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ASUS says that it should improve temperature monitoring.
Okay, guys I need help.
Bios at startup shows (dual channel interleaved), and cpu-z show as Dual Channel.
Both memories are at the yellow slots. Both are Kingston 1gb - ddr 533.
[edit] Tried both at the black slots and same results.
They are not from the same manufacture week and the memory chips have different memory chips, could this be a problem ?
Both shows the same timings for latency 4-4-4-12.
Here are the Righmark scores I found at the neeoseker review of our board on the left(ddr-800) and mine on the right(ddr-533), added single channel results.
Is this the supposed higher benefit of dual channel, should it be more ? less ? Or I was just expecting something more than reality ?
Real Read
(avg) 7057 - 4090 - 3300
(max) 7868 - 4654 - 3490
Real Write
(avg) 3074 - 1765 - 1070
(max) 4801 - 4157 - 3540
Bandwidht
(avg) 5261 - 2770 - 1990
(max) 6022 - 3033 - 2153
They clearly got double the result ... DDR-533 max bandwidth with dual channel should be around 8.4gb/s and I'm seeing only around single channel results.
well solved my issues finnaly, I had a flawed motherboard its goin to a rma.
i don't think your Tuniq 120 Tower is mounted correctly because you should have lower idle temp than 50C unless you are very high on the vcore with a realtively high overclock.
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Originally Posted by mrt2
Blackoberst, thanks for info regarding the PECI
P.S. Is that u under the gas mask? ;)
In my experiance, dual channel benefits should go up to 30%. But never used an in intel based board before for testing. It should increase your mem bandwith.
I heard 0910 is buggy, thats why it isnt official yet. So what are the benefits of using 0910 in comparison to 0804?Quote:
LittleDevil Everyone use the last one (0910 current)
Anyway, one of the members said that loading both Intel and Jmicron AHCI or RIAD drivers during windows setup by F6 method can prevent jmicron controller issue. By using his explanation I've put together a F6 boot disc package for both controllers using latest Jmicron and Intel drivers.
U can download it here.
which vcore are you using? it might be on autoQuote:
Originally Posted by mrt2
whats the exact jmicron controller issue?Quote:
Originally Posted by Angelico_Payne
Angelico Payne, 0910 is beta and I don't know what changes brings. The only thing I noticed is the PECI issue.
edit
I still don't know why I can't use Clockgen to raise my FSB to remain on 1066 strap. Any sugestions? I've made the necessary settings in BIOS for the desired frequency, but computer freezes after I click apply.
Platform Environment Control Interface, abbreviated as PECI, is a recent (introduced in 2006) technology used for thermal management in the Intel Core 2 Duo processors. The main difference between PECI and the previously used thermal sensors is that PECI reports the negative value expressing the difference between the current temperature and the thermal throttle point (at which the CPU shuts down itself to prevent damage from overheating) instead of the absolute temperature as usual. So, for example, for a typical CPU with maximal temperature of 85°C and the current temperature of 35°C, the value reported by PECI would be -50°C.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexandrus
Another difference compared to classical thermal diodes is that PECI uses digital thermal sensors (DTS)
Thanks for the detailed explanation.
so should PECI be disabled or enabled? - because it should be disabled according to the OCing guide by FCG
PECI doesn't affect OC. It might affect temperatures reported by TAT, CoreTemp or Probe. Depends on witch bios you're using. Try both, enabled or disabled and check temps.
PECI has nothing to do with OC and should be enabled for all Dual/Quadcore CPU's since it provides more accurate on-die temperature readings than the diode (which is still in place on these CPU's for backwards compatibility) temperature sensing method. The BIOS needs to fully support this feature since it is driving the CPU-Fan in variable rpm mode! Other sofware needs to be aware of the different temperature readings in 30h when PECI is enabled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stx
thanks for the PECI info. I had no idea what it stood for.
I was talking about optical devices being seen as SCSI, and performance downgrade.
