"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[GameGuru]

Start with BIOS 0803, then upgrade. People have reported issues with quads using later bios versions than 0803 so just try and see.

Thank you Cryptik, I'll start there.

[Pntgrd]

what bios are you running now?

Ket's 1306 at the moment. I have 1402 but just have not flashed to it as of yet.

[Pntgrd]

Bump

I used 1306 and then Ket's 1306 when I was plying around with my Q6600. Got 200mhz more out of it than I could with my old P35 board.

[davidoff619]

hi could any1 tell me which way the two bios chips onboard face they have little semi curcules which way do thay point any1 take a picture to help me because I took them out swaped them over to try and get the board to post but no luck. Need to put them back the right way to send it back or they won't replace it thanks

[GameGuru]

I used 1306 and then Ket's 1306 when I was plying around with my Q6600. Got 200mhz more out of it than I could with my old P35 board.

Thank you Pntgrd ,I'll try the 1306 bios and I'm sure I'll be back here with OC questions.

[CryptiK]

hi could any1 tell me which way the two bios chips onboard face they have little semi curcules which way do thay point any1 take a picture to help me because I took them out swaped them over to try and get the board to post but no luck. Need to put them back the right way to send it back or they won't replace it thanks

Sure david, the notch on both chips faces the back of the case when the board is installed.

Hope you have better luck with the new board. I have also sent mine back and hope to get a fully functional replacement too.

[ThugsRook]

i just realized....

in order get DMA for IDE drives the Marvel bios needs to be enabled, otherwise itll be MultiWord2

[truehighroller]

Well, ya got me thinking about getting one. Since I'm going to get another cpu to replace my old 8400 (sold the 8500), I may just consider stepping over to the Quad side, rather then messing with the EO stepping Duals. At $600, a 9650 is way out of my price range, but I can get a 9450 for $320 or a 9550 for $355. Not decided yet though.

Get the Q9550 it has the slightly higher multi.. You might get a little higher then me.

[cliffy]

Current settings are below. Running my Q9550 at 3.6Ghz with less voltages than the actual VID, done 4hrs prime blend stable which is plenty for me. CPU seems stable at 4Ghz with 1.257v but aint been able to get the rest of the system stable yet.

Any advise or input on how to tighten up these memory settings would be greatly appreciated.

AI Overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio Setting: 8.5
FSB Strap to North Bridge: 333 
FSB Frequency: 425
PCI-E Frequency: 101
DRAM Frequency: 1021Mhz
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A1: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A2: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B1: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B2: AUTO
DRAM Timing Control: Manual

1st Information :

CAS# Latency: 5
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay: 5
DRAM RAS# Precharge: 5
DRAM RAS# Activate to Precharge: 15
RAS# to RAS# Delay : 5
Row Refresh Cycle Time: 55
Write Recovery Time: 9
Read to Precharge Time: 5

2nd Information :

READ to WRITE Delay (S/D): AUTO
Write to Read Delay (S): AUTO
WRITE to READ Delay (D): AUTO
READ to READ Delay (S): AUTO
READ to READ Delay (D): AUTO
WRITE to WRITE Delay (S): AUTO
WRITE to WRITE Delay (D): AUTO

3rd Information :

WRITE to PRE Delay: AUTO
READ to PRE Delay: AUTO
PRE to PRE Delay: AUTO
ALL PRE to ACT Delay: AUTO
ALL PRE to REF Delay: AUTO
DRAM Static Read Control: Disabled
DRAM Read Training: Disabled
MEM. OC Charger: Disabled
AI Clock Twister: Moderate
AI Transaction Booster: Manual
Common Performance Level [10]
Pull-In of CHA PH1: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHA PH2: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHA PH3: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHA PH4: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHB PH1: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHB PH2: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHB PH3: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHB PH4: DISABLED

CPU Voltage: 1.2275
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): 0.670
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): 0.670
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.56
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.26
DRAM Voltage: 2.00
NB Voltage: 1.26
NB GTL Reference: 0.640
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

