"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[CryptiK]

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

I wouldn't but I wouldn't describe this sound as 'buzzing' though, it definitely sounds like small sparks arcing, giving that typical 'sizzle' sound.

Added to that the pc has been getting more and more unstable, and it definitely seems like something is degrading causing the instability.

I'm going to swap it if I can, and see how it goes. Thanks for the responses.

[tien113]

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

do you try enable this jumper???

because i read on the internet, if i set enable this jumper, vdrop = 0...

now i set disable this jumper, although i set enable LLC in the bios, but vdrop still happened...

[PortCitySlim]

Is there anything good that comes with the bundled software? I have been noticing the ASUS ACPI Center running in my task manager and decided to do a bit a research into it and come to find out that it might be slowing down my PC and causing stability problems. So I went in and deleted everything and cleaned out the registry to get rid of ACPI and PC Probe plus others. What is the deal here on this software?

[Leeghoofd]

do you try enable this jumper???

because i read on the internet, if i set enable this jumper, vdrop = 0...

now i set disable this jumper, although i set enable LLC in the bios, but vdrop still happened...

Don't think it has got anything to do with the OVP jumper... I never use it as I don't need mega high voltages for my benches and surely not for 24/7 usage...

Is there anything good that comes with the bundled software? I have been noticing the ASUS ACPI Center running in my task manager and decided to do a bit a research into it and come to find out that it might be slowing down my PC and causing stability problems. So I went in and deleted everything and cleaned out the registry to get rid of ACPI and PC Probe plus others. What is the deal here on this software?

I only use the chipset drivers, lan and audio... no EPU, no other stuff... I don't like programs working in the background...

[PortCitySlim]

I only use the chipset drivers, lan and audio... no EPU, no other stuff... I don't like programs working in the background...

Thanks! This is what I did, I went and uninstalled all the ASUS programs in control panel and then I deleted the ASUS folders from the program files. I don't know if that deleted the drivers too. Do I have to reinstall the drivers now or am I fine with what I did?

[Martin.v.r]

Google a ASUS P5Q Deluxe XXXX SLIC bios
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/sho...=814&page=1155

[Mumid]

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.

I had no problems using raid drivers in XP, simply create a floppy driver disc from the motherboard cd then press f6 when installing xp and scroll down to the raid driver.

[NaMcO]

But i tryed measuring vcore on the capacitor near the EPU chip and it looks like its ground.The other terminal has 5.13V.

Hello,

Thank you very much for your reply. I have measured as well, and came to the same conclusions as you. The marked pin is indeed GND and the other one measures 5,26v here.

Need to find a point in the top side, i'm not gonna remove all the stuff now

[Polizei]

I had no problems using raid drivers in XP, simply create a floppy driver disc from the motherboard cd then press f6 when installing xp and scroll down to the raid driver.

That's exactly what I did. I even used the one's from Intel's site as well. All I would find on the floppy was ICH10R SATA AHCI drivers... no mention of RAID. Consequently, when I went to install XP, Windows would never recognize my drives. Vista with the drivers installed already, installed first time without a hitch.

I'm fine with Vista, I just need some RAM. I think my first DOA P5Q-Deluxe toasted one of my sticks of Ballistix.

[truehighroller]

That's exactly what I did. I even used the one's from Intel's site as well. All I would find on the floppy was ICH10R SATA AHCI drivers... no mention of RAID. Consequently, when I went to install XP, Windows would never recognize my drives. Vista with the drivers installed already, installed first time without a hitch.

I'm fine with Vista, I just need some RAM. I think my first DOA P5Q-Deluxe toasted one of my sticks of Ballistix.

Intel has removed their chipset drivers as well I have noticed. I think they should start putting their chipset drivers back on their site and start supporting their shiznit a litle better.

[JHS]

Google a ASUS P5Q Deluxe XXXX SLIC bios

As far as I understand SLIC bios hack is used to get past vista activation to activate OEM version illegally.

I doubt this is place to talk about SLIC bioses


wikipedia quote:
SLIC (Software Licensing Description Table)

OEM versions of Windows Vista use this newly-released table for activation by Royalty OEMs in order for the end-user to not have problems with activating, called SLP 2.0, or System-Locked Preinstallation 2.0. For activation to work, clients obtained through the OEM channels that have an ACPI_SLIC table in the system BIOS are required to have a valid Windows marker in the same ACPI_SLIC table. The appearance of the Windows marker is important for volume license customers who are planning to use Windows Vista volume-licensed media to re-image or upgrade OEM through the re-imaging rights provided in their volume license agreement. Not having the appropriate BIOS marker results in an error or errors on these systems and prevents them from activating.



