all these posts. Thanks for the help - just switched over from being a long time AMD builder to try out the Core 2 stuff.

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Originally Posted by flaker

I updated my p5b-d with 1004 bios, it looks great but I wanted to change it older one for memory test..
Well, I found that 1004 bios can't be downgrade to older bios..
I tried AFUDOS, EZflash, ASUS Update, but nothing works..
Anybody tried it? If someone succeded it, plz let me know how to.. :(

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I rolled back it to 0711 using Old version Asus update.. lol..
If you want to roll back from 1004, use this one..

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/fl...sUpdt61002.zip

Special thanks to Yobiwan.. :)

What is the ACPI driver for ATK 0110 virtual device ?
I could not install it. I don't know what it is for anyway.
Anyone with some information on this driver?
Thanks

@flaker
Have just successfully flashed my bios from 1004 to 0711
1004 gave me restart issue when powering up my computer from completely power off state
Thanks flaker!!!
Damn U ASUS!!!

-tam2-

Angelico_Payne
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Quigs
You need to read more, You mention a non existant "and some RAID port" ..
How to avoid reinstalling WinXP when changing to AHCI was discussed a few posts back.
Basically, with your drives, you can (and want) instal NCQ on Intel (the 6 SATA bunch) , the DVD (SATA ??) and WD on the JMicron , even though I don't see any reason not on Intel.

chuckbam
Acpi exists in AISuite . I did Manual update.
Sloppy ASUS :slapass:

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Originally Posted by chuckbam

What is the ACPI driver for ATK 0110 virtual device ?
I could not install it. I don't know what it is for anyway.
Anyone with some information on this driver?
Thanks

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http://www.altus.co.yu/temp/Q.htm

Ancient1 thanks.

I will also add 1004 bios to blacklist,cause lot of ppl having issues with it, so its for daredevils and adventurists only.

^ no probs with 1004 here, same as as 0804 and 0910

Asus P5B Vanilla

* Processor: E6300 @ 450x7 = 3.16Ghz
* Bios Revision: 1004
* Memory: Corsair XMS2 ddr2-800 1.9v 5-5-5-12
* Configured Voltages: 1.3 vCore, termination left on auto
* Configured FSB: 450
* Configured Ratio: 7
* Configured Memory Timings: 5-5-5-12
* Any other applicable configuration modifications:

Memory goes 50mhz over stable with all stock settings.

12hour orthos stable