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

[Rafael]

OK!

Finally I am @ home and got to play around a little bit.
Well, I tried the set up that Orion7144 and DNyholm suggested and it worked with full x16.
Now it is running FSB 400 Mhz, memory 1:1 and those settings in the voltage.
I will try to play around with the settings and find out what works and what it does not.
And I will post back with the results.
Thanx very much!!!

To Archivist,

Glad to hear I helped you.
But try to do what DNyholm told you to do. Up the voltage and see if that helps.
Try a monitor to check the voltages, like Asus ProbeII that can be downloaded in the Asus page the latest version.
And what BIOS version are you running on your motherboard?

Rafael

 

[Xvys]

I got my new ram tonight and I hit 500FSB with my P5B vanilla. I could only get 350FSB stable with my old ram, but this Crucial Ballistix PC6400, I bought off Ebay did the trick. I am pretty amazed it went that high and runs all my programs fine. This ram has timings of 4-4-4-12 @ 400mhz and 5-5-5-15 @ 500mhz in CPU-Z, so I guess it's made to run that fast. I would of been thrilled to hit 3.0GHz but getting 3500 from my 1.86 E6300 is nearly a 100% overclock! I tried 510FSB but Windows would not load, but seems stable at 2000FSB. It does the 1M SuperPi in 16 seconds, nearly twice as fast as my previous C2D computer! The actual Vcore is 1.38v (1.45v) with the remaining bios settings on Auto. Not sure what the ram voltage is. I assume Asus boosts all the settings when you o/c on Auto, but when I set the ram manually to 2.1v, it doesn't boot? So Auto it is!

Windows and programs run so fast now it is amazing! Everything is in hyper-drive!!

I'm no expert, but I think many problems people have with overclocking is related to ram performance. I thought this m/b was tapped out at 350FSB, I was trying everything, but with the right ram it runs like a champ!
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Asus P5B
E6300 @ 500FSB X 7 = 3500 GHz @ 1.38v
Crucial Ballistix PC6400 - 512 X 2
Seagate Barracuda 250G - 16mb cache
Connect3 X800 XT video
Cooler Master Elite case w/ 2 X 120mm fans
Thermalright MMT9775 cpu heatsink
Hec AcePower 420W power
Soundblaster Audigy SE
Samsung Syncmaster 19"crt

 

[loki5667]

I had the same issue with the memory voltage on my p5b deluxe. 2.1 I couldn't get stable oc's and would get memtest errors. Setting it to auto my oc is stable and I haven't had any issues

 

[Xvys]

Yep, Auto really boosts up the cpu voltage, as was pointed out. It set my Vcore at 1.55v automatically and my cpu was over 60C at idle, but I have that backed off to 1.45v, now at 52C idle, acceptable I would think. I have the Thermalright MMT9775, a copper heatpipe med. riser with big fan. It seems to have a high idle temp, although better than the stock heatsink, but temperatures don't go up very much under heavy loads. This is similar to the reviews of the cooler. When I had the m/b at 350FSB, it was at 50C idle and maybe 54C after hours of dual-monitor gaming, pretty good I think. Other cooling solutions are superior, but this one was only $24.

I'm sure I could boosting the Vcore voltage and Windows would load at 510FSB or higher, as 500FSB seems very stable, but I would need a better heatsink. I can still trade this one in for a 15% restocking fee at my local computer store. But the system runs fine the way it is and what would be the point of 550FSB, especially if it puts excessive stress on the system?

I was curious if anyone knew of a program that could read my memory voltage? In Asus Booster, it just says Auto. None of the other programs I have seem to show the mem. voltage...?

 

[nasttcar]

I assembled a system that comprises of Asus P5B Deluxe wifi, e6400, 2gb of 1024 Corsair, 7900GS, Tuniq Tower.

Very careful with the install, excepting the CPU did not seat itself well and had to be reseated a 2nd time, even though it was in the notches and triangle was was in the right corner.

Finally plug everything into to PSU wiring harness, double check, say a prayer, and plug it in.

UHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Nothing, Nada, Nothing but a blue LED on the MB. No fans, no beeps.

What in the world could be wrong?

 

[Xvys]

Hmm, make sure your case power button wires are hooked up to the correct pins on the mb, and that your video card is fully seated in the slot?...and the monitor is connected. The cpu not seating itself well may be a concern also. If it still don't work, I would recheck the cpu and make sure it is seated well and look for any bent pins. The mb could also be shorting out if the backside comes into contact with the case.

