"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[Leeghoofd]

Well I experienced same beahviour wiht my Gskill PC8000PQ kit, I popped in the Mushkin redline kit and they didn't have that erratic behaviour...

I would try for both of you to mess a bit with the NB gtl ref voltage... setting will depend on board/ram etc... eg set at 0.630 and test then go to 0.650 etc

[brinco218]

I reinstall Vistax64 and put the audio drivers, same problem with buggy sound. I than installed an Audigy SE, disabled the on-board sound and there was no improvements. Do you think that the MB is gone, or what the heck is going on ?

[truehighroller]

I reinstall Vistax64 and put the audio drivers, same problem with buggy sound. I than installed an Audigy SE, disabled the on-board sound and there was no improvements. Do you think that the MB is gone, or what the heck is going on ?

If you did all that and are still having issues. I would check your cables and see if they have been chewed through by a mouse or house pet.

[BababooeyHTJ]

[QUOTE=Leeghoofd;3631738]I put an Antec spotcool on it mate, very easy to work with as it can be screwed down on one of the mobo supports...it can be directed in a zillion of ways and is 3 speed adjustable


Thanks a million thats jut what I'll do. Also thank you for holding this thread together, it's a public service that you're doing here.
Edit: I can't use it because of the blue leds.

[Leeghoofd]

more into X58 now mate and struggling with the EP45T UD3P, but we try to stay in touch here... sadly I can't test anything anymore as I don't have no more P5Q's here...

[BababooeyHTJ]

more into X58 now mate and struggling with the EP45T UD3P, but we try to stay in touch here... sadly I can't test anything anymore as I don't have no more P5Q's here...

Im thinking about it myself, but you are the man for sharing your knowlage here. Helps out alot of people.

[jdmR]

Well I experienced same beahviour wiht my Gskill PC8000PQ kit, I popped in the Mushkin redline kit and they didn't have that erratic behaviour...

I would try for both of you to mess a bit with the NB gtl ref voltage... setting will depend on board/ram etc... eg set at 0.630 and test then go to 0.650 etc

now if i do this, where is my stopping point?

[CryptiK]

@ jdmR - try these settings and see if you're stable

AI Overclock tuner: MANUAL
CPU Ratio Setting: 8.5
FSB Strap to North Bridge: 400
FSB Frequency: 500
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: DDR2 - 1000 
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A1: Normal
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A2: Normal
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B1: Normal
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B2: Normal
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: 60
Write Recovery Time: 8
Read to Precharge Time: 5

2nd Information :

READ to WRITE Delay (S/D): 8
Write to Read Delay (S): 4
WRITE to READ Delay (D): 5
READ to READ Delay (S): 4
READ to READ Delay (D): 6
WRITE to WRITE Delay (S): 4
WRITE to WRITE Delay (D): 7

3rd Information :

WRITE to PRE Delay: 16
READ to PRE Delay: 6
PRE to PRE Delay: 1
ALL PRE to ACT Delay: 6
ALL PRE to REF Delay: 6

DRAM Static Read Control: DISABLED
DRAM Read Training: Disabled
MEM. OC Charger: Enabled
AI Clock Twister: Moderate
AI Transaction Booster: Enabled
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 CHA PH5: 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
Pull-In of CHB PH5: DISABLED

CPU Voltage: 1.33
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): 0.670x
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): 0.670x
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.50
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.26
DRAM Voltage: 2.12
NB Voltage: 1.26
NB GTL Reference: 0.630x
SBridge Voltage: 1.2
PCIE SATA Voltage: 1.5

Load Line Calibration: Enabled
CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: Disabled
CPU Clock Skew : 100ps
NB Clock Skew : Normal

Advance CPU Settings
CPU Ratio Setting: Manual
CPU VID: Default
C1E Suppport: Disabled
Max CPUID Value Limit: Disabled
Intel® Virtualization Tech: Disabled
Vanderpool Technology: Disabled
CPU TM Function: Disabled
Execute Disable Bit: Disabled

[jdmR]

nope system crashed

[TWY]

I'm building a P5Q Deluxe system now with the TRUE Black heatsink.. Noticed that if I orientate the heatsink such that the fan attached on the heatsink blows towards the rear exhaust, the edge of the heatsink comes in contact with the northbridge heatsink.

