*** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

[imported_mdc]

Originally posted by: Jordao
I have cleared the CMOS, but still get no video image...

Have you tried running with a single memory DIMM? My system worked perfectly with the 0614 BIOS, but with 070x BIOS it wouldn't do anything more than what yours is doing. I was able to get it up enough to flash the BIOS back to 0614 by running on one DIMM. You may even have to get a different brand/speed DIMM just to get it running again.

 

[bupp]

My cousin built my computer with parts I picked out. He's been testing it at his house for a while and he got Windows installed and stuff. Tonight, he brought it up to me at college. The very first time we hooked it up here and turned it on, it worked fine right up to the desktop, but we found that Windows did not recognize the keyboard and mouse so we rebooted it. No post. The machine turns on and runs, but there's nothing going on on the monitor. A few reboots later and nothing so we let it sit for about 10 minutes and boot it up and it then works again. This time, the keyboard works in Windows, but the mouse doesn't and then a minute later, a blue screen. =(

We reboot it a couple more times. After a few no posts later, the boot screen comes up and freezes at checking the USB stuffs. My cousin thinks it may have something to do with the USB drivers not being compatible or something. It sucks because when my cousin put everything together at his house, it all worked perfectly (I mean, it had to have worked for a long time for him to be able to get Windows XP64 on there...) and now nothing. Pretty frustrating. I don't think he updated the bios though so that also may be a problem, but now I can't even get on to do that.

Anyone know anything about it? =/

Core 2 Duo 6300
Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi
g.skill the 2GBNR (1GB x 2)DDR2-800 RAM 5-5-5-15
Geforce 7900GT


EDIT: I just hooked it up now and there was a post. This time it booted up to the desktop screen and Windows recognized both the mouse and keyboard. However, about a minute and a half later, another BSOD. I called my cousin and he said it may just be a bios problem now. I rebooted the computer again and another no post so I'm back on this old one again. =(

SECOND EDIT: 2 hours later after the last edit.

I hooked up the computer again and booted it up. It went through to the desktop again and both the mouse and keyboard worked again. After about two minutes, another BSOD comes up. I'm not sure what I was supposed to write down so I wrote down:

"DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

usbhub.sys Address FFFFFADFC60BBD2E base at FFFFFADFC60B4000 DateStamp 42435eb7"

So I reboot the computer. I get one continuous beep and no loadup screens. I reboot again. Same thing. I reboot again and nothing at all. I reboot again and nothing once again.

Hmm...


UPDATE 3: 2:30am next day

Turns out that a problem was one of the RAM sticks. I took one out and it worked fine, no BSOD. I put that stick back in and took the other out and there was no post. So I'm assuming that the problem was just the stick of RAM.

 

[P5b]

afew problems i encounterd.

after a totally clean install of Win Xp Pro +sp2 +updates

1. after installing the Audio driver 4530/4570 (same effect) i'm getting a slow boot time.
seems like the system hangs for something like 10-15 seconds doing nothing - no HDD activity at this time before it proceeds with the full boot.
after removing the Audio drivers completely it seems to resolve the issues.
any comments on how to install the audio drivers without getting this boot hang would be appreciated.

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2. running cpu-z takes a few secs to load, afterwords if i'm swinging the mouse left to right allot of times something starts to hang. (it looks as if one of the cores is fully busy from the Task Manager green icon.
I'm loosing mouse functionality for about20 seconds each time and then it gets back for a few seconds. (this process keeps repeating itself)
looking at the processes though, i dont see any process/application that takes 50%-100% of any core time.

sometimes this phenomena happens after i close cpuz and run it for the second time
i dont know what makes the mouse loose its functionality and then get it back for a few more secs repetatively. (maybe a resource issues e.g irq)



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3. A memory issue, when set to SPD i pass Orthos + Memtest
when set to manual and setting the RAM setting exactly as in SPD (5-5-5-18) i'm getting errors, also tried (5-5-5-15 ) as writen on the module but still failure.
all i did is set the mem voltage to 1.9 and disabled SPD and made the settings manually.
anyone with similar issues , would greatly appreciate the help.

