ASUS P5B-Deluxe; Problems & Fixes

[mkorpal333]

Thanks guys. I'm running at 333 fsb right now. Everything seems to be good so far.

[ScottFern]

I have my new P5B Deluxe all setup and running great, but I have one last issue. I cannot figure out a way to boot to a DOS prompt and flash to the new bios.

1) My suspicion is that my floppy drive won't read ANY floppy. (broken floppy?)
2) I do not have a USB thumb drive.

Now what? I tried my CD bootdisk but when I get to the dos prompt it won't recognize ANY of my hard drives?

[bito]

I've just setup my Allendale E6400 in my new P5B Dlx.....running at 3.4ghz/1.376v
I used the AsusUpdate utility from within winXP to update the bios on my board.

[Smartguy]

I used the AsusUpdate utility from within winXP to update the bios on my board.

me to

[deathman20]

Well I'll be getting mine system soon as well.

Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP with E6600 and 4x 1Gig sticks of G.Skill PC6400

[Harshal]

I got NO BOOT with 0507 + GSKILL PC6400HZ. 0609 Fixed it tho.
Got this right after updating BIOS to 0609.

Will tune it later on...

[Kashath]

I have a quick question for anyone running a GX2 on the P5B-D. Is it showing up as running at 8x in the 16x PCI-E slot? I'm guessing it's giving 8x to each card so that's why mine is showing up as only being at 8x but I can't confirm it. Does anyone know for sure?

I've looked around and have never been able to get a definite answer.

[Brahmzy]

Um...just a small question...









































































WHY ISN'T THIS THREAD A STICKY YET?



This board is one of the most capable C2D boards out there. It deserves to be on top.

[dr_sharp]

WHY ISN'T THIS THREAD A STICKY YET?



This board is one of the most capable C2D boards out there. It deserves to be on top.

[Avman]

4.0 Ghz
Processor: e6400, Allendale
Bios Revision: 0507
Memory: Team Xtreem 2x1GB, 667 3-3-3-8
vCore: 1.475
vFSB: Auto
vNB: Auto
vMem: 2.250
Configured FSB: 500
Configured Ratio: 8
Configured Memory Timings: 4-4-4-11
C1E and SpeedStep off, Locked PCI Express Frequency locked at 101, PCI Sync Mode at 33.33

[Smartguy]

BIOS version??

[Avman]

0507 - came that way.

[dr_sharp]

0507 - came that way.

Incredible clocks... you have a stellar chip, 4GHz at less than 1.5 vcore!!!

[Brahmzy]

Killer OC man!

[Smartguy]

update:

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/39/3420fp7.jpg

under 15sek :p

[Avman]

Yep - That extra 2MB cache really helps with Spi - I debated with myself about whether to get a 6400 or a 6600 but after seeing more than a few posts about lower clocking 6600's I figured I might be better off doing my 'Intel Learning' on a more forgiving chip. Seems like I got lucky.

[situman]

Yep - That extra 2MB cache really helps with Spi - I debated with myself about whether to get a 6400 or a 6600 but after seeing more than a few posts about lower clocking 6600's I figured I might be better off doing my 'Intel Learning' on a more forgiving chip. Seems like I got lucky.

vapo cooling? is it stable? no way to get all the way up there with normal cooling since the NB will overheat.

[Smartguy]

with 0609 I can't boot 400FSB. It frezes in bios when i press enter on save and exit.

anybody know what to do??

[yury2808]

Smartguy - have you cpecified voltages for ram/cpu manually ? and timers for ram ? mine have 5-5-5-18 in SPD, but when I set it to use SPD in BIOS, it will boot with 4-4-4-12, as it was for 266Mhz...

and you know that P5B-D BIOS will pump up CPU voltage sky-high if you dont set it manually when go for 400 ? I found C2D 6300 will get around 1.56v in auto mode for 400...

[Smartguy]

i put:
vcore 1.45v
vmem 2.3v
Other voltages I raised just a litle bit.
Memory hasn't reach 800mhz so it is not her. timings are 5-6-6-18

[yury2808]

q: is there any tool to change fan speeds on P5B-D ? even Q-Fan thingy in BIOS does not work for me (Zalman 9500 always stays on max, both case fans too). tried speedfan 4.29, it seems does not support this MB yet.

any solution ?

[bing]

q: is there any tool to change fan speeds on P5B-D ? even Q-Fan thingy in BIOS does not work for me (Zalman 9500 always stays on max, both case fans too). tried speedfan 4.29, it seems does not support this MB yet.

any solution ?

Nope, waiting for it too since starting on P5B Deluxe, Asus has been using the latest Winbond W83627DHG chip for multi I/O and Sensor/Fan management on their latest mid to high end mobo fleet, and it seems like none of the software out there now support it.

SpeedFan author already acknowledged this limitation and probably working toward to support it in next release.

What strange is Winbond still doesn't want to release the detail spec sheet for this particular chip.

Never use Zalman though, I guess it is using 3 wires fan instead of standard 4 wires like the one came with stock intel cooler.

This mobo has 5 fan connectors and only 2 have Q-Fan enabled, try plug the Zalman fan cables at the one labeled Power (3 pins) instead of the standard one for CPU which required 4 pins fan to work properly.

Through BIOS this Power fan pins can be properly controlled by Qfan such as Optimal, Silent or Performance.

[Harshal]

i put:
vcore 1.45v
vmem 2.3v
Other voltages I raised just a litle bit.
Memory hasn't reach 800mhz so it is not her. timings are 5-6-6-18

As far as I see, Bumping VCORE a bit more should do the trick! 1.5V will be a good start. E6600 needs a lil bit more sometimes!

[ScottFern]

I have achieved 500X7 = 3.5Ghz on my E6400 and I am VERY pleased with this.

However, I have noticed 2 bugs. The double restart with this motherboard. It takes 2 tries to boot up after cold boot/restart.
Second, System Properties under the General Tab as well as Core Temp Beta both report clock speed using the default multiplier although I am using 7x.

These 2 issues are very minor considering the speeds I have been able to achieve, but fixing these issues in a future bios would make this mobo just about perfect.

[Haltech]

This should be a sticky considering this seems to be a better board than the 975x brothern... Im going to order one. Looks like it may be the board i need.