ASUS P5B-Deluxe; Problems & Fixes

[unclewebb]

alitayyab: I was using a Q6600 - G0 for a while on my P5B Deluxe and it was far harder getting it to run fast and stable compared to any Dual Core I've tried.

I've found that even with the Dual Core, when you have random instability issues you can improve things with more chipset voltage. I definitely wouldn't set anything in the bios to AUTO for voltage or anything else for that matter on this board.

What are your settings on the voltage tab in the bios? When I first started overclocking the P5B I could run for hours, Prime stable and then a day or two later at the same settings I would have weird problems, usually at 0% load, surfing the net or something and my computer would lock up or reboot. It made no sense but extra voltage fixed pretty much everything.

The only issue I have now is that sometimes when I reboot, my wireless keyboard isn't recognized in the bios. I can hammer away on the Delete key when it is booting up in the bios but nothing happens. After it gets to Windows the keyboard works fine. I think it is designed like this by Asus so if you are using Hibernate mode it won't let you make any bios changes but sometimes it gets confused and even if you use ShutDown it still locks you out of the bios and you can't push F8 either to bring up the boot menu.

I thought this was just a wireless keyboard issue but I plugged in a PS2 keyboard and same thing. I've read in forums that I'm not the only one with this issue so I've learned to live with it. It doesn't happen very often and if I wasn't trying to overclock the chipset 100% it probably wouldn't happen at all.

Turning off the power supply switch for 30 seconds usually fixes this.

My E8400 C0 has no issues with voltages and overclock settings being saved or lost with bios version 1237. Hopefully they fix this issue with the next bios release for your E0 Quad.