Advance CPU Settings

CPU Ratio Setting: 8.5
C1E Suppport: Disabled
Max CPUID Value Limit: Disabled
Intel® Virtualization Tech: Disabled
CPU TM Function: Disabled
Execute Disable Bit: Disabled

[davidoff619]

correct me if I'm wrong but the default recovery bios should let me get into bios screen with my q9650 right if not then I'm screwed with a replacemant board. Any advice on how to fix board that won't post since updating to 1306 or whatever all my fans which are connected to the board spin to so board is not dead right so ....... What next don't want to send it back if don't have to thanks

[Pntgrd]

correct me if I'm wrong but the default recovery bios should let me get into bios screen with my q9650 right if not then I'm screwed with a replacemant board. Any advice on how to fix board that won't post since updating to 1306 or whatever all my fans which are connected to the board spin to so board is not dead right so ....... What next don't want to send it back if don't have to thanks

Have you tried turning it off and then pulling the power cord yet?. If that doesn't work then pull the cmos battery for 10 minutes.

[TI66ER]

What about switching the bios chips around?

[Godmyster]

Anybody here have the P5Q DELUXE with the new BIOS build 1402 i got the 0803 version still, any changes? is it worth it?

Thanks

[Isaac MM]

So if i want to use a Q9650 on this board i have to change the bios that comes with it? What if i don't have some other CPU to turn this motherboard on, what am i supposed to do?

Can anyone answer me please

[davidoff619]

What about switching the bios chips around?

Have you tried turning it off and then pulling the power cord yet?. If that doesn't work then pull the cmos battery for 10 minutes.

right ive tried both of these and no such luck 1 possitive thing is now keyboard comes on but no grapics card and no post anything else to try

Can anyone answer me please

yes i dont think you will need to do anything but not 100% sure. try ringing the dealer and see if they can tell you or if they will flash them for you

[Big Lar]

Can anyone answer me please

Well, I am running a Q9400 which is a pretty recent chip, the shipping bios supported my cpu no problem. As to your chip I can't say but maybe ask around as to what bios was present on recent purchased boards, then go to the asus website and see what bios supports what cpu. Best I can tell you.

Larry

ps. I Think my board came with the 0704 bios or something like that, board was purchased within the last month or so.

[linbetwin]

Hello XS-ers,

This is my first post here and I have a bit of an issue with this board.

P5Q-Dlx BIOS 1201
Q9550
Corsair 2x2 GB @ 800 CL4
Powercolor HD 4870
2x WD 6400AAKS in RAID0 on ICH10R

The problem is that the system is not stable at stock freqs. I have to go to 8.5x400 and DDR-800 to find rock-solid stability in IntelBurnTest, OCCT, Everest, etc. It doesn't seem to be voltage-related, because I am at 3.4 GHz with 1.13... vcore and 1.10 vNB, less than what Auto sets. I suspected the board is only stable at 1:1 ratio, but it's not stable at 333 an DRAM-667. Tried all the straps but that doesn't seem to make any difference. What do you think might be the problem ?

[Martin.v.r]

#3702

cl/volt to mem

[platojones]

Greeting All,

First time poster here. Also fairly new to OC. Quick question...just upgraded my box to the P5Q Deluxe and a Q9550 (C0, of course). I am targeting a 100% stable 24/7 OC of 3.4 GHz. Actually, I've got that, but I think my Q9550 may be a dog...or a vcore blackhole to be more precise. I had to up the VCore to 1.315V in the bios to get it prime stable. Does that sound reasonable? I haven't touched any of the more esoteric settings like the CPU PLL, etc...does that help reduce VCore requirements. One thing I did was make sure Load Line Calibration was off...my first attempt got me a much lower vcore with LLC on, but when I read the technical details about the purpose of vdroop, I decided it wasn't worth it, even if I had to run the volts much higher. Just looking for some advice about lowering the vcore and still keeping the stable OC.

[TWY]

Has anyone gotten a '87xxxx' board yet? Any changes from '86xxxx'?