 

[Prince13]

P5B, I am having the slow down problem with the following configuration:

ASUS P5B Deluxe with 711 Bios (I updated just to see if my problems are solved, none were solved)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 @ 1.86 Ghz
Kingston Value Ram 2 x 256MB DDR2 533 Mhz
Western Digital 250GB Sata-II Harddisk running on Sata-0
XFX Nvidia GeForce 6200 with 128MB - 256MB

That's all needed I think. I got this system up and running when I received the Motherboard on 28th September. Everything worked fine. It booted on the first run. I did fresh install of Windows XP Pro SP2 + All required Drivers + Updates...Things were going fine when I noticed on a restart, that double clicking a folder, and getting into a folder was taking lots of time. I traced back the problem to the Audio driver, then strange enough when I disabled the Windows sound scheme everything worked perfectly.

I started installing the softwares which come on ASUS CD and in the Seperate Media Launcher CD & there my problems started. After installing the Media software by InterVideo which comes bundled with the motherboard on a seperate CD, installing it then reboot and it took hell lot of time for booting, it would further take a long time when Windows welcome screen appeared. It would say "Logging in to Windows" and then there would be no hard disk activity for 10-15 seconds. After that things would go normal and I would see the desktop but even then I felt a little jammed and lagging sort of response from Windows. I was really annoying with it so I just formatted the whole Windows and did a clean install again with all the required drivers and latest updates, also disable the Windows sound scheme so I don't have that problem. I downloaded latest drivers for everything from ASUS website too.

This time, when I installed ZoneAlarmPro. Things went crappy again!!! I suspect the same happens when I install Speedfan even.

Please tell me what this problem is. I really hope it's not related to motherboard fault because in our country, they don't have RETURN policies like the rest of you guys get in your countries . They won't take it back with the current problem I am facing...Even if they get it for a replacement in Warranty, it will take months before I get another one.

I tried disabling Onboard Sound Device from BIOS, also disabled the Jmicron controller since I read in a few places about it getting things bad too but no luck. I will clear CMOS tomorrow morning to see how things go and also check the RAM modules seperately and in different dual channel slots but I doubt that it has got any thing to do with the RAM. I mean everything is working fine, then all of a sudden after installation of a selected few very needed softwares I get that strange problems.

*sigh*

Please help!

 

[Prince13]

Sorry. Just want to update. Even disabling the start-up processes for the softwares which gives me the problem did not resolve the problem. I have to do a System Restore in order to get things to normal. The boot thing goes 7-9 times usually before it boots to Windows. This is under NORMAL conditions without all the problems mentioned above. It takes slight more like 1-2 more slides for the boot process but it stucks after welcome screen with no hard disk activity. Same thing happens in the boot processes. At first 4-5 slides, there is hard disk activity. After that, a pause, then hard disk activity and I see the Welcome screen, then again a pause...

 

[Vaterland]

I have the exact same issue with the audio driver. It just sits there waiting for 15 sec. This happens between the 8th and 23rd second of the boor sequence (BootVis). Any solution to this? I guess we'll have to wait for new drivers from ADI and that may happen... never.

 

[P5b]

Prince, I think the slow boot is directly related to Analog devices drivers for hte sound, once they fix it, i hope it wil lbe resolved.
i remembe rwhen i totlaly removed the audio drivers and disabled the sudio in bios, i went back to fast boot times, so i belive its the audio drivers.

in regards to the slow browsing within folders etc, i have this thing too sometimes. and i think it is also related to bad drivers / conflicts. might be simialr to the issue i have with CPU-Z maybe something to do with a conflict between certiain drivers or hardware.
i couldnt find a clear solution yet (maybe it has some relation to the Graphic card drivers...realy i dont know at this point.) hopefully some experienced users here will be abel to help us.

 

[P5b]

another things i noticed not sure its normal or not.
but i reinstalled winx XP pro in order to use the AHCI driver (through the F6 Floppy procedure).
anyway it seems to work fine, i dont see any performance diffrence form earlier where i had it set on IDE.
main diffrence now is that on device manager i see the INTEL ICH8R/DO/DH SATA AHCI driver on the IDE section instead of the INTEL RAID Matrix.

the only thing that bothers me is that on BOOT it is slow to detect the AHCI HDD on Port 0
takes somethign like 5 seconds or so.is this a bios update issue ? is this normal ?
I didnt have to wait that long when things were set as IDE previously.
(btw looks like a any change to the bios + save and exit...on that boot it fly's thorugh the detection of the AHCI HDD)

would like to hear other people who use AHCI and notice slow Detection right at BOOT screen.
TIA

 

[Vaterland]

First of all - there is a way to get AHCI working without borrowing a floppy drive. Procedure is quite simple:

1. connect your hard drive to ICH8R controller and set it to IDE in BIOS. Set JMicron's SATA port to IDE as well (or disable it like I did).
2. install XP SP2 without worrying about RAID drivers.
3. reboot and enable JMicron SATA and set to AHCI in BIOS.
4. load Windows - it will ask for JMicron RAID drivers. Install them.

if you want AHCI on ICH8R then connect your hard drive to JMicron, set ICH8R to AHCI and load Windows. Then install Intel Matrix Storage drivers.

