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

[Fishy007]

Originally posted by: MBroomfield
On initial power up of a new system I'm getting no warning beeps and nothing on the monitor. I wonder if anyone can help.

The system is as follows;

P5B Deluxe
E6700
MEM 1Gx4 CORSAIR VS2GBKIT667D2
4x250 WD SATA II (2 connected for now)
CASE THERMALTAKE VA8000BWS
CPU FAN ZALMAN CNPS950
PSU HIPER HPU-4B580-MS 580W
DVD_BURN SAMSUNG SH-S182D
VGA MSI A RX1600PRO-TD256E

Initially the power seemed to cut off for a second, then the MB reset and started up, but no beeps during post and no video. 2nd power cycle it didn't reset, but still no beeps or video.
Turned everything off and rechecked my connections, same as before.
I've reset the CMOS according to a FAQ on the ASUS site, no change except that it no longer does the reset 1st time it starts up.
I've reset the power supply according to the same FAQ, no change.
Swapped the SAT cables to the 2 HDDs that are connected and powered in case the 1st is bad to avoid a HD error.
Pulled 3 of the mem sticks, no change, exchanged 1st 2 for 2nd 2, no change.
Removed all, no change.

Monitor is on and is a good one running on an older system.
Mouse and KB also run OK on my older system.
All the fans are running OK, including the CPU.
Power is getting to the DVD (drawer opens)
The MB LED is OK (blue in standby and pale red when running).

Could have a bad video card and I could check that out next weekend when I can get my hands on an old one of mine.

Anyone else had this problem or have some good ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

Did you connect 2x4pin for the cpu power supply? Not just 1x4pin?

 

[regoblin83]

Hey,

So afther searchin the net doing reinstals of windows and so here is my final destination.

I can't get the line in or microphone input working. In the soundmax software everithing is enabled, even the software knows when I plug in a device.

So I can't use a stupid microphone on this board.

So what do I have to do to solve this. On the asus forums there is also a problem reported but no answer on it.

I'm doing also some recording of ald lp's so I realy need a line in. The last option I have is to use the usb sound card that I have.

 

[bomberb17]

Im intrested in buying this mobo. I want to connect it to my home cinema DD receiver using SPDIF or optical. Anyone know if i'll get 5.1 sound in games? (think its called Dolby digital live or something)

 

[spiderhole]

P5B Deluxe here with XP Pro sp2. After installing drivers for everything there are a couple of weird things happening..

-I still have an "unknown PCI device" in the device manager


-When I plug in a firewire external drive, the "Found New Hardware" Wizard pops up, and the Dev Mang shows an unknown dev entry for "DMI HID". The drive works fine though.

Maybe these two things are related somehow. I have the onboard audio disabled in the bios, btw (running an Audigy2 card).

 

[spiderhole]

Ok, just found out the "DMI HID" thing is related to my external drive needing the backup push-button software installed.

Unknown device still unsolved.

 

[hkklife]

Install the Asus AiSuite, that'll resolve the unknown PCI device. I think it's a chip the mobo uses for tempurature sensing.

It'll let you know your cpu/mobo temps and fan speeds as well as set some overclocking properties from within Windows. Otherwise, just install it and ignore it if you want to get rid of the exclamation point "unknown device" in device manager.

 

[phatlix]

I just want to say thank you, hkklife!

I have been browsing this thread for a couple days now. Skipping around (instead of reading 27 pages of the same thing over and over).

I did not realize that the dang AiSuite was the frig'n solution for that unknow device... I figured it would have been something that stupidly easy.

Thank you for that ID10T slap.

Sooo... To the rest of the readers. I have been working with this P5B Deluxe for about 3 weeks. I needed a cheap "good" board for a server install. ASUS had the support for Conroe that I wanted with onboard RAID and a bit better driver support then the Intel DG965xx sister board I was looking at.

