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

[CERO]

Hey did any body here did some Volts reading with a multimeter so far? I mean when u put a curten vcore is it more or less then what u really get? And what vcore is safe on "air" max to let your cpu last for like 3 years?

[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.

[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]

you mean it was a sata cable causing this problem...RIGHT!?

[Helevitia]

I wish! Then I wouldn't have to RMA the board The nail in the coffin was the last time I booted, it told me the hard drive on port 1 had an error. I don't have any drives on port 1!!! My sata drives are currently on port 2 & 5. Here is the really crazy part, it booted into Vista!

[Helevitia]

I stand corrected. The BIOS reads the drives starting with 0 and the Asus manual starts with 1. So it was pointing to my 2nd SATA connector(port 1). I swapped the cable, still got the error, changed ports, still got the error. Now it looks like one of my Raptors are bad. I'm still untrusting of the sata ports though, so I will RMA both the mobo and the raptor. *sigh*

[C-N]

I stand corrected. The BIOS reads the drives starting with 0 and the Asus manual starts with 1. So it was pointing to my 2nd SATA connector(port 1). I swapped the cable, still got the error, changed ports, still got the error. Now it looks like one of my Raptors are bad. I'm still untrusting of the sata ports though, so I will RMA both the mobo and the raptor. *sigh*

I just got round to setting up my P5K DLX a couple of days ago with 2 x 80GB Hitachi's in RAID0. All went fine I flashed to the BETA 0501 BIOS & started playing around with it. I was using 2GB of OCZ PC2-8500 SLI in the yellow slots & having a play with 1T using SetFSB to ramp up the FSB to see where 1T would start getting unstable.

I crashed windows messing about like this which must have corrupted windows a bit as I had to do a repair to get back to the desktop. I then played around for a day trying different things until I crashed it again trying to do high CL4 but this time the P5K went a bit funny telling me one of my drives was not part of the array & the stripe that was there was bad which could be a similar thing to what you have just had.

Last night I flashed back to 0311 after reading this whole thread & EVA's imemory thread where he tested some OCZ Flex because it seamed to me most people were having the best luck with 0311.

I re-made my striped array, loaded windows XP up again & shifted my RAM over to the black slots & almost immediately run my E6600 up to 455fsb x 8 with 1.5v & 2.25v on the DIMMS all the rest was left on auto & after 3 hours of messing around with RAM like I was when it died the last time I honestly think IMHO 0311 is way more stable than 0501 as although I have had plenty of reboots BSOD's hangs etc with 0311 I have not once had to use the clear CMOS jumper or pop the battery like I had to do several times with 0501.

It is still early days for my P5K ATM but from what I have seen of it on 0311 so far I like it a lot & its quick as f**k

Have you tries flashing to 0311, rebuilding your array & loading windows up again now you can get it to post/boot or are you still trying to get it to boot your old array ?

Regards

Craig.

[chiefhog]

I have a weird problem with my P5K Deluxe. I noticed that when I was looking at Everest, the Mobo temp was no longer listed. So I launched PC Probe II and it listed my Mobo as 125 C!! I know this board is supposed to run hot, but not that hot! All of my other components are at normal idle temperatures. I have 4 fans blowing on the mobo at the moment. Cool air is being exhausted. This has got to be wrong, right?

[CERO]

chiefhog I got the same "bug", @ asus prob, reboot it and it is like 29-30 degreece. But it happend more often it disappear @ everest when u got asus probe aswell on.

Btw Q: How much do I need to bump the FSBv and NBv for 450fsb? I got atm stabled 8x425fsb 3.4ghz @ 1.3FSBv and NBv @1.4v, I might want to try 3.6ghz so, or should I leave it on AUTO, if I leave it on auto wont it jumps to high? or the mobo would always select the lowest possible in some situation, espacially when your priming when things getting stressed.

[xgman]

I have problems with usb ports if they are all loaded and if a hub is plugged in it is either real slow to get past the usb section when posting or just stall s there till I unplug the hub. I really am getting quite sick of it. Seems that as much as I like asus, there is always some little thing that never gets fixed.

[Ace-a-Rue]

asus does have its problems with those usb hubs...abit's IP35 Pro works beautifully with the USB ports.

[xgman]

The only problems I have had with this board are the slow usb initialization at post (much worse that the P5B) and occaisional boot with no video even though I see the blue light (vid signal good) on the monitor.

[bogg]

Suddenly I cannot alter the FSB! Well, it shows my alterations, but whatever changes i make are not carried out. It shows the fsb in bios, but does not alter the cpu speed.
It changes the memory speed though.

