Recent content by sphincterAni

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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    Thanks for the feedback, elconejito. These are bugs in the 1238 BIOS. I filed a support request with ASUS, but they blew me off with a lame response pretty much as I expected they would. Thanks, ASUS. So, I'm just gonna have to live with 3584MB of memory instead of 4096MB. Whatever...
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    Me, me, me, me, me... :) I just realized (I'm slow) that I guess it would be helpful to also know what BIOS version is used. So to summarize: - BIOS version - memory vendor & model.part number - whether or not BIOS uses SPD when "Configure DRAM Timing by SPD" is set to...
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    Hi there! Me again... :) I guess it might also be useful to know (with respect to issue #2 listed above) if your P5B-D is using SPD, what vendor/part_nbr memory are you using? Thanks! Also, for those who might benefit from this information: the only way I could get the box to boot...
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    Good afternoon. I've had this P5B Deluxe for a little while and it's been okay with a wimpy cpu and some mediocre memory (4 x 1GB Corsair XMS2-6400). Recently, I decided it was finally time to breathe some life into it with a new cpu and memory. So after researching the options and more...