Thanks for PECI info.
OK i got 2 probs.
1. Breef frezees while working.. e.g. unpacking a 30 mb file, stops in middle of unpack and continues after 6 seconds, accessing disc data,...
All happened after i installed drivers.
2.Which drivers to install to enable AHCI?
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2...idrivervc1.jpg
3. I'll think of something later.. its 1 AM here now, so kind of tired now :(
Oh yes, how can I set USB so it can been seen as floppy in Eazy flash and Windows setup (i tried forceing emulation)?
Where can I download the 0910 bios?
Hmm.. Mine is 82801HR/HH/HO SATA AHCI Controller.
Try updating from your ASUS P5B CD. I think the driver is located in \Drivers\Chipset\Intel\Inf\XP...
I have done the change from IDE to AHCI in a different way. It was on ASUS forum, but I couldn't find the link anymore. :(
As far as I can remeber, I've unistalled everything under IDE/ATA/ATAPI.
Note: if you have an optical unit on IDE, don' uninstall that.
After that I restarted, manualy installed the new controller from the location on CD, another restart, selected AHCI in BIOS, boot to Windows and installed Intel Matrix Storage Manager. And another restart, and it was working.
Hope I've remembered well.
those timings messed me up for a couple hours till i figured it out via google.
i took a chip from my p5n-e sli that i am rma'ing (board only) and threw it in my new p5b-deluxe. everything installed great but the moment i tried to oc it wouldnt post. the moment i put defaults on it would start xp.
finally i figured out it was the last 4 timings that were at 10-10-10-10 were screwing everything up. find out the right values for those timings and i bet a lot of peoples problems would be solved.
What should be the last four values? the 10-10-10-10? I'm getting memory errors at certain speed too. I don't know what my last four settings should be.
is this the 1x PCIe issue you guys are talking about
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1999/untitled7hi.jpg
lol tells you how much i care about gaming hehe
i tried the suggested fix settings but it doesn't work....:confused:
HereQuote:
Originally Posted by mrt2
Blackoberst, tnx for info, but that way can cause me not to boot in Windows again (get BSOD), if u do the same while windows setup, u get same BSOD on next restart.
I am puzzled, u got controller number 5!! :D
I will contact ASUS for explanation... beacuse drivers from ASUS are not the latest, so I use Intel's.
Can someone else using AHCI tell what is the name of Intel controller?
Also, these freezes are driving me ******* , have any of u set up maximum PCI latency?
EDIT : I see a lot of repeated Q&A around here, so i will make my guide into tread, so ppl can read it before asking question here , that have allready been answered.
hmmmmmmmmm default settings
x16
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7879/untitled3qg.jpg
Nice compilation, thanks ! :banana:Quote:
Originally Posted by Angelico_Payne
hmmm
pulled the third stick of RAM from mobo, cleared cmos
went to bios set 266FSB, 100PCIe, 1.25vcore, 2.0vdimm, 1.55vNB, 1.6vSB
did the NB/SB x1 fix settings
windows x16
went to 333MHz FSB = x16PCIe
went to 366MHz FSB = x16PCIe
went to 399MHz FSB = x16PCIe
went to 439MHz FSB = x16PCIe
works now...heh
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/8115/untitled1mg.jpg
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/5048/untitled3dv.jpg
Angelico_Payne
I believe I read something about warning against moving to AHCI after OS installed. Could be in Asus Forum or even FAQ.
About the Advanced User Manual .. :
I solved 100% crackling Soundmax by disconnecting the PC_Speaker from the OB connector. Boot issues were soleved by 4580 drivers.
dinos22 lol. You have to set PCIE Freq. at 101 or 110MHz and it wount be PCIEx1 when you are ocing...
i even had that runnig when it was unsuccessful until the fix cameQuote:
Originally Posted by Drager2
What's a good app to get my cpu temp other than asus probe?
coretempQuote:
Originally Posted by mrt2
Speedfan 4.32b8 ::fact:Quote:
Originally Posted by mrt2
:cool:
I know, and there's a way around, but i dont know which of 4 drivers to install... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ancient1
Thanks for the info,but still some people having problem avec 4580 drivers. i first advise latest drivers then all other.