 

[nasttcar]

All is working now.

While very carefully getting wires in the right spot I had used one of those Q connectors for the power, reset, ... buttons on the front. That had lifted enough off of the pins to no allow the computer to get power.

 

[nasttcar]

Just completed the install and have a hard drive problem.

I have 2 hard drives. A 40gb with XP Pro on it, which came from my old computer. It is setup as IDE master. My DVD drive is the IDE slave.

I have a 500 gb SATA drive that I have set as slave on SATA 4 on the MB.

If I do not have the 500 gb drive connected, all is well. Computer boots just fine with the 40gb drive.

If I connect the 500 sata drive (which is empyty) the computer stops and wants to know which is the boot drive. I go into BIOS and the 40gb drive is not shown, but the IDE DVD drive is there.

How do I continue to make the 40gb IDE drive the boot drive and the 500 gb SATA drive the Data drive?

 

[LukeMan]

Originally posted by: nasttcar
Just completed the install and have a hard drive problem.

I have 2 hard drives. A 40gb with XP Pro on it, which came from my old computer. It is setup as IDE master. My DVD drive is the IDE slave.

I have a 500 gb SATA drive that I have set as slave on SATA 4 on the MB.

If I do not have the 500 gb drive connected, all is well. Computer boots just fine with the 40gb drive.

If I connect the 500 sata drive (which is empyty) the computer stops and wants to know which is the boot drive. I go into BIOS and the 40gb drive is not shown, but the IDE DVD drive is there.

How do I continue to make the 40gb IDE drive the boot drive and the 500 gb SATA drive the Data drive?

do you feel the 40gb spinning when you connected the 500gb? could be a loose power cable or loose ide cable when u installed the other drive.

 

[nasttcar]

Yes, both drives work.

Updated BIOS and it helps a bit. Here is the issue now.

This is part of a new install where I am having trouble getting older 40gb IDE drive and 500gb SATA drive to coexist.

On boot the computer pauses and says 'No IDE Master HDD Detected - Press F1 to Continue'

When I hit F1, WinXP Pro startups off of the drive it said was not detected. When I go to Computer Mgmt, it shows both drives. I run diagnostics on the 40gb drive and it shows it as the Master on the IDE cable and the DVD drive as the slave. The utility says the drive is operating properly.

I am running the latest BIOS for the MB.

I have the 500 gb drive on SATA 4 - which is a data channel.

In the Bios I have JMicron SATA/PATA Controller Enabled, and JMicron SATA Controller Mode set as IDE

If I unplug the SATA drive, then the computer boots up without issue or pauses.

Very confusing.

 

[nasttcar]

Problem Solved.

Placed 500gb Sata drive on a black channel and it all works/

 

[imported_DSmith]

I just purchased a P5B vanilla, and my question is:
I purchased an E6600 chip, Corsair DDR2 800 PC 6400 ram.
I have no intentions of overclocking, I know absolutely nothing about it and dont want to ruin something. With this ram, chip and board combo should it boot up just fine without having to change multipliers or bus speeds ETC?

All I need it to do is run at the speeds I purchased.

Any information is greatly apprieciated!!

 

[taz291819]

DSmith: You should be fine, won't have to change a thing.

Everyone: Built a new rig about two weeks ago, finally got everything stable:

Antec P180
Asus P5B Deluxe
E6600
Buffalo Firestix PC-6400 (1GBx2)
Zalman 9700LED CPU Cooler
Corsair Modular PSU (620W)
X1950Pro (Stopgap until the X2900XT comes out)
Vista Ultimate

Anyway, was having major issues with stablity, Orthos would only run for about 4 seconds. Prime95 would run just fine, until I ran another instance of it, then the first core would error. Memtest showed my ram as being fine. I finally figured out that any OC'ing with a multiplier of 9 or 8 would cause these problems (even running at 333/667 multiplier of 9). I now run it at 430/860 (multiplier of 7), to attain 3.0Ghz. Orthos runs for hours with no problems, PCI-E reading 16X (raised the NB voltage, and set PCI-E to 110). CPU idles at 36-degrees, and hits 48-degrees in Orthos.

