"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[ThugsRook]

you mean 333 strap ?

anyway i have a question, can you set PL 8 at the 450FSB 5:6 DDR2-1080MHz and also get a stable system ?
i'm just wondering because at the CPU FSB and memory setting i always and be able to use PL 8 in P5Q-D's BIOS with 2x1GB, 4x1GB, 2x2GB and 4x2GB RAMs and all version of bios available since the first bios that came with the board.

a quad w/4gb might be a bit tougher... but i can easily do 5:6 1200ddr pl8 1.98v. pushing it i can do pl7... on a wolfy w/2gb.

[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

[gurusan]

Well, I hate to tell you this...but LLC *IS* the pencil mod...only it's been put into the BIOS for you by ASUS...so the answer is no...no pencil mod.

But it doesn't work the same way, does it?

[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.

[Leeghoofd]

Will verify it tomorrow mate... think my ram isn't up to that... I had issues with the Gskills PC8000PQ at 266 strap, Mushkins worked fine but at 450FSB 1080 PL9 is where it ended for my hardware... but will come back to that tomorrow... thx for sharing ya secrets

[x3mgamer]

ok guys heres what ramguy says:


If you only have problems when using all four modules together, then you may be running into a loading issue on the memory controller. The easiest way to resolve this would be to drop the memory frequency to DDR800 to lighten the load on the memory controller. If your problems go away when running four modules at DDR800, then you may need to overclock the motherboard in order to get the system stable at 1066MHz with four modules. In many cases you can set the northbridge voltage up to about 1.5 volts in order to give the board more head room with four modules, however overclocking results can vary, and must be done at your own risk.


so how do i oc the mobo, i lowered the memory to 801 mhz but prime crashes in less than a minute, long before i get any worthy results, what do i need to do to start prime working again without crashing? if i can only make prime stable at 800 mhz i bet blend wouldnt fail anymore and then i could search for stability on 1066 mhz

[Porksmuggler]

ok guys heres what ramguy says:

If you only have problems when using all four modules together, then you may be running into a loading issue on the memory controller.

You said you tested them separately in blend, and one stick failed. Leeghoofd speaks the truth, Memtest86+ isn't the be-all, end-all of 2GB dimms. Not sure about Corsair, but not every supplier bins the individual ICs on the module, one might be holding you back in Prime95 with the heat/noise generated by the blend test.

Now if Memtest86+ is passing each module, and Prime95 is only failing with four modules, its not conclusively the Ram, more likely the memory controller/NB

[x3mgamer]

blend was failing with all 4 sticks and with only the "faulty" one, so i kinda suspect that fokker, but then again, id love to become stable at 800 mhz so i could test him again

[Porksmuggler]

blend was failing with all 4 sticks and with only the "faulty" one, so i kinda suspect that fokker, but then again, id love to become stable at 800 mhz so i could test him again

It will not be the first time a supplier has rated a module higher than its ICs can handle, worth trying at 800 depending on what OC your going for.

[x3mgamer]

ok im at 3.4 clock now and 800 mhz memory and prime 95 caused bsod after running blend for 2 minutes, this is what the bsod looks like:

it seems this clock is too big for 800 memory coz bsod says the clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allowed time interval

[Porksmuggler]

If I'm understanding correctly, you have 3 modules that pass individually at 1066, and 1 module that will not even pass at 800, yet they are all kit rated at PC2-8500 2.1V. *cough* RMA *cough*

[x3mgamer]

lol no no, i have 3 kits that pass blend in 1066 and one that doesnt, havent tried 800 mhz yet coz i cant make the rig stable

[sxs112]

ASUS P5Q Pro 1613 Beta Bios
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[x3mgamer]

i pulled the mobo outta the case , reseated the vendetta 2 with some new silver grease and now im getting nice lower temps at 3.4 ghz and blend is stable at 1003 ram for half an hour now

update: prime crashed (blend didnt fail) after 40 mins, seems like theres still some instability but i bet it could be solved by pumping up some more NB


ok i managed to get ahci mode without reinstalling windows, it was working in emulated ide mode all this time and it just doesnt cut it for me, the system is much more responsive now and cpu util iz 0

heres what u do before changing to ahci mode in bios


To resolve this issue, enable the AHCI driver in the registry before you change the SATA mode of the boot drive. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Exit all Windows-based programs.
2. Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
3. If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
4. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Msahci
5. In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
7. On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.

go to bios, change to sata ahci mode and restart


i later installed Intel Matrix Storage Driver/Utility. After that all old IDE Device/IDE ATA/ATA entries in device manager are gone and replaced by Intel ICH10R AHCI Controller.

