ASUS P5B-Deluxe; Problems & Fixes

[chuckbam]

The Reasoning for 2 Video Cards is simple: What you don't use you lose i.e with hardware upgrade cost and frequency , I'd better buy what I need and use now, and not an overkill now.

So 1 ATI now and 2nd later, for less money mind you, makes a lot of sense to me. Even though simply replacing the video card is an option too, but you would be buying a 1st Tier card and not older 2nd/3rd .

Anyway , reading the latest manual , ASUS is talking about "ATI Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire " ,ATI X850 , and which is supported under XP 32/64 only and the pictures show the outdated external cables design.

So I'm gonna ask ASUS support what exactly is going on

I would wait a while longer and get the x58 with the new CPU socket.

http://www.nehalemnews.com/

[Tom|Nbk]

Has anyone else ran a GX2 with this board. It seems to be gimping the card. SLI works fine but 3DMark06 score is gimped and a few games.

I only got 14k in 3DMARK06 with the system in the sig (The gpu was overclocked)

[Ancient1]

With
my motherboard a setting of Vcore 1.4375v = 1.35 ~ 1.39v

You need to do that default thing again. Strange, I have not had the 1x problem for over a year. I would read if you should flash to a old bios and flash again w/ the new one.

seems I have this x1 bug now ( CPU-Z) as I also got half 3dmark06 of what I get in XP.

Chuckbam do u remember the solution ?

[chuckbam]

seems I have this x1 bug now ( CPU-Z) as I also got half 3dmark06 of what I get in XP.

Chuckbam do u remember the solution ?

Re-boot, go into the bios, set to default, reboot and change bios to your custom setting and reboot, x16. All you do is re-set the bios. After, if you make a bios change, check ....may have to do it again.

[Ancient1]

Re-boot, go into the bios, set to default, reboot and change bios to your custom setting and reboot, x16. All you do is re-set the bios. After, if you make a bios change, check ....may have to do it again.

Thanks I switched the PSU off all night.

btw ,
I found this page to be useful :
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

Also,
found for AudioMax
ftp://tester:lady777*@test.sonicfocu...VT_1293998.zip
New and expanded Controls. Works Great.

Afaik ,
latest BIOS is 1233beta , do you know if above (my) 1219 add something beside CPU support ? i.e worth flashing

[chuckbam]

Thanks for the links. I have used the latest bios, but I think it may be tuned for the new CPU. I like the 1219 for my Q6600.

[ssabripo]

I haven't done anything to my PC, but had to reformat and reinstall Winblows on it.

I am still on the old 0711 bios. Is there a problem if I jump directly to the latest one, or do I need to do it in steps?

[ssabripo]

anyone? anyone?

bueller?

[Ancient1]

latest non beta.
and clean the PC from dust.
than Orthos to check stability of CPU , make sure it is after long period of OC
you can enable Speedstep . I do .
GL

[ssabripo]

I downloaded and installed the latest BIOS (1216 and also tried beta 1233).

now, during boot, my drives show up as IDE on the splash screen, instead of SATA. They still go into RAID mode, but showing up as IDE instead of RAID is concerning to me.

I already set it up as RAID in bios.

what gives?

[Ancient1]

latest drivers . see link I posted few posts back.
Do you mean you have no RAID Menu for Intel RAID ?
If the problem is only at BIOS stage and all is normal in Windows than I don't know what to do . I would say something is wrong
you might try disconnecting the power cable for an all nighter .

[Nasgul]

and also tried beta 1233

what gives?

That. For some, trying the BETA is pure luck that their system didn't get messed up but for others?

One of the reasons why I never try BETA BIOS. I recently updated my BIOS and everything went well and it's normal.

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Why are they showing as EIDE? Have you tried to set up the drives are RAID in the BIOS section?

Generally when you update the BIOS, you have to reset them back to RAID and reboot once and then it works fine. My RAID didn't work after the initial reboot, so I had to reset the drives back to RAID and worked fine after that.

[POENY]

Hello,

I have a P5B Deluxe WiFi, E6400 @ 2.8 GHz, 4 x 1 GB Crucial Balliistix, Enermax 425 Watt PS, ATI 1600 Pro video, 2 x 320 GB Seagate in a RAID-1 (this is an important machine to me), Thermatake heat sink (heat pipes to a large radiator w/ 120 mm fan - large and quiet), an Enermax Chakra case modified with a 240 mm case fan that pushes a good amount of air over the P5B Deluxe, video card, and CPU. I have a 1200 watt UPS protecting things. The system is usually on 24/7 and has been very solid for going on two years.

