Testing / comparing : Intel D975XBX2 / Asus P5B DX ***56K WARNING***

[eden40000]

Update again...


Did you ever get the feeling that it just wasn't your day?

I did, until I finally realized that it wasn't the computer at all... My floppy disk (that had IAstor on it) was bad.

So after tearing the house apart, and finding 30 disks with bad sectors on them, I finally found one that worked and am back up and running,

[GamingDaemon]

May be a dumb question but can you deffragment a drive in RAID 0. It is using NTFS as its file system...

[screwtech02]

May be a dumb question but can you deffragment a drive in RAID 0. It is using NTFS as its file system...

Yep....

[GamingDaemon]

May be a dumb question but can you deffragment a drive in RAID 0. It is using NTFS as its file system...

Nevermind. Of course you can...

[screwtech02]

You guys got any tips on getting my Q6600 to 3.5/3.6?? Voltages, settings ect??? It does fine at 3.4, 378fsb, 266/533, but anything over and it tends to be flakey...

[Skerlnik]

You guys got any tips on getting my Q6600 to 3.5/3.6?? Voltages, settings ect??? It does fine at 3.4, 378fsb, 266/533, but anything over and it tends to be flakey...

Up your core voltage (if you have a nice cooler, don't be afraid to up it to 1.5v for testing). Set your memory ratio to 1:1, 5-5-5-15 timing for testing, and up the memory voltage on those OCZ's to 2.2v for testing (later you can reduce voltage until it's no longer stable). Also up your NB voltage to 1.6v, and see how it goes. My Q6600 runs at 3.6ghz at 1.3875v no problem.

[screwtech02]

Cool, thanks for the tips man....

[beantech]

I've installed 5 boards in various systems with no problems, but I've recently run into a strange problem on my latest build. I can't get xp to install.
It happens at the very start, after it loads the files from the install cd, then it says "starting windows" and bam...BSOD with a stop error referencing "PCI.sys".

From what I've read, many people solved the problem by using a slipstreamed xp install disk with sp2 on it, however, that did not work for me.

Anyone ever dealt with this issue before?
Any ideas?

I've tried switching the ram, video card, installing RAID drivers, installing AHCI drivers, etc...

[Blauhung]

hey guys, i tweaked a version of FCG's CAS window spreadsheet found here to be nice and specific to the BX2. Hope this helps some of you in tuning performance on your boards.

[Raptor.1]

hey guys, i tweaked a version of FCG's CAS window spreadsheet found here to be nice and specific to the BX2. Hope this helps some of you in tuning performance on your boards.

Awsome job! Thanks!

Yet another bios.....

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Filt...dent&strOSs=38

Fixed issue where PMM calls would sometimes fail incorrectly.

[screwtech02]

Anybody runnin the new bios yet??? Any improvements, ect???

It now appears that ASUS has released a bios that supports the 45nm chips on the 975X board.....

Seems that INTEL needs to get their act together..... Ugh.....

[pushook]

Hi@all after a long while

pls need help again. updated the xbx2 to the newest bios.

all still working good at (stock voltage) with a FSB 355 with my E6600cpu
if i change to FSB 360 i still have reboots with orthos 2004

raised the vcore with one step and the vfsb one step still reboots
changed the vcore higher and the vfsb still reboots after 2min or 10 min and so on.
ram timings are ok

pls help!!!

[SteveLord]

I havent been here in a while, but got a gift Q6600 G0 which I want to install. Running the old and faithful 2333 BIOS.

Any other newer BIOSes released recently? I'd like to get my Quad to 3ghz instantly of course...and maybe 3.2-3.4.

[scottk]

I've installed 5 boards in various systems with no problems, but I've recently run into a strange problem on my latest build. I can't get xp to install.
It happens at the very start, after it loads the files from the install cd, then it says "starting windows" and bam...BSOD with a stop error referencing "PCI.sys".

From what I've read, many people solved the problem by using a slipstreamed xp install disk with sp2 on it, however, that did not work for me.

Anyone ever dealt with this issue before?
Any ideas?

I've tried switching the ram, video card, installing RAID drivers, installing AHCI drivers, etc...

Are you installing off a SATA DVD drive? I seem to recall I had BSOD problems when using a SATA optical drive for the initial install and ended up using a IDE optical drive to get through the install.

[Peanuts]

Bios 2802 is out with updated CPU support...