Wonder if I should jsut go ahead, or change the orientation such that the fan on the heatsink blows towards the top of the case? Or is there something wrong with my mounting?

[CryptiK]

nope system crashed

Try the same settings but with an 7x multi, that will show if its a ram/FSB/NB issue or cpu clock issue.

If you use a lower cpu clock & lower FSB, and clock the ram to DDR2-1000 using an appropriate divider, is the ram stable?

[Mumid]

I am having the strangest of issues with this board! I wonder if someone can help me with it?? Basically in all stress tests my PC is totally stable with the config in my sig. However, I am having issues whereby i get a total reboot during boot. Its like the hard drive just cuts off and then the machine reboots with no BSOD. No change of settings has been able to resolve this random but frequent reboot during boot issue (except when not overclocked)

Anyway, I have realised that by having another hard drive connected via the external eSata plate, then the issue goes away. The hard drive is just an internal Maxtor 6V080E0 80gb connected via the external plate and is lying on the floor.

Now im wondering if this is a hard drive issue, or whether it is an 'earthing' issue?? I have three Samsung F1 drives, maybe these could be the problem and I need to have a Maxtor hard drive plugged in as well for the system to boot OK? Or I was thinking that maybe by having the Maxtor on the floor outside my case, it is providing an 'earth' to the PC, and I have earthing problems inside my case? What do you guys think? Can anyone shed a bit of light on this?

Is anyone running this board with only Samsung F1 drives?

[newtom]

I have removed the heatpipe-assembly from my P5Q Deluxe, and installed waterblocks on the NB and MOSFETs. I think I don't need to watercool the southbridge, thus I decided to use a passive cooler there...
I tried to mount a Thermalright HR-05 IFX cooler on the SB, but it seems to be incompatible with this mainboard. Although Thermalright states it is compatible , a capacitor comes in contact with the right side of the heatpipe of this cooler.
What would be your suggestion for a passive cooler solution on the southbridge of a P5Q Deluxe? Did somebody try a Zalman NB-47J on this mobo?

[Leeghoofd]

Is anyone running this board with only Samsung F1 drives?

I had 4 die on me from which 2 connected to the P5Q Dlx ( all same manufacture date ) and will never ever buy these again... sequential read errors, freeze probs and corrupt MBR's...reminds me of the bad IBM batches a few decades back It could be one of ya hard drives acting up... Are they the terrabyte variant ?

a capacitor comes in contact with the right side of the heatpipe of this cooler.
What would be your suggestion for a passive cooler solution on the southbridge of a P5Q Deluxe? Did somebody try a Zalman NB-47J on this mobo?

Can't you orientate it to a different angle ?

nope system crashed

You cannot set subtimings from another person mate, each ram kit, mobo is different...

I'm building a P5Q Deluxe system now with the TRUE Black heatsink.. Noticed that if I orientate the heatsink such that the fan attached on the heatsink blows towards the rear exhaust, the edge of the heatsink comes in contact with the northbridge heatsink.

Can you take a picture of that issue, I had the normal Ultra 120 and the eXtreme on my mobo without an issue... there was enough clearance

[bigcesar]

hello

why cant downgrade the BIOS?...using 1702
before can do it

[Leeghoofd]

Use Koda's flashing tool mate ( make a bootable USB stick or a CD ) it is better than downgrading with the older Asusupdate version

Asus Bios flashing tool by Koda

[bigcesar]

Use Koda's flashing tool mate ( make a bootable USB stick or a CD ) it is better than downgrading with the older Asusupdate version

Asus Bios flashing tool by Koda

THANKS

[mrflibble]

Hi guys.

Here's a peculiar one for you. I've been running the specs below happily and stable for 6 months or so using the 1307 bios, but a couple of weeks ago my Seasonic PSU packed up, taking my motherboard with it. Since then, I've replaced the mobo with a new one - same model. This came preinstalled with a 14xx bios, which I decided to upgrade to the latest (1703).

Unfortunately, I'm having odd issues with my ram, despite using the same bios settings as before. If I start my machine up cold, I can run memtest for hours on end no problem, as well as ORTHOS (in CPU stress mode). However, if I were to use the machine for a while, play some games etc, the odd app would begin crashing on exit (such as Google Chrome, Left 4 Dead). Rebooting straight into memtest, I'll start to get errors. Now here's where it gets really odd: going into the bios, lowering the ram speeds/timings, upping voltages (such as NB, DRAM), reducing the CPU/motherboard overclock - nothing gets rid of these errors. Could it be heat that's causing the ram to produce errors? I tried taking the sticks out, testing one, then two, then three etc. Doing this produced no errors whatsoever, but then by the time I had all four back in, there were no errors either. Obviously the parts were much cooler at this stage.

