ASUS P5B Kit “What a Joke”

[xrayhead]

ASUS P5B “What a Joke”

Updated my ASUS P5B Deluxe Bios to 1101 tonight as I was sick of the crapy double boots I was getting from version 0804! The reason I didn’t update before hand was I have the problem with the GeIL PC6400 800MHz and the timings (shore you have seen the threads and the NO FIX).

Anyway not even bothered with over clocking the system to be honest, all I want to do is get this MB kit (that was purchased from OC) to work at the speed it was designed to do.
I tried setting the memory timings before but couldn’t even get it to post, so settled with just changing the CPU Frequency to 210 and everything else to AUTO (this was the only way I could get it to boot).

Well now I have updated the bois it won’t even let me change that now (the CPU frequency is locked and wont move when I hit enter), and If I set the DRAM Frequency to 800Mhz and everything else to AUTO the motherboard can’t even set the CPU up correctly!!
I get a core speed of 1600 and FSB of 266 (as I said a joke)..

Please can someone help me out before I bin this pile of junk!

Xray

 

[xrayhead]

Sorry forgot to post img's

And my old thread can be found here..........
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8180134#post8180134

 

[xrayhead]

Oh dear!
Right then, the best thing you could do is switch it off and take a loooooooooooooooooooooooong break, you appear to be in no mOOd to get into the finer points of trouble-shooting.

I know where you are at, sometimes these things can really get your back up but you really need to get yourself in the right 'headspace'

You may have a faulty piece of kit, don't just blame the motherboard, its one of the best in the world right now so its pretty unlikely thats the problem, it could be faulty though as could any single piece of your kit.

Go cool off and come back when the white foam has gone from your mouth!

Just had enough of it now TBH

I tried a while back (see here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8180134#post8180134) to sort it out and didn’t seem to get anywhere then.

I only updated the I BIOS to fix the double boot problem!

Xray

 

[xrayhead]

Huh what double boot 'problem'? do you mean that thing it does after you have adjusted voltages/FSB in BIOS?

or does it do that all the time?

It dose it all the time, has done from day one!

 

[xrayhead]

Ok Guy’s

Thanks for all your help, have calmed down a bit now . I managed to get the system up to a reasonable state and as Lord Alibaski said CPUZ was giving me some weird results. The multiplier was flickering between x 6.0 and x 9.0 and the core speed was changing as well!

Anyway all that aside, Bito I will give your suggestions a go!

1. Reset bios to defaults
2. Set vcore to 1.4v/1.425v
3. Set DDR to 800
4. Set vdimm to 2.1v
5. Reboot
6. Set PCI-E to 101
7. Set fsb to 333
8. Turn off C1E/Speedstep
9. Reboot
10. Run stability checks altering vcore (probably downwards) as appropriate.


Will post my results latter.

 

[xrayhead]

You have the same mem, mobo, BIOS and chip as I do.

Mines fine. User error tbqfh

I can host my settings if you need...

Would be nice to have a look at them (Please )..........!

 

[xrayhead]

Again Guy’s thanks for all your help with this!

I’ve now managed to get a decent setup achieved and will post a screen latter when I get home.

Regards

Xrayhead