ASUS P8P67 Issues/Corrective actions

OAPMrTickle said:
Hi guys,
I've just got my p8p67 pro today but cannot do anything until tomorrow.

Can someone give me a complete idiot guide what to set in the bios should i have issues as regards to voltages & other settings? I hope to OC it to whatever a standard cooler can provide until i can afford an H70. I can strip a car engine down but when it comes to bios :confused::eek:

Asus P8P67 Pro, Corsair XMS3 2 x 2GB (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9), i5 2500K (stock cooler for now)

Thanks in advance.
Mike
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Go into the bios - switch to advanced mode by pressing exit in the top right and selecting the appropriate option

Ai Tweaker tab > Ai Overclock tuner > Manual
Memory Frequency > 1600mhz

It should work.
The issue described above is when this stops working. Mine worked for a day and then stopped booting, possibly my next cold boot, I don't know.
I was using the XMP setting at the time which sets the speed and voltages for you.


Either way if it stops booting

If it stops booting I recommend that you follow coneypark's instructions to clear the bios and then apply the same steps I described to set the ram again.

If that doesn't work then you can try dropping the voltage which is what I did. I've currently got it running at 1.55V and have had no problems for 2 days. I haven't run a stability test on it, but people on the site I sourced the solution from have. (I can't find the page now in my history nor google)

To set with the voltage
Ai Tweaker tab > Ai Overclock tuner > Manual
Memory Frequency > 1600mhz
DRAM Voltage (scroll down to see it) > Set the voltage

Iirc the SandyBridge spec calls for +/-5% of 1.5V which gives you up to 1.575V
Based on my experience and Trofeo's post above, somewhere in the range of 1.55V - 1.59V should get it working
 
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Hey guys, I'm having trouble posting after I changed ram from 1333 to 1600. Everything powers up including fans etc, and have tried cmos jumper switching and took battery out.
Could it be that my 4870 has somehow failed? - Its fan is still spinning, but I can test this on my old mobo 790fx.
Or could the problem be with the rams themselves? - As far as I know, if rams aren't detected, there would be no post??

Cheers.
 
Hah
Gibbo posted the info on the RAM voltages on the 10th

Memory - Intel recommend 1.50v plus/minus 5% which means 1.60v is the ideal safe maximum, but we have found in our testing all 1.65v memory is fine. We have also found most new 1.65v like Corsair XMS3 will run at its rated timings with just 1.50-1.55v which is well within Intel specifications. So people upgrading to Sandybridge you can still use your old DDR3, but we do recommend you run it at 1.60v or less. We are shipping most of our bundles which feature Corsair XMS at 1.50v-1.55v at rated timings. We've also discussed with Asus and MSI regarding voltages for memory and they also confirm in their testing 1.65v caused no issues with reliability.
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227651

Apparently the site I got it from got it from here

NVid'did'it said:
Hey guys, I'm having trouble posting after I changed ram from 1333 to 1600. Everything powers up including fans etc, and have tried cmos jumper switching and took battery out.
Could it be that my 4870 has somehow failed? - Its fan is still spinning, but I can test this on my old mobo 790fx.
Or could the problem be with the rams themselves? - As far as I know, if rams aren't detected, there would be no post??

Cheers.
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Its possible your graphics card failed at that moment but the likelihood is remote.
If you didn't change anything else your ram might just be faulty.
It is true that if the ram is not detected the POST will fail.

You might want to pick up a PC speaker they are less than £2. Save you the effort of having to sort out your other motherboard just to start ruling stuff out
The PC will beep when the POST fails to tell you what's wrong
 
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NVid'did'it, the asus p8p67 boards have diagnostic LED's next to the cpu, ram, graphics card and chipset. When everything is working when you turn the computer on it should go through them in the order i listed above, when there is a fault it will stop on the offending component and the LED by it will stay on. If your getting the post ok beep then it could b a fault with the graphics card that its not detecting, also double check the lead to the monitor etc.
 
