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

[Speederlander]

Funny you should say that - it has happened to me 3 times, once right on startup, and twice within several minutes of opening. Not sure if coretemp was the problem, I stopped using it just in case, as systool reads the same DTS and gives me the data with no risk.

Anyway, I have found some 48Hr stable overclocks since, so systool can be said to be a foolproof way of reading coretemp.

Now that I think of it, I wonder if two tools reading the the same sensor cause conflicts...

ps_ systool latest version claims to be updated for P5k, but it crashes on startup every time, I am sticking with next last build.

In my other thread someone said it's a known issue with coretemp that it randomly reboots some machines. So I guess that's that.

[eva2000]

Guys just use 0.94

[highoctane]

Damn I ordered the 9650se the other day as well for my P5K, I wonder if I should just return the card when it arrives or try it myself as well. Grrrr, was really looking forward to using this card too. I guess I should have just stuck with my hpt2320 but I wanted to go with something with a little better raid5 performance.

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.

[zbogorgon]

Just today he released a new version that support P5k
http://www13.plala.or.jp/setfsb/

I send the author email with this problem, he said he will look into it, mybe this is it

[jcniest5]

Does the P5K Deluxe have solid caps or not?

[Ace-a-Rue]

have you looked on Asus' website for the possible answer?

[jcniest5]

have you looked on Asus' website for the possible answer?

Doesn't say anything about solid caps, that's why I asked since it's a top-tier board and it should have sold caps.

[mrcape]

Got my P5K-Dlx set up. No floppy but flash to 0311 bios with ez flash/usb key was smooth. Setup bios a little and then XP installed so fast to my raptor on one of the sata ports. Just adding drivers now, is there anything worth using off the Asus DVD that came with the board?

edit - I mean the asus extras. I don't want a bunch of asus bloatware if I can avoid it.

[jcniest5]

Should one take off the SB HS, NB HS and Mosfets HS and apply AS5 for better heat transfer? I think I'm gonna do that when I get mine.

[Speederlander]

Should one take off the SB HS, NB HS and Mosfets HS and apply AS5 for better heat transfer? I think I'm gonna do that when I get mine.

Skip it. Just get good airflow. They run ok, even well overvolted.

[orion23]

Got my P5K-Dlx set up. No floppy but flash to 0311 bios with ez flash/usb key was smooth. Setup bios a little and then XP installed so fast to my raptor on one of the sata ports. Just adding drivers now, is there anything worth using off the Asus DVD that came with the board?

edit - I mean the asus extras. I don't want a bunch of asus bloatware if I can avoid it.

All I needed from the CD was an "SM Bus System" driver that I couldn't find anywhere else

[msgclb]

All I needed from the CD was an "SM Bus System" driver that I couldn't find anywhere else

Run the Asus DVD. When the dialog pops up select the "ASUS Install - Drivers Installation Wizard" and then the "Customize" option. You'll notice that all of the drivers on the DVD are newer than what Vista installed. The driver that controls the "SM Bus System" is the "Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility" which Vista didn't install.

[Supershanks]

Thnks for the info eva as usual faultless.
Got my board running today. now running orthos @ my last commando 24/7 of 9x400 @2:3 which i hope is my starting point.

On the commando have been running matrix raid 0 with 4x80gb hitachi sata 2 drives. had seen a few pps having issues with raid . when i plugged in all my hd i thought i was going same way, although all 4 drives where detected only 3 were seen in bios as being part of the array. fortunately i keep asmall xp install on my data drives , booted to that. Once i'd updated the matrix drive manager to the version on the asus cd & rebooted, my original arrays where found & i was able to happily boot & update that install.

Why updating an xp programme should work better than new drivers i'm not sure but hell it works fior me

[426hemi]

Thnks for the info eva as usual faultless.
Got my board running today. now running orthos @ my last commando 24/7 of 9x400 @2:3 which i hope is my starting point.

On the commando have been running matrix raid 0 with 4x80gb hitachi sata 2 drives. had seen a few pps having issues with raid . when i plugged in all my hd i thought i was going same way, although all 4 drives where detected only 3 were seen in bios as being part of the array. fortunately i keep asmall xp install on my data drives , booted to that. Once i'd updated the matrix drive manager to the version on the asus cd & rebooted, my original arrays where found & i was able to happily boot & update that install.

Why updating an xp programme should work better than new drivers i'm not sure but hell it works fior me

You updated the driver in windows on your data disk? How will the driver in windows effect the mobo at boot as no operating system is loaded?

