*Official* ASUS P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 Board Thread

[Big Lar]

Most all new PSU's have the 8 pin mobo connector, not to be confused with the 8 pin Video card connector of which only some PSU's to date have. Just try a google search or better yet, search in the PSU section of this fine forum

Larry

 

[HIO]

Originally posted by: OLpal
I'd also like to find out if this 1201 bios is a final, & is stable & safe !! as i'd like to flash before i start installing all my software !!

I seriously doubt 1201 will be the final bios. This mobo is relatively new and more bios versions are sure to come.

 

[badnewcastle]

For what it is worth, I just replaced my P6N Diamond with the P5Q-E.

I did a clean install and it is amazing! I very happy with it so far, I have not done any OC'ing on it yet but this OCZ SLI 2x2 kit works great so far. I did a 24 hour memtest burn to test it out and it had no errors. Set on 5-4-4-15 2T @ 2.0v.

Love this board so far!!!!

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: HIO

Originally posted by: OLpal
I'd also like to find out if this 1201 bios is a final, & is stable & safe !! as i'd like to flash before i start installing all my software !!

I seriously doubt 1201 will be the final bios. This mobo is relatively new and more bios versions are sure to come.

yep. im even hesitant to flash to a newer bios from 0803..apparently there are issues with 1201.

 

[OLpal]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman

Originally posted by: HIO

Originally posted by: OLpal
I'd also like to find out if this 1201 bios is a final, & is stable & safe !! as i'd like to flash before i start installing all my software !!

I seriously doubt 1201 will be the final bios. This mobo is relatively new and more bios versions are sure to come.

yep. im even hesitant to flash to a newer bios from 0803..apparently there are issues with 1201.

Thanks Secret, that's what i was looking for, if there's issue for 1201 then i sure don't want to flash new board to it !!
i'm still waiting for Zero Therm to send me the Fanretainging clips & anti-vibration strips for my ZEN FZ 120 cooler, then it button up time !!

 

[secretanchitman]

literally, everytime i say theres a new bios, an even NEWER one comes out. this time its the 1306 beta and so far, it seems to be a winner!

 

[Leon]

Question - is there a shortcut that will let me select the device to boot from. I want to temporarily boot from CD, without messing with BIOS every time.

Leon

 

[GundamF91]

Where's the new BIOS? All I see on Asus site is 0803 BIOS that came out in July.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: GundamF91
Where's the new BIOS? All I see on Asus site is 0803 BIOS that came out in July.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5Q_Deluxe/

should be the second to last one!

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: Leon
Question - is there a shortcut that will let me select the device to boot from. I want to temporarily boot from CD, without messing with BIOS every time.

Leon

F8 isn't working for you?

 

[Leon]

F8 isn't working for you?

I must have missed it in the manual. Thanks.

Leon

 

[york1129]

Need advice setting up the a new P5Q Deluxe with 5 HDD's & 3 optical drives, all SATA. I want to hook up the 5 drives on the ICH10R's SATA connectors 0-4, while the first dvd burner will go onto the last SATA connector 5. While the other 2 burners I want to connect to the extra 2 SATA ports provided with the SIL chip.

Is this possible, as the manual says the 2 SATA ports off of the SIL chip doesn't support ATAPI devices, on the other hand SIL website states that Sil5723 does support ATAPI devices [ http://www.sci-worx.com/products/product.aspx?id=103 | look under the 'Device Interface Features']; look's like ASUS might have gone cheap on a $200+ MB and deliberately left out ATAPI support, wither in BIOS or in real hardware!

So, how exactly am I to accomodate 5 HD & 3 optical drives, all SATA, on this MB; I have solved the same problem on a $40 ECS G31 mb with an add-in card but don't want to go the same route with a mobo that I've paid over $200 for & 8 SATA drives was the main reason for me buying this specific model!

 

[HIO]

Houston,...I think we might have a winner! :thumbsup:

http://www.tomshardware.com/re...-motherboard,2001.html

 

[GundamF91]

It's interesting that the test show that the P5Q Deluxe beat out Maximum II most of the time.

 

[HIO]

Originally posted by: GundamF91
It's interesting that the test show that the P5Q Deluxe beat out Maximum II most of the time.

