ASUS P5B-Deluxe; Problems & Fixes

[deathman20]

Im at 110 to be save due to running 3 drives in Raid 0.

[rob725]

I didn't so much fix the double restart for me; it still does that if I make a bios change or power up from off-state. It eliminated the hard restart when you restart from windows, so in that case there is no double restart because it never cycles all the way down.

[-n7-]

Bios 0711 fixed the double restart/false start issue it seems. That's good, but otherwise it seems the same as before for me.

w00t.

I must get this bios

[sluzbenik]

Someone said somewhere else to lower it to 96. It seemed to help with some artifacting issues I was having in COD2. Everything else is stable, but with a high overclock I was getting some nasty black artifacts.

[SIOUX]

I got a huge problem that i realy dont know how to solve. here goes...

When i got my P5B Dlx board i had no problem with anything, but after a reboot my DVD is no longer read in windows. I see it in bios, but just shows as cd-rom in windows, and cant load any dvd´s. I have 3 drives. 2 are brand new, course i thought that maybe it was the drive that was deffect. and 1 very old one.

Now the strange thing is that the 2 new ones will still not work, but the 4 year old dvd is working fine. even more strange is that ALL the drives work in windows in safe mode, wich had me believe it was a driver isssue. but even after a clean install it still not working, even NO drivers is installed.

I have tryed ALL posible jumper setting on the drives without luck, and now i´m totaly lost guys.

Also if i try to boot from any drive, it says "NTLDR is missing" and only the old drive also works here

Anybody have any idea how to fix this?? All the drives works in other computers, and in safe mode on the pb5 dlx, but NOT in normal windows

[dr_sharp]

I got a huge problem that i realy dont know how to solve. here goes...

When i got my P5B Dlx board i had no problem with anything, but after a reboot my DVD is no longer read in windows. I see it in bios, but just shows as cd-rom in windows, and cant load any dvd´s. I have 3 drives. 2 are brand new, course i thought that maybe it was the drive that was deffect. and 1 very old one.

Now the strange thing is that the 2 new ones will still not work, but the 4 year old dvd is working fine. even more strange is that ALL the drives work in windows in safe mode, wich had me believe it was a driver isssue. but even after a clean install it still not working, even NO drivers is installed.

I have tryed ALL posible jumper setting on the drives without luck, and now i´m totaly lost guys.

Also if i try to boot from any drive, it says "NTLDR is missing" and only the old drive also works here

Anybody have any idea how to fix this?? All the drives works in other computers, and in safe mode on the pb5 dlx, but NOT in normal windows

Is this with or without SP2? Try installing SP2. This IS an issue with windows and updates.

[Mindfield]

I got a huge problem that i realy dont know how to solve. here goes...

When i got my P5B Dlx board i had no problem with anything, but after a reboot my DVD is no longer read in windows. I see it in bios, but just shows as cd-rom in windows, and cant load any dvd´s. I have 3 drives. 2 are brand new, course i thought that maybe it was the drive that was deffect. and 1 very old one.

Now the strange thing is that the 2 new ones will still not work, but the 4 year old dvd is working fine. even more strange is that ALL the drives work in windows in safe mode, wich had me believe it was a driver isssue. but even after a clean install it still not working, even NO drivers is installed.

I have tryed ALL posible jumper setting on the drives without luck, and now i´m totaly lost guys.

Also if i try to boot from any drive, it says "NTLDR is missing" and only the old drive also works here

Anybody have any idea how to fix this?? All the drives works in other computers, and in safe mode on the pb5 dlx, but NOT in normal windows

Did you install the Jmicron drivers off of Windows Update? I read somewhere of problems like yours after updating, try reverting back to the default microsoft ones.

[SIOUX]

Is this with or without SP2? Try installing SP2. This IS an issue with windows and updates.

Thx its SP1 i´m running. i was thinking the same, but howcome i can use an old DVD writer and its working fine then? is this something with the 965chipset needs Sp2 to work proberly for newer drives? its working fine on my XBX with 975 chipset? and it was working fine on this board in the begining also.

[NO1B4ME]

Processor: E6400
Bios Revision: 0507
Memory: G.Skill 6400hz
Configured Voltages: 1.425v vCore, 1.3v vFSB, 1.25v vNB
Configured FSB:492
Configured Ratio: 1:1
Configured Memory Timings: 4-4-3-8
7X multiplier



http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=114435

I just tried your settings and can finally hit 3.4. Wohooo thanks

[SIOUX]

Is this with or without SP2? Try installing SP2. This IS an issue with windows and updates.

