Asus P5K Premium Problems + fixes thread

[Biker]

I've been using Sata II WD drives from day 1 and not one issue. Must be lucky.

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Seriously though, it is not all models:

I found the worst incompatibility was with the 404 bios or earlier.... 504 was better...

re specific drives: I could raid 0 a pair of 120gb WD's but had no luck with a WD 500GB's or Sammy T166's in RAID or ACHI...

[ReverendMaynard]

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k, you got me

[stepinrazor]

I have XP SP3 loaded, but I believe the problem was there with SP2 as well. Even tried with Windows Vista.

Basically I have ACPI 2.0 enabled, S3, installed WINXP. When I try to resume from Sleep mode, the machine never comes out. I can hear my 8800GTS fan blowing full speed like it's stuck.

I'd try another video card but I dont have one available. Has anyone successfully gotten their computer to resume from (S3) Sleep mode? If so what are your settings in BIOS?

[graysky]

I'm thinking of picking up the P5K-Premium for a Q9550 until the P45 boards are released and stable. Anyway, the question is around this whole SATA problem... has it been fixed and if so, what do I need to look for to ensure my copy of this board has the fix.

Does the P5K-Deluxe suffer from them as well or is it just the Premium?

[graysky]

@stepinrazor - I dunno what to tell you about your S3 sleep state problem. Have you tried dumppo.exe to ensure you have S3 available?

Link to dumppo.exe.

[stepinrazor]

@stepinrazor - I dunno what to tell you about your S3 sleep state problem. Have you tried dumppo.exe to ensure you have S3 available?

Link to dumppo.exe.

I'll try the dumppo.exe when I get home tonight. But man I've tried everything and I've also experienced the SATA issue myself.

I have a 150GB Raptor that works fine in AHCI or RAID, but I also purchased a F1 Samsung 750GB drive and like others have posted, it will not run in AHCI or RAID. I can get it to start the windows install but it will always bluescreen during the install.

I do like the board otherwise as I can get better memory settings and timings at lower voltages on this board then I could with my Maximus Formula.

[jonny_ftm]

I'm thinking of picking up the P5K-Premium for a Q9550 until the P45 boards are released and stable. Anyway, the question is around this whole SATA problem... has it been fixed and if so, what do I need to look for to ensure my copy of this board has the fix.

Does the P5K-Deluxe suffer from them as well or is it just the Premium?

No definite fix was ever found. Keeping away from Samsung and WD is the only real fix
The deluxe won't clock you as good as the Premium on a quadcore in most cases

[Biker]

I'm thinking of picking up the P5K-Premium for a Q9550 until the P45 boards are released and stable. Anyway, the question is around this whole SATA problem... has it been fixed and if so, what do I need to look for to ensure my copy of this board has the fix.

Does the P5K-Deluxe suffer from them as well or is it just the Premium?

Not fixed. It would be a lottery if you get it or not, it seems....

Stick to Seagate, Maxtor or any SATA 1 drive (including Raptors!) and you should be fine...

P5K Deluxe not affected by this, just the P5K Premium...

[bito]

I have run WD Raptors; SE16's (AAKS) and the RE2's on my Premium without any problems. Even raid with the AAKS's worked great.

Samsung F1 750 gb also works fine.
Will be going RAID 0 with a pair of Samsung F1 320gb later today

[Biker]

Will be going RAID 0 with a pair of Samsung F1 320gb later today

Recommended!!



HD322HJ Raid 0 30GB partition 16kb stripe ICH9R…






Good luck running them on your P5K Premium, although it does sound like you have a good one....

[ReverendMaynard]

You guys need to check out the Intel Matrix RAID on these badboys. Biker, it'll make your results looks slow

the other Black Pearl thread is getting heavily into this topic, I suggest you check it out.

[Biker]

You guys need to check out the Intel Matrix RAID on these badboys. Biker, it'll make your results looks slow

the other Black Pearl thread is getting heavily into this topic, I suggest you check it out.

Noted.

