Anyone know whats been updated?
I will try this out when I get time, perhaps tomorrow. :yepp:
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Does anyone else have problems with the built in Wifi on this board? It is super slow and I am even using the newest drivers off of the Asus website. I even tried a different connection other than mine (someone in the neighborhood) and its still worse than molasses. I connected my Abit Airpace Wifi card and all is good now. Is this a problem with all the P5K-Es or is it just mine?
No problem here, not as fast a a cabled connection but not that slow.
I also have 1004 but i have a feeling the vtt and GTL function in bios do nothing.
Changing these should provide some stability which i failed to find without raising Vcore.
Do you have the crappy Asus Wifi software from the CD installed? I can't remember what it's called but it's horrible for performance, if you have it installed, remove it.
After that, In Device Manager, right click on "Wifi" then "update driver" from the CD. Then use Windows to manage your wireless, it works much better.
I done the same, and I had the same result: no effect on stability..but : with IP35pro, I had oc problems with every ram modules, and I adjusted the ddr2 ref voltage( i.e NB reference voltage ), and with this I managed to overclock them about +50Mhz. It would be nice, that adjusting gtl refs had such effect on oc-ing my q6600:) but these BIOSes are like birdshxt on a black shoe.
I have a problem with my O/C'ing. I have a P5K-E WiFi Bios 1002 and one Wolfie E8500.
I do not manage to exceed the 440 of stable FSB!!:mad:
However I very tested: vNB with 1.55v and vSB with 1.20v as well as many adjustments...
I feel that my E8500 can go up very high since I boot to 4500MHz to 1.48v.:)
Moreover I am not stable with 7 * 500 same with 1.7v for NB.:shrug:
It is possible that this evening the bios 1002 because with the 0502 I went up rather high in FSB with my 65nm.
What think about it?
Thanks
Testing 1006 so far so good.
I'm curious, is it higher or lower (or trial & error) on the GTL that allows
you to turn down the vcore some while keeping the stability? I have it set
to the lowest value of 057x and I have been inching my vcore down and im
still stable.
Well this may be too soon for conformation but I think the GTL may be working.
I bumped my vcore down from 1.480 real to 1.456 real with GTL at 0.59x, and
so far stable. I actually bumped it down to 1.430 at one time and it crashed
immediately in prime95, I then bumped the GTL up to 0.61x (I think) and It
actually ran Prime95 for about 30min and then one core got a rounding error.
So maybe give it a try, I have not seen any negative results with 1006 as
of yet.
thanks
Cpu @ 4180Mhz (9.5 X 440) now
strap to 400 ? (9.5 X 400?)
NB @ 1.70v is any risk too important, to roast not?
No relation with the bios 1002 according to you?
Not to be able to exceed 440 stable FSB it is not current!
http://images.dr3vil.com//files3/84/e8400-1.jpg
Just bought a P5K-E from Newegg last week. It shipped with 0906 BIOS, I'm currently running at these settings:
FSB: 434 x 9 =3.9Ghz
vcore: 1.3875 (bios), in windows reads 1.28 (vdrop = .1, no vdroop at all)
everything on auto
except
vdimm: 2.1v
dram settings: 4-5-5-15
I have 2 problems.
1st, I can't seem to get it stable at 4Ghz, at least at under 1.4v in BIOS which is the max I want to give it.
2nd, and this is the biggie. I have sound popping, cracking noise.
I though maybe it was an issue with my old Audigy LS pci soundcard, so I tried the onboard soundmax & had the same issue. So I thought maybe the PCI bus was "dirty" and had some issue with signal distortion, etc.. So I got a X-Fi PCIe card and I'm still getting the popping noise. I tried using my speakers, headphones, etc... still the same issue. :( WTF, could it be that would affect 3 different soundcards? (Audigy PCI card, onboard Soundmax, and X-Fi PCIe card)
Could it been my powersupply or something supplying a dirty power signal?
Me also I have big problems with the bios 1002.
1004 works great cpu stable at lower voltage
New bioses, new problems: AI Nap doesn't work and errors in memtest... waiting for new one.
Upgrade bios to 1004, or 1006 ( you can find them here ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5K-E/ )
Disable all Spread Spectrum
Enable Load-Line Calibration (Will get rid of most of your vdrop)
Bump your NB voltage up to 1.55 or 1.70 and SB to 1.20
This Should get you where you want to be.
