Asus P5Q Problems

globecodds

globecodds

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Had this motherboard for a couple of months now and to be honest had nothing but greif with it, not overclocking or anything like that, problems relate as below....

  • If you remove the mains power the BIOS resets to default.
  • The USB headers on the board play up when i connect an internal card reader as do the case USB connectors (1 8GB pen drive fried)
  • I tried to install a Belkin 54G wireless network card and it just refuses to find any networks, or on the odd occasion it found one it refused to connect tried it in several slots & 2 new cards tried.
  • I have to overvolt the North Bridge to even get the damn PC to boot into Windows.
  • Lots of other weird behavoir like freezing in windows, random blue screens etc.

Spec Is As Below...

  • Asus P5Q Motherboard
  • Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 (2.4GHz)
  • 8GB Kingston Hyper X Ram (4 x 2GB)
  • 2 Samsung F1 1TB SATA Drives
  • 2 Pioneer DVR-216D SATA DVD Writers
  • Internal Card Reader
  • Sparkle GeForce 9800GT Graphics Card
  • Pinnacle TV Card
  • Corsair 450Watt PSU
  • Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit

Connected Externally...

  • 26inch DGM TFT
  • Epson BX300F All In 1 Printer
  • Logitech Wireless Keyboard/Mouse
  • Buffalo 300GB External USB HDD (Mains Powered)

This is really driving me up the wall now, did email ASUS but no reply, im getting to the point of just binning it and buying another motherboard that just works, all i need is a basic one that bluddy works. :mad::mad:

Any help would be greatly appriciated ;)
 
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RMA it if possible, then ur know it is or isnt the board... having to OC the NB to even boot doesnt sound good!! i didnt have any such problems
 
When you turn the power off at the mains then try to turn on again do you find it turns on then off then on again?
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mines done that and it's a week old, I thought it was about to 'OC failed message' press F1 to enter setup.

But no, it loaded fine.

The board is supose to be ultra energy efficient, yet when you shut down all USB devices are still powered up.

Have you tried it with a single stick of RAM?
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I eneded up having to do this to find that the 1st install of my 4gb Cellshock memory blew out 1 stick, so had to buy 4GB of OCZ instead as my PC8000 Cellshock was discontinued.

And if you search the web these P5Q boards are renounded for blowing up one of your memory sticks on first boot!

The Marvel IDE controlled doesn't work when you have PCI-X running SCSI.

All in all, Asus = rubbish, I will not be getting another one.

RMA the board for a refund, not replacement and get a different manufacturer's mobo!
 
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