Yep!

This has to be one of the most comprehensive comparative review of all modernity or at least the last century. Fifty four pages with about 232 pictures. Now we know what Tommy and his staff have been doing these last few months.

 

[GundamF91]

Yeah they did a really thorough testing on the P45 boards. I wonder if Anandtech will have a review to match this. I heard there's something going on.

 

[pengo]

I'm using 1306 no problems so far...

E6300, 2GB Corsair DDR2-667. Vista 64 SP1.

 

[GundamF91]

I heard that if you're using Q9450, you should stay with 803 BIOS. the later ones has something new and that messes the Yorkfield up.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: GundamF91
I heard that if you're using Q9450, you should stay with 803 BIOS. the later ones has something new and that messes the Yorkfield up.

yep i can vouch for that as well. Q9450 peeps should stay at 803...its been totally rock solid stable too which im very happy about.

 

[Big Lar]

On 803 as well here, 1306 was a bit buggy for me.

Larry

 

[HIO]

Originally posted by: york1129
Need advice setting up the a new P5Q Deluxe with 5 HDD's & 3 optical drives, all SATA. I want to hook up the 5 drives on the ICH10R's SATA connectors 0-4, while the first dvd burner will go onto the last SATA connector 5. While the other 2 burners I want to connect to the extra 2 SATA ports provided with the SIL chip.

Is this possible, as the manual says the 2 SATA ports off of the SIL chip doesn't support ATAPI devices, on the other hand SIL website states that Sil5723 does support ATAPI devices [ http://www.sci-worx.com/products/product.aspx?id=103 | look under the 'Device Interface Features']; look's like ASUS might have gone cheap on a $200+ MB and deliberately left out ATAPI support, wither in BIOS or in real hardware!

So, how exactly am I to accomodate 5 HD & 3 optical drives, all SATA, on this MB; I have solved the same problem on a $40 ECS G31 mb with an add-in card but don't want to go the same route with a mobo that I've paid over $200 for & 8 SATA drives was the main reason for me buying this specific model!

Sorry I can't help you but do you absolutely need 5 Hard drives and 3 Optical drives all SATA? $60,000 question is why so many drives? No IDE drives I take it. Sorry but I cannot see you pulling this off.

 

[secretanchitman]

how is everyone doing with this board?

 

[HIO]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
how is everyone doing with this board?

This is actually the million dollar question and I am glad you bring it up. I don't have this board yet but will be most likely purchasing it very soon. I have read the manual, studied its specs, and have read all of the reviews and it really looks interesting to me.

One thing that concerns me is why you and others have had to stick with a bios version from July 2 and four back from the newest bios release. This wouldn't be as much of an issue if the board was much older but this is a relatively new board and i don't get this.

Do you and others think the first three bios' were focused on the newer 45nm cpu's and and now Asus has been honing in on bios support for the older processors? If so,... should they not disclose this to everybody who keeps updating their bios to discover it breaks something because they have the wrong cpu for this particular bios revision?

 

[sgrinavi]

I just set up a P5Q-E

E8400
HD4870
8GB Gskill pc8500
1 WD 640 AAKK booting to Vista Ultimate 64
2 WD 1TB blacks to be set up in a RAID 1 config for data
1 BlueRay SATA
1 Samsung SATA DVD writer
1 FDD


At frist I tried the drive expert w/ the pair of the WD 1TB, but it was S L O W as in less than 30 MB/sec. I plugged them both into regular SATA slots and they both perform as expected (100+ MB/sec )

SO, I go the BIOS and enable RAID, set the two drives as a RAID 1 array, but I can not boot into windows without a BSOD.

OK... lets try AHCI... same thing.

Windows will not start unless the drives are in IDE mode..

SO... after reading this and thread and searching around all afternoon I am looking for possible suggestions.

H E L P

 

[GeekDrew]

Windows will bluescreen if you change the mode of the system drive from IDE to AHCI or vice-versa... thats a problem with Windows drivers. I didn't feel like wasting time googling, so I just turned on AHCI and reinstalled Windows. I think that there are some workarounds out there somewhere, but if this is a new system, why bother with them?