As for the audio problem there could be a number of reasons here are a few that come to mind:
1. Some other device/s sharing resources (irq and/or mem i/o addr's) with your sound device and not playing fair (USB, SATA controller, etc..).
2. Other devices firing interrupts at an uncontrolled fast rate, will greatly
increase the bus latency, witch is a common cause of pops, and crackles.
I would just try the process of elimination, remove devices until it stops,
USB devices, pci cards etc.. then go from there.
Do you really think NB voltage needs a bump?
I'm wondering cause i did this with NB voltage set at auto:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...rthos45GHz.jpg
I know it's only a couple of minutes but if the NB is unstable it should crap out in these few minutes i think.
I haven't messed around much with gtl voltage yet, running prime is so frustrating when it pukes after half an hour or so.
Will try more but not now. :D
hello guys i recently bought my computer (specs in sig) its everything stock i didnt change anything. i want to make my q6600 go 3-3,2 ghz but since im an aprendice at overclocking could someone give me a configuration of bios?
and wich bios to use? how to upgrade it?
thank you
Holy hell! I "upgraded" to Bios 1004 and put an e8400 in. I'm having all kinds of issues.
First I can't boot with the team ram at all. I get the endless black screen, no matter which ram slots I try with one stick or the voltage I use.
Second, I can boot with corsair value ram, but not in dual channel mode on the black slots. I can only use the black slot closest to the cpu. The yellow slots work fine with the corsair ram.
Third, I can no longer boot with my raid enabled, it tells me that hal.dll is corrupted. I can, however, boot with it disabled.
Fourth, the net connection is slow as hell. It just took me 3 minutes to d/l the 1006 bios at 5.6 kb/sec!
I'm going to see if I have any better luck with 1006. Hopefully if all goes well, I'll be back in a few minutes to report on that.
I just got the Asus P5K-E WIFI and an E8400 and I need some assistance. I am not too familiar with the BIOS options of the ASUS board and was wondering if there is a guide I can be pointed to for help. I really just need to know which are the optimal settings for an OC. In other words, which BIOS options should be ON or OFF. The actual process of OCing and voltages I am pretty comfortable with. Moreover, should I got with the 1006 BIOS, or 1004? Thanks
Maybe, maybe not, but when I bump mine up it made my overclock a great deal more stable. I think his main problem was he had his vcore set at 1.38
but with the vdrop he was only getting 1.28 or so. Newer bios's 1004, and 1006 dont have very much vdrop if any at all, and Load-line calibration will fix
vdroop for the most part.
Bios 1006.
Most settings were at auto, except for Vcore and Vdimm, loadline cal. enabled.
Try disabling DRAM static read control, it might help you.
Hmm, will give that a try, i know when runnning 3D mark a bump in NB voltage helps.
I hope that the passage to the bios 1006 goes regulated my problem of FSB if not I pass to an old bios like the 0706. And if that does not function, I thrown the p5k-e
Flashed 1006. Works fine.
I'm having trouble getting my Q6600 stable at 3.6ghz (9x400). It's prime stable at 3.2ghz (8x400) with 1.27v, but won't do 3.6ghz with voltage up to 1.47. All other voltages besides ram and cpu are set to auto, loadline calibration is on. Spread spectrums and cpu features are off.
What else do I need to adjust? The FSB is proven stable at 400mhz with a lower multiplier, so the NB and SB should be fine.....or is that not how it works...?
This board and 8400 proceesor seem almost limitless.
Couple the 2 with some G.Skill 6400 HZ and it is sweet.:rolleyes:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...illa/piguy.jpg
Only one thing to say to that...:shocked:
WZ
i am about to have almost same setup, expect i have 4gb GSkill pc-8000.. what speed is your ram at? consider you running 2.36v? i too have a h20 setup.
Atm i cant get past 460 fsb, but i think /HOPE it is the chip holding me back. old chip = e6750, i get my e8400 tomorrow or next.
Check the sig again that is for my P5E.
I am running 2.15V on my P5KE board. I need to update my sig cuz I just installed mt newest memory in the P5E and it is now only putting 2.2 to the mem.
Upgraded to 1006 & tried other suggestions, still craps out around 4Ghz. vdrop is only about .02 now vs. .10 before. I guess I got subpar 8400 that just doesn't want to do 4Ghz.
