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

[Rafael]

And what are the results when you change from AHCI to IDE?

 

[BigBrownPimpsta]

Originally posted by: Rafael
And what are the results when you change from AHCI to IDE?

I would have to reinstall vista most likely, correct? or can i do a workaround with jmicron controller and get my SATAII drives at 300mbps?

 

[Rafael]

Switching from AHCI to IDE does not require a clean install, neither install drivers.
You may try the JMicron ports.
But you got me a little confused. What is your problem? Not getting a good performance with your WD Raptor? Or your other HD not being recognized as SATAII?
What is the model of your second HD?

Rafael

 

[BigBrownPimpsta]

Originally posted by: Rafael
Switching from AHCI to IDE does not require a clean install, neither install drivers.
You may try the JMicron ports.
But you got me a little confused. What is your problem? Not getting a good performance with your WD Raptor? Or your other HD not being recognized as SATAII?
What is the model of your second HD?

Rafael

my problem is that my main drive, the raptor. stalls. when this happens windows vista freeze 10-30 seconds. this causes stalls in games with the sound looping. stuff loading off my other 2 drives such as music will play fine, but anything off the master will stall. my raptor performs at full performance as does my system right now. this is an issue with the ICH8R drivers i believe. and i said before, until i installed the intel ich8r driver at vista install (after a second or third reformat) this did not occur. so the driver i installed may always be loaded even if reformat since they may be loaded on the other 2 drives. i want to get rid of it and just let vista use its own intel driver since that one was working fine.

or find a fix to this problem. what intel had posted has not worked for me. I just changed to the JMicron controller, got vista to boot once and never worked again. I tried reinstalling or formatting and the drive did not show up at windows setup probably cause I didn't load the driver. the drive was set to ACHI mode on JMicron controller as well. I'm sure if i get the jmicron controller to work properly, all will be fine. But i don't want to install a damn driver everytime i install windows! But I preferebly would use the ICH8R controller.

 

[Rafael]

OK! I understand now.
You always used Windows Vista? It could be a driver issue, and uninstalling is a very painfull job to do.
The funny thing that even with a full format you did not get rid of the drivers? When you format, do not quick format.
And now are you running the Vista native drivers?

Rafael

 

[BigBrownPimpsta]

Originally posted by: Rafael
OK! I understand now.
You always used Windows Vista? It could be a driver issue, and uninstalling is a very painfull job to do.
The funny thing that even with a full format you did not get rid of the drivers? When you format, do not quick format.
And now are you running the Vista native drivers?

Rafael

i just used the format option at windows setup, which im sure is a quick format. but what i just tried today was using the jmicron controller. It started up once, by selecting what drive to boot from. After that it didn't work, I decided to go back to the intel controller. Booted up fine, so far I have not seen any lockups but it may have just been reduced. There is nothing to do reproduce the issue, any load on the hard drive randomly caused the stalls.

 

[BigBrownPimpsta]

yep it's still there, but it has reduced again. but when it happens its annoying as hell

 

[Master G]

Are there any known compatibility issues between the P5B and G.Skill RAM? I'm particularly interested in the F2-6400CL4D-2GBHK, which is 2 x 1gig, 800 MHz, Cas latency 4, timings 4-4-3-5. I have 2 sets, so 4 x 1gig total.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Speaking of stalling during hard drive, I'm having similar problems, only i don't think it ever stops thrashing and I end up hitting the reboot button, because it's basically locked up. Done it at least 6 times today already. I'm using default settings with an IDE drive. Its sorta random, but I know I can get it to do it if I play Sims2, quit the same and start it up again, it'll go crunch.

Ok it does it with other things too, UGH so frustation, right now Vista is worse than ME ever was.

I wonder if theres a writing problem, saves game that would take normally 30 seconds or so is still trying to save after 20 minutes. This also happens when mearly taking a screenshot

 

[Rafael]

Master G,

I don't think there is compatibility problems with those ram. You may read some reviews about the memories you mentioned in newegg or other places that sell hardware.

