"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[BeastNotro]

Did you try Bios 1003 and latest 1201?

Also how are u flashing it?

Use a USB thumb drive and thats all.

[S1mon-]

Did you try Bios 1003 and latest 1201?

Also how are u flashing it?

Use a USB thumb drive and thats all.

I flashed from 4XX something to 605 using a USB stick and still got the same thing... The board has never been stable at all, the BIOS corrupted itself and it used the "secondary" BIOS to recover...

[grenadier]

The P5Q Deluxe is working out well for me - decent OC'er etc., but it simply will not detect my rocketraid 2322 4x pci-express RAID card. I've tried installing it in both of the spare 16x PCI-E slots with no luck. Bios version also makes no difference (currently running 803). It was working fine in my P5K Deluxe before I upgraded to this motherboard. Any ideas of what to try next? Should I RMA?

[BeastNotro]

I flashed from 4XX something to 605 using a USB stick and still got the same thing... The board has never been stable at all, the BIOS corrupted itself and it used the "secondary" BIOS to recover...

Well i would of gave up right there and RMA'ed as if it did that . then it not good BIOS at all on mobo.

Send it back get another.

[Budwise]

so far this board has been excellent for me. No Vdroop is such a luxury that I've almost forgotten. My only gripe is the PCI Slots. Horrible positioning being on the top and bottom of the first PCI-E X16 slot. Even with an MCW60 on my 4870, the 2nd PCI slot is still useless.

[raph45]

I have a asus p5q deluxe, with 2x2GB g.skill pc8800 and q9450, I noticed that if I set the dram speed to 1200 mhz p5q doesn't boot (also set the vdimm to 2.1, specs are 1.8-1.9), but for examples if I set the ram to 1150 mhz and I overvolt the chipset (vNB for example) I have booted but when I run prime95 I have in prime95, how much do I overvolt the chipset to get complete stability??? And how can I set the settings on the cpu gtl reference and the northbridge gtl reference? At this moment I have them in auto, I set q9450@3.2 GHz with fsb to 400 and vcore to 1.25.

P.S: Excuse me for bad english.

[RejZoR]

I agree Budwise. PCI slots positioning is crappy. I used to have my X-Fi card all the way down on 965-DS3, away from electronics to lower interference. Now it's right next to the grpahic card ugh... Slot below PCIe 16x cannot be used even when i had stock single slot cooler on HD4850. It just closed the air flow way too much and would have heated up because of G card badly. Oh and ty BIOS corruption when you do something wrong with memory overclocking. I mean wtf, no Gigabyte board i've ever had (and i've had plenty of them) never corrupted BIOS even if i performed the most masohistic things on them. This ASUS board corrupts it's BIOS if i just look bad at it.
I don't get it how the hell can anything just corrupt BIOS thats not suppose to be writable later anyway, just read only. But oh well at least you can have a backup of latest BIOS and it's settings on USB drive so you can restore it to latest version right there (haven't gone through the BIOS chip swaping just yet...).
Otherwise a very good mobo with loads of features. Though i'd probably get same results with vanilla P5Q thats quiet cheaper since CPU isn't the best overclocker...
Total end FSB wall at 410MHz...

[CryptiK]

Yes I have to agree, the bios seems incredibly flimsy - I have corrupted mine 4 times so far, simply by trying different memory overclocks. It is very irritating. I'm starting to wonder whether something is wrong with my board.

Also it is inconsistent in terms of stability - last night I was stable at 445 FSB, DDR 1186 @ 2.08v vdimm (bios), PL8 and 1.26v NB. Today I turn it on, and the screen stays black and VGA fan spins up to max. I bumped up voltages to 2.12v vdimm, 1.28v NB and errored in <2mins in orthos. I have now dropped PL to 10, and have vdimm at 2.08v and have dropped ram speed to 1116 MHz, and kept vNB at 1.28v - I'm testing again now.

This is really starting to annoy me. Add to that the fact I cant get the machine to boot if the ram is at 1200MHz (but I can get orthos stable at 1199 MHz - 1MHz lower) and I'm seriously thinking I have a dodgey board. If the board is in fact 'OK' this is the most inconsistent, dodgey board I have ever used, and if I could replace it right now, I would.

[RejZoR]

Buggy BIOS if it just dies at 1200 but works at 1199...

[CryptiK]

That's what I thought, but I have tried 0610, 0704, 0803, 1103 and now I'm on 1201 - all do the same thing. I don't see how every bios can be responsible for this, hence me thinking the board itself is at fault.

[tien113]

do you use jumper overvoltage??? and how different between enable and diable this jumper???

[CryptiK]

Don't use it, I'm on aircooling. IIRC the max without jumper is 1.7v, max with is 2.1v.