I needed to install 2000 SBS on this bad boy but still wanted to enjoy at least some audio. The intel stuff strictly supports 2000 pro, XP pro, and claims of 2003. This is lame, and even 2003 sucked for driver support. If you don't need anything to work onboard, then the Intel solution is a great board. Not trying to bash them... but get with program people. The audio does work on the ASUS board, and the drivers load the SoundMAX HD driver... but the bios setting does need to be AC97 on a server OS build.

As for memory issues... I did have issues with the P5B Deluxe. I experienced the common "no post, no video, but board fans fire up". This was infact a board issue and not a memory issue. Even with the board set to "AUTO", that does not mean it will perform that way. I originally had 2 sticks of 512 super talent, and the system fired up fine. Desided I wanted to use my 2 sticks of 1 gig Centon memory. The system would not boot and got the problem described above. Even after sticking the previous ram back in the system it would not boot.

To reset this, I pulled the memory out of the system and fired it up... got my beep codes and shut it back down. Put the 2x512 back in the system. The system came back up. Now I went into the bios and changed the mem voltage from AUTO to 2.00v, saved setting and exit... shut the system down before the next post and put my 2x1gig back in the system. Fired it up and now had my new memory working fine.

My system parts are as follows...
P5B Deluxe (bios: 0711)
E6300 (Conroe - stock HS and Fan)
2X1GIG Gemini PC2-4200 (533 Centon 4-4-4-4-12 1:1)
XFX GeForce 6200 (cuz I needed video)
4x160 Samsung SATA drives (2 arrays in mirror (RAID1))
Antec 3800B Case
- 2 x 120mm antec fans (front and back of case)

The system is over clocked (or stepped up a hair) to 2.33Ghz Count: 2. Set the CPU freq. to 333 and Memory voltage to 2.00... everything else is AUTO for the most part.
Idle Temp 37c - 40c
Full Load 43c - 46c (using 3Dmark2001 batch reloading, Orthos CPU Stress Test, CoreTemp all at the same time for about 5 hours... no errors )

I thing this will suffice for me.

Thanks again for that tid bit... sad that I am in the middle of a OS reload on that system (thinking it was a retarded chipset driver problem), then I finally look at the last post. That sux.

Take it easy all.

 

[Prince13]

Thanks for the info phatlix & hkklife. Gonna try OC asap. The weather has gone quite cold over here. The CPU casing is there in a closed cabinet sorta. With a fan blowing from side, and one working as exhaust on the top and the PSU too blowing the air out. Is this a good airflow? I have not OC the system yet and using the stock heatsink which came with it. Getting 33-36 idle temp and 41 under full load. Tha't normal? My Thermaltake Big Typhoon is on the way. How much will it drop the temperatures?

 

[hkklife]

Those temps sound good to me, mine's about 30-34 idle and 38-41 under a full load and that's in a Super Lanboy case.

No idea on the Big Typhoon but it should only help matters.

My main complaints with the board are that it still locks up maybe 2/3 of the time when I go into the BIOS and look at the hardware monitor. Then when it does work it takes quite a while (I suppose to register the fans' speeds).

My other big complaint is that the board is very picky with its RAM. I had a pair of PQI 1gb DDR2 PC5400 modules purchaed in the spring. When I bought the P5B Deluxe I bought 2 more sticks of the EXACT same memory (both from Newegg) to be Vista-ready with 4gb. The odd thing is that the P5B will only post with the OLDER pair of the memory, even though all specs & timings are identical between them. But the newer pair of PQI sticks works fine on my old P5AD2 board. So I don't know if I should RMA them or wait for a hopeful future Asus BIOS update to improve memory compatability. PQI did change the design of the heatspreaders from chrome on the old ones to a glossy black on the new ones but I don't see how that's make a difference. Timings etc are all the same between all 4 sticks.

Other than those two issues (and the lame onboard audio--I still get some garbled sound and occasional speaker auto-detection quirks) I'm pretty pleased with it. I'd still like to see a P5B-E Deluxe or a 2.0 version down the road as a more mature, compatible offering...and I wouldn't mind having a parallel port either.

If the board really cannot handle 4x1gb sticks then I'll probably replace it in a year or less, since I imagine 4gb might be important for Crysis and other highend DX10 games running under Vista next year.

