*** Official ASUS P4C800/Deluxe (875P) Thread ***

[LordOfTheBlings]

ok, this may be a stupid question but here goes...

i seem to remember a little sticker covering that little white plastic thing at one end of my AGP slot, but i can't remember what it said (and like an idiot i peeled it off).

anyway, i just bought a PowerColor Radeon 9800 Pro and i was wondering if i have to remove that plastic piece in the AGP slot. someone plz set me straight on this weird little piece of plastic, i can't find a damned thing in the manual about it.

 

[mngisdood]

The tab says 'Remove Safety Tab when using AGP Pro Card. No worries, removing it is not a huge deal.

 

[LordOfTheBlings]

Originally posted by: mngisdood
The tab says 'Remove Safety Tab when using AGP Pro Card. No worries, removing it is not a huge deal.

so then i will or will not notice a boost in performance either way? cuz i'll gladly remove it if i'll get extra performance...

but it would seem as though there is a large gap in my AGP slot if i did remove it. the 9800 Pro fits just fine as of right now. i guess what im getting at is: does the plastic device act as a sort of govenor, clipping the performance at a certain point? it's not like i have to remove the piece for the card to fit.

i really am a n00b so i need help with these kind of things. oh, and i have been drinking today so forgive me if you can't really follow what im asking.

 

[jose]

jhites:

Can you post your settings of you 2.6 @ 3.4 system. ie vcore, ddr voltage, turbo , mem settings etc.

My friend has a p4c800 and would like to use your settings as a reference.

Thank you for your help.

Regards,
Jose

 

[walk2]

AGP-Pro cards are longer, the plastic tab is there to prevent you from putting a non-pro card in the wrong way, which could fry both the card and motherboard. Leave the tab in if you are not using an AGP-Pro card, there will be no performance difference, it's purely a safety thing.

 

[jhites]

Originally posted by: jose
jhites:
Can you post your settings of you 2.6 @ 3.4 system. ie vcore, ddr voltage, turbo , mem settings etc.

Remember - Every system, cpu and mem is going to be a little different but here you go.

All devices are disabled except for Lan, usb and 1 com port. Under the Advanced Tab settings from top to bottom for voltage and chipset sub levels are:
Freq/Voltage 262; [320];66/33; 1.65; 2.85; 1.70; Auto
Chipset spd Disabled; 2.0; 2; 2; 5; 4; Auto; Infinite; 64uSec

LianLi Case; Antec Tru480; SLK900U with 57cfm panaflo 92mm; ATI AIW 9700

 

[IntelInsideIdiotOutside]

jhites, me again

any info on the zalman cnps7000cu fitting the asus p4c800? thanks!

 

[jhites]

Originally posted by: IntelInsideIdiotOutside
jhites, me again

any info on the zalman cnps7000cu fitting the asus p4c800? thanks!

Never tried the Zalman on my P4C800 board, so I can't really say for sure that it fits. I am running the SLK900U on the P4C800, which is also large and heavy. My guess would be that it does fit.

 

[ainfante]

any info on the zalman cnps7000cu fitting the asus p4c800? thanks!

It fits - the NB heatsink is low enough not to clash with the Zalman.

Having a passive NB heatsink is actually, for me, one of the most important added values of this mobo (vs the Gigabyte and the Abit, for example) - along with the Zalman (plus an Antec TruBlue CPU, a fluid-bearing HD and a bunch of slow moving fans) it allows me to have a 3.3 GHz system which is so silent I can't hear it, period.

 

[IntelInsideIdiotOutside]

sweet, if all works out i'll be getting this board after i send in the abit. at the moment im havin a bit of a problem though, the shop wants to charge me extra for the switch :|

 

[cownipples]

For anyone interested, I have tried 2 different cooling solutions for my overclock, the first being the swiftech 4000 heatsink and a tornado fan which work pretty good idle temps of 85 deg and load of 115 deg. I got tired of the noise of the fan and tried a new solution called subzerog4 by thermaltake. I would recommend this to everyone it is quite and runs idle temp of 73 deg and full load at 90 deg which is awsome I'm running a 2.4c at 30% overclock at 3.124 gig running real cool and extra quite here are the specs of this awsome thermal electric cooling system subzerog4

I bought mine for $110.00 delivered to my house!

 

[trininox]

Using windows xp and the largest size HDD (Maxtor 250GB's) that 6 supportable in XP? and motherboard can handle 4 SATA, 2 PATA ? so 1500GB? in actuallity the usable space will be less but in essence 1.5TB... am I right here? (The ICH5R boards dont have the capabliity of 4 SATA because no secondary controller also, right?)

I'm just interested, looking to maybe getting 3 more SATA 120's or something, which could have 2 in raid and two other seperate?