I must say that I didn't notice any performance difference between IDE and AHCI. Currently I am running my drives as IDE due to Vista installed aside XP. Vista sucks with respect to AHCI support (damn you Microsoft!). With AHCI enabled it takes 5 hours to install Vista. Otherwise it took me 30 minutes to have the system running.

 

[JbIeNlGlLe725]

My system is:
cpu: E6400
Mobo: p5b deluxe with 0706 bio
ram: corsair 2gb xms 6400c4
hd: WD raptor 10000 150gb

my problem is everytime after i have my pc on for about 2 hours, when i try to open or save microsoft office software (Micosoft word, excel, powerpoint, etc), my computer responds very slowly. but it has no problem when i play game or load other files. anyone know what is happenning?? is it software or hardware problem??? please help.. Thank you.

 

[P5b]

Vaterland
once u set AHCi in bios to enable (on ICH8R), did u notice a few seconds delay in detecting the SATA drives right after boot ? (at the time where it looks for SATA AHCI hard drivesas opposed to IDE setting where i got a quick detection )

 

[HauntFox]

I overclocked my E6600 to 3.04Ghz (380*8) so far without any problems, except when I cold start it, it powers up and shuts off and powers up again right away, anyone know what the deal is with that? Otherwise it boots and runs fine at 49C idle and 54C load with a Zalman cooler. When I tried using a lower FSB like 300 * 9, my system would turn off and on several times during boot and/or give an error that a system file was corrupt or something.

Another issue I have: I have the Wi-Fi set up as an access point with WPA-TKIP using the ASUS utility, my iBook has a problem getting access to the internet, sometimes I have to reconnect several times before I can access the internet on it.

 

[FireChicken]

I just Flashed my P5B non-delux with 0701 and now it will not post. Asus says that I got a bad flash and need to RMA my board. !@#$%^

Can I try doing some of the things the delux people have tried? Clearing my CMOS and re-flash with old bios version.
Anybody else having problems with 0701? Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

 

[HauntFox]

Originally posted by: FireChicken
I just Flashed my P5B non-delux with 0701 and now it will not post. Asus says that I got a bad flash and need to RMA my board. !@#$%^

Can I try doing some of the things the delux people have tried? Clearing my CMOS and re-flash with old bios version.
Anybody else having problems with 0701? Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

The ASUS CrashFree BIOS Utility is supposed to recover from that situation but who knows how well it works. Have you tried booting with the motherboard support CD? Page 4-8 in the manual. Might as well try everything you can before RMAing.

 

[Vaterland]

Originally posted by: P5b
Vaterland
once u set AHCi in bios to enable (on ICH8R), did u notice a few seconds delay in detecting the SATA drives right after boot ? (at the time where it looks for SATA AHCI hard drivesas opposed to IDE setting where i got a quick detection )

Yes, I noticed that too once I changed to AHCI. I went back to IDE, because Vista won't load with AHCI.

 

[soloman02]

 

[Caliginosity]

Originally posted by: Vaterland

Originally posted by: P5b
Vaterland
once u set AHCi in bios to enable (on ICH8R), did u notice a few seconds delay in detecting the SATA drives right after boot ? (at the time where it looks for SATA AHCI hard drivesas opposed to IDE setting where i got a quick detection )

Yes, I noticed that too once I changed to AHCI. I went back to IDE, because Vista won't load with AHCI.

That's odd, I'm running Windows Vista RC2 (build 5744) as my primary OS right now, and had my SATA Configuration set to [AHCI] in my BIOS and Vista picked up on it just fine. Vista also runs much more smoothly on my computer and boots faster since I don't have to use the ASUS sound drivers (Vista comes with default drivers for HD Audio devices which work great).