Could my RAM be faulty? One other thing - I've attempted to flash my motherboard bios back to an earlier version (using the bios flash tool and the newer afudos), but have been unable to, despite using the necessary /n flags etc.

Here's the settings I'm using (successfully on the older P5Q-E w/1307):-


AI Overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio Setting: 8X
FSB Frequency: 400
FSB Strap to North Bridge: AUTO
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: 800
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: 4
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay: 4
DRAM RAS# Precharge: 4
DRAM RAS# Activate to Precharge: 12
RAS# to RAS# Delay : AUTO
Row Refresh Cycle Time: AUTO
Write Recovery Time: AUTO
Read to Precharge Time: AUTO

DRAM Static Read Control: Disabled
DRAM Read Training: AUTO
MEM. OC Charger: AUTO
AI Clock Twister: AUTO

CPU Voltage: 1.30
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.56
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.30
DRAM Voltage: 1.90
NB Voltage: 1.22

Load Line Calibration: Enabled
CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: Disabled
CPU Clock Skew: AUTO
NB Clock Skew: AUTO
CPU Margin: Optimized

[mrflibble]

Just spotted the Koda flash advice. Going to give that a try now

[Leeghoofd]

Get rid of them bananas mate, quite hard to read through your post : set TRFC to 50 or 55 and set NB voltage to 1.26 to test... but I suspect one of ya dimms is not as fit anymore as before and 1703 bios I never tested as 1406 was more than adequate for me, even 0803 was one of the better biosses for me... also there can be a variety in voltages between the boards so it might require some more or less on some settings...

For the Bios flashback see my above post with Koda's tool !

[newtom]

Can't you orientate it to a different angle ?

Using a HR05-IFX there is no other orientation possible, 'cause I have a very long GFX card (a Radeon 4870 X2) with a full cover waterblock on that, and a secondary VGA in the lowest PCI-Ex slot for a third monitor (running in 4x mode, but it doesn't matter).
Looking from above the top edge of the southbridge is side-by-side at the bottom edge of the VGA block...

Mumid:
Since the end of November I have two 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ drives in Raid0 on the ICH10R controller, had no problems with them so far...

[mrflibble]

Get rid of them bananas mate, quite hard to read through your post : set TRFC to 50 or 55 and set NB voltage to 1.26 to test... but I suspect one of ya dimms is not as fit anymore as before and 1703 bios I never tested as 1406 was more than adequate for me, even 0803 was one of the better biosses for me... also there can be a variety in voltages between the boards so it might require some more or less on some settings...

For the Bios flashback see my above post with Koda's tool !

Cheers buddy. Have to say, your advice has been some of the most useful on the board to me. Keep up the good work!

p.s. one can never have enough bananas

[Havis]

Hi guys, just came here to say hello

I've got this P5Q Deluxe board and it's been rock solid so far.
Got my C1 Q9550@3,6Ghz 1.250V (59C-64C) without problems.
I am prime-stable at 3,8GHz with 1.31V but the CPU runs too hot for my taste at that speed (71C-75C) so maybe my Zalman CNPS 9700Led needs an upgrade.
I would like to know from someone with the same CPU and cooler what clock/temp they were able to get from their chips.

Good Luck & Have Fun

[Mumid]

I had 4 die on me from which 2 connected to the P5Q Dlx ( all same manufacture date ) and will never ever buy these again... sequential read errors, freeze probs and corrupt MBR's...reminds me of the bad IBM batches a few decades back It could be one of ya hard drives acting up... Are they the terrabyte variant ?

I am using my 320GB F1 to boot from. None of the hard drives are showing any corruption problems to be honest.

[Leeghoofd]

Hello,

no need to check temps with others mate, that cooler is really not that performant for an Oc'ed quad... sadly Zalman still asks premium bucks for their coolers while they are not that mega...

also it's impossible to comapre coolers unless you use the exact same cpu or heatoutput... some cpu's just run hotter than others