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    Comparison of different ASUS P67 motherboards

    I had dropped drives, random freezes, double boot, and no wake from sleep - only one I could fix was the double boot. Switched to a P8Z68-V Pro and have had no problems ever since, so I'm sympathetic to the complaints about P67.
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    Need help picking a P67/Z68 board

    Go for the Z68 - too many unhappy P67 users (myself included, so I'm biased!)
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    ASUS Official Z68 Poll

    Where's, "Option H: already upgraded after dealing with 4 months of headaches with P67"? Z68, what P67 should have been.
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    New Sandy Bridge build Advice!

    Judging from both personal experience and the high volume of posts on various boards, P67 is pretty finicky. If you go with P67 over Z68, make sure you're getting memory on the QVL.
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    What to do about P8P67 Deluxe?

    Well, just as an update for anyone in the same boat, I exchanged the P8P67 Deluxe for a P8Z68-V Pro (kudos to MicroCenter - they even honored my combo discount on the board from my original purchase in January - no hassles at all). So far, everything has gone smoothly. Only hiccup was getting...
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    Bios

    [Sidenote: dawp - awesome avatar!]
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    What to do about P8P67 Deluxe?

    Tried RAM at 1333 and changed the C states to disabled except for C6, still no luck. Running at stock with the unofficial 1606 BIOS, which I flashed to over the weekend out of desperation. Cleared CMOS at several stages, but also to no effect. I've tried all the various fixes that have been...
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    Bios

    Well, the P8P67 vanilla board has a 1401 BIOS. You made a reference in your other thread about a company setting up the board? Is this the BIOS that came with the board, or did someone build/set it up for you? If the latter, they might have installed the wrong BIOS.
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    Detecting Drives

    Are you using the gray Intel 6Gb/s ports or the navy blue Marvell 6Gb/s ports? I would disable the Marvell ports, as they're only supposed to be used with data drives, and slow down the boot process. Unless your HDD is 6Gb/s, you might want to connect it to the light blue Intel 3Gb/s ports.
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    What to do about P8P67 Deluxe?

    Thanks. I did try both the wake-up from PCI-E and disabling PLL overvoltage fixes, to no avail, but will try tweaking RAM as suggested. Will also adjust C states so only C6 is enabled. I'll try anything at this point! :)
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    What to do about P8P67 Deluxe?

    It could indeed be something else (perhaps the SSD or memory), but I also don't want to find out it's just a quirk of the board and lose the opportunity to exchange it. Yes, I have hot swap enabled for the C300, I was originally using the Intel RST drivers but subsequently removed them. I've...
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    What to do about P8P67 Deluxe?

    Well, I've spent a month trying to iron out the bugs in my P8P67 Deluxe B3, and Saturday is the last day I can return the board to MicroCenter. I still have the occasional freeze, it periodically fails to wake/connect to the monitor when booting or waking just the monitor, and, despite the best...
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    Random freezes starting/playing games

    Here's my son's rig: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB HITACHI Deskstar 250GB PowerColor Radeon HD 6850 1GB Antec BP550 Plus 550W Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 G.SKILL 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK Added the C300, HD 6850, and an extra 4GB of memory last week...
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    Thinking of switching from P8P67 Deluxe to GA-P67A-UD4

    Well, I believe I have until May 15 to return the P8P67 Deluxe, so the Z68 boards might or might not be in stock by then. The Z68 features really don't offer me anything I need, although if it's a more stable platform and the cost differential isn't too high, I'd certainly be tempted to upgrade.
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    Z68 Chipset launching in May 11th.

    Any advantages other than Quicksync and SSD caching? Neither of those appeal to me, but given my problems with the P8P67 I might be willing to upgrade if the darned thing was just stable.