BigBrownPimpsta and Scooby Doo,

Are you both using Windows Vista?
If you both do, I guess it is some issue related to the drivers.
Because I do not remember reading many problems with HDDs stalling.
Many had problems with the JMicron controller with SATA drives.
Have you tried XP Pro?

Rafael

 

[BigBrownPimpsta]

Originally posted by: Rafael
Master G,

I don't think there is compatibility problems with those ram. You may read some reviews about the memories you mentioned in newegg or other places that sell hardware.

BigBrownPimpsta and Scooby Doo,

Are you both using Windows Vista?
If you both do, I guess it is some issue related to the drivers.
Because I do not remember reading many problems with HDDs stalling.
Many had problems with the JMicron controller with SATA drives.
Have you tried XP Pro?

Rafael

it will probably be fine in xp pro, but i find more issues now in XP than vista. the only issue i have right now with vista is this stupid hard drive stalling. but i have not tried it on this system...enjoying it when its not acting up. these bugs are originating from the power settings in vista. LPM on desktop hard drives, and ive also noticed logging off results in completely restarting the computer. doesnt bother me, but these issues might be related with the power settings code in vista. i have more than sufficient power (OCZ Stealth Stream 600W) so I'm sure all is fine

i cant even narrow it down, the event log doesnt show anything. but i dont know if I am reading it right.

 

[Rafael]

Yes it could be some problem related to ACPI.
Did you install the drivers for the ACPI?
And I don't think it is related to your PSU. You should be fine with this PSU.

I have not tried Vista yet. I might give a shot in a few weeks.

 

[BigBrownPimpsta]

i should of, where can I download it to be sure? I saw vista notify me weeks ago, but its fine now. The issue origantes from the new LPM features that is for notebooks, so vista messes it up for desktop hard drives causing these stalls. the fix in deleting the reg key doesn't work for me.

this problem is irritating

 

[sbarts]

Hi

There appears to be a new bios for the P5B (vanilla), it's version 1601. Theres no info at Asus as to what's changed. Anyone had any luck finding out whats new?

 

[Scooby Doo]

Originally posted by: Rafael
Master G,

I don't think there is compatibility problems with those ram. You may read some reviews about the memories you mentioned in newegg or other places that sell hardware.

BigBrownPimpsta and Scooby Doo,

Are you both using Windows Vista?
If you both do, I guess it is some issue related to the drivers.
Because I do not remember reading many problems with HDDs stalling.
Many had problems with the JMicron controller with SATA drives.
Have you tried XP Pro?

Rafael

I was using 2003 eval version before and had absolutely no problem. It only reared it's ugly head when I installed Vista Home Pro.
I've done the intel chipset drivers, jmicron drivers and still studders. I even switched hard drives with another older ide and still studders. I was going to get a sata driver, but that'll have to wait for a bit.

 

[Tlaloc]

Hi!

My motherboard and all of the other components arrived yesterday and I installed it.
When I booted the computer, both of my WD Raptor discs would`t be found at all

I have:
P5B Deluxe Wifi-AP Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2,67gHz, 1066FSB Prossessor
4x 1024 NvidiaSLI XTC DDR2 PC6400 RAM
Asus GeForce 8800GTS 640MB

Harddiscs:
WD Caviar S-ATA 250gb
WD Caviar S-ATA 500gb
WD Raptor S-ATA 36gb
WD Raptor S-ATA 150gb

Both of the Caviar discs is found easily.
And everything else works good.

Since I was planning to install Vista on one of the Raptor discs, you probably understand my frustration.
Then I installed Vista on the 500GB disc, and I started to install the software that i got with the motherboard.
Raid controller got installed, but still no Raptor discs

The raptor discs won`t appear in the bios and vista

Any good advice to install raptor discs on this motherboard and Windows Vista?

- Tlaloc

 

[ad1c]

I'm having random computer crashes. Using an Intel E6600, no overclocking. Antec case with plenty of power. 120mm fan blowing out the back. The fan isn't running real fast, there is a little dangling white temp. sensor as part of the fan assy.