Obviously OEM manufacturers use SLIC bioses on some of their OEM systems and in that case it's perfectly legal. However modding bios to look like OEM bios...

[JHS]

That's exactly what I did. I even used the one's from Intel's site as well. All I would find on the floppy was ICH10R SATA AHCI drivers... no mention of RAID. Consequently, when I went to install XP, Windows would never recognize my drives. Vista with the drivers installed already, installed first time without a hitch.

I'm fine with Vista, I just need some RAM. I think my first DOA P5Q-Deluxe toasted one of my sticks of Ballistix.

Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager (6904KB)
8.5.0.1032 8/15/2008
Supports SATA RAID 5/10 on specific desktop platforms, SATA RAID 0/1, AHCI, and matrix RAID on specific desktop and mobile platforms







************************************************** **********
* 1. OVERVIEW
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The Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager is designed to provide
functionality for the following Storage Controllers:
RAID Controllers:
- Intel(R) ICH8M-E/ICH9M-E SATA RAID Controller
- Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R SATA RAID Controller
- Intel(R) ESB2 SATA RAID Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7MDH SATA RAID Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA RAID Controller

AHCI Controllers:
- Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) EP80579 SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH8M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH8R/DH/DO SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller


EDIT: You sure you had raid selected in bios? Maybe it wont see raid drivers with F6 if achi is selected?
I always slipstream my drivers to install cd because of I don't have floppy drive so cant really test myself :/

[deadlock7]

I have the P5Q mb and i'm a little disappointed with max fsb.I hope the newer bioses have the nb gtl option.My limit for now is about 500 stable..

[truehighroller]

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.

Mine doesn't,

[CryptiK]

I have the P5Q mb and i'm a little disappointed with max fsb.I hope the newer bioses have the nb gtl option.My limit for now is about 500 stable..

They do, 0803, 1103 and 1201 have it, not sure about earlier ones.

Mine doesn't,

I swapped it today for a Thermaltake Toughpower 750w, I've had one before and it was a solid psu.

**I am still having instability issues though. I can be stable for a couple of hours with orthos then the pc will just reboot itself. Heat is not an issue, board is 35*C and cpu is 38*C (using realtemp) so I have no idea what's going on. I think the board may be damaged in some way. My ram passes memtest but will fail orthos large FFT or the machine will just reboot. However I can pass small FFT orthos, so if the ram is fine, and the cpu is fine, it must be the board I think.

[deadlock7]

They do, 0803, 1103 and 1201 have it, not sure about earlier ones.

I have the low end P5Q (not pro).The latest bios i've found is 1004..
There is no nb gtl option..

[truehighroller]

They do, 0803, 1103 and 1201 have it, not sure about earlier ones.



I swapped it today for a Thermaltake Toughpower 750w, I've had one before and it was a solid psu.

**I am still having instability issues though. I can be stable for a couple of hours with orthos then the pc will just reboot itself. Heat is not an issue, board is 35*C and cpu is 38*C (using realtemp) so I have no idea what's going on. I think the board may be damaged in some way. My ram passes memtest but will fail orthos large FFT or the machine will just reboot. However I can pass small FFT orthos, so if the ram is fine, and the cpu is fine, it must be the board I think.

Besides issues when running Orthos do you have any other issues like when playing games exc..? If not then I say chalk it up to bug in Orthos because I had issue with Prime running large but could run small all day and my setup was stable as can be and I chalked it up to the program being buggy with the board. I can run the Intel burn test thing and it clears the test at my setting in my sig with no issues at all. I had to bump my nb voltage to 1.28 but, I had it at 1.26 so nothing big. That's my 2 cents any way.

[MonsterDK]

I keep getting BSOD with the P5Q Deluxe. I've tried everything I can think of...

I get the BSOD randomly. Which can happen with an overclock and at stock. I've tried MEMTest and also OCCT Ram tests for several hours and also done these tests with all 4 sticks of RAM in the PC and each stick singly.
Both tests 100% fine.

