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of course that is what they'll say. It happens to everyone but asus can't get their heads out of their asses and admit that there is a problem. I had the double cold restart thing happen to me and asus flat out said it wasn't a problem. they just refuse to admit there is a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Suicycos
Back to this topic i just tried booting up my board again with a PCI soundcard and it works but i get the cold boot restart everytime(i guess it is back to 0611 for me) i have yet to stick my 7900gt back in but i think it could be a psu connector that caused the 145c temp( i looked on the back of the board and it had melted a little).Quote:
Originally Posted by serious1
Ok, have tried Slave x1950 XTX only, and still getting slow clock/ram speeds reported in the ATI control center. I also found this in the catalyst readme:
"The ATI Overdrive 3 aspect will never reduce the graphics processor speed below the default clock speed"
So it must be an issue with the slot/board. What bios settings could possibly alter the clock/mem speed of one of my cards?
Is the bottom slot slower than the top? Please help!
Grrrrr I hate ATI!
i think you are mis-interpereting this? it means when you set it to automatic overclocking(ATI overdrive) it will not cause the video card to run slower than its default speed but faster.Quote:
Originally Posted by moralneeeick
your clocks are right this has been talked about for a year now.. ati sets 2d clocks for everyday usage only when a demanding 3d application needs more speed does it ramp up the clocks . some older games don't even trigger it so the aeroglass will not cause your clocks to increase . try hooking up 2 monitors (i use two 24/7)and tou can open ati tool or a similar program put it on your secondary monitor and when you start a game you will see your clocks go up to 3d settings. and as for crossfire and vista .... when the official vista comes out they will provide drivers for full use of the crossfire functions but it is a waste of time to do it for non release os's
Thanks to both reponses, having hooked up 2 monitors (Actually had 2 already but never thought of it :( ) I see the clock speeds go up to the requested speeds. I assumed aero glass would do this, but thinking about it its good that it doesn't put undue stress on the cards.
However, when setting overclocked requests (i.e 1100 ram) the system still only reaches the stock 999 when running. I'm pretty sure this will be down to the beta ATI drivers.
Once these drivers come out, and I start to run Crossfire, should I enable C.G.I on my board? Not overly sure on what it does, any thoughts?
it may just not display properly... 999 might be max for software. it may actually be going up higher try setting it @998 and bench then bump to 1100 requested and bench if it is more than a couple of points then it is just not displaying correctly.
a little off topic but if i open ati tray tools while i am @ stock speeds then oc with atitool tray tools doesnt catch my increase? some software is just a little buggy especially when it is special use stuff like oc utilities . they don't have the big budgets to fix all the bugs right away.
and when vista rolls out officially i bet there will be major issues with almost all o.c. applications till they get them sorted. it's all part of living on the razors edge!
I had been following the XS forums for weeks and weeks, reading every thread religiously, up to deciding on my system.
I got my P5b Dlx wifi 2 months ago, and everything was running great, oc'd without any issues. Until last week. I started getting system corruption on files and weird things happening. Through testing, I found memtest reporting a ton of errors on my ram (2x1gb of ballistix) so I tried going into my bios to reset my memory to defaults, by SPD.
That was the last time I was able to boot. My monitor hasn't even turned on since then - no POST, nada.
I have tried swapping memory slots. I following the instructions for resetting the cmos (the normal hard reboot wasn't letting me into the bios like it did when I was overclocking originally)...
The machine turns on, all my fans go to 100%, and that's it. Removing all ram gives me a repeating 3beep code, but other than that, nothing seems to make any difference. I've already got an RMA in with newegg (didn't realize how easy it'd be) but I don't think I'm quite done testing yet. I don't have access to any 533 memory in case it's a voltage issue, but I had no issues when initially configuring everything...
Any help or thoughts on what I can do from here?
yes I had the Ballistix DDR1 modules and went through the same thing ram was excellent for 1-2 months then it degraded, few errors here and there random blue screens in gaming, memtest didn't show errors for about 3-5 days, after reloading OS and full system troubleshoot did RMA. I had purchased through Crucial reseller program, got replacement set, lasted 2-3 weeks then degraded started dying slowly again. Replacement RMA again, after the 3rd set of ram failed I spoke to lead technical support and supervisor and would not listen to anything except 100% refund and they were lucky to get off that easily as I had 20-30 hours of time invested in troubleshooting.
Never again even if they had DDR2-20000 would I buy a set of Crucial, also our company is no longer a reseller of Crucial :fact:
Do yourself a favor order a different set of ram from newegg.