There seem to be 3 main sources of heat:

CPU - stock Intel heat sink, CPU temp in the mid-40s
ASUS heat sink - between CPU and PCI-E connectors
unknown heat sink - bottom corner of board, near drive cables

I also have two Maxtor 300GB SATA hard drives

PC Probe is reporting a high motherboard temp - over 45C.

The "unknown" heat sink above feels VERY hot to the touch.

Could it be the GEFORCE 8600 that I installed, blocking heat flow? It seems to cut across more of the motherboard than the 7600 GTS it replaced. The area essentially from the bulkhead, across the motherboard, all the way to the hard drives seems to be isolated from airflow.

What is the recommended fix for this problem?

Thanks - Jim

 

[Scooby Doo]

Ugh this is frustating... feel like giving Vista the boot and calling it useless for now.

 

[Capitalizt]

Hey guys, does anyone know what the "FSB termination" setting means, and what the default voltage is on it? (for the standard Asus P5B board)

I'm having trouble getting my E6600 to boot with a 8multi X 400mhz FSB. The CPU and RAM have plenty of volts (1.45 and 2.1 respectively), and the only thing I see left that can be changed is "FSB Termination" voltage.

Every other setting is correct for overclocking (pci-e 100mhz, pci 33mhz, speedstep and extra cpu features disabled)

Does anyone have an explanation to what the "FSB Term" setting does? Could it increase stability...and if so, what is the ideal setting for it? This "Overclocking Failed" message is really getting on my nerves

Any help appreciated.

 

[quadcells]

Hi All,
I am sorry if this has been asked before. I have been seaching but not finding any info:
Question is: Has anyone here tried the Q6600 on a P5B-Deluxe-AP motherboard.
Thanks

 

[Rafael]

Hi guys!

I have been out for a while.
Just a heads up that there is a new BIOS out for the P5B Deluxe/WiFi, 1215.
It was released on 13th of July, just 10 days after the release of 1212.

Scooby Doo, from I have read it seems that your problem is related to drivers and Vista.
Those are one of the reasons that I have not jumped on Vista yet, besides the fact that it is a memory hogger.

Tlaloc, seems like you have the P5K not the P5B. And from what I have been reading the P5K does have some issue with the SATA ports. Might follow those threads that you posted on.

ad1c, are you having the BSODs? Go to My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery > Uncheck Automatically Restarts. And check if it is a BSOD or it just locks up. If you do get a BSOD it might be some setting related to your memory. Try to set them manually timings, voltage, etc.

Capitalizt, the FSB Termination does affect the stability of your system, set @ 1.40v. A good read for OC is this thread in other forum. Check that out.
And I think you should try to hit the 3200 Mhz, if it is your target, not lowering the multi. Try to stay on the default multi.

quadcells, I don't know about the lastest poster here. But I think n7, Yoxxy, cmdrdredd, some of these guys have or had a Q6600 running on the P5B Deluxe WiFi.
I saw other running in other forums too.

Rafael

 

[Scooby Doo]

Dumb question, do you think switching over to SATA would fix this problem or at least hide it away? I'm also having problems with a new burner, it won't burn dvds, it gets to about 6% done and then write error. But I'm assuming that a hardware problem on the burner itself, because the previous burner worked good.

 

[Rafael]

Are you on IDE or SATA?
If you are on IDE try SATA, and vice-versa.
Well I don't have a SATA burner yet.
Since I got a Serillel I was thinking getting a Pioneer DRV-112D and use the serillel, since the SATA burner over here is way more expensive than the IDE ones.
Try the burner on the JMicron and see what you get.

Rafael

 

[MetXallica]

My p5b woks fine on some things, but programs that really work the optical drives hard crash my system; nero, dvd shrink, windows movie maker. My optical drives are both ide and are using the worthless jmicron controller. thinking of going to all sata and disabling the jmicron completely. Only prob with that is I use the eSATA port o the back. Does anyone know how to get rid of the press any key to boot screen by jmicron? Just wanted to know if anyone has had this problem?

 

[nwind]

Hi,

System can not recover from hibernation. It hang on the very first BIOS screen forever. I have to recycle power for >=5 sec after that it is OK. No problem with Stand-By (if it is short), no problem with reboot. Only hibernation.

Thanks