Installing SP2 did nothing

[SIOUX]

Did you install the Jmicron drivers off of Windows Update? I read somewhere of problems like yours after updating, try reverting back to the default microsoft ones.

I tryed both with and without the Jmicron...no luck

[KingGuru]

Am I the only one that think 711 sux ?
I was running 466*7 on the lousy stock cooler with 1.4v.
now I can't make it boot at 400*7 with 1.4v
I'm going back to a older version.

[yury2808]

KingGuru: no changes in overclock for me in 0711- same 400Mhz @ 1.3v, maxed around 425 for my (unlucky) E6300

[Khaotic]

I tryed both with and without the Jmicron...no luck

The Microsoft drivers worked much better and with no STUTTERING, than anything with the Jmicron name in it. Either Updated or native from the driver disc or Asus website.


I've got a set of SATA -> IDE adapters coming in today, within the next 2 hours I say. And then i'll report back. I have two optical (a reader and writer) and i'll do an OPS CHECK with all of them to see where they fall in. I'll report back here with the findings.

[Khaotic]

I got a huge problem that i realy dont know how to solve. here goes...

When i got my P5B Dlx board i had no problem with anything, but after a reboot my DVD is no longer read in windows. I see it in bios, but just shows as cd-rom in windows, and cant load any dvd´s. I have 3 drives. 2 are brand new, course i thought that maybe it was the drive that was deffect. and 1 very old one.

Now the strange thing is that the 2 new ones will still not work, but the 4 year old dvd is working fine. even more strange is that ALL the drives work in windows in safe mode, wich had me believe it was a driver isssue. but even after a clean install it still not working, even NO drivers is installed.

I have tryed ALL posible jumper setting on the drives without luck, and now i´m totaly lost guys.

Also if i try to boot from any drive, it says "NTLDR is missing" and only the old drive also works here

Anybody have any idea how to fix this?? All the drives works in other computers, and in safe mode on the pb5 dlx, but NOT in normal windows

Had this happen to me. With Windows VISTA thought and not XP. But it could be the same deal. It was just a BAD INSTALL. Other things in the OS were acting out of wack too. Mine was done on a proven stable overclock. I think it was just something with interplanatary alingment being just right. Hasn't happened since...........

[KingGuru]

well.. I guess I will test it more though, when I'm done with this crappy course, where I have to make a java compiler in java ;(
bloody deadlines all the time

[jimwhite]

"Had this happen to me. With Windows VISTA thought and not XP. But it could be the same deal. It was just a BAD INSTALL. Other things in the OS were acting out of wack too. Mine was done on a proven stable overclock."

sounds like you proved it to be UNstable

[dr_sharp]

sounds like you proved it to be UNstable

Stable overclock has nothing to do with software

[caligula]

Did any1 tried it with 4 DIMM sticks ?
BIOS sees them, memtest sees them, same for cpu-z. Is WinXP limited to 2 gigs?!

[ghettotech]

Double Reboot not fixed w/ 0711

[TheGoat Eater]

Double Reboot not fixed w/ 0711

same here but I got another problem with it - I can't move or enter FSB to change it either way - I do have some good news though, my G.Skill 6400hz is at 533.3MHz@2.1v@5-5-5-12 with a divider of 1:2(says that in CPU-Z) because I can't do anything withthe FSB. Anybody got a link to a post that shows which choices are what for fsb to memory ratio? I'm a noob w/ intel (amd dropped the ball I think- as I was a die hard amd guy).

[Dax5]

Double Reboot not fixed w/ 0711

so what's new with this bios? anything useful?

[situman]

I think both my harddrives are dead cause of this. I will buy an external harddrive just to test. It boots and goes into bios fine, but it refuses to load windows or install windows. It gets to the "Preparing to setup windows" and stops there.

[Ace-a-Rue]

are you using anything USB when you are running windows setup?....i had something similar with windows just stalling on a Foxconn 975 board...i think it was my USB floppy drive causing the problem.

BTW, your drives are probably ok.

[situman]

no usb device at all. I do not hear my drives spin up at all.