Intel TATQuote:
Originally Posted by mrt2
i am having issues with this board. just got it on friday and built a new rig with parts i swapped from a week old p5n-e sli so i know they are solid and how high they can go.
everything was running just fine but my temps were very high so i decided to reseat the scythe ninja. i was rock solid stable at 3.3ghz but i went to reseat the heatsink and so i did and when i went to start back up it wouldnt post - all the fans would spin all the lights would go on the drives would whir but nothing on the screen.
so i decided to take everything out and put it back in (mobo) and so i did. same thing as above. so i remembered the one stick ram thing i read. so i took out one stick of ram and voila - i posted got into windows fine. so i went back to the bios and changed my voltage (ocz pc 6400 platinum rev. 2) so i could put the second stick in.
i did that and shut down, but then got distracted for an hour - went back to start up and nothing again. tried one stick of ram again, nothing.
i have plenty of power - corsair hx620. i only have a 1950pro in here. an e6400 cpu.
i tried one stick of ram in each slot, 1 by 1. nothing. all fans go all ights on all drives are fine - just no post on the monitor.
if this is unfixable im never buying asus again. i just returned a p5n-e sli that cost me 3 days of issues. time icant get back. now this?
any assistance?
reseated my cpu. unhooked my drives and other stuff.
still all fans and the lights come on. nothing on the screen.
my friend has a new dell core2 setup, im gonna grab a stick of his ram and see if it will post with that. otherwise i am sending this board back and am finished with asus it seems.
ill grab the new revision of the ds3 coming out and say hello to the boards taht look like a clown exploded on them.
anyone know whats up with the Jan. 2007 realtek wifi drivers on windows update? Same as the latest betas on Asus update or what?
Try a new stick of RAM that seems to work for me, although it works like when it wants to. The new stick always posts, but when I put my good RAM back in, it doesn't post again sometimes, so sometimes I have to do the process over and over... It's a real pain and I am definitely sending this board back.
Well I've got another tiny little problem...I did the weird hack method to stop the Jmicron drivers from installing for the IDE (but using them for a hard drive) and I just noticed that when I put different CDs in they aren't recognized by name. I had an audio CD in and then when I put in a data CD, the name was still "Audio CD" and the icons inside were totally wrong.
Has anyone put in the latest Jmicron drivers, and do they work right for CD-ROMS?
I having battle. I have been unsuccessful at running 2 hard drives in raid 0 with a spare 3rd ide data drive not raid. All together!!!. The spare drive always comes up with question mark on it. It like its trying to be raid also due to set ide as raid in bios. Has anyone had any success with this. I even tried plugging ide into jmicron and still no joy. Also i read in the manual the black sata ports are for slave sata. What about if i setup as ahci would i have anymore luck? There must be a way. Lots of sata ports but i dont want them all as raid.
markymoo
I have 2 SATA Raid0 and 1 Single SATA on Intel , and DVD and ATA66 on JMicron IDE.
The JMicron drives appear as SCSI is Device Manager.
I recall some issues with setting AHCI on Intel. But I didn't bother.
well i took all the power out of my mobo and the battery, cleared the cmos and took the ram out. left it like that all night cause i was sick of muckin with this board.
put in a stick today and it booted up. changed the voltage and then shut down put in both and booted up. and then i was like let me check my bios - it was an 05 version. i just got this board 2 days ago and i just assumed it had to be the latest bios. duh @ me!
gonna flash now and see if it does it again. i need this pc to be able to work off of cold boots. since i still see people having this issue nowadays with the new bios i am not sure it will fix this board.