I really want to get it to 3.4Ghz, may play around with it this weekend.

Note for a first time builder with this MB: The manual is iffy on the memory slot configuration. If you want to run dual-channel, match your sticks by color (put both sticks in the yellow slots). For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why I was running in single-channel mode, until a friend over on rage3d set me straight.

 

[nasttcar]

SOUND WORKED, BUT THEN STOPPED

This is a new build. Before buttoning up the unit and sticking it back in its new cubbyhole, I put a music CD in, plugged my headphone to the front audio port and music sounded really good.

I carry the computer to its resting location and start hooking up all the wires to printer, ethernet, etc.

I turn on the computer and get the CD playing again, I want to make sure that I get my speakers hooked up in the right one of the 6 holes. It appears to be the yellow port. I hook it up there and music starts coming from the speakers, but a Soundmax box pops up saying I have the cable in the wrong hole. I pull it out and try all the other holes but no sound. I put it back in the yellow hole and sound again comes from the speakers. I then just cancel the Soundmax Wizard and then there is no longer sound.

I have the latest drivers.

Please help.

 

[imported_Regal]

I have been setting up my HTPC with a P5B Delux WiFi and E4300 and decided to slightly overclock as long as I can keep the heat down. I bumped the FSB up to 266 and 300, both worked fine and the bios showed the adjusted speed. Temps went up as expected, ut still under 50*c however, according to CPU-Z and PC Wizard, the multiplyer is being changed from 9 to 6. CPU-Z actually shows the Mhz jumping back and forth from 1600 to 2400, but mostly 1600????

What gives?

 

[Xvys]

You have the power saver feature enabled in your bios, I think it's CIE? I believe it's enabled by default. Not only does it save power in throttling back the multiplier, it also lowers the heat of the cpu at idle. When you think of it, these are good features. It instantaniously reverts to maximum multiplier when you need it. This feature will lower the heat buildup in your cpu, making it last longer and overclock higher. Some say to turn this off when you overclock, but it doesn't seem to adversely affect my P5B which is stable at 500FSB.

 

[rquinn19]

Originally posted by: Xvys
You have the power saver feature enabled in your bios, I think it's CIE? I believe it's enabled by default. Not only does it save power in throttling back the multiplier, it also lowers the heat of the cpu at idle. When you think of it, these are good features. It instantaniously reverts to maximum multiplier when you need it. This feature will lower the heat buildup in your cpu, making it last longer and overclock higher. Some say to turn this off when you overclock, but it doesn't seem to adversely affect my P5B which is stable at 500FSB.

Yeah, but do u need to have the vcore on auto to benefit from this?

 

[imported_Regal]

Originally posted by: Xvys
You have the power saver feature enabled in your bios, I think it's CIE? I believe it's enabled by default. Not only does it save power in throttling back the multiplier, it also lowers the heat of the cpu at idle. When you think of it, these are good features. It instantaniously reverts to maximum multiplier when you need it. This feature will lower the heat buildup in your cpu, making it last longer and overclock higher. Some say to turn this off when you overclock, but it doesn't seem to adversely affect my P5B which is stable at 500FSB.

Thanks, I'll check that out. Strangely I have not noticed the multiplier clocking up when runing a short HD video clip even though the CPU load bumps up to 30% on both core's. Any idea at what level the multiplier goes back to 9?

 

[Xvys]

Regal, I'm not sure at what level it goes to maximum multiplier, but using Asus Suite monitor program it will show a 6X multiplier at idle, then when you start SuperPi 1M, the cpu immediately jumps to 7X multi as soon as you click start (16 sec.) Other programs will only cause the max multi intermittently. Playing videos does not seem to tax the cpu much, perhaps they are more HD, CD or Video card intensive. Mine stays at lower multi when playing videos, I guess it don't need the extra juice.

And rquinn19, I think SpeedStep, or whatever it's called, works if the vCore is manually selected. I have mine set at 1.3875v @ 470FSB and the multi throttle-down still works.

 

[GhandiInstinct]

I just bought the P5B I have a 6300 core duo.

Two issues:

One is I get the cpu ucode error, which a bios will fix but I want to know the safest way to update the bios since it's irreversible, step one is to download this:http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5B right? Then what?