All was good until the other day when the power company was by and needed to shut off power for 30 minutes. I knew my UPS wouldn't cover that amount of time so powered my system down. Unfortunately it never came back up.

With the power supply on the MB LED is blue. When I hit the power button the LED changes to red, the CPU and case fans come on, I can hear/feel the two HDs spin up and have some activity, the power supply fan is on, but I get nothing to my monitor. I had it connected with a DVI to my LCD. The LCD works with my laptop connected (I'm using it now) and I tested another LCD via VGA to the P5B Deluxe PC and it does not work either.

I tried resetting the BIOS (battery out, jumper moved, then battery reinstalled) and tried a different video card. I pulled off the CPU heat sink and verified the CPU is getting HOT after powering up.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

Thanks

[chuckbam]

Hello,

I have a P5B Deluxe WiFi, E6400 @ 2.8 GHz, 4 x 1 GB Crucial Balliistix, Enermax 425 Watt PS, ATI 1600 Pro video, 2 x 320 GB Seagate in a RAID-1 (this is an important machine to me), Thermatake heat sink (heat pipes to a large radiator w/ 120 mm fan - large and quiet), an Enermax Chakra case modified with a 240 mm case fan that pushes a good amount of air over the P5B Deluxe, video card, and CPU. I have a 1200 watt UPS protecting things. The system is usually on 24/7 and has been very solid for going on two years.

All was good until the other day when the power company was by and needed to shut off power for 30 minutes. I knew my UPS wouldn't cover that amount of time so powered my system down. Unfortunately it never came back up.

With the power supply on the MB LED is blue. When I hit the power button the LED changes to red, the CPU and case fans come on, I can hear/feel the two HDs spin up and have some activity, the power supply fan is on, but I get nothing to my monitor. I had it connected with a DVI to my LCD. The LCD works with my laptop connected (I'm using it now) and I tested another LCD via VGA to the P5B Deluxe PC and it does not work either.

I tried resetting the BIOS (battery out, jumper moved, then battery reinstalled) and tried a different video card. I pulled off the CPU heat sink and verified the CPU is getting HOT after powering up.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

Thanks

Try removing the memory and replacing. That may fix it.

[POENY]

Try removing the memory and replacing. That may fix it.

I forgot to mention that I pulled 2 sticks and tried (same result) then tried with the other two (same result).

I also tried with no memory and did get beeps indicating the motherboard was not happy w/o any memory.

[zedoo]

Hi,
I have a problem and dont really know what's causing it. I have a P5B-dlx, e6400 clocked at 3.2 (fsb at 401) and 2x1gb corsair's cas5 memory (and vista64 and memory remapping is enabled on bios, which is version 1232). Everything works perfectly fine.
Now, I then went and bought a pair of corsair's 2gb cas4 sticks. But if I try and use them (with same fsb and timings, tried also loosening the dram timings to no avail), the computer becomes really unstable and crashes a lot. I ran memtest, and both of the new sticks pass it alone. But if I put them both in, I always get errors on test 5.
Is this due to some hardware limitation or what?

[chuckbam]

Hi,
I have a problem and dont really know what's causing it. I have a P5B-dlx, e6400 clocked at 3.2 (fsb at 401) and 2x1gb corsair's cas5 memory (and vista64 and memory remapping is enabled on bios, which is version 1232). Everything works perfectly fine.
Now, I then went and bought a pair of corsair's 2gb cas4 sticks. But if I try and use them (with same fsb and timings, tried also loosening the dram timings to no avail), the computer becomes really unstable and crashes a lot. I ran memtest, and both of the new sticks pass it alone. But if I put them both in, I always get errors on test 5.
Is this due to some hardware limitation or what?

Just as a test try 5-6-6-15 everything else at board defaults in the memory screen, 2.0v

[viulian]

This is my first post here, so hello

I solved all the annoying problems I had with my P5B Deluxe by giving up on it. Last major one was that it was not doing POST when I put in an E8500. It worked ok with the previous E6400, but even with the latest beta bios 1233 available at the moment of writing, they did not resolve the issue even if they brag about how easy the board magically overclocks itself. I got the processor perfectly running on an Abit IP35-E which seems a lower class mobo, but won me over because it works!