 

[sillious]

I need help please. Well I had it all running perfect. My hard drives were fine, XP was running smooth, it even showed 2 CPU in the Device Manager listings as I set to HT enabled. My drives configurations: Maxtor UATA133 160GB set as primary, WD 200GB UTA100 set as secondary, and they were both connected to the ATA133 channel, not the Pri IDE on the motherboard and everything was rinning fine. Last night I took the WD ATA100 HD and attached it to the Pri IDE on the motherboard and since then when I turn the power switch on, nothing happens. My monitor shows no activity other than the VGA signal blinking on the monitor. I put everything back the way it was working, still I get the same nothing.

All my fans, LED are running, but no activity on the screen. Anyone have any guess? Today I'm going to take apart everything and assemble the whole system again, but menawhile if any of you pro has any suggestions, please give advice to this novice or first time builder

Thanks.

 

[walk2]

Originally posted by: trininox
Using windows xp and the largest size HDD (Maxtor 250GB's) that 6 supportable in XP? and motherboard can handle 4 SATA, 2 PATA ?

6 RAID, yes. 4 more on the UDMA 100

10 total = 4 IDE on the Intel UltraATA-100/66, 2 SATA on the Intel ICHR (which may be RAID under XP), then 2 SATA and 2 IDE(Ultra133) on the Promise RAID controller.

I suppose if you hooked up the internal Firewire connector to an internal FW HDD you could get another internal - where you would mount the drive I dunno!

Of course you could use 1 external Firewire disk, and at least 8 USB 2.0 disks (more using USB hubs I guess).

 

[trininox]

Hmm the possibilities... i think 1.5TB is a good enough solution for me

 

[mt3580]

I have Corsair Hydrocool for my system. Idle 28/ full load 36.
I can boot my 2.4C around 3.1 with relaxed timings with my hyperx PC3200. 2-4-4-7.
However, when i try higher speed such as up to 3.3+ my computer boots into windows but freezes when i run wc3 replay 8x for a min or 2.

with 3.1@1.80Vcore i've set my ratio to 320. 2-4-4-7@2.85Vdimm
with 3.3@1.875Vcore i've set my ratio to 266. 2.5-4-4-7@2.85Vdimm

Anyone got any suggestions? is it my ddr?

 

[bacillus]

you really shouldn't exceed 1.70V on a p4 if you want it to last & not die suddenly!

 

[IntelInsideIdiotOutside]

lol 1.8V? I'd be carefull if i were you!!

 

[jhites]

Originally posted by: mt3580

Anyone got any suggestions? is it my ddr?

Way to much voltage for a P4C. Sell that chip and replace it with another. You should not need above 1.675v bios or 1.60v under load to get 3.1Ghz for a 2.4C.

 

[GasPath]

Sillious:

You are having the same problem lots of other P4C800 owners are having. I am having a similiar problem. Mine started when I tried to upgrade my P4C800 Deluxe to a new processor. Kept getting the CPU Failed message. Put my old processor back in and same thing. I tried multiple reboots and finally got the backup bios to take over. Now, I can't get any of my CPUs to run at stock speed. I've had to set the FSB back to 100 (manually) to get the motherboard to boot. I've been on other sites where people are having the same situation. Seems something is goofy with the motherboard, although one guy says he can fix the problem by reducing the force of the heatsink on the processor (I'll try to get a link and PM it to you). I'm still working my issue by taking the bios back to an earlier version, but I'd hold much hope for that fixing anything.

 

[xnurbsx]

A few months ago I upgraded my system to a P4 3.0C, Asus P4C800 with two Corsair 512 mb PC3200LL TwinX modules. Despite a warning that the PC3200LL was incompatible with the board from the place I bought it from, it ran great for about three months. Now I get random crashes all the time for no reason whatsoever. Seg faults, the whole system shutting itself off all of the sudden, every error under the sun. There is no discernable pattern, nor a certain amount of time passes before they occur.

I have tried many different BIOS settings that I have read as recommended in this forum, as well as the Corsair forums (with the latest BIOS as well: 1010)

I tried another memory module: 1 Corsair 512 PC3200 CAS-2 CMX. With both types of modules I get a hefty error count in memtest.

It cannot be as a result of the OS (I have reloaded & reformatted windows XP pro several times and Linux 2.4.20 only has slighter problems due to better memory management ). It cannot be another piece of hardware, I have tested the memory and tried running my system with basically nothing but a graphics card and a hard drive (different working hard drives, as well).

Heat levels are perfectly normal.

I am fairly certain that this has nothing to do with my RAM. However, the warning from my retailer that the RAM modules I had purchased were not compatible with my motherboard still linger in my memory. My question is: Does anyone have any other ideas before I scrap this motherboard? Someone also mentioned that it might help if I had a 400W PSU with my current hardware setup and my seven various fans.

Other hardware details:
CWT 300W PSU
Leadtek GeForce 4 Ti4600 128mb AGP 4x
SB Live
etc..

Thanks.

 

[IntelInsideIdiotOutside]

GasPath and Sillious: have you tried clearing the cmos? just a thought.