[3dchipset]

Anyone have a recently purchased P5Q Deluxe? What is the revision number on your board? Mine is 1.03G for example.

I purchased mine yesterday. I haven't opened it though. Where does it say the revision number on the board?

[jVIDIA]

Leeghoofd, how is 1611 bios as to the Auto overvoltages ? Same panorama as the last time a did those voltage readings ?

PS: after some times away .... I'm returning this weekend to the P5Q Dlx scene

[Leeghoofd]

I purchased mine yesterday. I haven't opened it though. Where does it say the revision number on the board?

I would take a piccie of the box outside and this sticker plz :



This is already a new revision with the lower caps near the PCI-E slot, so no issues to mount a GTX260-280

Then when in windows run CPU-Z and see if your chipset revision is 3, most users here have a rev2

Leeghoofd, how is 1611 bios as to the Auto overvoltages ? Same panorama as the last time a did those voltage readings ?

PS: after some times away .... I'm returning this weekend to the P5Q Dlx scene

Welcome back, I have no clue mate at the moment mate, board is in the case but I will have to rip it apart for testing a Xirex watercooling kit and on friday I hopefully will have the Gigabyte EP45T-UD3P on test...

But with my quad I can run slightly lower values then before, Vcore here overvolts a bit more under load, ram voltage seems stable as before (0.08 overvolting)... I noticed SRC effect is reversed (enabled is slower now lol), but there are contradictive results on that matter...

[3dchipset]

O.k. I ran CPU-Z and mine says this: Rev 1.xx then the other box says, Rev. A3 ... Is this a newer one an old one? Can't seem to find the 1.03G that the person above me mentioned his was.

[MrRevhead]

O.k. I ran CPU-Z and mine says this: Rev 1.xx then the other box says, Rev. A3 ... Is this a newer one an old one?

Newer revision mate

[jdmR]

3dchipset, when and where did you orders ur from

[radaja]

3dchipset,awesome new A3,now lets see what she can do.

[3dchipset]

I bought it at Fry's Electronics in Downers Grove, IL.

I have an e8600 running right now at 4.4GHz using a TRUE BLACK with just 1 fan on the HSF. I have no fans in my case as it's just torn apart and still have work to do it. My temps are pretty high because of it. at Load it's between 60c to 68c (running prime 95). My voltages are: vCore - 1.33v. I upped my Mushkin memory to 1.9v and uped the NB to 1.14 volt. So far so good. I tried 4.5GHz and it failed prime95 after 30 minutes. I upped the voltage to 1.38 for the 4.5GHz test. The temp on that was between 70c to 77c for load. Probably because it's an oven in the case with no fans! lol ... I'm still a virgin with this setup and learning a load from all the posts in this thread!

[3dchipset]

Here's a picture of that sticker on my box..

[Knight]

I just received this board and I am experiencing problems. My specs are in my signature, but I am of course using a different motherboard.

The PC will not POST. No beep codes are given and the screen and USB devices do not turn on. I have stripped down the PC to only the necessary parts. (No hard drives, one stick of memory in the yellow slot near the socket, and no other connections like for the USB bracket.) I cleared the BIOS just because it was the first power on. I get the proper beep code when I removed all the sticks of RAM. So I removed the VGA card from the blue slot and kept it out of the system, no beeps at all. (It said I should get one long beep with three short beeps if no video card was installed.) I moved the card into the black slot and the same thing, no beeps at all, just the same black screen with no video signal input. Anyone have a clue what might be the problem? I lost two screws that hold the motherboard to the case. Are those screws needed to ground components as well as secure the board?

[Dalten]

Here's a picture of that sticker on my box..

Mine has the 1.03G written on the motherboard itself, somewhere, sorry I can't remember where but it was on a small sticker if i remember right.

Interested to see if that A3 OC's or performs better too yepp, but it might be hard to tell unless someone can compare them both side by side, or heard what changed from A2 to A3 p45 chipsets.