[Martin.v.r]

E8600 Watercooling
500x10 an stramp 400 no go,an max whit strap 333 it is 499x10 fsb
I have tried bios 0506.0803.1103 an 1201

[CryptiK]

^Yes, I can second that. I have also tried bioses 0610, 0704, 0803, 1103 and 1201. This board's limitations are driving me nuts, to say the least.

499 FSB / DDR 1199 MHz - stable

500 FSB / DDR 1200 MHz - won't boot

[Mumid]

Yes I have to agree, the bios seems incredibly flimsy - I have corrupted mine 4 times so far, simply by trying different memory overclocks. It is very irritating. I'm starting to wonder whether something is wrong with my board.

This has never happened on my board, I have never seen the bios get corrupted.

^Yes, I can second that. I have also tried bioses 0610, 0704, 0803, 1103 and 1201. This board's limitations are driving me nuts, to say the least.

499 FSB / DDR 1199 MHz - stable

500 FSB / DDR 1200 MHz - won't boot

No problems here running 500 fsb / ddr 1200 or higher.

[SuporterPoli]

Still no hint on where we can measure vcore on top of the board?

[-Zork-]

seem still have to wait builder to get a good bios. Change version improve, but still a best one. :d

[CryptiK]

This has never happened on my board, I have never seen the bios get corrupted.

No problems here running 500 fsb / ddr 1200 or higher.

Consider yourself lucky. What vNB are you using for 500FSB/DDR 1200 MHz?

[Mumid]

Consider yourself lucky. What vNB are you using for 500FSB/DDR 1200 MHz?

Must be mate. I was thinking maybe it is do to with me only currently running 2x1gb ram.

Anyway, 1.28 actual vNB volts is required for that on my board fella.

[CryptiK]

Thanks mate. I am also only running 2 x 1GB sticks, but cannot reproduce what you are running.

I think I just blew my PSU, it's making a quiet 'sizzling' sound, even when the PC is off but the PSU is still plugged in to power. There is no smell, just the sound. It still works, but I don't want to risk using it anymore. I am going to return it, and I am thinking in the back of my mind perhaps it has been the cause of my instability. I was stable for about a week, then the problems started and I couldn't pin them down.

[Mumid]

Thanks mate. I am also only running 2 x 1GB sticks, but cannot reproduce what you are running.

I think I just blew my PSU, it's making a quiet 'sizzling' sound, even when the PC is off but the PSU is still plugged in to power. There is no smell, just the sound. It still works, but I don't want to risk using it anymore. I am going to return it, and I am thinking in the back of my mind perhaps it has been the cause of my instability. I was stable for about a week, then the problems started and I couldn't pin them down.

If you have a DMM you could always test it with that? I had a psu that always made a slight buzzing noise even when off, but it worked fine.

[CryptiK]

I have tested it with a dmm and the rails are fine, I was thinking that it could be faulty and producing a lot of ripple. It sounds like arcing or sizzling, I have heard something similar when I had an amplifier with a faulty power switch. It just doesn't sound right to me.

What brand was the psu you had that also made a noise even when pc was off?

Apparently the Silverstones commonly make a buzzing sound but it concerns me, I have never heard one do that. Especially when the pc is off.

[Mumid]

I have tested it with a dmm and the rails are fine, I was thinking that it could be faulty and producing a lot of ripple. It sounds like arcing or sizzling, I have heard something similar when I had an amplifier with a faulty power switch. It just doesn't sound right to me.

What brand was the psu you had that also made a noise even when pc was off?

Apparently the Silverstones commonly make a buzzing sound but it concerns me, I have never heard one do that. Especially when the pc is off.

It was one of the OCZ gamexstream ones mate. I wouldnt worry too much if you have tested it and it is also a known issue with the psu

[Polizei]

I've given up with trying to get XP to work on this board with the ICH10R drivers... I've downloaded them from Intel's site and somehow I only get ICH10R AHCI drivers, no RAID.

Switching to Vista... not a knock on this board though. Lets me get 7000ppd for F@H instead of 5300.

[SiGfever]

Hello all,

I am on page 64 of this great thread so far, many thanks to BigJoe and Leeghoofd for all their work. I will be receiving my P5Q Deluxe tomorrow and will be using the setup in my sig as this replaces my P5K Premium which was an excellent board with one of my Q6600s. I have 2x2Gb G.Skill PC2-8500 that I just purchased for this new board.

I took Leeghoofd's excellent "Template" and did a little Excel spreadsheet so you can track five overclocks per page. Hope this helps anyone that wants it. If there are changes that I can make to improve this spreadsheet please let me know. Now back to reading.
SiG