Be careful when flashing though... Make a BIOS CD FIRST with the latest on it, then flash... for some reason this new board I have doesn't like being flashed and so it comes up with a corrupt boot block yada yada yada or corrupt bios etc.. after I flash it... then it goes through the BIOS recovery process so I put in a cd with the BIOS on it and then it actually goes through... I've had to flash all my bios twice with this process every time I switch... More evidence that this is quite possibly the worst board I've ever used... not for performance, just for stability and crazy bugs that just SHOULD not happen when a product leaves the production floor. It's almost like they rushed this board out and forgot to test it... and now the consumers are forced to be their little test subjects at our own expense so they can work out the basic bugs that boards should have worked out before they go retail... OK Rant over. =)
I switched my drives over to AHCI and it's working fine... And this is after I installed my os with IDE... I did the workaround to switch it to AHCI... It worked fine, if you want to use it I'll give ya the link.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ancient1
yeah i am super pissed off as well. asus quite simply does not give a :banana::banana::banana::banana: about our time at all. i have wasted so many hours doing stupid things with a board that should work on the first try.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrt2
i went to attach a floppy drive to my pc cause the e-z flash would not see my usb drive even though it is FAT and then it wouldnt post again. so again now i have it sitting there no battery, cmos reset, all power cords disconnected from themobo one stick of ram in not two.
this is completely ridiculous. i am going to order a gigabyte ds3. rev. 2 when it comes out next week and return this POS asus and never buy asus again.
do u think because i got a board that was 0507 bios in january that i got a return from somebody? i think so. from a high volume reseller like zipzoom.
Hmmm... that's actually quite intersting logic there. I've never actually thoguht about that before... I too got a board that is 0507 stock... maybe it's a return or maybe it's an older board revision itself. Not sure, and I'm not sure how to find out either. I do know that even despite all the problems I've been having with both of the boards... the ORIGINAL board I got had less problems than the current one... and it came with a much later bios revision than 0507. I haven't sent the other one back yet, it's waiting in a box for me to take it to ups... I'm almost tempted to put this one back in it's box and use my old one again, now that I know how to get it to POST with one stick of RAM. Then again that's alot of extra work considering that I'm thinking about ditching this board all together and going with the RD600 or anotherr board/chipset alltogether. Ahh well, descisions, descisions...
well i took your advice and had a cd-rom with the bios on it waiting and flashed my bios via a floppy.
it went fine, i got into windows again. rebooted and set my voltages for my memory ok. then shut down to install the second stick and disconnect the floppy drive since it is not actually in my case.
i did it fast but carefully, but by the time i put the power back on, it wouldnt boot. i heard changing ram with power going to the mobo is bad so i always turn off my PS before i touch themobo for any reason. s
so again, unplug all power, take out battery (placed in the most retarded place) did cmos jumper but i started up with both sticks of ram in. went right to bios and kicked up the voltage and put the right timings in. set my boot devices and started up windows.
ok everything was just dandy, im in windows. so i want to restart to go back into the bios and disable stuff i dont want like the audio. i goto restart, windows shuts down and bam - nothing. so i wait then turn off with the front power button and turn back on. now it gives mea bios error and it starts hunting for a bios so i stick in that cd rom that you told me to make.
it sees the cd finds the file and then promptly says that it failed to flash so now my board is fubared.
i did everything totally right. this board is a beta testing POS and i am angrier than i have been in a long time.
do you know the date the bios right after 0507 was released? i need this info for when i call zipzoom and complain tomorrow.
CRAP I'm sorry I forgot to tell you that for some reason... the bios file needs to be named P5BD.ROM
Now why this is, I have no idea, but it has to be that name LOL... ok so now this is what you do, take the ASUS cd that came with your board and pop that in. It has the original BIOS file in there for you...it should recover using that CD.
THEN flash again etc... and have that other CD on hand(you'll have to make another though using the name P5BD.ROM for the ROM file name). It should work this time... Sorry I forgot that detail, I wasn't thinking mate. Lemme know how it goes.
