ASUS P5B-Deluxe; Problems & Fixes

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10-17-2006, 05:57 AM
Kakulukia

You can let

CPU TM
Vanderpool
Exexcute disable bit

ENABLED!!!!!!!!

Only disable C1E and EIST, these are not recommended when overclocking.
10-17-2006, 06:14 AM
Ace-a-Rue

make sure you get the thicker kind of double stickem tape...it is like a 1/16 or 1/8 inch thick...i believe "3M" makes it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moonraker™

I've removed the back plate now and have it. Still a bit of sticky on the back of the mobo where it was, but they must get loads back like that. if they send it back i'll remove it myself and resend, though, that's just sad if they send it back cos of that.

They said they'll test it and send out a replacement if it's faulty. and it is, so i expect it under warranty.
10-17-2006, 08:50 AM
metalazzo

Quote:

Originally Posted by swiftex

is SouthBridge set at: disable x4 fast?

yes it is

@Revv23
I'll try it, thanks :)
10-17-2006, 08:55 AM
metalazzo

Quote:

Originally Posted by pocket.demon

Where can I find the 0801 bios? Cant find it with asus update

someone sent it to me ;)
10-17-2006, 11:40 AM
swiftex

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shootist

Why do you say to set the SB to Auto?? OK I'll give it a try. I got a blue screen with VCore @ 1.525 So I bumped it up to 1.55 and it has been running for 50 minutes editing photos.

sorry, I meant to say

ICH - auto
SB - 1 setting below max
10-17-2006, 12:06 PM
metalazzo

Quote:

Originally Posted by metalazzo

yes it is

@Revv23
I'll try it, thanks :)

well, still noothing is working :D
I prefer to smile about it instead of crying :rolleyes:
I emailed asus France and they said that there were not aware of this problem (PEG @1X)
they're going to ask asus taiwan...
10-17-2006, 05:26 PM
ssabripo

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whew!:woot:

got my replacement Mobo, and all is well (so far...knock on wood)....step by step trying to get back at my 3.31 OC....first step: 3.255

THANK YOU LAWD!

ps- one quick question: any ideas why the MB temps are 2-3C higher? I was usually at 39C/43C idle/load, but now it is 42C/45C idle/load :confused:
10-17-2006, 05:30 PM
ballinthejack

P5B XMS TWIN Corsair DDR2-800c4 issue...
I cannot get my board to recognize all 4 one gig sticks (in POST).
no matter where I put them.
each tests fine alone in slot3 like ASUS tech told me to do.
He also told me to clear cmos. I did.
Reset the needed values.
I set the memory to 2.1v and DDR2-800 in bios
Any hints or help?
much appreciated. thanks

P.S. Where do I set the 4-4-4-12 stuff in the BIOS?
______________________________________________
P5Bdlx wifi/ap bios0711
2 packs of Corsair TWIN MATCHED XMS ddr2800C4 ram
Antec TPII-550
Armor case
1.4Tb of SATA2 across 5 drives
2 DVD burners
X-fi plat (not installed yet)
Viewsonic VP2030b
5 HID units
WinXPpro Sp2 + updates/fixes
10-17-2006, 05:44 PM
Ace-a-Rue

this amazes me!...i am surprised the Asus tech person didn't direct you to page 2-14 in the manual...it says:

Quote:

if you install four 1 gig sticks, the system may detect less than 3 GB of total memory because of address space allocation....
10-17-2006, 06:49 PM
NO1B4ME

Quote:

Originally Posted by ssabripo

whew!:woot:

got my replacement Mobo, and all is well (so far...knock on wood)....step by step trying to get back at my 3.31 OC....first step: 3.255

THANK YOU LAWD!

ps- one quick question: any ideas why the MB temps are 2-3C higher? I was usually at 39C/43C idle/load, but now it is 42C/45C idle/load :confused:

Heatsink mount. Remount it and see if it lowers.
10-17-2006, 07:05 PM
ssabripo

Quote:

Originally Posted by NO1B4ME

Heatsink mount. Remount it and see if it lowers.

heatsink affects MB temps???:confused: First I've ever heard of that...:wth:
10-17-2006, 07:41 PM
mele

He means the NorthBridge HeatSink.