 

[ballinthejack]

P5B XMS TWIN Corsair DDR2-800c4 issue...
I cannot get my board to recognize all 4 one gig sticks (in POST).
no matter where I put them.
each tests fine alone in slot3 like ASUS tech told me to do.
He also told me to clear cmos. I did.
Reset the needed values.
I set the memory to 2.1v and DDR2-800 in bios
Any hints or help?
much appreciated. thanks

P.S. Where do I set the 4-4-4-12 stuff in the BIOS?
______________________________________________
P5Bdlx wifi/ap bios0711
2 packs of Corsair TWIN MATCHED XMS ddr2800C4 ram
Antec TPII-550
Armor case
1.4Tb of SATA2 across 5 drives
2 DVD burners
X-fi plat (not installed yet)
Viewsonic VP2030b
5 HID units
WinXPpro




-------------------------
trying, then dying

 

[MBroomfield]

Originally posted by: Fishy007

Originally posted by: MBroomfield
On initial power up of a new system I'm getting no warning beeps and nothing on the monitor. I wonder if anyone can help.

The system is as follows;

P5B Deluxe
E6700
MEM 1Gx4 CORSAIR VS2GBKIT667D2
4x250 WD SATA II (2 connected for now)
CASE THERMALTAKE VA8000BWS
CPU FAN ZALMAN CNPS950
PSU HIPER HPU-4B580-MS 580W
DVD_BURN SAMSUNG SH-S182D
VGA MSI A RX1600PRO-TD256E

Initially the power seemed to cut off for a second, then the MB reset and started up, but no beeps during post and no video. 2nd power cycle it didn't reset, but still no beeps or video.
Turned everything off and rechecked my connections, same as before.
I've reset the CMOS according to a FAQ on the ASUS site, no change except that it no longer does the reset 1st time it starts up.
I've reset the power supply according to the same FAQ, no change.
Swapped the SAT cables to the 2 HDDs that are connected and powered in case the 1st is bad to avoid a HD error.
Pulled 3 of the mem sticks, no change, exchanged 1st 2 for 2nd 2, no change.
Removed all, no change.

Monitor is on and is a good one running on an older system.
Mouse and KB also run OK on my older system.
All the fans are running OK, including the CPU.
Power is getting to the DVD (drawer opens)
The MB LED is OK (blue in standby and pale red when running).

Could have a bad video card and I could check that out next weekend when I can get my hands on an old one of mine.

Anyone else had this problem or have some good ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

Did you connect 2x4pin for the cpu power supply? Not just 1x4pin?

Thanks for the suggestion Fishy I'll check tomorrow when I get home. I suspect it's OK though as I had help from my IT hardware buddy at work doing the initial wiring and he's built many many systems, including some Asus boards (not this one though). As well as checking this connection I'll be taking my mem sticks and video card to work for him to check in a system with an Intel MB. If all is OK then I'll look for an alternative MB and RMA this.

Looking at this string I see that many folks have problems with 1GB mem sticks on the P5B deluxe, so if my other HW is OK then I'll assume this compatibility is the issue.

Mike

 

[Fishy007]

Originally posted by: ballinthejack
P5B XMS TWIN Corsair DDR2-800c4 issue...
I cannot get my board to recognize all 4 one gig sticks (in POST).
no matter where I put them.
each tests fine alone in slot3 like ASUS tech told me to do.
He also told me to clear cmos. I did.
Reset the needed values.
I set the memory to 2.1v and DDR2-800 in bios
Any hints or help?
much appreciated. thanks

P.S. Where do I set the 4-4-4-12 stuff in the BIOS?
______________________________________________
P5Bdlx wifi/ap bios0711
2 packs of Corsair TWIN MATCHED XMS ddr2800C4 ram
Antec TPII-550
Armor case
1.4Tb of SATA2 across 5 drives
2 DVD burners
X-fi plat (not installed yet)
Viewsonic VP2030b
5 HID units

There's a setting somewhere in the bios that says 'use expanded memory'. It might be under the chipset settings.