Also, with the new 0711 BIOS for the P5B-Deluxe, my Vista experience index went up from 5.3 (my lowest score coming from my RAM) to 5.7 (my lowest score now being my E6600 Processor). The 711 BIOS apparently did some major memory optimization as my memory index went from 5.3 to 5.9, which is quite a significant leap.

 

[TigrrLove]

Originally posted by: HauntFox
I overclocked my E6600 to 3.04Ghz (380*8) so far without any problems, except when I cold start it, it powers up and shuts off and powers up again right away, anyone know what the deal is with that? Otherwise it boots and runs fine at 49C idle and 54C load with a Zalman cooler. When I tried using a lower FSB like 300 * 9, my system would turn off and on several times during boot and/or give an error that a system file was corrupt or something.

Another issue I have: I have the Wi-Fi set up as an access point with WPA-TKIP using the ASUS utility, my iBook has a problem getting access to the internet, sometimes I have to reconnect several times before I can access the internet on it.

The "cold-boot/double-boot" is a "feature" of the board although with BIOS 711 it stopped doing that on my rig and many others have reported the same.
The boot changes NB Strap at certain FSBs and that is why the board does a double-take as it's changing the strap.
There are a bunch of posts about this on both Xtreme Systems and the Bleedinedge forums.

 

[Vaterland]

Caliginosity, at first I did try to install Vista with AHCI enabled. After 3 hours of watching the black start screen of Vista (the one with the green bar) I had enough. After setting SATA to IDE everything went smooth. I tried to enable AHCI and force VIsta to load but I didn't succeed. I think I'll try connecting the hard drive to JMicron, set ICH8R to AHCI and see if Vista finds new hardware and installs drivers. I'll check the experience index with the new BIOS. With the old one my memory was holding me back (4.5).

 

[dbk2006]

hi guys im new to this forum
i need a little help
im having trouble trying to install windows xp on my new setup.
iv installed windows 64 no problems.
but i need windows xp.
i select boot from cd from he bios . the disk spins and starts to read the i get the message aborting installation drives not found.
the same thing happens when i try the same thing with windows 98 and me start up disks.
my cdrom an dvd drive arent listed in the bios .
when i booted from my windows 64 disk it installed no problems and the drives work 100% perfect.
i have the latest bios from asus website .
nothing i do seems to work
iv tried all sorts of bootdisks
and i always get the same error .drives not found aborting installation
some one help me
thanx in advance

 

[Vaterland]

are you using SATA drives? or IDE? There is only one parallel ATA port on P5B delux, therefore I presume at least 2 out of 3 devices (hard drive, cd rom and dvd) are connected to SATA ports. BIOS should list them, unless the ports are disabled or marked as "not installed". I would say the problem has something to do with the configuration of the SATA ports.

 

[dbk2006]

its the standard p5b. iv tryed everything . i have 2 hard drives connected threw the sata ports and two dvd/cdroms on the ide cable .
i really need help here.
the bios on this board is crap

 

[DeathSniper]

Hey...I'm planning on getting the P5B Deluxe and I'm wondering if I'll have any conflicts with these RAM: OCZ Gold XTC PC2-6400 5-5-5-12 and the OCZ Platinum XTC PC2-6400 4-5-4-15. I do see several messages stating problems with the OCZ modules while others are fine so...?
Thanks!

 

[HauntFox]

Originally posted by: dbk2006
hi guys im new to this forum
i need a little help
im having trouble trying to install windows xp on my new setup.
iv installed windows 64 no problems.
but i need windows xp.
i select boot from cd from he bios . the disk spins and starts to read the i get the message aborting installation drives not found.
the same thing happens when i try the same thing with windows 98 and me start up disks.
my cdrom an dvd drive arent listed in the bios .
when i booted from my windows 64 disk it installed no problems and the drives work 100% perfect.
i have the latest bios from asus website .
nothing i do seems to work
iv tried all sorts of bootdisks
and i always get the same error .drives not found aborting installation
some one help me
thanx in advance

When exactly is it giving the error, does the setup screen come up at all? And is the BIOS giving the error or is it the XP installation?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: DeathSniper
Hey...I'm planning on getting the P5B Deluxe and I'm wondering if I'll have any conflicts with these RAM: OCZ Gold XTC PC2-6400 5-5-5-12 and the OCZ Platinum XTC PC2-6400 4-5-4-15. I do see several messages stating problems with the OCZ modules while others are fine so...?
Thanks!

Get the Platinum if anything