ASUS P5B-Deluxe; Problems & Fixes

[HaLDoL]

You know, I think this might work. Thx for the tip~
You wouldn't happen to know why this happens would you...

IRQ conflicts. It's really annoying. Changing your PCI card to another PCI slot after the first crash during installation also helps.
The PCI slots between the two PCIEx16 slots are sharing an IRQ, so you must change between one of them and the one at the bottom.
I know this because I have a PCI vid card and i can't install windows without it.
This is only the case when you're installing a fresh new copy of windows on a new partition, when you're repairing an existing windows installation, there should be no problem.

[4Qman]

Can some please let me know if there is any difference from the P5B Deluxe WiFI and the P5B Deluxe board. Im hoping its the same as i wont be using wifi. Any overclocking difference?

Im looking at the £113 board here

Many thanks.

[´Lotzi]

is the P5B Deluxe Mobo Crossfire Reday or not???

pls help

Bios Version is 0908

Regards

[jimmyz]

is the P5B Deluxe Mobo Crossfire Reday or not???

pls help

Bios Version is 0908

Regards

yes but w/ 4x on second slot

[ScottFern]

Can some please let me know if there is any difference from the P5B Deluxe WiFI and the P5B Deluxe board. Im hoping its the same as i wont be using wifi. Any overclocking difference?

Im looking at the £113 board here

Many thanks.

The bios is the same for both so that should tell you something.

[xgman]

Can some please let me know if there is any difference from the P5B Deluxe WiFI and the P5B Deluxe board. Im hoping its the same as i wont be using wifi. Any overclocking difference?

Im looking at the £113 board here

Many thanks.

no diff, same bios.

[xgman]

Strange
I take it that it’s not a post error beep but an initialization rest.
Perhaps it is your cooling

I have become convinced that on many of the new boards incl. 965's and 680's and even the Intel BX's, that when you first boot, if your ram has been run at 2.3-2.5v for a period of time, the default early boot settings are just too low before your "set" ram voltage kicks in, and therefore the boot problems. In some rare cases it is even necessary to remove one stick to get enough juice to boot. I never had this issue on the 875 chipset though. This is also more apparent with really high end ram.

[4Qman]

no diff, same bios.

Cheers dude

[FullMoon]

Anyone have good luck with Asus RMA ?? My board died for two days before I got it to come back. It also has fried 2 sets of Crucial memory that are on the approved list for the board

I am afraid they will just send me the same board back and say everything is ok
I am afraid I will just have to buy another board to try with my Crucial memory.
What board would you guys try for a E6600 ??

Thanks!

[Exar Jun]

e6400
Ballistix PC 8k
hx 520 corsair psu

I was installing windows when i heard a bit of a static type noise and the board power down there was also a smell of something burning. I cant find anything burnt yet. The NB sink was really hot. This is fresh out of the box and I now connot get it to post. It powers up for a few seconds and beeps once then beeps a couple seconds later and cycles power again. over and over again. I have tried:

taking out a stick of mem and leaving one in the farthest slot from the cpu
...removing the vc
boot without a battery
leave off and cmos clear on for a few minutes

couple other things but I cant get it to come back. Any other advice of threads that you guys kno of to help me get her back up and running?

[TI66ER]

asus has released the 4580dts on the update site.

has anyone tried them?

does it get rid of the problems? slow boot etc.

[Eldonko]

Just sold my P5B-DLX, and am in the market for a new board. Does the Giga-DS3 aslo suffer from this strap crap? or the eVGA 680i? which would be the better choice?

The board you just sold is better than 95% of other boards, especially anything made by gigabyte..

[Eldonko]

e6400
Ballistix PC 8k
hx 520 corsair psu

I was installing windows when i heard a bit of a static type noise and the board power down there was also a smell of something burning. I cant find anything burnt yet. The NB sink was really hot. This is fresh out of the box and I now connot get it to post. It powers up for a few seconds and beeps once then beeps a couple seconds later and cycles power again. over and over again. I have tried:

taking out a stick of mem and leaving one in the farthest slot from the cpu
...removing the vc
boot without a battery
leave off and cmos clear on for a few minutes

couple other things but I cant get it to come back. Any other advice of threads that you guys kno of to help me get her back up and running?

