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

[situman]

Anyone have resume issues? When my monitor goes into sleep mode, the computer will refuse to wake up. Anyone have a solution for this thing?

[safan80]

Anyone have resume issues? When my monitor goes into sleep mode, the computer will refuse to wake up. Anyone have a solution for this thing?

I have S3 only set in the bios. my monitor has no trouble coming back up.

[synergy]

Anyone have resume issues? When my monitor goes into sleep mode, the computer will refuse to wake up. Anyone have a solution for this thing?

I've had that problem on a few different computers
in the past. I don't know if there's ever a totally
consistent solution.

One thing to help debug it is to make sure your
ACPI settings in Windows (assuming you use it)
and the BIOS are set to ONLY sleep the monitor
at that time, and not ALSO the HDDs, PC in
general, etc. Also change your screen saver to
something really basic like "none" or "starfield",
because sometimes it can be the screen saver
that crashes and not the monitor sleep itself.

Update your video drivers to the latest stable
thing, and look in their release notes for any
warnings about this issue.

Also set in the BIOS the ACPI monitor settings
for something like "DPMS enabled monitor" as
true (assuming it's so), and "All modes -> Off"
for the monitor power savings type of action.

Then in the BIOS power management settings
be sure to enable wake-up on several different
events like PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse,
USB keyboard, USB mouse, etc.

Also try reprogramming your "power off" button
as functioning as a "shutdown" or "suspend"
function as opposed to "power off immediately"
or "power off in 4 seconds" because when all
else (keyboard, mouse) fails to wake a
PC, sometimes a short tap on the soft-off case
power button will enable a graceful shutdown
when it's so configured.

Also enable the BIOS setting to
do something like re-post VGA BIOS or
issue VGA interrupt on resume from sleep
state. It's called something like that, I forget
the exact terminology used. Sometimes that's
necessary for video cards to resume working
properly when they come back from sleep.

Also try unplugging the USB KB/Mouse from
whatever hub or port they may be on and
(re)plug then directly into one of the motherboard
ports and see if they reset and help you wake
up from sleep state that way.

Other times physically powering off the monitor
and reapplying power to it can help wake up
the video card it's attached it.

Be careful of using things like DVI->VGA
dongle adapters too since sometimes they can
interfere with the communication of the DDC
link with the monitor that helps the PC manage
the monitor's power settings etc. Use the dongle
that's the latest one that matches your specific
video card or try a new VGA/DVI cable etc.

Also if you have a spare DPMS enabled monitor
then try hooking it up and see if the problem
persists with that one.

[sesdave]

The only BIOS difference I can see from the deluxe is that CPU PLL offers voltage increments upto 2.2v. Presume that is for people with chilled cooling to make use of it. Overall seems a little bit more stable than deluxe.

[bichi]

From conversation at P5WDH thead about P5K DLX soldered BIOS chip

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=5463

[sesdave]

[QUOTE=bichi;2345031]From conversation at P5WDH thead about P5K DLX soldered BIOS chip

[url]http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php? QUOTE]

I notice that this is also refered to on the first post of this thread. It also mentions the following re Crash Free 3: -

'But it has Crash Free 3 bios feature see page 4-7 of manual. Shove the included driver dvd disk the system and boot it up and it should attempt to do a recovery bios flash.'

Please note that Crash Free 3 will not work if the BIOS flash has erased the EEPROM - your board will not post - end of story!

[synergy]

Forgive the somewhat trivial question, but it's not
covered in the manual and I can't play with the
BIOS since I'm waiting for my Q6600.

At a given CPU multiplier, is there a way to make
the ram frequency SLOWER than 1:1 over the base
system clock?

I.e. at 1:1 you'd have 266 MHz for both base CPU clock
and also actual clock frequency input to the RAM.
The CPU would run (say) at 9x multi 9x266 = 2400,
and the RAM being DDR2 would run
266x2 rate internally = DDR2-533.

However if my CPU multiplier is locked at x9 maximum,
I'd like to be able to clock the CPU around 430x9,
but if the RAM can't do 430x2=DDR2-860, I'd want
the RAM to run at say DDR2-667 or DDR2-533 so
I'd need to use a RAM:FSB divider of something less than
1:1 which may not be documented as supported
according to the manual (which isn't very clear anyway).

I've heard about "hidden multipliers" in some of these
chipsets to give more flexibility thay the 4 or 5
"typical" choices they talk about in the manual.
What can I do with those on the P5K Deluxe / P35?

Can I actually get a good CPU overclock and still re-use
old slow DDR2-533 RAM by use of such multipliers?

If I change the timing from say 5-5-5-7 to something
slower like 8-8-8-10 or whatever would that usually
permit me to operate the RAM at MUCH higher
frequencies than it's designed for even with slower
access times? e.g DDR2-533 RAM at 450 MHz input?

[426hemi]

^^I was looking for that option when I had slower PC2 6400 but I think 1:1 is lowest you can go.