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

[Brama]

I have 2x1 Gbytes Corsair Dominator 8500-C5D and I am getting crazy

Two days ago I found "stability" with the RAMs at 860 MHz 1:1 and 2.15 V from BIOS.
Last night I tried to go up in frequency and after some succesfull and unsuccsessfull tries, today I have errors at 860 MHz!!! (same configuration that was stable 2 days ago)

Now I suspect even a mechanical problem due to big and heavy weight disspators of those sticks. Maybe the vibrations and the warm heavy dissipators can move a little the sticks in the memory slots, causing misscontacts and errors.

Tonight I will try to clean the contact with a pencil rubber and acetone and reseat the 2 sticks.

I let you know the result of my tests.

[denmason]

Gotta love this board, 3.8 at 432 x 9. Very stable, got north and south bridge on water along with gpu and cpu. My cell shock is running at 500 MHz and my core temps are about 35-38 at idle. I'm happy, best board I've used. Better than the GA-965P-DQ6.

[Helevitia]

I think I killed my E6600 I have been running at 8x425 with 1.5v for a while now and everything has been running fine. I come home from work yesterday and my computer is still on but monitors won't recover. I reset, no beeps, no monitors, nothing! I try each stick of ram by itself and still nothing. I liteally rip apart my computer and put it back together but I don't even get a BIOS screen, ever. BTW,t eh green led on the mobo comes on.

Suggestions on what to try first? Tonight I will try to clear cmos, pull all devices out except the CPU, check voltages on PSU. Anything else?

Has anyone seen this problem with the P5K deluxe? Specs are in sig. Thanks!

[mat8861]

I think I killed my E6600 I have been running at 8x425 with 1.5v for a while now and everything has been running fine. I come home from work yesterday and my computer is still on but monitors won't recover. I reset, no beeps, no monitors, nothing! I try each stick of ram by itself and still nothing. I liteally rip apart my computer and put it back together but I don't even get a BIOS screen, ever. BTW,t eh green led on the mobo comes on.

Suggestions on what to try first? Tonight I will try to clear cmos, pull all devices out except the CPU, check voltages on PSU. Anything else?

Has anyone seen this problem with the P5K deluxe? Specs are in sig. Thanks!

Unplug power wait 10 seconds, take bios battery off, leave like that for few minutes.
insert battery and 1 stick of memory in the slot near the cpu, if it doesn work try the other stick.

[Helevitia]

Unplug power wait 10 seconds, take bios battery off, leave like that for few minutes.
insert battery and 1 stick of memory in the slot near the cpu, if it doesn work try the other stick.

Thanks, but I already tried that

[crossg]

Thanks, but I already tried that

Do you know any body close by that has another stick of different ram you could borrow? I had the exact same thing and that is how I got mine to finally post. I know it sounds strange but it worked more than once.
Edit: Chapter 3, Page 1 of the manual says to hold down the delete button at power on. Have you tried that?

[Helevitia]

Problem found! It's the SATA ports. When I first took it to mu buddies house, we decided to plug it in at his house before trying any swap outs. It booted! I was thinking WTF? That was with his power cord and monitor. So I bring it out to his living room, use my power cord and monitor and no boot again I'm thinking I'm going crazy!

So I literally start pulling things out, cables, connectors, memory, video card. Trying anything, wiggling stuff around, etc...

Finally, after fiddling with it for what seemed like forever, I started getting intermittent results with unplugging and plugging in sata cables, wiggling sata ports around, trying new sata cables. Eventually, I got it to boot again, but it BSOD'd once and then when it came back up the RAID BIOS said it couldn't see one of my hard drives.

So, to make a long story short, this is consistent with all of the other people having SATA problems including myself initially when I thought I had a bad SATA DVD Burner. I bet that drive actually works. Thanks for all the help and advice.

[Ace-a-Rue]

I think I killed my E6600 I have been running at 8x425 with 1.5v for a while now and everything has been running fine. I come home from work yesterday and my computer is still on but monitors won't recover. I reset, no beeps, no monitors, nothing! I try each stick of ram by itself and still nothing. I liteally rip apart my computer and put it back together but I don't even get a BIOS screen, ever. BTW,t eh green led on the mobo comes on.

Suggestions on what to try first? Tonight I will try to clear cmos, pull all devices out except the CPU, check voltages on PSU. Anything else?

Has anyone seen this problem with the P5K deluxe? Specs are in sig. Thanks!

can you put the memory or cpu on another board to see if works or not?.

how much voltage were you supplying to the memory?

[Helevitia]

can you put the memory or cpu on another board to see if works or not?.

how much voltage were you supplying to the memory?

Yep, gonna use another PSU, memory and video card later today. I already tried another cpu. I was using 2.35v which is within spec of the Mushkin Redline.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Yep, gonna use another PSU, memory and video card later today. I already tried another cpu. I was using 2.35v which is within spec of the Mushkin Redline.

well...that narrows it down to the motherboard, memory or video card...i don't think it is the VC...most likely it is your memory followed by the board....i doubt it is your PSU unless thermaltake is making flaky 1200W supplies.