Mel
10-17-2006, 08:50 PM
noobee

Quote:

Originally Posted by ssabripo

heatsink affects MB temps???:confused: First I've ever heard of that...:wth:

if you are getting 43C(!) for MB temperatures on load, i think you don't have enough cooling for your board and, more importantly, the NB. i'm guessing that you are not using the stock HS, which pushes air around the NB, and you do not have a fan blowing at the NB and/or SB?
10-17-2006, 10:30 PM
Falkentyne

43C is nothing.
That's perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.
10-17-2006, 11:47 PM
mine

Quote:

Originally Posted by ssabripo

well guys....after dicking with this board all weekend again, I RMA'd it....:(

MOTHER F^#$*&&!!! :mad:

good thing I saved my BIOS settings on a napkin before it went loco.

moral of the day kids: NEVER EVER go full out on NB core voltage!!!! stick with 1.6 if you can!

actually is your avatar pic a quick shot from one of the members of the asus support stuff reading your posts ? :banana:
10-18-2006, 01:54 AM
Moonraker™

I get 32°c MOBO temp on load in games (more important for me!) and benching. thats the highest it ever gets. Full stop.
10-18-2006, 04:21 AM
ssabripo

Quote:

Originally Posted by noobee

if you are getting 43C(!) for MB temperatures on load, i think you don't have enough cooling for your board and, more importantly, the NB. i'm guessing that you are not using the stock HS, which pushes air around the NB, and you do not have a fan blowing at the NB and/or SB?

no, I dont...

but I didn't before my board went bad either, and the temps were 1-2C cooler :confused:
10-18-2006, 06:24 AM
noobee

Quote:

Originally Posted by ssabripo

no, I dont...

but I didn't before my board went bad either, and the temps were 1-2C cooler :confused:

my board went bad with insufficient cooling. was using the ultra 120 and no additional cooling for the NB. at your overclock rates and overvolt settings, might be important to cool at least the NB down also.

i believe asus probe trips a warning when MB temp >= 45deg? although the MB temp sensor is not really at the NB and the NB can take > 45deg, a high MB temp may also indicate a high NB temp, especially if you are not cooling the NB specifically.

[edit: added "sensor"]
10-18-2006, 06:30 AM
noobee

Quote:

Originally Posted by Falkentyne

43C is nothing.
That's perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.

for MB temp? i think asus probe sets the default threshold for MB temp at 45 deg to flag a warning. do you think it is too conservative?

i had a similiar situation once, high (45deg) MB (and presumably high NB) temps due to bad MB cooling. board first started hanging intermittently, then later died.
10-18-2006, 07:36 AM
Stratcat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

this amazes me!...i am surprised the Asus tech person didn't direct you to page 2-14 in the manual...it says:

if you install four 1 gig sticks, the system may detect less than 3 GB of total memory because of address space allocation....

Exactly!

It's a limitation of using a 32b OS, which doesn't allow enough memory addressing to handle a full 4GB.

Any 64b OS, including M$ Windows variants, will surpass the "3GB" intalled memory limitaion by orders of magnitude.

~ Strat ~
10-18-2006, 08:06 AM
Stratcat

Quote:

Originally Posted by tommy-armour

These settings work for 3.2 Ghz

[...]

CPU TM - DISABLED

[...]

I would think long & hard before disabling the CPU/TM function.

JMO.

This BIOS option definitely disables TM1 thermal throttling, tho I'm not sure if it can also disable TM2 funtions.