I tested the above partition with the Jmicron controller and my raid 0 slowed to 145mb/s average then I tested with an Adaptec 4x PCI-E and the average shot up to 199mb/s but my Adaptec card could not partition the drives ....all I could choose was max size.... incompatible Adaptec bios/ software with F1 series.....

[Mykou]

could some P5K owner tell me what settings to set to go over 1.40v on northbridge please ?

evrytime mine goes over 1.4v ( in bios 1.55 and 1.7 available ) , can't boot anyway

very strange to me

regards

[andrebrait]

Why do I have to use AFUDOS if I can do that through EZ Flash?

[kup]

I've recently purchased one of these and I can't get over 410MHz for love nor money with my new Quad.

It either refuses to post or just crashes before it gets to the XP splash screen...

I'm looking for 450x8, can someone list their bios settings for that?

And also, what bios is generally thought of as the best for overclocking FSB and Quads?

[Janno]

sorry for reviving this old thread, but i need to know what is the maximum vdimm of the newer bioses
i'm using 0404 and the 2,55v just isn't enough

my crucials want moar, but i don't want to mess around with the soldering iron to hard mod it

[Leeghoofd]

The deluxe won't clock you as good as the Premium on a quadcore in most cases

Must have a good DLx then , 475ish is indeed my max on quads I owned ,though that's enough for me... and the same CPU's topped out on same FSB on Maximus and MARS mobo's... With the P5K you need to make sure the mosfets are well cooled for the rest best mobo I have ever owned...

[jonny_ftm]

Must have a good DLx then , 475ish is indeed my max on quads I owned ,though that's enough for me... and the same CPU's topped out on same FSB on Maximus and MARS mobo's... With the P5K you need to make sure the mosfets are well cooled for the rest best mobo I have ever owned...

I also cooled my mosfets on the premium with some HR-09 + a 90mm fan attached on the NB HR-05 IFX and blowing on the mosfets area. Maybe that's why I can reach such good overclocks on low volts while others are stuck at low performance/high volts (despite the fact that I suerely got a good board)

[Ghostleader]

Anyone have any suggestion on how to bring my Q6600 to 3.6 on my P5K Premium board, what volt and temp should I not exceed in that case.

I have 3.2@1.325 (1.304 in CPU-Z under load) i BIOS and CPU voltage damper enabled and with temp 60 with Prime95 stable and temp different between core 0,1 and 2,3 is less then 5 under load.

My ambient roomtemp is ~20.

I figure 60 is to high@3.2 and it´s due to that I run me scythe@900, well I maybe should test with it at 1200 and see what I get, I most admit that I don´t like to much noice from my PC so I guess it´s a balance between performane and noice.

Perhaps I should ad one more and go push pull on that TRUE, I have it mounted with the heatpipes horizontal position, I found it was better then vertical, it ru´ns cooler that way.

So what do you P5K Premium expert say?

Any suggestions about BIOS settings would be great.

[ReverendMaynard]

take a read on this thread. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...151965&page=44

much more info there, and most of us won't repost the same stuff.

[eternaljammer]

Is there anyway to recover from a bad flash? Flawshed the bios now it just keeps trying to start but nothing. Plz help.

[andressergio]

Must have a good DLx then , 475ish is indeed my max on quads I owned ,though that's enough for me... and the same CPU's topped out on same FSB on Maximus and MARS mobo's... With the P5K you need to make sure the mosfets are well cooled for the rest best mobo I have ever owned...

Excellent mobo the P5K dlx, i managed to get 480x8 on my Q6600 L737B...

What's the real difference of the P5K dlx and P5K premium ?

Cheers
Sergio

[jonny_ftm]

Excellent mobo the P5K dlx, i managed to get 480x8 on my Q6600 L737B...

What's the real difference of the P5K dlx and P5K premium ?

Cheers
Sergio

Supposedely better mosfets, I'm not sure about other modifications
Maybe last deluxe boards are as good as Premium

[Skratch]

I running the p5k deluxe and its the best clocking board I have ever owned mine will do up to 490 1:1 on my quad.