I had a board that came with the 0507 bios. I've have had basically zero issues. Only major qurick about the board is that sometimes the bios itself locks up when I try changing settings.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrt2
well i shut down and now it wont give me video yet again. so i have to do the power/cmos/battery thing again. im leavin to go watch the football games and cursing asus under my breath.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrt2
do you know when the new ds3-pro is coming out? its gonna be a killer deal at 170 bucks the previews look great. id like to hold out and return this POS asus for that board, otherwise ill have to do a crossship rma for the same POS.
Yeah, this happened to me a lot to. It sucks alot, but I've only updated my bios 2x so I keep forgetting that it sucks alot. If it happens the next time I update, I won't do it again. Its a PITA to mess with the battery and such.
Sorry that I'm jumping in late, but what exactly is the fix for the PCI-E link width issue?
Nope me intrested as well... didnt even no its a realtek wifi... so i gues latest driver should be on realtek site?Quote:
Originally Posted by Englihs
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Originally Posted by sluzbenik
Cd works fine...
What do u mean by wierd hack?
U have 2 sata drives and 1 IDE right?Quote:
Originally Posted by markymoo
U must install RAID drivers for it to work during windows install (F6 method)
http://www.altus.co.yu/temp/drv/F6_A...rs_P5B_Dlx.exe
if u allready did that, i have no clue how that IDE disc can be an issue. but just to be on the safe side, while u do RAID disable jMicron controller. U will not see IDE, so u can see if thats causing issues. Hope info helps.
Plz guys can u do me a favour and set PCI latency on your boards to higest setting? And see if u get random micro freezeups while working in Windows.
im gonna call zipzoom and rma this. right now i have few choices in boards. i dont want to get the ds3 cause they are coming out with a pro soon. the commando is expensive but i just might have to get it - has there been issues with that board?
i dont trust the nvidia chipsets. the msi doesnt OC at all. oi vay.
Read post #2854.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThreeNF
i just wanted to say that this board is possessed.
sure after getting a bad bios flash and going to watch the saitns game. i come back. clear cmos. battery, yada yada.
boot up. 0804 bios says it is there. get into windows. restart, go back to my 3.3 ghz overclock and it is running great.
im not shutting off this computer till a new motherboard gets here. so id like to know, where are all the asus owners that have gotten burnt by this beta board moving to?
my vote would be to the ds3-pro if it were out now. i need suggestions.
I'm probably getting the RD600 or waiting for the new 965chipset board from DFI. I trust DFI I have never gotten a bad performing or bad quality board from them as long as I've been doing this. So my vote is to stick by them... This Asus board has been my first non DFI/Iwill (they have had some pretty decent boards in the past) in quite some time.
my gf shut down my pc unfortunately. if i can get it to start one more time i am going to keep it on until i can order a gigabyte ds-3 rev. 3.3 w native 1333 fsb. i think at this point they have got the kinks worked out and i can have faith that even if my gigabyte may lose my oc during cold boot, at least it will boot.
frickin asus puts the cmos battery where it is the biggest pain to get to after giving us a beta product to test. almost like a slap in the face. bastards. its like WE ARE BETA TESTING ON YOU :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:ES AND ON TOP OF IT WE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT A MISSION!
the sad thing is ill probably buy a commando if the ds3 isnt available in the next few days :D
Processor: e6600 week 31, Conroe
Bios Revision: i forgat what rev
Memory: Corsair XMS2 PC2-5400, 2x512MB, Rated @ 4-4-4-12; TWIN2X1024-5400C4
vCore: 1.3250
vFSB: Auto
vNB: Auto
vMem: 2.000
Configured FSB: 362
Configured Ratio: 9
Configured Memory Timings: 4-4-4-8
C1E and SpeedStep off, Locked PCI Express Frequency locked at 101, PCI Sync Mode at 33.33
my question is
Why i cannot go 400 for the FSB stable, is it because of my memory limitation?? I try to push vcore to 1,55v and vDimm to the max and loose the mem timming to 5-6-6-18, but still not stable. It looks like vFSB, vNB, vSB doesn't give any improvement on my case. even i push vFSB, vNB, vSB to the max, still no impact on my OC result... can someone give me any sugestion??
