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I replaced my board with a P5Q Deluxe a few months back. However, I passed the P5N-E SLI to my brother and it now runs a Q6600 quad at stock speed 24/7 quite happily. He'll run it until it dies, hopefully he'll get a few years out of it. I ran it 24/7 for over a year. Ironically - one of the...

Well most of us with these boards have either sorted out their issues or abandoned the board. And hardly anyone buys these boards new now, so it's natural the thread has died. As for Q9450 - no chance, the 45nm Quads are not compatible with this board, just the duals.

1001 BIOS worked perfectly for me, and I'd guess the 1002 is pretty similar. But I have now removed my board and replaced with an ASUS P5Q deluxe. Enables me to overclock my quad past 3GHz plus it enabled me to fit 8GB RAM which was pretty difficult with the P5N-E. Guess I'll fit a cheap dual...

Yes, I bought 8GB for another machine (P35 board) and it works fine there. I tried it in the P5N-E and same as you - 6GB is fine but 8GB won't boot. You don't get the normal "beep" to say all is well, and there is no output on the monitor. I suspect that 8GB is not possible with most memory...

Has anyone tried 8GB on this board ? It is supposed to take up to 8GB, but of course history tells us this is no guarantee it actually will. With earlier BIOSs I think there would have been little chance, but the later ones seem to have improved memory compatibility a lot, so I reckon there is a...

ASUS tech support emailed it to me in response to the problem I reported with 0901 in terms of not being able to increase the multiplier. I guess you can contact them as well The machine is running perfectly on 1001. My 4 x 1GB of RAM is running sweet at it's rated 800, tested 12 hrs on...

Thanks ! 0901 had already fixed the hole in the memory

2.3 is way too high, you run the risk of killing the RAM 2.2v may be OK but ideally needs some cooling on the RAM 2.1v is my personal maximum for long term use. 2T is the key with 4 sticks - did you set that ? It may just be that your RAM is not that compatible with the board.

I don't know about those modules - but conservative settings would be 5-5-5-18 2T and 2.085v. If they don't work at those setting, then they just won't work. I assume you have stock 266FSB with memory 800 ?

My faith in ASUS is restored ! The 1001 BIOS ASUS support in China sent me now gives me full multiplier control back, and the 4 x 1GB memory hole is still fixed. Perfect, I'm very happy. I should never need to flash the BIOS again on this board.

Sounds like the CMOS did clear. What you do have to do is manually set the memory voltage and timings, that could be why it won't boot with 4 sticks

Hmm.. it certainly solved my 4 x 1GB issue. Did you clear the CMOS after the flash ? Is your Northbridge voltgae set to auto ? I've always used auto for that, and it still works at that setting for 800

I don't know - presumably you need to type in 0901.bin not just "0901"

Great news - ASUS support have sent me a new BIOS to try. When I get home tonight I'll give it a try and report back !!

How I did it: downloaded the 0901 BIOS onto a memory stick. Booted the machine and entered the BIOS, and went into EZFlash and followed the instructions. After the flash, it was necessary to clear the CMOS using the jumper on the motherboard. Instructions for that in the manual. Just moved the...