Intel D975XBX2 Bios 2802

[redphil]

Bios 2802 is out with updated CPU support...

Intel D975XBX2 Bios 2802

They aren't telling which new cpus are supportet now, or?

[screwtech02]

Yeah, that is pretty weak.....

[LoneWolf]

They aren't telling which new cpus are supportet now, or?

Yeah, I wondered that too.

Was really hoping Intel might allow Penryn support for the later revisions of the D975XBX2, sort of a final gift to us before moving on to X38....I'd rather skip Kentsfield quad-cores and wait until Intel releases a budget Penryn quad-core, if compatibility is there...

[cryptocat]

Yeah, I wondered that too.

Was really hoping Intel might allow Penryn support for the later revisions of the D975XBX2, sort of a final gift to us before moving on to X38....I'd rather skip Kentsfield quad-cores and wait until Intel releases a budget Penryn quad-core, if compatibility is there...

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Dont think so, they never promised it, so we wont get it (even though the first samples of Kentsfield ran on a (modified?) XBX2...

Whats kinda funny is, that - after the release of the DX38BT http://www.intel.com/products/mother...38BT/index.htm - they still managed to fix the C1E-Bug... lol. just like a year after the boards launch.

[Rambunctious]

Well I'm at wits end here. Updated bios from 2692 to 2802 and it won't post .. was giving me the 3 beep memory error. I spoke with Tech Support who said my memory wasn't on supported list and since I had it running at v2.2, the board was hung up (despite ram running at recommeded voltage, per Patriot). Worked fine under 2692 but new bios only allows for 1.8-1.9.

trouble shooting being done in another thread ...

[Woland]

Well I'm at wits end here. Updated bios from 2692 to 2802 and it won't post .. was giving me the 3 beep memory error. I spoke with Tech Support who said my memory wasn't on supported list and since I had it running at v2.2, the board was hung up (despite ram running at recommeded voltage, per Patriot). Worked fine under 2692 but new bios only allows for 1.8-1.9.

trouble shooting being done in another thread ...

Just boot with bios jumper in maintenance mode, set your RAM specs and off you go.

[LoneWolf]

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Dont think so, they never promised it, so we wont get it (even though the first samples of Kentsfield ran on a (modified?) XBX2...

Whats kinda funny is, that - after the release of the DX38BT http://www.intel.com/products/mother...38BT/index.htm - they still managed to fix the C1E-Bug... lol. just like a year after the boards launch.

I agree they never promised it, and I'm not upset --just a hope. ASUS has apparently made one of their 975X boards Penryn-compatible, and since the first samples ran on a modified XBX2 (which, IIRC, was modified prior to the rev. 505 boards currently on the market), it isn't out of the question.

I'm just curious, since "added CPU support" was a listed feature of 2802. What support could be added that wasn't already in BIOS 2797 released on October 9? Quad-core Kentsfield was already supported then, as was all the newer E6x5x processors, as far as I'm aware.

P.S. the first Penryn samples tested were either Penryn (2 cores) or Yorkfield (dual dual cores on the same chip), not Kentsfield --Kentsfield is the current Core2 Quad.

[Rambunctious]

Just boot with bios jumper in maintenance mode, set your RAM specs and off you go.

Tried that and it does post, but following bios upgrade, I do not see video outside of maintenance mode?

[cryptocat]

I agree they never promised it, and I'm not upset --just a hope. ASUS has apparently made one of their 975X boards Penryn-compatible, and since the first samples ran on a modified XBX2 (which, IIRC, was modified prior to the rev. 505 boards currently on the market), it isn't out of the question.

I'm just curious, since "added CPU support" was a listed feature of 2802. What support could be added that wasn't already in BIOS 2797 released on October 9? Quad-core Kentsfield was already supported then, as was all the newer E6x5x processors, as far as I'm aware.

P.S. the first Penryn samples tested were either Penryn (2 cores) or Yorkfield (dual dual cores on the same chip), not Kentsfield --Kentsfield is the current Core2 Quad.

Erh, yeah, i meant the "Yorkfield". With Penryn beeing the architecture, the Dualcore will be named "Wolfdale", iirc.

But... do they officially support the E6x50? They had the Processors in the official compatability-list for just a few days - they took them out again.

There have been numerous reports of people having troubles running E6850s too, or that they couldnt overclock when using a FSB 1333-processor.

[neonflx]

i have a 6850 and it will not oc at all on this board no matter what bios i use tho i have not use this latest one