P5N-E SLI

robgti

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Hi i recently installed this motherboard and i have had nothing but problems. It takes about ten restarts before the thing will boot up. Keeps crashing on the first screen when you can press del for the bios menu. Could it have something to do with the bios im using? Im using bios 0307
 
Yes try 0608 its much better but beware if you put one on any later you wont be able to go back to an earlier version
 
well ive put 0608 on and its booted straight up. What else chould cause it to keep crashing?
 
Check your memory is getting the correct voltage, also check your divder to make sure its not running at some crazy speed. Assuming its PC6400 then linked mode is good up to 400FSB
 
yeah its PC6400 and its running at 6.6.6.18 and the bank cycle time is 24 and command rate 2T. hows does that sound?
 
Seriously, get your self another motherboard and fast. I have this board and im having nothing but trouble.

Using bios 0901 and im getting lock up, restarts and massive instability.
 
Been running P5N32-E Plus Sli for over a year now. Not strictly the same board but very similar. It used to be a bit flakey and is very picky about voltages but a bios update and manual setting of NB SB and Memory voltages and it runs like a dream. Not the most easy to or plug and play board ever i admit but its taught me a lot so im pleased i bought one. :)
 
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My P5N-E SLI has been running for over a year now mostly 24/7 under full load with 100% stability and not a single crash. Apart from the issue with 4 x 1GB, which can be worked around by the right settings, it's a good board for the money. I wouldn't buy one today, there are better boards out there especially for quad cores, but with known compatible RAM etc it can be a nice board
 
I have one of these and never been able to overclock my Q6600 to anywhere near 3ghz, going straight in the bin as soon as I can afford a new one
 
im another who has never had any problems with the board had it at 3.4 for awile, only thing id say against it is that the volts tend to drop a hell of a lot on mine when i try to overclcok which ment i end up pumping a lot more thru it then i am happy to do on a long term basis

but ive never tried 4 gb ram with it but herd a lot of people complaining about this

meatloaf thanks for the heads up on the official P5N-E SLI thread. guna have a look should make intresting read.
 
buy_my_cookies said:
im another who has never had any problems with the board had it at 3.4 for awile, only thing id say against it is that the volts tend to drop a hell of a lot on mine when i try to overclcok which ment i end up pumping a lot more thru it then i am happy to do on a long term basis

but ive never tried 4 gb ram with it but herd a lot of people complaining about this

meatloaf thanks for the heads up on the official P5N-E SLI thread. guna have a look should make intresting read.
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Yes - the vdroop is a serious issue, especially with quad core.

I run 4 x 1GB and there is a memory speed hole that you need to avoid, but if you do that then you're likely to be fine. I just run my quad at 333 x 9 = 3GHz with memory in synch at 667.

If I was buying today, on reflection I would not buy this board - there are better options. But mine has been running my quad all but 24/7 under full load for over a year now with 100% stability, so I can't complain. At the time I bought it, the NVidia chipset boards were the only ones that shipped with a guaranteed quad core compatible BIOS, and since I didn't have a core 2 duo to put in to do a flash, that was totally critical and was the major reason I bought the board.
 
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