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Originally Posted by Chunkz
Well an update on my end: I got the motherboard to boot up fine and everything seems great on the 0404 bios but i still have not tested my videocard. when i was removing it i noticed the modular cable from the back of my psu(Antec NeoHE 550) was almost stuck. do you think it could be a problem with my psu? maybe a bad connection? i think i might go ahead and get an OCZ powerstream and use that instead of my NeoHE? it still bugs me though that i am not 100% sure what caused my GFX temperature too shoot up to 145c. the only logical explanation is my psu shot it bad juice or something. Anyone want to contribute to this?
It's really hard to believe that both sticks died at the same time... but it's definitely possible, considering the motherboard hasn't really shown any other strangeness at all, and even now, it LOOKS fine, with the ASUS LED showing blue until I turn it on etc.. I dunno :(Quote:
Originally Posted by pentium777
tried the video card in a different slot?
I'm not even sure you were talking to me - but I'll try anything, and this didn't have any effect - same symptoms as before.Quote:
Originally Posted by serious1
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Originally Posted by Chunkz
for what it's worth i am currently waiting for a rma on 1 of my sticks of crucial 10th ann ram that would not boot @ 1.8 or 1.9 i forget what the default is but anyway i would have to take the bad stick out and bump up to 2.1 then save and power-off and re-install the second stickbut then it would be just as good as new no errors @ ddr2 1000 same as before just degraded my low voltage boot i guess.
i called their direct sales at crucial to see if i could buy 1 stick of that ram since they don't sell the special edition anymore and when i told them the story they said the voltage that i gave them with cooling fans on them should not have caused that to happen so they offered me an rma.. i told him i raised it above the recommended voltage to as high as 2.4 in bios and he said " with a fan on them that should not be an issue" so they are giving me a replacement stick!!! crucial rocks imo. they als verified that the sticks sold as ballistix that have the same code 12864aa663 are also d9gmh and are rated for cas3 as well but default voltage is 2.1 so maybe there is just an issue with low voltage boot (under 2.0 ) with those sticks.
In the last motnh i'm experimenting suddenly rebbot even if my system is not under heavy load,like burning a dvd or surfing the net!I also upgrade the bios to 0903 and reinstalling Xp Prof. but it didn't help.The only change i made before these problems was to lower ram timings from 6-6-6-18-42 to 5-5-5-12-24 but now i set them back to the original values!I tried many times reloading the defaults but with no luck.Any ideas how to fix this problem?
I read of a hard reset instead of clearing the cmos(i cannot open the case because i will lose my garantee),how can i perform it?Thanks to everyone!!
@phoggerQuote:
Originally Posted by phogger
off topics
nice doggie.. looks like my long gone Saluki (Sloughi)
Maximal warning about 0903 BIOS : this BIOS killed my 2Gb Teamgroup DDR2-1000 sticks set ! Flashed from DOS from latest 0804, then rebooted and both sticks died (tried them then separatly on another mobo). I won't mess anymore with BETA bioses ;)
oh damn, im very close to building the rig in my sig and I'm nervous cos of all the p5b deluxe problems you guys are having :confused:, anyone still have the problem with the 88xx cards and the BIOS lag or whatever?
Men, that was something else that happened ! Not the bios version. :nono:Quote:
Originally Posted by TuKo
Here I've gone from 0514 (original with the mobo)->0604->0804->0903 and back to 0804 and nothing happened ! ;)
what APP did you use to flash it(dos or asus flash)? Also did your video card heat up when you flashed it?Quote:
Originally Posted by TuKo
804 must of helped lessen frequency of this occurance.. i only used 804 and no lower bios so can't comment on earlier bioses.Quote:
Originally Posted by cdelong
Can somebody help me
I have been using the LAN1 port for my internet connection since day 1 but now all of a sudden it refuses to connect to the internet.
I first thought it was my ISP but have since tried LAN2 and it works fine.
When LAN1 is used, if i force a LAN cable check in the bios it throws back an error saying LAN not ready.
Do the LAN ports just die like that ?
Is it time to RMA the board ? Thanks
Is such a little problem enough to make it rma :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by stradlinho
I think it isnt the Lan port, something wrong in the software. Some IP conflict , and everytime u will connect to port 1, it will conflict.
I am sure that a windows reinstall can fix it.
Try disabling--> enabling port1 in bios (just to make windows redetect it).
Whats between you and the internet? (a router, hub? direct to cable modem?)Quote:
Originally Posted by stradlinho
hi I've tried uninstalling the ethernet controller drivers (marvell) then disabling in bios, rebooting, enabling in bios and rebooting so windows redetects and still the same.
if i try with both LAN1 and LAN2 enabled and plugged into LAN1 a windows system error pops up saying ther is an ip conflict with another device on the network
if i try with just LAN1 enabled and plugged into LAN1 i get nothing at all
ghettotech i between the computer and the phone line is a bt voyager 220v adsl voice router
i cannot understand why it would just pack in like this