You need to enable that for anything greater than 3gb.

 

[ballinthejack]

Thansk Fishy007
much appreciated

 

[n4sa]

Hey, I am using a P5B with 2x 250gb SATA Hdd's and trying to install a RAID1. THe only problem is, in the raid utility only 1 hdd is showing up. And in Cmos the dvd-rom (IDE) is showing as a raid device.. How can i fix this?

 

[hkklife]

There are new beta JMicron RAID drivers up on the Asus web site, dated yesterday. The installer locked up when I tried to run it so proceed with caution.

 

[Prince13]

Thanks for the answer regarding temperatures hkklife . I contacted ASUS about the faulty drivers for Jmicron & Soundmax onboard audio device on 14th instant. I am very disappointed with their response time. I got e-mail from them yesterday. The guy had attached Jmicron beta drivers and asked me to test those and let him know. He also pointed me to a link which apprently was hosting 4580 version (latest if 4570) of Soundmax drivers. I hope they put it up on ASUS soon. The link did not work for me. It was giving 404 error.

As for the Jmicron drivers, the guy said he's splitting into four files, he only sent me two! I will not install Jmicron driver again. I will use Windows default one which works fine I think.

 

[fjsc3]

Hi all,
I'm currently using a S754 Athlon, so it's been a while since my last upgrade.

My plan: to get an E6300+ stable&fairly overclockable Motherboard.
The P5B (non-deluxe) seems like a good candidate, so now that enough BIOS have been released, the dust seems to have settled, right?

Here are my questions (I know that some have been PARTIALLY answered elswere in this thread, so please don't flame me, just read on):



1- My plan is to get to about 40% overclock over stock. no need for extra PCI-E 16x, etc. Is there any real advantage in getting the Deluxe (in terms of stability I mean). Again, I don't want to go for extreme overclocking - reaching the equivalent of say 2.6GHz would be good enough for me. How about the P5B-Vm and P5B-E - has anyone overclocked them successfully?

2- When you overclock a C2D Motherboard, how does the power stepping work? Does it still work at all? I.e. let's say I'm running an overclocked E6300 at 2.6GHz, does it reduce the operating frequency when idle, just like it would if not overclocked? For instance, if you overclock an Athlon (at least the older models), Cooln'quiet no longer works, so the CPU doesn't throttle to about 1/3 when idle. Does the C2D reduce the clock speed when idle even when OClocked?

3- Can I use my Enermax PSU from back when with a new Motherboard - connectors still the same, etc? I'm NOT a gamer, so no SLI, XFire or anything requiring extra power connectors will be used - just basic X1300 card or equivalent.

4- When overclocking, naturally, the CPU temps are higher, but how much so in your case, can you share your experience? How about the other components, how much higher is the Motherboard temp for instance?

5- Coolers: For this type of overclocking, are there really any alternatives to the larger Scythes or Thermaltakes if you want virtual noiselessness (one of the main reasons for going C2D)? Can you run an AC Freezer 7 at 5v-7v (with a Zalman Fanmate) and still get good temps? If anyone has a similar setup, what temps are you getting?

6- I have a pair of OCZ PC2-5400 sticks - are there any known problems with the P5B? Anyone else using it?

7- If you want to upgrade memory in steps, being dual channel is it impossible to add a third stick - does it only work with 2 or 4?

8- In my case OClocking is only necessary when running fairly complex scientific computations which can run from 1hour to a couple of days (hence the need for stability), so every extra bit of speed helps. But most of the time stock speeds will do just fine. Is it possible to set up dinamic OC, or "OC on demand" from Windows for this Motherboard, or do you have to through the normal process of rebooting and loading the OC Bios settings?



Well, quite a large number of questions for one post. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

cheers
Ze

 

[MBroomfield]

Originally posted by: MBroomfield

Originally posted by: Fishy007

Originally posted by: MBroomfield
On initial power up of a new system I'm getting no warning beeps and nothing on the monitor. I wonder if anyone can help.

