"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[Leeghoofd]

...voila it fails after less than 1 minute, this stick was always failing blend after less than 1 minute while all the other sticks were stable, and now this stick does 24 passes with no errors??? how the hell am i to interpret that???

I've experienced the same thing mate... memtest in dos is not conclusive with 2Gb dimms... my stick fails with HCI Memtest in windows yet passes with glory in Dos...

you mean 333 strap ?

Yep corrected, I have to verify at home though for PL8, thought it was a no boot with the Qx CPU

Does anyone use the top PCI slot above the PCIe 16x slot? Was wondering if any conflicts occur when using that PCI with a graphics card?

I use my Xifi soundcard in the top slot

[pangingIII]

Yep corrected, I have to verify at home though for PL8, thought it was a no boot with the Qx CPU

i use Q9300 with P5Q-D for sometime now. when i first got the board and still playing overclocking cpu and ram with it i used to use 4x1GB RAM and that was during before and a little bit after 0803 BIOSes, i've been using all kind of bios settings and also use every bios files back then.
but right now i don't overclock much on this system, it's been setting for the last few months as a 8GB system that i use it as my working PC.


here's my BIOS setting, with the 1406 version on the board, Q9300 at 450fsb, 8GB of gskill Pi kits at DDR2-1080 PL8, 5 disk drives with 3 drives in RAID-0, vista x64. this setting (includes PL8 setting) has been system stress tested many times and i find it's stable enough for me to actually trust and use it for my working PC. i was just wondering about you using PL 9, i don't mean anything bad and it does not mean anything bad if you cannot set PL 8, it could be because of the CPU or RAM that you're using on the system.