**- Official Asus P5K Thread -**

Hey all,

I've currently got this board in my new set up, along with a Q6600 @ stock, Crucial Ballistix 6400 (2gb) @ stock, BFG 8800GTX, Tuniq Tower 120, all fitted inside an Akasa Eclipse 62.

I think though, that i'm having memory problems, maybe the voltages are a little too low, cos I seem to be getting random blue screens if I have too many things open. For example earlier; Ventrilo, Installing WoW, Msn and Firefox open. Happened then.

Currently using the 0202 BIOS that came off the Drivers CD.

Any help would be MUCH appreciated.

Cheers
 
move to bios 0404, manually enter the memory settings and set the voltage to 2.0-2.3v, make sure the chipset and memory are nice and cool.
 
Does anyone else get a little squealing noise from the board when running the Prime 95 blend test? Seems fine for everything else.

Also, when you set the Vcore to auto i hear it sets it too high for a Q6600, and you can lower it to 1.2, any else tried this?
 
Sul said:
Hi,

I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to overclocking - I've got PC2-5300 Crucial Ballistix RAM, and want to change vdimm (its voltage if I'm correct).. can't see setting in bios - how do I change it with the p5k board?
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I'm having the same issue. I've built a system around a Xeon 3220 (essentially a Q6600), a P5K WS, an 8800 GTX, and 2 x 2 GiB Corsair PC2-6400 (5-5-5-12). The board came with BIOS 0202 and as a first order of business I upgraded to 0401, the latest BIOS on Asus's web site. I installed XP 64-bit but I am unable to boot it past the black Windows startup screen as I'm getting a BSOD. It immediately reboots before I can read the BSOD message so I'm not sure if it would be any help or not.

I decided that perhaps the board is undervolting the RAM, which is supposed to run at 2.0 V. However, there are no options to configure vDIMM or vCore, which is reading in the hardware monitor as 1.21 V. The manual discusses the options that should be there in the Advanced section but they just plain aren't there. The last entry is "PCIE Spread Spectrum." The next option should be CPU Voltage but there isn't anything there. Am I missing something like the Gigabyte DS3's Ctrl F1 (or whatever it is) to bring up the options? Is the BIOS that poor and is the manual lying to me? I need to sort this issue rather badly. Can anybody help?

I might try to revert to an older BIOS if I can find a copy if I can't sort this problem. Hopefully an older version will lend itself to my use.
 
Ok, that worked. hopefully this next one is just as easy. :p

Now that I did that it's failing to reboot properly after making a BIOS change. If I press and hold the power button to turn it off then switch it back on it will POST however it says "Overclocking failed! Please enter Setup to re-configure your system.
Press F1 to Run SETUP
Press F2 to load default values and continue"

This leaves me in a rough place. I can go back into the BIOS where it will again fail to reboot or I can use the default settings, settings I know will fail to boot. Ideas?
 
Everything is at the correct stock values. I'm miles away from even thinking about overclocking if I can't even get it to reboot itself after saving BIOS changes. :(

EDIT: Also, should it be making a squeaking noise everytime it shuts off? It sounds like a rusty gate swinging in the wind.
 
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Thats the 8800 moaning about power loss, the p5k cuts the power to the gpu a little quicker than it likes.

whats your memory/cpu voltage set to?
 
lay-z-boy said:
whats your memory/cpu voltage set to?
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Memory's set to 800 MHz at 5-5-5-12 at 2.0 V, exactly that the label says on the DIMM. The CPU is set at 9x at 1.21 V. I tried 1.30 V to see if that would work and it did not. As far as I can tell making any changes in the BIOS makes it fail. To test this I reset it to default, rebooted (which required pressing the power button since it doesn't do it itself, and then disabled the floppy controller. I again had to press the power button to get it to reboot and it promptly told me my overclocking attempt had failed.

:( Should've gotten a DQ6
 
lay-z-boy said:
set defaults from the bios with manual oc and see if that works?
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:confused: Are you saying I should try resetting to defaults then enabling manual OC and changing nothing else?

EDIT: I reset to default and tried those voltage settings. It again failed to reboot but this time it made the CPU can spin up nice 'n loud. :p
 
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Hmm, I just noticed that the CPU is idling in the BIOS at 54C. That's mighty hot for a stock speed proc at stock volts using the boxed cooler. Might this be part of the problem?
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Ok, that worked. hopefully this next one is just as easy. :p

Now that I did that it's failing to reboot properly after making a BIOS change. If I press and hold the power button to turn it off then switch it back on it will POST however it says "Overclocking failed! Please enter Setup to re-configure your system.
Press F1 to Run SETUP
Press F2 to load default values and continue"

This leaves me in a rough place. I can go back into the BIOS where it will again fail to reboot or I can use the default settings, settings I know will fail to boot. Ideas?
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Hello, you have the same problem I have with my P5K-Dlx/2x1GB Crucial 6400/E6600 set up which I also posted about here. Whenever I try to make a change to the BIOS, I get the black screen/Overclocking failed message. It is apparently to do with the particular RAM modules you are running in DDR mode (if you remove one stick of RAM and try again, you will have no problems), many others are also having these problems. Although it didn't work for me (it has worked for others), this particular thread may help you if you follow the steps on page 2: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1200834
 
Ok, I broke apart the RAID 0 array (320 GiB WD AAKSes) and I was able to successfully install and boot XP64. I'm going to try to use nlite to put the RAID drivers on the disk in case that was part of the problem. The BIOS problem remains; this was all done with default settings.
 
just installed the P5K-E and have my Sata drives on port 1 & 2 but in the post screen it takes forever to dectect the drives what am i doing wrong?

thanks
 
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