As for the sound, I've tried disabling spread spectrum, changing PCIe speed, unplugging USB mouse & camera, etc. None of that helped.
I've got almost everything disabled in the BIOS (onboard sound, onboard firewire, serial port, etc..) So I though that left the GigaLAN as possible problem. So I tried changing Marvell Yukon's max IRQ requests from 5000 down to 2500, to see if that would make a difference, didn't seem to help. I also manual set it to full duplex 100 (I don't have a giga router). Any other ideas, I'm thinking about RMA'ing the motherboard as I can't think of anything else that could be causing it. I tried 3 different sound cards. (Audigy LS PCI, Soundmax onboard, & X-Fi PCIe)
Have you tried other multipliers?
I have a E8400 (+ P5K-E) wich is also a bad one for 4GHz and I tried it also in a P5K Premium system with watercooling on it. Nothing really helped.
I'm using mine right now with 4GHz @ 1.41V "cpuz" (1.4375V bios) to keep it barely stable, and with a x8.5 multiplier. At "x9" it's Orthos unstable and I have sound problems too with my X-Fi at that configuration.
I tried also other multipliers but I had no low voltage good results either.
I don't think it's the motherboard, ram or settings, it's just not a good one for overclocking... :(
With so many good cpus out there, i guess eventually someone have to take the weak ones, it's just bad luck...
I don't think I have a lot of more room left with my ram. So if I drop the multiplier, I'll probably hit a wall with my ram. But I guess I can try that too.
I just tried rearranging all of my wires, speaker wires, etc... in case it was a non-computer related thing, and I think the popping/crackling noise is less! Doh, if it was a non-computer related issue I'll feel stupid, maybe just when I reinstalled everything, the wires are in a place where they're picking up interference?
offtopic:
I'm thinking the same: my sound system is quite sensitive when it comes to moving the wires. I have placed my woofer on the ground, next to my feet. And when I accidentally pull one of the cables with my feet, the woofer starts to make a humming sound... it can get quite loud too.
bah. my windows install was completely fubarred. I re-installed last night and I have some Ballistix 1066 on its way. Running with the corsair value ram for now...
Any clue why the black slots don't seem to be working?
Try to set the pll voltage to 1.7V, and raise the fsb termination voltage to( test it on every step, if its enough ). Leave transaction booster on auto. Start with blend test, if it fails, then set the booster to relax level 1, if it fails again then relax level2, and 3. If the blend test runs without errors, then test is with small fft. Is there pencil mod on your board? Which BIOS do you use? The vcore drop can cause instability as well, whith the first BIOSes I had a huge drop, then i did the pencil mod, and with load line calibration there's only 0.01-0.02 left.
I have found that (for whatever reason) bumping up the NB, and SB voltage
greatly improves the stability of my overclock (BTW I'm only doing 350mhz FSB).
So although the NB/SB itself may not need the extra voltage until you go past
say 400 FSB (or what ever it may be for you particular chipset), the extra NB/SB
voltage is some how improving the stability of the CPU while overclocked. Also
note that Bumping up the PLL, and FSB termination voltage seems to go
hand in hand with bumping up the SB/NB voltage, in other words if your
bumping up NB/SB volts, you should also be bumping up PLL/FSB Term volts
as well.
This is just my experience with my Mobo, and CPU so your mileage may vary.
Hi guys...yesterday i had read the vmch with multimeter on the motherboard and i read this:
Bios ------ Tester
1,25v ---- 1,55v
1,40v ---- 1,40v
1,55v ---- 1,55v
1,70v ---- 1,70v
There is a bug on vmch setting, the minimum vmch is 1,4v ;)
Sorry for my english:shocked:
P5K-e users What is the max fsb with new 45 nm cpu's ? Anyone achieve 550 or more ?
I can't even get into windows with those sticks anymore. This board does not want to play nice with this ram! :shrug: I had a similar occurrence once before with my dfi expert and some corsair ram. It was just never happy with it no matter what I did or what the guys from corsair or (then) dfi-street recommended. I replaced that with some ocz ram and voila, problems were gone. I'm hoping I have similar luck here with the ballistix.