[CryptiK]

Hello XS-ers,

This is my first post here and I have a bit of an issue with this board.

P5Q-Dlx BIOS 1201
Q9550
Corsair 2x2 GB @ 800 CL4
Powercolor HD 4870
2x WD 6400AAKS in RAID0 on ICH10R

The problem is that the system is not stable at stock freqs. I have to go to 8.5x400 and DDR-800 to find rock-solid stability in IntelBurnTest, OCCT, Everest, etc. It doesn't seem to be voltage-related, because I am at 3.4 GHz with 1.13... vcore and 1.10 vNB, less than what Auto sets. I suspected the board is only stable at 1:1 ratio, but it's not stable at 333 an DRAM-667. Tried all the straps but that doesn't seem to make any difference. What do you think might be the problem ?

You're definitely in need of higher vNB, as you are running a quad and 2 x 2GB ram. Try raising it to 1.26v and re-test. Try vPLL = 1.52v, vFSB = 1.12v, vcore = 1.20v also, I think 1.13v may be too low for vcore at 3.4GHz. After you get the whole system stable you can start lowering vcore anyway and find out what it needs.

[linbetwin]

#3702

cl/volt to mem

I'm not sure I understand what that means. If you are referring to vDIMM, that's on auto and Memtest86+ finds no errors.

You're definitely in need of higher vNB, as you are running a quad and 2 x 2GB ram. Try raising it to 1.26v and re-test. Try vPLL = 1.52v, vFSB = 1.12v, vcore = 1.20v also, I think 1.13v may be too low for vcore at 3.4GHz. After you get the whole system stable you can start lowering vcore anyway and find out what it needs.

I'm stable now at 3.4 GHz with 1.10 vNB and 1.138... vcore, but I can't find stability at stock freqs, not even with higher voltages or Auto. I tried 1.26 vNB and 1.26 vcore and I climbed down to these levels because the system is stable at 3.4. But I will try again what you suggested.

I have to mention one more thing: at stock freqs and Auto settings in BIOS, the Stress Cache module in the Everest Stability Test fails, but the other tests run OK.

[CryptiK]

So you're saying you were not stable at stock, and had to overclock to 400FSB (remaining on the default MP of 8.5) to become stable? Something's is not right with your stock settings in that case - were you leaving everything on auto?

Perhaps your ram is running at too low a voltage/too tight timings, or the AUTO setting is making the boards PL (tRD) too low, when at stock. However unless you are manually setting everything to 'stock speeds & voltages' you can't really say that it is at stock settings.

When you have everything at stock, as you described it, using a combination of CPU-Z and memset, please state what your memory speed and timings are, and what the board's PL is. Also, what did you have the ram voltage set to?

[Advocate]

Hello all

I just got this board with an e8400 E0 today (actually its the p5q-pro)

Goal is for 4.2 ghz stable. Does anyone have some sort of template of mobo settings that I should use? IE nb voltage and what settings I should have enabled/disabled.

Thanks in advance

[FinnEire]

I'm not sure I understand what that means. If you are referring to vDIMM, that's on auto and Memtest86+ finds no errors.



I'm stable now at 3.4 GHz with 1.10 vNB and 1.138... vcore, but I can't find stability at stock freqs, not even with higher voltages or Auto. I tried 1.26 vNB and 1.26 vcore and I climbed down to these levels because the system is stable at 3.4. But I will try again what you suggested.

I have to mention one more thing: at stock freqs and Auto settings in BIOS, the Stress Cache module in the Everest Stability Test fails, but the other tests run OK.

Are you manually setting your PL level at stock? If so, to what? Maybe it's too aggressive. Try something like PL of 12, "moderate" and disable read training and static read. At least this helps you rule out some things.

Also, don't put so much stock in Memtest...I have seen it pass with ease only to fail Prime blend. After Prime blend failing I made adjustments to memory related settings allowing it to then pass.

Maybe manually set your vDIMM to manufacturer recommended level but keep in mind board tends to overvolt so if rated at 2.1v perhaps set to 2.02v.

Maybe try different BIOS ver. too?