ASUS P5K Deluxe - Intel P35 Bearlake + E6600 B1 / Q6600 B3

[mat8861]

yes I am currently running 3 raptors in raid zero and a 4th 750gb drive for storage. I am running vista 64 bit ultimate. I did have problems until i used just the red sata ports with nothing connected to the 2 black ports.

Strange, I started from scratch with two raptor on the red and two seagate (data) on the black sockets and all went fine. The two seagate were also showing in the vista installation

[CERO]

I don't think that is what he meant. I think he is referring to the stability issues that a number of us seem to be having with RAID0

correct, well i am not planning to use Vista yet. So i want to know if it will work under XP without any stability probs/ good raid0 scores etc.

[gup133]

hi guys,
I've just token this mobo. What can I use to monitor vcore, speed, temp, fan etc etc?
thanks in advantage.

[Mr Footlong]

Asusprobe and coretemp 0.94 (I have tried 0.95 on 2 different machine running xp and quad core chips and it just reboots them!)

[OldGuy]

Asusprobe and coretemp 0.94 (I have tried 0.95 on 2 different machine running xp and quad core chips and it just reboots them!)

Everest Ultimate works as well though some of the voltage readings like the 12v rail are wrong. I'm sure Lavalys is working on it...

[Mr Footlong]

Ah yes, I have everest too, but I mainly use that for testing ram speeds when tweaking.

[OldGuy]

Ah yes, I have everest too, but I mainly use that for testing ram speeds when tweaking.

I prefer to use it over the stuff they usually supply on the CD. I double check temps against coretemp and away I go. Lavalys is pretty quick about keeping up with the latest chipsets...if it aint recognized it generates a report you can submit. Tells me everything I need to know without loading up a bunch of different apps. Plus I paid for it

[The Runner]

how does this board perform with ballistix 6400/8500 ddr2 2x1gb stuff?

[Mr Footlong]

I am using it with the Ballistix 5300 2x1gb kit and currently run it at 8000(1000Mhz) spec with 4,4,4,12 timings and 2.3v, 24 pass memtest stable. It does go higher too but I am happy with that.

[orion23]

how does this board perform with ballistix 6400/8500 ddr2 2x1gb stuff?

I'm running my Tracer 1000mhz @ 1200 with 2.25V standard timings 5-5-5-15

[eva2000]

how does this board perform with ballistix 6400/8500 ddr2 2x1gb stuff?

my crucial 8500 like high 5-5-5-15 but not tight 4-4-4-x but haven't tried 0311 bios yet

Single 32M





Dual 32M

[burningrave101]

Well the stupid thing primed for about 8 hours at 3.7 with 1.5v without incident and then decided it was time to crash and reboot lol.

[mat8861]

Today I was running some tests with ai gear, ai suite, orthos and cpu-z.
Opened a web page while orthos was running, when it gave an error I closed everything and I found a window labelled " I AM SERVICE !!! " with 4 button to view cpu frequncy ,cpu voltage, fan and anotherone I can't remember.
What is that ? A service mode for AI gear?

[ziddey]

lol I AM ZIDDEY !!!

[Speederlander]

Well the stupid thing primed for about 8 hours at 3.7 with 1.5v without incident and then decided it was time to crash and reboot lol.

While still priming or after you had stopped it? I notice it happening after I complete priming. Not sure if it's an issue or just haven't found stable yet.

[Speederlander]

my crucial 8500 like high 5-5-5-15 but not tight 4-4-4-x but haven't tried 0311 bios yet...

I'm curious what long term Prime stable numbers you are getting.

[Subsider]

Can anyone tell me what chipset waterblocks are available for the Asus PK5 ?

[xgman]

Today I was running some tests with ai gear, ai suite, orthos and cpu-z.
Opened a web page while orthos was running, when it gave an error I closed everything and I found a window labelled " I AM SERVICE !!! " with 4 button to view cpu frequncy ,cpu voltage, fan and anotherone I can't remember.
What is that ? A service mode for AI gear?

Welcome to the Asus spyware club, or whatever that crud is. You will notice something called aacenter.exe running each boot. It's not in msconfig or services either. Anyway I found that if I open up the windows "tasks" it is scheduled to run everyday. Delete it there, and delete the entries of aacenter.exe folders in c:\program files\asus\ *** and it's done. Also good idea to search for it in the regitsry and delete all those entries as well. It's part of the asus acpi monitoring or some such. maybe puiggybacked on probe or suite? Whatever, out with it!!!

[Tommy L]

I have raid0 problems to. no go, get bluescreen and restart. Send a request to asus yesterday, no answer yet. I was rma my hardreive but they found no errors so it must be the ich9r chip that have some issues. hope it can be fixed with bios upd. if not i be pissed.

[burningrave101]

While still priming or after you had stopped it? I notice it happening after I complete priming. Not sure if it's an issue or just haven't found stable yet.

While it was still running Small FFTs.

[Mr Footlong]

Right, well I have been weak and bought a sata controller card as I have no intention of binning this mobo for unstable raid performance, due to how easily it overclocks, the sheer amoung of effort to get it out and all the WC gear off it again and the fact that I already have a weakness for 3ware cards. I will have a 9650SE-4LPML here tomorrow.

Yey, well that was a waste of time........... Got the card today and updated to the latest firmware. Installed in the black pci-e slot. Plugged all 4 drives into it, fired up and went into the bios to set the intel controller back to IDE with just the dvd plugged in 1. saved changes and rebooted. Got a blank screen after the bios loaded, pressed reset button and got unsupported 3ware card, consult your pc bios people basically. Yey. pulled all power to the machine and then booted from cold. got in to the 3ware bios and created a 3 drive array, missing out the drive the intel controller flagged, just in case, as it didn't need a reboot after this it loaded the xp setup. Driver installed and I had my partitions to choose. Went to format it and either using quick or normal format I got cannot format errors, the disk may be damaged.

So, I had a board that overclocked brilliantly but crapped out left, right and centre with quad RAID, threw £230 at it and got a board that can't run a common raid controller properly and even when using official drivers cannot run XP setup. I tested this card at work in an altos server that I used to update the firmware, it had ZERO problems and could format partitions just fine.

The overclocking abilities of this board are excellent, but I really, really, really don't like it at all now.

[426hemi]

^^ oh man! that sucks.....

[Mr Footlong]

It gets better. The 3ware flagged that 4th drive too as failing but guess what? The WDC utilities are still saying it is fine. It even did what I call a 'double take' startup, where it powers up and start spinning then sort of stutters and then continues to spinup as normal.

I have another machine here with 2 more WD2500KS drives, I am going to stick one in instead of the iffy one, get XP up and running again and throw as many HDtune, Hdtach, scandisk and defrag runs through the ICH9R 4 drive stripe as it can handle. If it still falls flat on it's face then I will confidently rule out the drives as not being an issue. It will be off to ebay for the 3ware card sadly as I don't have a use for it, well on this board at least .

[426hemi]

Let us know how it goes. I am going to try flashing to the original bios and install my array.......its my last hope

[burningrave101]

Let us know how it goes. I am going to try flashing to the original bios and install my array.......its my last hope

Is it really worth it to even bother setting up a RAID0 array on two 80 gig drives? The benefits of RAID0 to begin with are pretty limited and minute in everyday performance. You don't start seeing the benefits of RAID0 until you start working with transferring large files. I wouldn't even fool with RAID unless I was doing a RAID5 array for the mirroring + performance.