First, a couple of years ago when I brought the p5b, the subwoofer did not work with the built in sound board. After weeks of frustration and all the forums back then complaining about this issue, I had to get out and grab a sb live 5+1 which I still have. Also, I was using two SATA1 hard drives in RAID0, and it would just sit for 30 seconds at boot time just to "auto detect IDE hard drive". Very annoying. But had to live with it. I did not know the issue was related to SATA1 (back then they were converted from IDE), and the past two years I updated to each new bios, hoping that they would fix this. Issue only went away as I replaced the hard drives with some new SATA2 ones.
Now this bios issue and E8500 not detected. Some people got it to work, but it did not work for me. Asus hardware rules, but Asus drivers/bioses are lame; I always had issues that were never fixed. I liked the way they try to pay attention to details, but it's no good if they do not work or not tested properly..

Plus, the support at Asus is lame, you're answered in 2 days and usually they do not care that your requirement is technical enough, and just try to 'help' by telling the correct CMOS reset procedure. Come on. I reset CMOSes ever since 286 era, when I kept forgetting the passwords or showing friends it's not safe to put password when I'm around

[zedoo]

Just as a test try 5-6-6-15 everything else at board defaults in the memory screen, 2.0v

Thanks for the reply.
I tried with 5-5-5-15 and now the 5-6-6-15 but the results were the same. Also tried both with 2.0v and 2.1v but still got errors. (never changed anything but the dram timings from the memory screen of bios anyways)

[Nasgul]

Thanks for the reply.
I tried with 5-5-5-15 and now the 5-6-6-15 but the results were the same. Also tried both with 2.0v and 2.1v but still got errors. (never changed anything but the dram timings from the memory screen of bios anyways)

This happened to me with my G.Skill & Xtreme modules, problem? Subtimings, where it says 5-5-5-16-35-10--10-11....that 35 was at 25 which the HK were able to take but the Xtreme weren't, so I had to up them to 35 and the cool thing it didn't change in performance.

And right now I'm using 4-4-3-5-35-10-10-10-11. Check in CPU-Z and check for the tRAS & tRC under the SPD tab. Usually at 400mhz the timings should change and you'll see. Remember, they're pre-programmed differently because of speed and ICs.

Now, if that doesn't help? Time to get some G.Skill, I ditched my Corsair modules two years ago and I am not getting Corsair unless it's the v1.1 but those are too pricey, the rest are not as good IMO.

[chuckbam]

This is my first post here, so hello

I solved all the annoying problems I had with my P5B Deluxe by giving up on it. Last major one was that it was not doing POST when I put in an E8500. It worked ok with the previous E6400, but even with the latest beta bios 1233 available at ............

so you just wanted to say that you did not like the P5B?

[zedoo]

This happened to me with my G.Skill & Xtreme modules, problem? Subtimings, where it says 5-5-5-16-35-10--10-11....that 35 was at 25 which the HK were able to take but the Xtreme weren't, so I had to up them to 35 and the cool thing it didn't change in performance.

And right now I'm using 4-4-3-5-35-10-10-10-11. Check in CPU-Z and check for the tRAS & tRC under the SPD tab. Usually at 400mhz the timings should change and you'll see. Remember, they're pre-programmed differently because of speed and ICs.

Now, if that doesn't help? Time to get some G.Skill, I ditched my Corsair modules two years ago and I am not getting Corsair unless it's the v1.1 but those are too pricey, the rest are not as good IMO.

Hmm, arent the timings on the SPD tab just the default timings used if timings are taken using SPD? They surely are pretty damn low but they dont seem to change if I change manually stuff from bios.
Also my sticks seem to be ver 1.1, not that I know how they differ from some other version

[chuckbam]

Hmm, arent the timings on the SPD tab just the default timings used if timings are taken using SPD? They surely are pretty damn low but they dont seem to change if I change manually stuff from bios.
Also my sticks seem to be ver 1.1, not that I know how they differ from some other version

Maybe you need to clear the bios again, take out the mem in and out. If Cpu-Z does not see timing change, You may be getting warm on the problem.

[zedoo]

Well cpu-z sees the changes done on the first 4 timings on the Memory tab but nothing ever changes on the SPD tab (hence my guess they are just some default timings used if the auto-timing by SPD is used). The SPD page doesnt change even on my old memory no matter what timings I use, while the Memory tab shows the same timings I put on bios.

[zedoo]

Ok now I'm fairly certain that the sticks are faulty. I tried using them on a friend's computer who is constantly using his own 4gb of some old memory, and his computer became totally unstable with my sticks too. So hopefully it all works out after I get them RMA'd.