Isn't a pll that high a bit dangerous? I was under the impression that it was usually best to keep that no higher than 1.6v!
between bios 1006 and 906, who is better?
for me 1006 rocks !!
for now I got my Q6600G0 @ 450x8 w/1.3875vCore in BIOS/iddle/full ;)
i bought a P5K-E today, It looking good so far 500FSB with 4Gb of ram.
Just receieved my replacement board back!...bios that came with it 0703...thought i'd flash it as this bios has vcore bug...as we know allready tried EZ Flash...so i give 1006 a whirl via windows this time...and guess what!...NO BOOT AGAIN!...tried changing mem slots but no go...but know i think i know what's happening here...people who flash and end up with a dead board it's not actually dead these new bios have added memory support but the trouble is...is when you flash it erases the support for other memory...like the ones you had in your board originally:shocked: ...how i found this out is tried changing mem slots with the elixir memory no go...then Geil and still no go..mixed the sticks and now working fine..but with mixed ram:mad:... c'mon ASUS wtf are you doing with the bios!:confused:
Just flashed bact to 0602...now memory working fine.:confused:
here for the vanilla
edit: in my previous post i say 'from 400mhz fsb and above' because that's what i have tested.
@ my stock fsb (266mhz for e6300) the otions work as they should (i can set 1.2 vfsb for example).
i haven't tested between 266 and 400mhz to check where the bug 'starts'
Quick question...what's the loosest TRFC you can set manually on this mobo?
well, I'm happy to say this board works quite well with ballistix. Bye bye team ram...
tRFC max it's 60 with bios 1004 and 1006.
HI all,
I got this mobo yesterday and then I try to install windows xp student and it just donīt want to install I change the opical drive to se if it works but stil donīt want to install it stopps every time somewere alse, i updated the bios but still no luck, I check all the cables and they are ok, I try everything that i know.
Can you help me plese?:(
I have this mobo whit E6750 CPU, radeon 3850, corsair xms2 6400 C5 and WD Raptor 74Gb for OS.
Is your sata drive configured as AHCI or IDE in bios?
No error mesage, no BSOD?
It's not something silly like the CD being scratched is it? Or you could try a Linux live CD (Knoppix, for example), to see if that works. They usually give quite detailed start-up logs so you can see if anything goes wrong and where.
Or it could be bad RAM?
I know it's not the most uber overclock ever, but I've got my q6600 to 3.3ghz (366*9), 1.296v. It seems to run stable at about 35c idle, and 55c load.
I've got C1E & EIST enabled in the bios, I've been reading about how you shouldn't really do it, but is this really such a bad thing? It's dropped the heat down nicely, and I haven't had any problems with it in the 2 weeks I have been using it. Is this enough time to declare it 'safe'?
Do you have drivers for AHCI? You need to integrate those drivers into your windows xp kit using Nlite. If you set the sata drive to IDE you will be able to install your OS but you will loose NCQ which is only available for AHCI mode.
OK, so here's where I'm at with an 8 hour Orthos run so far:
e8400 @ 3825 w/ 1.33v (425 x 9)
ballistix @ 1133 5-5-5-15 w/ 2.25v
fsb termination: 1.40v
NB: 1.55v
SB: 1.20v
cpu temps are 40/56 idle/load.
NB temps are 30/36 idle/load.
It seems like I still have some room temperature wise in the NB, so I think my next step will be to raise that up to 1.7v and see if it allows me to push the fsb up more without raising my vcore. With the NB @ 1.55v, I needed another 1.39v to get 4.0 ghz and 1.43v to get 4.1 (one hour orthos runs).
You don't have anything overclocked yet do you? Make sure everything is
set within it intended spec. Also check your required voltage of your ram
it may be getting only 1.8v when it needs ~2.0v to operate at pc6400
spec. Check with the mem manufacture and find out what volts it needs. Don't overlook this.
Also I've seen this a thousand times, Is your CPU fan plugged in?
Good Luck
No nothing is overclocked
Like I said formerly I have tested all on auto and by the specs nothing will work.
Perhaps my grafik card is damedge it´s kind of hot and is not doing enything, I will trie with the old one to night and se what it says!:(
My CPU fan is plugged in.
Ok, Well try that, But also note With your DRAM voltage set to Auto the
mobo likely still under volting it (1.8volts) your memory likely needs 2.0v or so,
that means you'll will have to Manually set it. I had to do the same thing.