The system is as follows;

P5B Deluxe
E6700
MEM 1Gx4 CORSAIR VS2GBKIT667D2
4x250 WD SATA II (2 connected for now)
CASE THERMALTAKE VA8000BWS
CPU FAN ZALMAN CNPS950
PSU HIPER HPU-4B580-MS 580W
DVD_BURN SAMSUNG SH-S182D
VGA MSI A RX1600PRO-TD256E

Initially the power seemed to cut off for a second, then the MB reset and started up, but no beeps during post and no video. 2nd power cycle it didn't reset, but still no beeps or video.
Turned everything off and rechecked my connections, same as before.
I've reset the CMOS according to a FAQ on the ASUS site, no change except that it no longer does the reset 1st time it starts up.
I've reset the power supply according to the same FAQ, no change.
Swapped the SAT cables to the 2 HDDs that are connected and powered in case the 1st is bad to avoid a HD error.
Pulled 3 of the mem sticks, no change, exchanged 1st 2 for 2nd 2, no change.
Removed all, no change.

Monitor is on and is a good one running on an older system.
Mouse and KB also run OK on my older system.
All the fans are running OK, including the CPU.
Power is getting to the DVD (drawer opens)
The MB LED is OK (blue in standby and pale red when running).

Could have a bad video card and I could check that out next weekend when I can get my hands on an old one of mine.

Anyone else had this problem or have some good ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

Did you connect 2x4pin for the cpu power supply? Not just 1x4pin?

Thanks for the suggestion Fishy I'll check tomorrow when I get home. I suspect it's OK though as I had help from my IT hardware buddy at work doing the initial wiring and he's built many many systems, including some Asus boards (not this one though). As well as checking this connection I'll be taking my mem sticks and video card to work for him to check in a system with an Intel MB. If all is OK then I'll look for an alternative MB and RMA this.

Looking at this string I see that many folks have problems with 1GB mem sticks on the P5B deluxe, so if my other HW is OK then I'll assume this compatibility is the issue.

Mike

I just finished checking my video and mem sticks. We found one of the 1GB sticks bad. The other 3 and the video were all OK. I'll check without the bad stick over the weekend and see if that fixes it. If not the board will go back, and of course the bad memory will go back either way.

Mike

 

[ingenue007]

what's the failure rate on this board? I got my p5b from buy.com yesterday and flashed to new bios and installed XP on there. i put cpu voltage at 1.5 and ram voltage at 2.2 for my ocz ddr2 800. i was running fine at >450 FSB when the dang thing just shut down. i tried cmos reset, replacing video, PSU etc. in the end i went to frys and picked up a pb5 non deluxe and system boots up and everything is recognized.

i guess i had a bad board that just died. off to RMA it goes.

 

[bterrill]

Hi all,

Let me try to save some people some of the nightmare I went through. First off I will openly admit I am quite the noob. The last pc I built was in 1998 (I bought a Dell 2.66 in 2003) so I've never used SATA drives, or DDR2, nor PCI Express and all the good stuff I ventured in to.

First here is my setup on Windows XP Pro

Build Specs:
=====================
Case = Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS Black Aluminum/Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Motherboard = ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP Socket T (LGA 775) Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
PSU Unit = HIPER HPU-4B580-MS ATX12V 580W Power Supply 100 - 120V
Video Card = eVGA 512-P2-N635-AR Geforce 7950GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
Memory = GeIL Ultra 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1000 (PC2 8000) Dual Channel Kit
DVD = LG 16X DVD±R Super-Multi DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black E-IDE/ATAPI
CPU = Intel® Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe Processor 2.4GHz, 1066FSB, LGA775, 4MB Cache
HD = Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB Serial ATA 10,000RPM Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer
=====================


There's a lot of people who knock this mother board, and rightfully so, I would of done the same except I wasn't naive enough to think it wasn't possible user fault. It took me hours to get the heatsink on the motherboard, only to find a no post which was because I did not plug the additional 4 pin PSU cord in to the upper part of the motherboard (I am used to only the main 20-24 pin connecter).