 

[jcpiercy]

Hi Guys

trying to make all the right connections on my Asus P4C 800 Deluxe

Im reading the manual , but its not showing me what I want to know

Can the following System Panel Connections be made in correctly
Is there right way and a wrong to attach these connectors

Polarity ???

Power Led
IDE Led
Speaker Connector
Reset SW
ATX Power Switch

Can I test these connections in anyway < I dont have any CPU or ram installed
Just motherboard and PSU are mounted in the case

-----------------------------

Im also having so troubles with connecting the USB Headers
USB56 and USB78

On the side of the 2 square black connectors it is labeled
1 GND USB+ USB- VCC
2 GND USB+ USB- VCC
and 2 single wires marked ground



Link to USB Connector Picture
(Picture of the USB connector)

On the header USB56 itself there is a row of 5 pins on one side
labeled----- USB +6V USB P6- USB P6+ GND

the other side it has 4 pins

labeled USB +5v USB P5 GND

I cant figure this stuff out

I have a KingWin 436 Case with front USB


This is my first time at building so no flames please


JP

 

[rhawk79]

Originally posted by: xnurbsx
A few months ago I upgraded my system to a P4 3.0C, Asus P4C800 with two Corsair 512 mb PC3200LL TwinX modules. Despite a warning that the PC3200LL was incompatible with the board from the place I bought it from, it ran great for about three months. Now I get random crashes all the time for no reason whatsoever. Seg faults, the whole system shutting itself off all of the sudden, every error under the sun. There is no discernable pattern, nor a certain amount of time passes before they occur.

I have tried many different BIOS settings that I have read as recommended in this forum, as well as the Corsair forums (with the latest BIOS as well: 1010)

I tried another memory module: 1 Corsair 512 PC3200 CAS-2 CMX. With both types of modules I get a hefty error count in memtest.

It cannot be as a result of the OS (I have reloaded & reformatted windows XP pro several times and Linux 2.4.20 only has slighter problems due to better memory management ). It cannot be another piece of hardware, I have tested the memory and tried running my system with basically nothing but a graphics card and a hard drive (different working hard drives, as well).

Heat levels are perfectly normal.

I am fairly certain that this has nothing to do with my RAM. However, the warning from my retailer that the RAM modules I had purchased were not compatible with my motherboard still linger in my memory. My question is: Does anyone have any other ideas before I scrap this motherboard? Someone also mentioned that it might help if I had a 400W PSU with my current hardware setup and my seven various fans.

Other hardware details:
CWT 300W PSU
Leadtek GeForce 4 Ti4600 128mb AGP 4x
SB Live
etc..

Thanks.

I've had a similiar problem, albiet with different system components...p4 3.0C, P4C800-E deluxe, 4 * 256 OCZ PC3700 Gold, 9800 Pro...

I originally had the P4P800 Deluxe, but I upgraded to the P4C800-E Deluxe for slightly better performance. Yes the board is faster but that was stupid. It wasn't broken and I tried to fix it. From day one, my system would not boot over 217fsb with hyperthreading enabled..never had this problem on the P4P800 Deluxe...over the last 40 days it has gotten progressively worse. Basically everytime my system starts randomnly rebooting I lower the fsb. In order to get my system stable I'm now down to 170 (ouch!!).

Newegg sent me a new P4C800-E and this didn't help. I have quick access to hardware at work so I swapped the sound card, video card, and tested with different RAM but this didn't help. So I've narrowed it down the CPU. I think something has gone wrong with it. Newegg is sending a new one...should be here Tuesday so hopefully the problem will be resolved then...basically I would try disabling hyperthreading and lowering your fsb (even under 200)...if your problems go away then your cpu may be causing the instability.

 

[CyberMI]

Hi. I have a P4C800-E Deluxe and had a question concerning the RAID controller. I've tried installing the 378RAID file from Asus, but Windows doesn't like it. It states (under the device manager) 'The component is not working (error #10).' I should note that I get a message after booting that the Promise Fastrak is searching for the IDE drives. Then a 'Bios not loaded' message when it can't find them. It boots to Windows XP and does fine, it seems. I'm using a couple of Raptor 36.7GB SATA HD drives and have the 1010 bios. That is the only problem I've had with this board. Any ideas how to get the RAID controller driver installed?

I have P4C800 Deluxe and I'm having the same problems.

I updated to 1007 and then to 1010. Booting up shows that the Promise controller has a version of '1.0.1.34' and is properly detecting the two ATA drives connected to it which I have setup in a RAID 0. (note: Not SATA, just old regular IDE drives)

If I use the driver I had before (1.0.0.23) it works fine. But if I update to that new driver I recieve that error #10 message, the promise controller doesn't work properly in windows and as a result my RAID drive vanishes.

I can rollback to that driver and get it working again, but I'm sure I'm taking a performance hit as a result. Any ideas on why it won't load the new driver correctly?