Examine the mosfets carefully, something may have burned out.

[Exar Jun]

it is a goner...RMAed it.

[Exar Jun]

well... I ended up working on it some more after I talked with Newegg to RMA it. I still did not have any luck on this board. I get the blue led to come on then the fans and discs start up with the red led and then it just cycles power. I thought maybe it could possibly be a grounding issue so I took it out of my case and no luck. I took off the NB cooler and checked the core and replaced with AS5 and did not have luck. Also ran it without any thing attached and it stayed on. Thinking it may have reset the board I hooked things up piece by piece and it still does the same. I did not see any visibile damage to the mosfets. I tried components in another PC and the VC PSU and HDD work. Hope that my ram and proc were not damaged.

Can anyone tell me if there NB heat spreader is hot to the touch? It was really warm when I originally had this issue.

[Stx]

Im having a weird version of the double reboot problem(only when cold booting). The OC is tiny (e6400@2.4ghz), the annoying part is that after the start,stop, start the fsb/dram clocks are lost(and become stock) when i go into windows (but the vcore set for the OC remains). To keep the OC'd clocks -from the double reboot I have to enter bios straight off that then reboot from there to get the oc'd settings back. These settings are however stable in windows as well.

mm?

[serious1]

asus has released the 4580dts on the update site.

has anyone tried them?

does it get rid of the problems? slow boot etc.

I'm downloading it now. Someone on Guru3D said it fixed the crackling and the slow boot.

[harpyboy]

well... I ended up working on it some more after I talked with Newegg to RMA it. I still did not have any luck on this board. I get the blue led to come on then the fans and discs start up with the red led and then it just cycles power. I thought maybe it could possibly be a grounding issue so I took it out of my case and no luck. I took off the NB cooler and checked the core and replaced with AS5 and did not have luck. Also ran it without any thing attached and it stayed on. Thinking it may have reset the board I hooked things up piece by piece and it still does the same. I did not see any visibile damage to the mosfets. I tried components in another PC and the VC PSU and HDD work. Hope that my ram and proc were not damaged.

Can anyone tell me if there NB heat spreader is hot to the touch? It was really warm when I originally had this issue.

i replied your PM

as for this... the NB heatsink is pretty hot to the touch, but still enough for you to continuously hold your finger there. When my first p5b-d burned out, the heatsink literally burned my finger... i would say asus did a bad job and QA on that heatsink....

tried a stick of budget RAM yet ? i know mine has hard time POSTing with ballistix....





asked before... anyone know of a solution for the slow BIOS in 8800GTS? I am using 0908.... just want to make sure any other BIOS fixed that issue? Thanks.

[Exar Jun]

Yeah thanks for the PM harpy. It does the same thing with or without the ram in the board. I think it is a power issue personally. The only way I can get it to stay on is if I boot it without a cpu or anything else attached.

[cdelong]

Could anyone running MBM5 and the stock NB fan please post the proper fan divider, fan type and board sensor to be input in the settings menu.

My NB fan always reads zero RPM on sensor 2- the plug will not reach any other fan header. I've tried unplugging it and making sure it is in good contact with all the mobo pins, but nothing helps.

TIA

[Millyons]

only fans mbm can read are cpu, power and one of the system fans, the one further away from sata connectors on the bottom.....that is if you are using my p5bdlx mbm config

[cdelong]

Yes, I'm running the P5BDlx MBM5 config. I'm running the NB fan on CHA_FAN2... right above the back of the PCI-e slot.

That should work.... yes?? It's the only one the fan plug reaches and it shows fine in the bios screen.

[cdelong]

Finally figured it out for those interested....

Board sensor- LM78-1
Fan Type- *2 (the first selection)
Fan Divider- 32

All works fine with the P5BDlx MBM5 Mod.

[xgman]

All works fine with the P5BDlx MBM5 Mod.

mod link?

[Exar Jun]

I found out what burnt up on my board. Notice the burn patterns on the little ic in the middle of the first pic. Does anyone know what this controls? I still get 8v when testing it without a chip or anything attached to the board.