they got asrock for that :D , but it seems it's not enough...Quote:
its like WE ARE BETA TESTING ON YOU
That ram may not be on the listQuote:
Originally Posted by Romano
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...t=corsair+8500
but I bet if you bumped up the memory voltage to 2.25 volts at ddr2 800 1:1 @ 5 5 5 15 you should see an improvement
Try :Quote:
Originally Posted by Romano
auto vFSB
1.55V Sb
1.7V Sb
2kwalker:
I ran a couple times with a faster divider. Over >500 etc.... I did some compare benches (mostly games), and the result is: a higher divider has a VERY LITTLE impovement.
I would say, if u dont want to use a too high Vdimm, if u dont want to use a too high vNb, just stick with 1:1.
Did anyone find a good solution to Fan control on the P5BD ?
It actually provides only 1 Control "switch" , as all CHA fans seem to be Hardwired together , and CPU fan is a 4-pin one which needs special solution.
I emailed Asus about this :slapass:
It's really annoying but it's typical asus... :slapass:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ancient1
How do you know if you're running 1:1 or 4:5 etc... is that a setting you actually set in the bios?
BTW this is so off topic, but I finally found a monitor I'm happy with... this NEC lcd is amazing for games and great quality for everything else.... FINALLY and LCD that is great for colors, black screens, AND games...
what model. my 10 year old 21" aperture grill crt is finally starting to show signs of its age so when i can save up a few hundred i need an LCD preferrably 19" +Quote:
Originally Posted by mrt2
i got this mobo to fire up again. im not even shuttin down to put the 2nd stick of ram in.
im gonna order the giga dq6 and be done with asus. until it gets here im not shuttin this down lol
Questions:
1. why my PCIe link width only x1, it suppose to be x16 right??? but that only happen when i push my vcore higher than 1.3v.
2. why i can't disable the vanderpool technology???
Try resetting bios.
i dont get it???
Go to the next to last page in BIOS..(next to the exit page to the right). Save your OC profile - this will save your settings. Then turn it off and unplug psu. Move the jumper and battery to clear the CMOS. Put it back in. Start up and go into bios. Activate your saved OC profile and Change the vanderpool settings now....NOW or you'll have to start over. Should work fine now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Romano
711 and 804 do it toQuote:
Originally Posted by deathman20
Had that happen to me at least 10 times.
Well I just finished putting my system together with this board. Haven't had any issues except for it restarting when you power it on (is there any fix for this?).
Also, I noticed my temperatures are flucuating quite a bit in PC ProbeII. My previous computer (which was an Asus A8N-32 SLI) never seemed to move around this much. So far I'm at 380x9 @ 1.41vcore. Stable so far.
Still thinking about returning this one for the intel BX2 though... not sure yet.
yeah the first thing i noticed about going from a p5n-e sli to the p5b-deluxe were my temps being much higher and much more volatile - with a ninja.
second thing i noticed was its instablilatly in simply booting up with or without a bios upgrade - this happened after a couple of days.
these two things led me to a rather quick decision to switch boards.
what about the PCIe link width??Quote:
Originally Posted by ustorfixx
Changing my PCI-E frequency to 110 fixed my link width x1 issue. ;)
@Eluzion: thx men, i'll try that later....
ok then, back into vanderpool technology, wth is that thing...
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Originally Posted by Ancient1
Well i already running raid, set raid in the bios and then attaching a third ide data drive to just use as a non raid spare data drive just wont be seen. I keep trying.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrt2
The ahci/raid drivers are located here on the asus cd.