BIOS

Just completed a build with the ASUS P8P67 PRO MOBO, had an issue with the RAM not appearing in BIOS (despite the fact the ASUS software told it was there).

Updated the BIOS and it recognised it on the next boot.
The update was extremely simple, downloaded the .rom file from the ASUS website and used the ASUS software which allowed me to update the BIOS from within Windows. Very Nice.
 
Had a lurker account for a year or two, but rereg'd because I forgot the details.

Anyway, I just wanted to add myself to the list of people having suffered random freezes with the P8P67 pro using out of box settings. Not hard crashes, but freezes where (at best) I had mouse pointer control on a blank black screen but no other input (keyboard, mouse buttons) or output (sound). It was never consistant or repeatable but did happen, and I saw that a few people on the ASUS and [H]ard forums had similar problems. Furmark, LinX and games did not trigger the issue, which occured completely at random including during low-key browsing sessions.

Today I went through the following list of actions to try and resolve the issue (mostly based on Coneypark's list):
1/ Flashed bios to 1053
2/ Cleared CMOS (I set a bios password first to make it absolutely clear was successful, as clearing CMOS removes password prompts. Battery removal or a power cycle were NOT necessary.)
3/ Set OC profile to XMP to automatically read RAM settings (Vengeance 2x4GB 1600C8 kit)
4/ Manually re-entered CPU base clock as 100 MHz (it was already set to 100.0 under XMP post flash, but I did it again just to be safe)

I'm hoping that this has resolved the issue, particularly because this new build came about due to wear and tear in my old rig and I'd be without a decent machine if the issue is serious. If I continue to have problems I'll try to post here again.
 
Appreciate the help Gegenki, Trofeo. I will definately go look for a pc speaker, as I'm sure it will help a lot, and more convenient than troubleshooting components
Trofeo, the board doesn't seem to be showing any LED lights, so just to test if they are not faulty, I took out the geil rams and booted and was shown red l
LED next to ram. But yea LED lights are nonexistant, so I will seek the help of a pc speakers.
Thanks again.
 
I used the settings as suggested. Running at 3.3Ghz time to OC this puppy :D. Memory ok at 1.5v @ 1600. Still using whatever bios it shipped with.

No crashes, rebooted many times. Was very straight forward... even for me :D
 
Can anyone give me a step by step guide to overclock my i5 2500k with the Asus P8P67 motherboard?

Or do I just literally need to click the autotune icon on the standard Asus bios screen (I've heard it auto tunes it to 4.4Ghz with safe voltages etc)?
 
Rossuk89 said:
Can anyone give me a step by step guide to overclock my i5 2500k with the Asus P8P67 motherboard?

Or do I just literally need to click the autotune icon on the standard Asus bios screen (I've heard it auto tunes it to 4.4Ghz with safe voltages etc)?
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I wouldn't use the auto overclock as it doesn't keep the voltages within Intel's recommendations. It may keep them within Asus's but I would rather go with Intel than Asus.

Manually Overclocking is easy. Look through this post and you will see the exact settings you need:-

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227651
 
Nullki I had the exact same problem you described with my old asus P45 board, not had anything like it with my p8p67 pro so far, fingers crossed it stays this way.
 
I'd have to say that mine was utterly painless. I did the CLRTC thing before I powered anything on and didn't have a single issue. I'm comfortable sitting at a 4.5GHz OC peak temp at 68C and 1.30Vcore.

Pretty happy with Asus if truth be told. Very happy with Intel...
 
I'm actually having issues with an Asus P8P67-M (micro-atx) mobo with i5 2500k. Everything powers on as it should, memory light stays green, no error beeps, but nothing appears on the screen. Tried reseating the ram in different slots and all the usual tricks so, just wondering if anyone else has failed to get to the boot screen?

EDIT: Forgot to mention that my VGA bios screen appears so I can rule out the graphics card as being the issue.
 
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Thanks for all the updates on this thread guys, I hope its helped some people.
The issues are slowly being resolved now and wittled down which is great.

2smooth double check all the posts here, try the CLRCT :)
 
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