"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[truehighroller]

I bumped it down to pl9 here,

[coolpain]

truehighroller,
if u lower ur tRFC, u can decrease ur latency a little more.

[enermac]

Hmm.. I wonder if my HDD could be causing my intermittent lockups..

Today it was a cold boot at the starting windows screen.. Ususally its happens doing normal tasks in windows..

I have a WD6400AAKS Running off the ICH10. Bios 0704


Q9450
8 x 400
CPU Voltage: 1.25
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): Auto
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): Auto
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.56
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.26
DRAM Voltage: 1.9
NB Voltage: 1.26
NB GTL Reference: AUTO
SBridge Voltage: AUTO
PCIE SATA Voltage: AUTO

Load Line Calibration: ENABLED
CPU Spread Spectrum: DISABLED
PCIE Spread Spectrum: DISABLED
CPU Clock Skew : NORMAL
NB Clock Skew : NORMAL

Any Ideas?


Thanks

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

If I use the 333 or the 400 FSB strap, my ram goes way over spec (1100+) which I know damn well it wont boot in.

[rusty]

hey guys do I need to raise my nb gtl reference when raising cpu gtls ?
p.s>
do gtl ref 0/2 = core 1,3 & gtl ref 1/3= core 2,4 ?

[ThugsRook]

Load Line Calibration: ENABLED

id say thats your problem

[rusty]

id say thats your problem

this actually helps me

[truehighroller]

Lol I borked my OS again though. I was trying to finally hit the 4Ghz and it didn't want to do it no matter what voltages and so I was taking it back to normal and it wouldn't stop blue screening on me. I really think I might have screwed my boards bios chips up when I shorted the fan two weeks ago.

[rusty]

Lol I borked my OS again though. I was trying to finally hit the 4Ghz and it didn't want to do it no matter what voltages and so I was taking it back to normal and it wouldn't stop blue screening on me. I really think I might have screwed my boards bios chips up when I shorted the fan two weeks ago.

hey mate just got your message pc works alright but I can't manage to get the right volts on gtl refs. Prime blender and small fft fail on thread 3 right away. I tried to use occt but not sure if I should disable the monitoring software option in it or not. By the way do you use load line calibration ?

[enermac]

id say thats your problem

Thanks Dude, I will try that

Showing 1.168v cpuz at full load.. it was showing something like 1.228 before I will monitor it over the next week or soo.

[ThugsRook]

Thanks Dude, I will try that

Showing 1.168v cpuz at full load.. it was showing something like 1.228 before I will monitor it over the next week or soo.

yea LLC enabled tends to undervolt idle, leading to odd random crashes under idle, low cpu usage, or during shutdown, etc.

with LLC disabled you might have to raise the vcore.

[truehighroller]

hey mate just got your message pc works alright but I can't manage to get the right volts on gtl refs. Prime blender and small fft fail on thread 3 right away. I tried to use occt but not sure if I should disable the monitoring software option in it or not. By the way do you use load line calibration ?

I do yes. I seriously screwed my up this time I can't get Vista to load. It was just locking up right before the hard drive screen so I switched my memory out and it started blue screening instead of locking up... I tried creating a raid with out my third drive to see if it had something to do with that and same thing. I doubt I blew out the Quad. I'm thinking of trying flashing the bios to see if it goes away. The weird thing is I can stay in the BIOS setup screen as long as I want.. without it locking up. atleast I will always have those screenies lol.

[rusty]

I do yes. I seriously screwed my up this time I can't get Vista to load. It was just locking up right before the hard drive screen so I switched my memory out and it started blue screening instead of locking up... I tried creating a raid with out my third drive to see if it had something to do with that and same thing. I doubt I blew out the Quad. I'm thinking of trying flashing the bios to see if it goes away. The weird thing is I can stay in the BIOS setup screen as long as I want.. without it locking up. atleast I will always have those screenies lol.

reinstall vista perhaps

[truehighroller]

reinstall vista perhaps

That's what I have been trying to do when it locks up.

[rusty]

That's what I have been trying to do when it locks up.

use one stick of ram and downgrade your oc

[truehighroller]

use one stick of ram and downgrade your oc

I took the overclock off by eraticating the bios by pulling out the battery and shorting the pin with it unplugged for about ten minutes and then just turned off the basic crap floppy and the bootup OS thingy. I switched the memory out with my Fiances memory completly right after clearing the BIOS as well.

[truehighroller]

I'm tired. I will be back in the morning probably but, I seriously think it will end up being where I shorted that fan plug and blew that chip in half lol. I pretty much did it right when I got the board. Thank you Rusty.

[Mango31]

I just ripped the P5Q Deluxe out and and put my P5WDG2 WS Pro back in (always a joy with the water setup). The board has nasty electric problems (BIOS 704). Vista boot crashed to reboot and it would not load the Vista DVD. I managed to boot with manual voltage settings, but then the GPU started to produce artifacts and the Raptors made funny noises... I just gave up, too much headache...

[rusty]

I just ripped the P5Q Deluxe out and and put my P5WDG2 WS Pro back in (always a joy with the water setup). The board has nasty electric problems (BIOS 704). Vista boot crashed to reboot and it would not load the Vista DVD. I managed to boot with manual voltage settings, but then the GPU started to produce artifacts and the Raptors made funny noises... I just gave up, too much headache...

did you try 1102 bios ?

[Rylo]

I might try this tomorrow if i have some time - is this BAD performance the cause of IDE mode then? Shouldn't it be fine in this mode aswell, ill try a hd tune error scan tomorrow aswell

Extended error scan turned out negative, reading speed was mostly stable, checked so now and then, during the scan. Didn't see any 'drops' like quickpar is showing

[rusty]

is it better to use AHCI or IDE mode when overclocking ?

[IanB]

Extended error scan turned out negative, reading speed was mostly stable, checked so now and then, during the scan. Didn't see any 'drops' like quickpar is showing

As I said in your message reply, I strongly suspect this is disk thrashing due to paging, and a different disk config or more memory will be at least a partial cure.

[intarweb]

No ideas on my board, guys?

[Big.Wayne]

intarweb what are you asking?

[Leeghoofd]

Hi guys

So, I started out with a P5Q-E, and tweaked it a lot trying to get Prime95 stable, but just couldn't seem to get there -_-. On top of that it seemed like it didn't like my 4x1GB arrangement on ram.

So, I decided to get a P5Q Deluxe to replace it. Seems like a good board; RAM runs a lot cooler for whatever reason, and Prime95 seems happy.

Anyhow, I'm having a problem with it in which I can't entirely remember if the P5Q-E did the same thing...

When I play a game, such as a mod for HL2, if I get a bunch of sounds going at once, it seems to overwhelm the on-board sound and it just gets progressively cracklier until it fades out to silence, and then it fades back in once the sounds die down. I'm not entirely sure what to do about this

I did have some other problems, but they seem to have departed after I reformatted, which included the sound *not* coming back after it crackled out, my video card giving me a Code 10 (device cannot start), and in gaming I'd get these temporary hangs for about 20 seconds. I haven't seen that crop up *yet*, but I do wonder about it.

So, I'm wondering if this is a driver problem, or a problem with this particular P5Q-D such that I should exchange it for a new one...

Running 0704 if that makes a difference. I could try some other bios if you guys want, but I don't entirely understand the interaction there so I haven't tried every bios out there.

Have you looked if there are newer versions of the Audio software around? I never use the onboard sound...

A newer bios might help too as it seems to be a sharing issue...