[Ace-a-Rue]

Doesn't say anything about solid caps, that's why I asked since it's a top-tier board and it should have sold caps.

actually, asus says all the caps are high quality conductive polymer caps...just needed to do a web search on polymer caps to find the answer to it being solid...here you go.

http://www.chemi-con.com/files/PSA.pdf

[o2bme]

Can the wireless card be removed? It looks like it might be able to.

[[XC] DragonOrta]

Yes, the wireless can be removed. I'm pretty sure that FCG made a thread about the P5W DH Deluxe board and showed how to remove the wireless from that. This board should be exactly the same in that respect.

It's just a small screw holding the wireless into a slot on the board.

[o2bme]

Thanks, its one thing I really don't like about this board. Mine got here a few days ago but I have not had time to play yet. I'll search for the thread.

[Mr Footlong]

Damn I ordered the 9650se the other day as well for my P5K, I wonder if I should just return the card when it arrives or try it myself as well. Grrrr, was really looking forward to using this card too. I guess I should have just stuck with my hpt2320 but I wanted to go with something with a little better raid5 performance.

I wouldn't worry just yet as it turns out this this may be a lesson in 'newest isn't always best'. As a matter of course I updated the firmware on the card to the 9.4.1.1 set before even putting it in to the P5K as I had never had a firmware or compat issue with any other 3ware card. I spent the best part of yesterday fitting the 680i in to my case and fired it all up with the 3ware in there and first boot was OK, but after that the machine would either halt on the mediashield bios loading, or get part way through the 3ware bios and die, or come up with cannot recognise card, contaxct bios vendor etc etc. I have just downgraded to the 9.4.0.1 firmware and the machine 'appears' to be behaving just fine. I am currently slipstreaming the drivers onto the xp cd.

Later on I will slap enoguh stuff in to the p5k mobo and fire it up with the 3ware on and see if it too starts to behave. Fingers crossed tbh as I do prefer the Intel boards.

[dekruyter]

Yes, the wireless can be removed. I'm pretty sure that FCG made a thread about the P5W DH Deluxe board and showed how to remove the wireless from that. This board should be exactly the same in that respect.

It's just a small screw holding the wireless into a slot on the board.

You can fully disable it in software; then it has no affect on cpu usageage, etc.

[orion23]

You can fully disable it in software; then it has no affect on cpu usageage, etc.

Yeah, why not just disable it in the Bios? I did...

[Mr Footlong]

Well the reversion to the 9.4.0.1 firmware did the trick. I put the entire rig back together using the P5K again and everything is happy. If a problem with RAID is acknowledged and fixed then I will most likely go back to the onboard but for not I will stay on the 3ware. I still have the problem every few boots of the paused dim xp loading screen for 30-40 secs and I have no idea if I still get a BSOD when installing the X-Fi driver cd as I just web downloaded but heh . I will send 3ware a note this week regarding the loss of compatability with the current firmware.

[OldGuy]

Well the reversion to the 9.4.0.1 firmware did the trick. I put the entire rig back together using the P5K again and everything is happy. If a problem with RAID is acknowledged and fixed then I will most likely go back to the onboard but for not I will stay on the 3ware. I still have the problem every few boots of the paused dim xp loading screen for 30-40 secs and I have no idea if I still get a BSOD when installing the X-Fi driver cd as I just web downloaded but heh . I will send 3ware a note this week regarding the loss of compatability with the current firmware.

At least you are back on track and get to enjoy the new toy...one reason I don't jump on the latest and greatest bios until I know I need it. Make sure it's broke before ya go fixin it Congrats...

[Mr Footlong]

At least you are back on track and get to enjoy the new toy...one reason I don't jump on the latest and greatest bios until I know I need it. Make sure it's broke before ya go fixin it Congrats...

The difference was that I have a lot of experience with 3ware cards in my line of work, this was the first one that ever gave me comptability trouble (I was using almost all of them in servers though) so I was quick to blame the P5K going on the other niggles it had . There is always a first time for everything hehe.

[OldGuy]

The difference was that I have a lot of experience with 3ware cards in my line of work, this was the first one that ever gave me comptability trouble (I was using almost all of them in servers though) so I was quick to blame the P5K going on the other niggles it had . There is always a first time for everything hehe.

Oh yeah...and those are the times that drive ya nuts wondering WTF happened when you did everything just like you always do Round and round ya go till the light finally comes on

Now go clock the snot out o' that thing