Massive problems with ASUS P5N32-E SLi

[DazzXP]

Massive problems with ASUS P5N32-E SLi (FIXED)

Just got this kit yesterday consiting of 2GB PC6400C4 cominator memory an Intel Core E4300 and an ASUS P5N32-E, This motherboard is a huge pain in the back side and will need to be RMAed, am i able to swap with a diffrent brand and pay the extra? After looking about on the ASUS fourms i am horrified of the amount of problems these boards have. My problem is i am fighting for stability even and defualt clocks so as advised by Corsair staff i flashed to latest 0702 BIOS did nothing throught it was my memory at first. Tried all sockets and only ONE works, the first blue socket, if i use the other blue socket it works but fails with around 5200 errors in Memtest +86 in both single and dual channel, and under modrate load will blue screen in windows. The two white sockets are even worse and will simply freeze the system even in the BIOS or will freeze at post 9 times out of 10. In the ONE working socket i have tested both Dominator modules and they are both fine. But having googled the ASUS P5N32-E SLi the amount of problems are insaine. I don't want this motherboard, i wonder if the Plus version is any better? Otherwise i would want to extange it for one of them. In the mean time having to RMA this will now cost me big due to the down time

 

[DazzXP]

Well i found my problem took 2 days to catch on, seems when i unlock my FSB from my memory using the Unlinked mode in the BIOS it causes BSOD reboots programs crashing including Internet Explorer etc. Now this shows up more i overclock it so using 888MHz FSB + 800Mhz Memeory i can't do anything with the PC it will simple BSOD or comes up windows can't locate files trying reinstalling files. Now out of luck i thought to try it linked so running the FSB @ 888MHz and memory at 888MHz it's is 100% stable. So this is either A: a fualt with the board or B: BIOS issue, kind of a big issue considering they trout it as an overclockers board. Do you guys think i have a reason to RMA this with ASUS for the Plus version of the board which i hope is better?

Update

Well this has been proved now, i thought to play a bit more, got the CPU @ 3GHz now 1333MHz with 5:3 multiplire = 888MHz Memory and it WORKS no files missing windows working etc!!! Clearly this fixed memory and FSB DOES NOT WORK. Damn should have got some PC8500 Ram now

 

[DazzXP]

Well i have spent the last 4 days and at least the last 48 hours trying to get the system stable at even defualt clocks and it looks like i have done it, and it wasn't much effot at all. I got my ASUS P5N32-E, Intel Core2 E4300 and Corsair 2GB PC6400 XMSC4D Dominator memory on monday and have been fighting with it ever since. I got BSOD death all the time or it would just freeze or it would fail to boot. My board came with 0602 BIOS as standard and flashing to 0702 gave worse resualts. At first i throught it was my memory, with 0702 the system would freeze at post or BIOS when in dual channel in the white sockets, and would report errors in the blue. Would freeze in the BIOS with blue and white. But both mondules would work in single channel in the first blue socket. So ok no memory as i tested them worked fine, looks like the other 3 sockets on the board are fualty! As i am lazy i could not be bothered to pull the board out so played with it for all i don't know the last 50 HOURS! Anyway used AWDFLASH and gone back to 0602 and found out that all the memory sockets worked, hmm strange. After looking about i came across the article slagging off ASUS, well pretty much and noticed this

Asus's BIOS flashing utilities do not perform a full EEPROM flash.
How can you get your CPU Multipliers back ?
You need to flash back to a previous BIOS release ( earlier than BIOS v1707 ) with forcing the BIOS Flashing program to perform a Full EEPROM Flash.
We're preparing a guide for this procedure, for now you can use Asus EZ-Flash utility ( within BIOS ) which works like a charm [ thank God! ]

So throught ok i will try Ez-Flash from the BIOS, downloaded the 0302 BIOS as i noticed people using this BIOS have had no problems! done into the BIOS and used Ez-Flash. Funny thing is the BIOS reads as 0602 and CPU-Z reads it as 0602, however Ez Flash reads the BIOS as 0402?? What never installed that BIOS before so proceeded to flash none the less. Completed it rebooted reset everything to defualt rebooted now overclocking showed the instabiltiy even more so throught what the hell. Set to unlinked 1200MHz/800MHz , bumped up the voltage to 1.39v, memory voltage to 2.025v and 4/4/4/12/T1....... failed to post. Thought well no loss never was able to get it to post with them settings, so thought to try 1333MHz FSB and 800MHz posted well still not impressed it has always done that, gone into windows fine like before, ran Pi fine like before so thought to try out Battlefield 2 which BSODs the PC in under 5 minuites had 2 games no errors or game closing or even BSODs Woha thats something new. So have now overclocked the CPU to FSB 1424Mhz :800MHz which is 3200MHz, a 1400MHz overclock got my flat mate to play BF2 for a while 3 hours and it STILL has not even crashed!!! This may verywell work for the rest of you guys if you manually flash with Ex-Flash from the BIOS and if that still does not work try 0302 BIOS. My system is totily stable now considering this thing would crash before at stock clocks with Internet Explorer!!!. From the sounds or it all the boards are not Fully EEPROM Flashed and has a mix of BIOS versions which is what caused the stability issues!