Finally got that done and I could not use my SATA drive. It sucked to find out I had to set that up before I installed windows (as I had just spent 6 hours setting up Windows); again, user fault. Of course, it is WINDOWS fault you have to use a floppy because I've not had one since ages ago. Even though I did find one in the midsts of the ol 166-500mhz's sitting in my basement I had no floppy disks!. Hours of google I found out you can use nLite to make a xp cd to implement the driver in to your setup disc (whew).

Anyways, FINALLY get it up and running, after 2 days (I'm self employed and work from home, so I mean damn near 2 days straight messing with this) I decide I might as well update my BIOS. Afterall, I get the wrong readings on my GeIL PC 8000 / 1000 mhz ram (cpuz says it is pc 5300 mhz @ 333mhz for some reason). I had my friend who is a tech in a town pc shop pick all my stuff out since he knows the stuff and I do not but I later learned that the mobo does not support this high of memory. I assumed it would underclock it like it's supposed to but not by this much. Oh well, the timing is off too. I fixed those in BIOS myself (quite easy btw) and got the timing down to the cl4-4-4-12 @ 2.4v like the box says and it seemed ok. I didn't notice much increase in the benchmarks I ran though, infact, it said the same results.

ANYWAYS, sorry for rambling, but SOMEONE has to be doing the same I am so lets get to the common problem (I have been on google/1413241324231 diff forums in the last 3 days trying to fix my problems). I got to the BIOS update, like I said, and again I have no floppy so I opt'd for the windows install. Luckily, charter cable really sucks and kept cutting out [I found out later that ASUS's windows updater usually corrupts the bios beyond repair) so I opt'd for the USB flash drive solution. I did exactly like the ASUS website and manual said. I reset my bios to default and all that.

The BIOS flash sait it was successful, but on reboot it was dead. Nothing. Now I sound like everyone else huh? I didn't want it to get the best of me so I surfed around some more and found a few bits of info accross many forums and pieced it together. I didn't need to take the battery out or use the clear jumper at all. What I did to fix it was to simply unplug ALL my stuff except my CPU.

Unplug this:
Video card
IDE cable to the motherboard (can leave in dvd rom since it has no hook up to the mobo atm)
ALL your ram (don't leave any in there).
Unplug ALL your on board goodies like the firewire thing, the usb ports (If you know my case it has the push thing on the top that has usb slots and such which I ran to the mobo usb part) and unplug your audio jumper (ac or hd don't matter).
Unplug your SATA/HD mobo cable (again can leave it into your hd just unplug it @ the mobo)

With ONLY your cpu left all hooked up turn on your corrupt/failed/whatever-asus-did-to-us-poor-guys bios and you will hear "beep, BEEP BEEP, beep, BEEP BEEP" non stopped. I heard it for 1 minute straight before I turned it off, but alas it had life as before it was a no posting black dead screen.

Slowly put your stuff back in, but the key is the way you put it in (I think). The common problem with this bios fail(even though it says success, most of us reported) is it seems to be happening to only two types of people:
1) People with 1 X gb sticks of ram, and more than one (ie, 2 X gb+; this may also effect a 2 GB stick if those exist, I'm not sure...)
2) People with SATA drives (not sure on RAID, I guess so since it's the same drive type??)
3) I think this might be another factor, but I cannot prove it. A lot of us who seem to have this problem do not have floppy drive, see below for more info.

As I said, put it in this order to get ssome kind of signal:
1) Your HD
2) Your Video
3) Your Memory (only ONE STICK, ONE ONLY!)

Now turn it on. You should see bios checksum error notice but have the option to restore defaults or enter setup [at this point in time my USB flash drive with the 7011 update is still plugged in, as is my ASUS utility cd). I opt'd to restore the defaults because I didn't know if it would fail any other way again.

You'll notice that when you do that and then actually go back in BIOS some weird stuff is going on. You're set back to IDE, not SATA and a few other like I noticed it had a Floppy drive enabled again, which I do not have, and it also had that as my main boot setting, which obviously is problematic. I am sure this is due to the "default settings" being reloaded but what else would you do in my spot?