CDROM:\Drivers\Chipset\Intel\makedisk\DOS\F632
Floppy drives are banned from my house. You dont need to use a floppy drive f6 method that crap. Intergrate the raid drivers using nlite into a xp cd so they already built into the xp so when you install xp it just sees the raid drive without needing to use floppy. It will take 10 mins of your time.
Here is my easy guide on doing it coming soon.
You have been nlited.
JMicron JMB363 RAID Controller Driver : DO NOT INSTALL THIS IF YOU ARE NOT USING THE JMICRON’S SATA CONTROLLER AS RAID OR YOUR IDE DEVICES, WHICH ARE ALSO PROVIDED BY THE SAME CHIPSET IN P5B DELUXE WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT INSTALLATION OF IDE DRIVER EITHER. WINDOWS DEFAULT DRIVER WORKS BEST. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE KNOWN ISSUES WITH THE SAID DRIVER INCLUDING PERFORMANCE SLOWDOWN, BURNING SOFTWARES NOT WORKING PROPERLY WITH THE IDE DEVICES. YOU WILL ALSO BE NOT ABLE TO USE THE BURNING FILES - COPY/PASTE WAY OF BURNING FILES USING WINDOWS.
I was late finding out about achi because i was using raid from the start. I was wondering why my sata drive in compatability mode was like running with the brakes on. I couldnt force the ahci drivers in device manager in xp only way was when installing xp.
still no respon after more than an hour....
it's just another name for virtualisationQuote:
Originally Posted by Romano
http://www.intel.com/technology/virt...tion/index.htm
http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/develope...eng/218153.htm
Very Easy Guide for total noobs to intergrate Raid/Ahci drivers into your XP CD so you wont ever have to use floppy drive and F6 ever again.
Lets Begin
1. Download net framework - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
2. Install netframework
3. Download nlite - http://www.nliteos.com/
4. Install nlite
5. Make a folder on C drive called Xp
6. Make a folder on C drive called Intel
7. Get the latest Intel® Matrix Storage Manager driver here http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/index.htm - At this time the version is 6.2, the file is iata621_enu.exe.
8. Run this file but dont press Next yet! Instead browse to C:\WINDOWS\Temp\IIF\Winall\Driver and you find your unpacked ahci/raid drivers.
9. Copy ALL those 6 files to C:\Intel
10. Now click cancel and exit and you can now delete the iata621_enu.exe, you wont be needing it.
11. Get your XPSP2 CD, lick it clean,rub it well then insert it.
12. Run nlite
13. Click Next
14. Select the Browse button and select the drive letter of your XPCD and click Ok
15. Then select where you want to save the XPSP2 files. Select C:\Xp
16. Wait for it to copy the files. lalala
17. Click Next 2x
18. Select Drivers and select Bootable ISO so they light up green.
19. Click Next.
20. Click Insert/Single driver and Browse to C:\Intel and select the file iastor.inf
21. Hold down CTRL key and click the 2 ICH8R so they both highlighted and click Ok.
22. Now click Next.
23. Click Yes ands start the process.
24. Wait until you see Finished then click Next.
25. Insert a blank 700mb disk.
26. In the box Label type XPSP2_RAID then click Make ISO and select C:
27. Wait lalala until you see ISO created sucessfully.
28. Burn the image with nero lite v7.5.7.0 Micro http://www.updatepack.nl/ or instead at step 26 also select Burn Image instead if available.
29. You now have a original XPSP2 with built in Raid/Ahci drivers
30. You can now bin your floppy drive.
or just buy a $10 ATA>SATA adapter :D
which bios version is good for OC????
