** The Official ASUS P5N-E SLI & Ultra 650i Thread **

stopstartstall said:
I've had this board for a while, and everything seemed to be running fine. I installed Vista a couple of months ago, decided it wasn't for me, and wanted to go back to XP. So far so good. I got my XP disc out, put it in the drive and the thing wouldn't boot from the cd, it just kept going into Vista.

I fiddled around, swapping cables and whatnot and tried again... still didn't work. I checked the disc in my ancient laptop that's about an inch from death and it booted straight into setup.

I went out this morning and bought a new DVD drive, installed it and tried again... still didn't work. The old drive was IDE and the new one is SATA, so I guess that rules out the cd drive, right?

So is it the motherboard? I've been having problems getting it to recognise a new sata hard drive as well. I updated the SATA drivers for the board and now I can't even boot into windows.

I'm thinking it might be time to RMA. Any other ideas?
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Check your motherboard manual for "boot priority". Usually it will tell you on the post screen "press F12 boot priority" right next to where it says "press del for bios".

That boot priority is like a convenience thing, the proper way to always boot from CD is probably on the first or second screen in your bios. Something like "first boot device: floppy second boot device: Hard drive Third boot device: CD-ROM." Then just put CD-ROM higher in the list than hard drive, and when you are prompted to press a key for setup, you should know what to do.
 
It's set to boot from CD, it just won't.

I tried opening and then closing the cd drive when it booted, but no luck.

I can't even get into the BIOS/Windows anymore, and I'm getting no beeps or anything. Looks like its RMA time.
 
I am really struggling with my RAM and this board.

I have a set of GeIL 2GB ULL pc6400.

I set my timings to 4-4-4-12 and 1T with 2.2v and I kept getting random restarts and program errors!

Have I dropped a major boob in getting this RAM?

didn't know if my settings were right or if I have a dodgy set?

Can anyone shed any light on there results with this stuff?
 
Set the ram to T2, a lot of ram won't run T1 stable.

Also what speed it running at?

anything over drop the timing to 5-5-5-15,

thats the only way i got mine stable.
 
I can't it was on my old P5B and now i've got some ballistic ram.

But that was what i was running

930mhz
2.1v
5-5-5-15 timing.'

Just slacken the timings you won't notice the differance.
 
stopstartstall said:
It's set to boot from CD, it just won't.

I tried opening and then closing the cd drive when it booted, but no luck.

I can't even get into the BIOS/Windows anymore, and I'm getting no beeps or anything. Looks like its RMA time.
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Did you buy an upgrade Vista licence?

If so, it won't let you go back to XP.

Your problem doesn't sound like hardware to me - more like Microsoft playing clever beggars with the operating system.
 
No he is just trying to boot from the cd drive. The os shouldnt have altered bios settings.

I do remember similar problems with mine, now I think about it. No idea why and I havent gone near vista.


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yep I just tried and it says cannot boot from cd drive: code 1

Ive tried before now, altering cables and using various disks. Bios ver 0202

I will have to move the disk to another machine to reinstall the os
 
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WJA96 said:
Did you buy an upgrade Vista licence?

If so, it won't let you go back to XP.

Your problem doesn't sound like hardware to me - more like Microsoft playing clever beggars with the operating system.
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No, it wasn't an upgrade. I've got a retail copy of XP, and I got a copy of Vista through work. I have separate licences for each so I assume there shouldn't be any problem wiping one and putting the other back on?

silversurfer said:
yep I just tried and it says cannot boot from cd drive: code 1

Ive tried before now, altering cables and using various disks. Bios ver 0202

I will have to move the disk to another machine to reinstall the os
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This sounds exactly like my problem, except I don't get a code. The cd drive just spins for a while and then it boots into Windows. I know the disc works and I know the drive works so it can't be that.

Is the problem a fault then? and RMA-able? I'm tempted to RMA, sell the board on and get something else.
 
Ive no idea really, I thought my drive was booting from cd (previously). Maybe I'll do the os reinstall along with a bios reset and see if it helps any.

For reference my cd drive is secondary master IDE on the end of the mobo supplied cable by itself. F8 boot select doesnt help
 
Mine's booted from the drive previously, but it's having none of it now. F8 boot select does nothing for me, it doesn't even load the menu.

I've tried with both a primary IDE master and a SATA drive but neither works. I'll go to Overclockers tomorrow and see what they say. If they think it is a fault I'll let you know.
 
Network weirdy

Here's a good one,
I've got a network symbol in my system tray, hovering over it says local area connection 3, speed 100Mbps, status: Aquiring network address.
This seems to be a recent issue and may just be an XPism.
I set my IP manually so it shouldn't be trying to aquire an address. Everything works fine, it's just annoying that there's yet another tray icon!
I did google it but all of the results were people being unable to connect to sites etc... I don't have any probs! The tray icon appears afer a few days uptime. I did wonder if my n/w switch glitched every now and then causing a "limited or no connectivity" tray icon which is not going away, but I can't find the right google terms to figure out if that's the prob or if it's something a little more sinister.
</ponder>
 
I managed to get it booting from the ide dvd drive again.

I changed a few bios settings, nothing was wrong exactly but never does any harm to shuffle the deck as it were.

Switched all the sata stuff off since I have no sata drives & altered cd drive to the first three boot priority positions with hard drive left last.

Now boots up every time automatically with no prompting off a dvd disk I just burnt, but Im sure it works in general anyway
 
weird_dave said:
Here's a good one,
I've got a network symbol in my system tray, hovering over it says local area connection 3, speed 100Mbps, status: Aquiring network address.
This seems to be a recent issue and may just be an XPism.
I set my IP manually so it shouldn't be trying to aquire an address. Everything works fine, it's just annoying that there's yet another tray icon!
I did google it but all of the results were people being unable to connect to sites etc... I don't have any probs! The tray icon appears afer a few days uptime. I did wonder if my n/w switch glitched every now and then causing a "limited or no connectivity" tray icon which is not going away, but I can't find the right google terms to figure out if that's the prob or if it's something a little more sinister.
</ponder>
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Its proberly windows based,

Right click on it and go repair ;) that should sort it .
 
waso_dude said:
Its proberly windows based,

Right click on it and go repair ;) that should sort it .
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Windows could not finish repairing the problem because the following actioncannot be completed:
Registering with DNS

For assistance, contact the person who manages your network.

Clicking on the icon brings up the status of the connection. In the general tab it says aquiring network address, the support tab has my manual config numbers and "windows did not detect problems with the connection. If you cannot connect, click Repair".

It's daft. I just managed to get rid of it tho, I told it to show me a tray icon when connected, then turned it off again :D
Should keep it away for a few days.....
 
hi
im currently half way through my build. i have 2 1gig sticks of corsair xms2. which memory slot would be the best to run these in dual channel on black or yellow?
 
flexo786 said:
hi
im currently half way through my build. i have 2 1gig sticks of corsair xms2. which memory slot would be the best to run these in dual channel on black or yellow?
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I think the general rule is put it in the black slots.
 
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