CPU Temps are fine on the Q6600 Quad (38c per core)

I've tried a new PSU... dumped my Seasonic 600Watt and put in a 1000Watt Enermax (I know overkill!) and still the BSOD.

I've tried everything on Default and also setting the voltages manually... still BSOD.

But stressing it for large amounts of time does not cause it to happen.

Is there any way I can get more info from these BSODs so I am able to know where the problem is?

I'm running at the moment Vista Ultimate 64. I have tried Windows XP 32 and XP 64. All have the same issue.
I've tried BIOS 0704, 0803, 1103 now i'm back to 0610 (which is the most stable i've been on this board but still getting BSODs now and then)

Any help appreciated!

[ThugsRook]

Besides issues when running Orthos do you have any other issues like when playing games exc..? If not then I say chalk it up to bug in Orthos because I had issue with Prime running large but could run small all day and my setup was stable as can be and I chalked it up to the program being buggy with the board. I can run the Intel burn test thing and it clears the test at my setting in my sig with no issues at all. I had to bump my nb voltage to 1.28 but, I had it at 1.26 so nothing big. That's my 2 cents any way.

please dont kid yourself, its not stable.

i wouldnt go blaming orthos or prime since we all know P45 is about as weird as a motherboard can get, especially asus models.

[Mumid]

They do, 0803, 1103 and 1201 have it, not sure about earlier ones.



I swapped it today for a Thermaltake Toughpower 750w, I've had one before and it was a solid psu.

**I am still having instability issues though. I can be stable for a couple of hours with orthos then the pc will just reboot itself. Heat is not an issue, board is 35*C and cpu is 38*C (using realtemp) so I have no idea what's going on. I think the board may be damaged in some way. My ram passes memtest but will fail orthos large FFT or the machine will just reboot. However I can pass small FFT orthos, so if the ram is fine, and the cpu is fine, it must be the board I think.

Are you running with LLC enabled? Could be that idle volts are not enough so your system reboots. Try upping your cpu volts up a notch and see if it still does it.

[truehighroller]

please dont kid yourself, its not stable.

i wouldnt go blaming orthos or prime since we all know P45 is about as weird as a motherboard can get, especially asus models.

Oh mine is stable..

[mac_69]

I only use the chipset drivers, lan and audio... no EPU, no other stuff... I don't like programs working in the background...

I've done exactly the same since I had to start from scratch last week.

Have Qfan running happily from bios, controlling my 3pin chassis fans, and system is completely stable running 3.6 24/7 on bios 803 - tested prime 95 small, large & blend all >6hrs

If I add another couple of sticks of same ram, do you think I can keep current settings? Not a big necessity for me to have 8gb, but only thing I would upgrade in the near future, going to be working with home DVI capture/editing

[Polizei]

EDIT: You sure you had raid selected in bios? Maybe it wont see raid drivers with F6 if achi is selected?
I always slipstream my drivers to install cd because of I don't have floppy drive so cant really test myself :/

I used the one from Intel's site that you extract and put on the floppy... it was smaller than the 6mb file you show. I'm on Vista now and everything's fine and dandy.


EDIT: And yes, I am sure RAID was set in the BIOS. That was the first thing I checked.

[Tulû]

Hey there
I want some advise about stability .

Here are my settings:

FSB : 425 x 8
PCIE: 100
DRAM : 1278 // 5-5-5-15 (trfc:40) @2.1v
DRAM STATiC READ.. : DISABLED
VCORE: 1.36875(VID=1,3125)
CPU PLL : 1.58
FSB TERM. : 1.46
DRAM: 2.1
NB: 1.34
SB: 1.10
PCIE SATA: 1.50
LLC: ENABLED
SPREAD CPU/PCI SPECTRUM : DISABLED
C1E: DISABLED
MAX CPUID LIMIT: DISABLED
INTEL VIRT. : DISABLED
CPU TM : ENABLED
EXECUTE DISABLE BIT: ENABLED
MEMORY REMAP: ENABLED
MEMORY HOLE : DISABLED


I tried prime95(large FFTs) for about 2 hours and it was stable until 125 minutes ; it gave error on core0 .
Would you give me an advice about my settings?
Thank you.

[DiscoTech]

how is this motherboard for quad cpu + micron ddr2 overclocking on air?

cpu is q9450, ram is 4x1GB micron d9gmh.

I am trying to choose between this motherboard and Tpower I45?