^ also to change the Vanderpool technology setting- just do a cold boot
I have one problem with my P5B dlx. When I reset bios or plug out and plug in the power cable or flash a new bios or change some important things in bios like voltages my cpu restarts but does not start few seconds after. It usually takes few minutes but sometimes 15 minutes or even more :(
Is it fixable or should I take it to guarantee? I would like to awoid the other solution becouse I would have to wait a long time to get a new one :)
Strange thing is that it wasnt like this when I got the MB. And I tried with all BIOS versions
cheersQuote:
Bios: 0910 Official
P5B Deluxe release BIOS 0910
1. Update Jmicron option ROM to 1.06.59
2. Fix AC Power loss function not correct
3. Support x4 DIMM
4. Moidfy Write to Precharge Delay default from 10 to 11
5. Enable support for EIST under VISTA
6. Finetune Q-Fan rule
7. Support SLP 2.0
8. Fix BBS device string not correct under AHCI mode
9. Enable Disable USB capability
10.Support ASUS WIFI-TV card
11.Revise CPU temperature calculation algorithm for PECI
Download ( Asus FTP): ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...P/P5BD0910.zip
Asus site >> http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=pt-pt
^ oh nice, when did it go official? It's not on here: http://support.asus.com/download/Dow...Language=en-us though
Yes it is. :)
Mine is greyed out so I can't change it. It's enabled by default it looks like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Romano
Thats just one of many quirks of the P5BQuote:
Originally Posted by Smartguy
the board needs a complete reset.
pull the battery and clear cmos for about 1/2 hour then save defaults reboot into windows .
then reboot and flash your bios.
most of the time this will work but make sure the board resets to default values before proceeding.
you may have to clear cmos more than once if you have been pushing the board hard:toast:
Is this for the Wifi version only? It's not listed for the P5B Deluxe (non-wifi).Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackoberst
Quote:
Originally Posted by kwalker
are you sure about this??? I sounds kind of funny but ih thats the cure I'm ready to sacrafice my self :D
Do you have some more informations about this? I pushed it to 450mhz is that a lot in this case?
thx :toast:
It's for both. I see it's listed now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eluzion
hmm, need some info here:
My rig:
p5b dlx (0804 bios)
core2duo e6400@3.22 / bios volt. 1,425 (edit: changed to 1,45/seems stable now)
corsair 2x1024 (c5) 2,0v
400fsb
800 mem setting
pci 100
It's been running for 2 or three months now without a glitch, but now it's starting to lock up about once a day. Did some testing with 3dmark06 (8 hours), orthos blend setting (5 hours), memtest 7 hours without any problems, but still the strange lock up error.
When testing with orthos (large, in-place ffts - stress some RAM) setting, it stopped after about 1 hour and 45 minutes.
ANy thoughts on the problem?
O yes, for what I know; When the problem first occurt, I rebooted the machine and it wouldn't start. I cut the power for about 30 seconds and restarted and it worked OK again.
Hey guys, how do you know if you're running 1:1 or 4:5 for memory...what settings in bios determine that?
mrt2 - what was that monitor that you said you liked all around?
mrt2 It`s ram frequency.
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Originally Posted by kwalker
did almost all of this. I already flashed before with 910 and around 18 o'clock I disconnected the power cable, pull the battery and put clear cmos jumper on clear cmos and left it like this till 19:30. So hour and a half all in all. I connected all like before and push the button. afcorse I had to wait for 10 minutes to boot. Than he stopped on cmos error and asked me what do I want. I entered setup and just saved changes and exit. Computer turned him self off again for another 10 minutes :stick:
well I didn't do this last part. I will try but I am not very shure it will make any difference. but what choice do I have :slap:
anything I shuld know? maybe if this doesnt work I shuld left him over night disconnected?
@Blackoberst
Any o/c potential Difference between 0804 - 0910 ?
Something about Virtualization technology.Quote:
Originally Posted by Romano
I believe you'll find full explanation in Wikipedia.
Hate to tell you that, but it sounds like cpu degradation from overclocking.Quote:
Originally Posted by eyes.only
If it doesnt happen at defaults - I'm 99% correct, IMO of course.