Official ASUS X38 Boards: P5E, P5E3 - Info/BIOS Thread

[karl_eller]

Can someone help me with getting my 2x2Gb G.Skill PC8000 kit working on this board. I'm having hella issues trying to get it to post running close to 1000Mhz.

Currently, I've got it going at:
Q6600 3.55Ghz (390x9), 1.6v BIOS
P5E, BIOS 502
RAM: 468Mhz (5:6 devider), 5-5-5-15, all other timings Auto, 2.1v BIOS (measures the same via DMM. My board appears to be an oddity in that it doesn't seem to over-volt the RAM at all).
All other voltage Auto, PCIe and CPU spread spectrum disabled, Loadline Calibration Disabled.

So it POSTs fine on those settings, and MemTests fine, but as soon as I push it up to the 4:5 devider, it flat out refuses to POST. It won't even beep, just the fans will spin, HDDs and optical drives start to spin up, then nothing. Tried different slots and different RAM order, and even just one stick, still nothing.

So what am I missing? The fact that it'll run just fine and dandy on the 5:6 divider makes me pretty sure that it's not dud RAM, but what could it be?

I tried lowtcell's settings above (or as near as I could figure comparing his MemSet to the BIOS options), and still nada.

Eller