Check with your mem manufacture to find out what voltage it is supposed
to be set to run 800mhz (pc6400), and manually set it to that in the bios.
UPDATE:
I did a google search for your ram volatage, everwhere states that it needs a
minimum of 1.9v to run at pc6400, the auto setting in the bios will default this
to 1.8v (not enuff). Manually set it to 1.9 in the bios.
It stops diferent al the time most it stops on windows executive is reding in if i dont press F5 to select install standard PC whit i486 ore somthing i dont remenber know. once i gett past the windows executive is reding but stopt on som driver and freeze so it go on all the time. Once i got past every thing and gett to format my drive and copy the files and reboot then when it say windows is installing it freeze.
I had the similar thing just happen on my old prescott.
Turned out to be a bad stick or ram.
Run memetest. If the ram is bad it should show up in 2 or 3 loops.
Try one stick of ram.
If that doen`t work try different ram. Even a cheap generic stick of ram will work to try.
I'm hoping that some one out there might be able to help. I have a revision 1.00G board which I think is one of the earliest revisions. I wondered what revisions of this board you guys have and if any one else has success with a revision 1.00G board.
I was previously running my e4500 at 3.2GHz with 1600 FSB until I tried BIOS 0906. Couldn't get it to overclock as well, so I went back to 0602 and since then I have only managed to clock at 3.0GHZ with 1100 FSB. Now, if I try any higher FSB, I have trouble posting.
I've just tried 1006 and experienced lots of "no posts". The board will only post after the CMOS is cleared, so luckily I've been able to go back to 0602 again.
Any ideas?
http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/336fa53363.jpg
what is this??
EDIT: i have check this pin...and 2-3 is already connected! ME=MemoryEnhaced????
Now i have solder them :D
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6385/voltcw1.th.jpg
Hi everyone first post here...
my rig : Q6600 2.4@3.3 - sunbeam tuniq tower 120 (changed the fan)
P5K-E/wifi-ap- bios 1006 (Eist on again, no way to disable it in bios)
2X1GB G.skill HK (promos)
8800GTX
i did some OC (am new at this) and i got this far :
http://www.2send.us/uploads/83c11b2712.jpg
Vcore - bios 1.350V win 1.320
NB -1.55V
SB -1.20V
got rocksolid(i think) :
http://www.2send.us/uploads/32dcaa9a85.jpg
Temps :
http://www.2send.us/uploads/58af4a3d25.jpg
SPI :
http://www.2send.us/uploads/6353426b27.jpg
i tried to go higher but i'm stuck at 3400Mhz (8X425) it does boot to windoes but i cant get it stable whatever i do... and this as far as i want to go.
what do you think?
what can i do? i tired different Vcores none stable.can it be the bus speed?
Hi;
This bios screen from p5b deluxe , and marked settings not available for p5k-e... only sb voltage 1.20 max voltage for p5k-e... and ICH voltage and pci clock synchronization mode not available p5k-e ? WHY ? My system is totally stable at 8x500=4000mhz (orthos small and large fft's) but sometimes on the desktop or When I playing the game, It's restarting !:confused: :(
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7...45674fsja0.jpg
The PCI clock on the P5K-E is automatically locked at 33mhz.
The Max SB volts of 1.2V is one of the downsides to the P5K-E overclocking.
Stupid question. With on-board Wifi you still need that antenna right?
Hi all,
I Finaly install Windows:)
what I did is changde the grafik card and after a couple trys it workt:)
But know many of my programs crashes all the time, I have testet memtest but i didint gett any errors, I tested bouth on auto and by specs, how long do i must run memtest I havet runing for over 1h and still didint finish.
I run orthos to with no OC only the ram by the specs run that for an 1h and no problems untill I stopt the test then it reboot.
Know I´m runing windows vista ultimate and no problems yet but a sound i here from the computer like its trying to shut down but its not shuting down.
Here's where I've gotten too right now:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...825-stable.jpg
VFSB=1.4v
VNB=1.55v
VPLL=auto
VDIMM=2.25v
I was hoping for 4.0 on low volts, but I don't think I got a great chip. :( It needs more than 1.4v for any kind of stability at 4.0 or higher, and following the official e8400/8500 thread has me a bit worried about putting that much voltage through it.
I'm testing right now with NB @ 1.4v, and fsb termination @ 1.3v.