Just tried setting fsb to 800. posts with no problems. showed ram as 1600 on post. shows cpu as 2.4.

Using setFSB in windows also does not make any difference at all.

Everything else seems to work fine. It's just i can not overclock at all.
Previously i have had 465 with my e6600 giving me 4188.
I have had a reinstall of windows and flashed to 0501.
Now i've flashed back to 0404 and 0311 all make no difference.
Is my mobo fried in some way? Both the NB & SB are water cooled.

[Ace-a-Rue]

since your bios is an AMI bios, the flasher should be flashing the "boot block"...are you confirming that when you flash it from DOS...OR...are you flashing it within the bios?...if you are doing the latter, i would recommend that you use the DOS AMI flasher to flash the "entire" bios area, which includes the boot block.

[msgclb]

Suddenly I cannot alter the FSB! Well, it shows my alterations, but whatever changes i make are not carried out. It shows the fsb in bios, but does not alter the cpu speed.
It changes the memory speed though.

Just tried setting fsb to 800. posts with no problems. showed ram as 1600 on post. shows cpu as 2.4.

Using setFSB in windows also does not make any difference at all.

Everything else seems to work fine. It's just i can not overclock at all.
Previously i have had 465 with my e6600 giving me 4188.
I have had a reinstall of windows and flashed to 0501.
Now i've flashed back to 0404 and 0311 all make no difference.
Is my mobo fried in some way? Both the NB & SB are water cooled.

My suggestion would be to clear the CMOS leaving the battery out for an extended period of time.

When I have what I think is a BIOS related problem I first try to clear the CMOS leaving the battery in and when that doesn't work then I pull the battery and go to bed!

[bogg]

since your bios is an AMI bios, the flasher should be flashing the "boot block"...are you confirming that when you flash it from DOS...OR...are you flashing it within the bios?...if you are doing the latter, i would recommend that you use the DOS AMI flasher to flash the "entire" bios area, which includes the boot block.

I'm flashing it using ezflash. As the bios is 2mb i can't fit it on a floppy to flash within dos.


edit: Sorted. thanks very much. Did a full clear cmos (why didn't i think of it earlier ! had only tried load defaults in bios) and it's looking fine now.

[ChaosMinionX]

I set all the timeouts on drive detection and ahci to 0, and set all values to ignored on hardware monitor, as well as I turn off all the onboard devices, and only leave the Jmicron for IDE capabilities

[Ace-a-Rue]

I'm flashing it using ezflash. As the bios is 2mb i can't fit it on a floppy to flash within dos.


edit: Sorted. thanks very much. Did a full clear cmos (why didn't i think of it earlier ! had only tried load defaults in bios) and it's looking fine now.

glad you sorted it out!

you could use an USB thumb drive to store the bios and flasher for future flashes if there is any doubt about EZflash doing its job.

[crossg]

Just bought another P5K Deluxe and have no problems booting this with my Mushkin Xp2 8500 from the start. WTF? Other P5K deluxe board will not post with this stuff unless the ram voltage is set to at least 2.0v. So maybe there is an issue with some of these boards not posting with 8500 ram. My new board is actually an older S/N but same revision.

[Ace-a-Rue]

it might have been a defective board...who knows; a bad regulator or DDR Vtt voltage could have been messed up which would affect your memory by needing higher Vdimm to make it run.

[eva2000]

Just bought another P5K Deluxe and have no problems booting this with my Mushkin Xp2 8500 from the start. WTF? Other P5K deluxe board will not post with this stuff unless the ram voltage is set to at least 2.0v. So maybe there is an issue with some of these boards not posting with 8500 ram. My new board is actually an older S/N but same revision.

sounds like you had a bad board before maybe the dimm slots were bad ?

[xgman]

I am I the only one who finds it incredible that so many computer components are "bad"? What other industry would tolerate such a high rate of component failure? Even if you discount the numerous "user error" cases, it's just incredible how many reports of bad ram, bad MB, bad PS, bad cpu , on and on. . . . .

[feanorAZ]

I am I the only one who finds it incredible that so many computer components are "bad"? What other industry would tolerate such a high rate of component failure? Even if you discount the numerous "user error" cases, it's just incredible how many reports of bad ram, bad MB, bad PS, bad cpu , on and on. . . . .

You have obviously never owned a first generation Ford Focus!

[Machinus]

eva2000 - would you recommend that I buy a P5KD or a P5KP?

I will be OCing 6850 and some PC800 D9's.