Secondly, why is my cpu temp 60-80C ? Did I mis-install the heatsink? It looks snug to me =/

Thanks

 

[Mistwalker]

Hi all, just got my system together (Windows XP Media Center is installing now) and wanted to mention something about SATA hard drive setup.

I've read various ways to get SATA drives in AHCI mode when setting up Windows XP, the most direct being to have the Intel drivers on a floppy and provide it using F6 during the install. Not having a floppy drive (and not wanting to set one up for this one single thing), I found I could use a USB flash drive with the drivers on it instead. Just set your USB device to "Forced FDD" mode in the BIOS and Windows XP setup will read any optional RAID drivers you've got on it.

EDIT: Nevermind, it reads and loads the drivers at first but asks you to insert a floppy with the files later on. Doh! <sigh>

 

[RichNY]

Question for everyone out there pairing a P5B Deluxe with Speedfan for controlling CPU and chassis fan speed. Recently, my CPU fan (on my Zalman 9700 cooler) seems to have a floor of about 1400RPM. I have no temp issues at all, so prefer to run at around 1100RPM for total silence from the machine (I can hear a low-frequency fan noise at 1400RPM).

By "floor", I mean that, using Speedfan (which has been working fine for months), no matter what "%" I set the CPU fan to it only adjusts linearly to about 40%. Anything below 40% and the RPM won't drop any further. I can even go to 0% and nothing. I posted the question over in the speedfan bug tracker, but since my speedfan config hasn't changed, I'm wondering if it's a problem with the board itself not allowing that sort of voltage drop.

Anyone with a similar issue?

Thanks very much!

 

[nebucra]

Hi, I need a bit of help here and it looks like this is the place to find it.
I've got the P5B basic board with C2D6400, 7950GX2, OCZ XTC 6400 @800mhz running with Vista.
I upgraded to BIOS 1102 to enable me to run 4xDIMMs but now when I have more than 2GB(2x1GB) in the machine it won't boot up(won't even beep). I bought 2GB of exactly the same OCZ RAM but it appeare I won't be able to use it now...does anyone know why?
Also sometimes even with the old 2GB in I have to press 'reset' a few times before I get a beep and it boots up.

One other issue - it seems my 7950GX2 has only one of it's cards running since I got about 4,700 pts in 3dMark06 - how do I enable the other card?. Maybe this isn't a mobo issue, I'm not sure.
How can you tell if PCI-E is active?

Thanks.

 

[Mike89]

From 3NF

Not true - you don't have to reinstall. The reason for,

"The computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing this software".

is because you probably had the BIOS set to IDE mode for the Intel controller. You need to set it to AHCI. However, doing that usually will blue screen because you don't have the drivers installed

So, what you can do is connect your hard drive to the Jmicron controller, set the Intel controller to ACHI and boot into windows. Then, install iata621. Shutdown, move the hard drive over to the Intel controller and reboot. You should be good to go then

I would really like to try this as I originally installed XP just with the XP drivers. I have 2 WD 250 gig SATA HDDs (not in RAID) and would like to have them working at maximum using the AHCI setting in BIOS (not in RAID). Installing the drivers without having to re-install XP would be great.

Are you sure this will work? In you saying to hook up the HDD (the one with the OS) to the Micron controller and boot up. I assume you are talking about that lone SATA connector on the left side of the motherboard? Are you sure the computer will boot with the HDD hooked to that one?

 

[Mike89]

I would like to thank 3NF for those instructions on installing the AHCI drivers without having to re-install XP. I've been reading all over the place wondering if this was possible and you were the only one with instructions how to do it. Very Cool Dude!

I just did it and it worked perfect! I did also have to disconnect the second HDD for the Micron controller to boot the first HDD. I left the second one hooked up at first and it kept trying to boot from it. Disconnected it and Windows XP booted right up. Installed the drivers, shut down, reconnected both HDDs back to where they were, booted up and now have a new SATA contoller in Device Manager.

I ran the HDTach test and got the burst speed about 5mb/s faster than before, so I'm happy as a clam!

I do notice now though that the DMA for both drives is not shown in Device Manager anymore. I also have a SATA DVD burner and now Device Manager does not show the DMA for that one either. I can open up Nero Info Tools and see the DMA for both HDDs there and it's now Ultra DMA 6, where before it was DMA 5. The Info Tools does not show the DMA for that SATA DVD though. Dunno how I'm going to be able to see that now.