By disabling TM1 you're allowing ur proc to exceeed the Intel thermal specs, w/o having the ability to maintain spec using TM1 throttling. The results, under the right (or more accurately, wrong, if you care to see it that way) conditions, can have a disasterous effect on ur proc.

I learned this the hard way when I was running air coolied Distributed Computing 24/7, & my window airconditioner went out during the summer. I stupidly disabled the TM in order to run at full production, even tho my cpu was bouncing off the thermal threshold, & was throttling.

Within three weeks, the damage was done. The chip, a 640 'NO', which had been an excellent OC'er, lost it's ability to OC, for the most part, & even required Vcore exceeding stock specs, just to run stably at stock clocking!

I could see disabling it for a suicide run, but if you think you may be running at throttling or near throttling temps, regularly, then you may want to reconsider disabling this function.

Of course, if ur not running near throttling temps, there's no need to disable this function! ;)

FWIW

~ Strat ~
10-18-2006, 09:43 AM
eyes.only

hmm, some raid help please:

I've installed windows on a single 320 gig sata drive.
Before install, I changed the bios to raid and added during install with F6 the intel raid storage driver. Now I've installed everything and added the second 320gig to my config. First is on a red connector, the second on a black.

I'm now looking at the intel matrix storage manager bios screen, but can't figure out how to setup raid1(mirror) and use 1 as template for the other.

I'm afraid when I try it, the one with the windows install is lost.
10-18-2006, 10:03 AM
ssabripo

Quote:

Originally Posted by eyes.only

hmm, some raid help please:

I've installed windows on a single 320 gig sata drive.
Before install, I changed the bios to raid and added during install with F6 the intel raid storage driver. Now I've installed everything and added the second 320gig to my config. First is on a red connector, the second on a black.

I'm now looking at the intel matrix storage manager bios screen, but can't figure out how to setup raid1(mirror) and use 1 as template for the other.

I'm afraid when I try it, the one with the windows install is lost.

1. dont connect the other drive to the black connector....both go on reds.

2. did you create a RAID volume? during POST, press < ctrl+i > and it will take you to the intel matrix RAID volume screen...there you need to create a raid array of your choice (raid0, raid1, etc).

however, having said all that, I'm not quite sure how to tell Windows to copy the contents of the one drive over the other for the RAID1 setup....I thought I read somewhere that once you install windows in a non-RAID configuration, you cant go to raid....but I could be wrong. :confused:
10-18-2006, 10:10 AM
eyes.only

Quote:

Originally Posted by ssabripo

1. dont connect the other drive to the black connector....both go on reds.

2. did you create a RAID volume? during POST, press < ctrl+i > and it will take you to the intel matrix RAID volume screen...there you need to create a raid array of your choice (raid0, raid1, etc).

however, having said all that, I'm not quite sure how to tell Windows to copy the contents of the one drive over the other for the RAID1 setup....I thought I read somewhere that once you install windows in a non-RAID configuration, you cant go to raid....but I could be wrong. :confused:

Well just tried my luck inside windows with the intel matrix console.
There was an option with something about raid1.
So now it's doing somekind of migration which will take 1hour and 47 minutes.
So i'm keeping my fingers crossed.

And I've still got one on the red connector and one on a black.
That's what the manual says that the black one is for data disks and the red ones for boot.
10-18-2006, 10:15 AM
ssabripo

Quote:

Originally Posted by eyes.only

Well just tried my luck inside windows with the intel matrix console.
There was an option with something about raid1.
So now it's doing somekind of migration which will take 1hour and 47 minutes.
So i'm keeping my fingers crossed.

And I've still got one on the red connector and one on a black.
That's what the manual says that the black one is for data disks and the red ones for boot.

right, but that's a different scenario.

RAID1 basically has a mirror from one drive to the other, and thus both need to be connected on the red (see manual). The black ones are for slave drives i believe.

everyone I know who is running these mobos in RAID1 has them both on Red, including myself (RAID1, 2x250 SATAII)

:confused:

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