One thing I do not like is the fact ASUS seems to believe charging for reflashing and such is the only fix and I'm not paying more money for that when it's 100% fixable if you know how. Add in the fact EVERYONE I've seen, EVERY post I've read about this problem came from someone with either sata drives, 1 x GB memory sticks (ecspecially with > then the asus supports), no floppy, or users who "ran everything fine, but upon the 7011 flash [even though it says it works] got dead screen" it had to be the bios or something the bios did.

I am unsure how the bios update works to be honest, but I think it sets some settings to ones we had already changed over rending a lot of things useless.

Anyways hopefully some of this is of help to someone, as I found this thread to be the most helpful to me.

Now I am off to search for a nifty blue led for the other front part of my case and a better cooling unit because I want to try to OC mad. Anyone know a good noobie guide to Watercooling?

Thank you
- Bryan

===
edit: one thing I just noticed about 7011 bios is that the chasis fan sensor that does not work now works in the pc probe utility. atleast something got fixed hey...

 

[Arcygenical]

Edit**

I got my ethernet working... I can access the internet, but I still can't connect 2 computers directly via ethernet and get some file sharing action.


I STILL get the "HDA" error while trying to install the sound drivers. I'd love to hear something from my motherboard, but I dont see that happening any time soon. sigh.

 

[ingenue007]

well since my p5b deluxe wifi died, i had to determine what was broken. after countless hours, i ended up finding a p5b deluxe non wfifi to test my system out. i determined my p5b deluxe wifit was destroyed for whatever reason and is currently on RMA. my temp board until i return it tomorrow, is runnint at 475 FSB at 5-5-5-5-15 with ocz ddrs 800. pretty good IMO,

i think my original mobo was a fluke with manufacturer defect

 

[sothcom]

Has anyone had this problem:

I have 4GB of RAM installed. In order for the BIOS to see it all properly, I had to turn on the memory remap feature in the Chipset --> North Bridge section.

I can see all 4GB on POST, and even when using the MEM86 diagnostic tool. However, once in Windows XP SP-2, My Computer only reports 2GB of RAM. Physical address extension is on. (I'm expecting to see ~3.2GB.)

Similarly, I am only seeing 2GB of RAM in Vista RC1 and RC2.

I have the latest bios installed (0711).

Any ideas?

 

[imported_rommel74]

I'm having trouble with DTS Interactive with this mobo, even though the option is enabled and my speaker settings are set to 5.1, I'm still only getting stereo sound in games through digital out, no surround or center channel. Surround does work when the test button is pressed in the Soundmax conrol panel applet. I'm running the latest drivers and have uninstalled / reinstalled multiple times. Spent a whole day trying to get this working without any luck, really running out of ideas now.
Has anyone been able to get surround sound through the digital output in games ?

 

[Vaterland]

I've decided to write a few words after reading various texts here about headaches this board gives to some guys. I don't want people considering this mobo for their new systems to think that it is a piece of junk. First of all, anything running out of specification is basically asking for trouble and when I read how greedy some people are ("can't get more than 450 MHz FSB!") makes me think that they probably should get a good weekend in Vegas and calm down a little bit. I had this luck that my mobo runs great at 400MHz and that's all I was hoping for, but I shouldn't complain if there was any problem with getting past 266 MHz. After all, that's all that Asus promised you to provide - a stable system running according to the specification. That is just my general thought.

Problems with JMicron and Sound. I have encountered none of those. My only complain is a 15 sec hang up during boot caused by the Soundmax drivers. Other than that everything works just perfect - DTS via optical (5.1 perfect sound even in games), front headphones and microphone, two sound sources (one to DTS, and the other goes to the front headphones). I had a problem with the front microphone but setting Audio mode in BIOS to Non-Vista cures that.

I made only three modifications to my P5B. I removed the WiFi module, removed the Asus logo from the NB, and applied new thermal paste under the heatsinks, but I don't think that the last one was really necessary. The preapplied grease looked ok to me.