Asus P5B (vanilla) Overview

[ryandinan]

What revision P5B do you have, and what voltage are you running to your memory?
I used to have a 1.03G P5B, and I had to have max vdimm to boot into windows on my 8x400 (3.2GHz) overclock. I then ended up getting a replacement 1.04G P5B, and the system would not boot into windows unless I had my vdimm set to 1.9v. Go figure...

-Ryan

[comrad]

What revision P5B do you have, and what voltage are you running to your memory?
I used to have a 1.03G P5B, and I had to have max vdimm to boot into windows on my 8x400 (3.2GHz) overclock. I then ended up getting a replacement 1.04G P5B, and the system would not boot into windows unless I had my vdimm set to 1.9v. Go figure...

-Ryan

I have the 1.03G and I have my ram at 2.1V

[comrad]

I got over the "wall". The problem WAS the ram... I feel very stupid now But anyways, I didn't loosen the timings, I just changed them to 5-5-5-15 4-35-4-10-6-10 which are even tighter than the stock timings. So how far did this get me? I didn't try much but it easily went to 3640

[triple_A]

I got over the "wall". The problem WAS the ram... I feel very stupid now But anyways, I didn't loosen the timings, I just changed them to 5-5-5-15 4-35-4-10-6-10 which are even tighter than the stock timings. So how far did this get me? I didn't try much but it easily went to 3640

Nice!

What bios are you using?

[comrad]

Nice!

What bios are you using?

I am using the 1102 bios.
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[Vasilii]

Hi guys, need advice/help.

Bought CORE 2 DUO E6600 for my P5B today, replaced celeron 2,53 and started having problems with WinXPSP2.
Here details, first boot ok winXP loaded, everything seemed to work, run game cossaks 2 it crashed PC restarted. Here all hell broke lose. WinXP offered me to start in save mode few times restarting PC as I tried to proceed. When I succeeded to load winXP windows explorer kept crashing and freezing.
To make it short I updated to latest bios 1202, and reinstalled WinXP (installation was horribly slow). Still problems, reinstalled winxp twice.
Upon restarting freshly installed Win get this message "windows could not start because the following file is missing \windows\system32\config\system
you can attemt to repair this file by starting CD..... (restarting PC helps to get to WinXP desktop)
I'm starting to worry I got defected CPU

Please any help appreciated.

Vasilii.